专升本英语（阅读）模拟试卷104
阅读理解
As he closed his service station at 1:20 one Sunday morning, Tony Payseur set on the ground a metal cash box containing $7,000. At home a short while later, he reached in the back of his car for the box. It was missing.
Realizing that he must have left it outside the station, Payseur speeded back. The box was gone. Sunday morning, although he felt ill, Payseur went to work with his two sons. Then, in the middle of the afternoon, a man named Wayne came and told his story. Passing the station minutes after Payseur left the previous night, Brazzell had spotted the metal box. Thinking it was a tool-box someone had left accidentally; he stopped and picked it up. About 3 p.m. Sunday, Brazzell opened the box. Finding it filled with cash, he rushed to the station. \\
1.What is the passage mainly about?(A)
A. How the missing metal box was returned.
B. Mr. Payseur is a lucky man.
C. Mr. Payseur’s metal box.
D. Mr. Payseur’s carelessness.
解析：文章一开头就介绍托尼．佩塞丢失金属盒子的过程，文章的后部分讲述盒子怎样失而复得。因此A项最符合题意。
2.When did Mr. Payseur realize the missing of his metal box?(B)
A. Saturday morning.
B. A little time after he got home.
C. Sunday afternoon.
D. A little time before he went home.
解析：文章第一段最后一句说明了佩塞先生开始知道丢失金属盒子的时间，即“刚到家一会儿，他到车子后部拿盒子，盒子不见了”，所以B项正确。
3.Mr. Wayne found the metal box______.(B)
A. on the ground with the cover open
B. laid on the ground
C. lying in the corner
D. in the back of a car
解析：从文章内容可知Mr．Wayne的名字叫布雷泽尔。文章第二段倒数第二句中讲到“他停下来捡起盒子”可推断出，金属盒是放在地上的。
4.\\(D)
A. catch
B. know
C. meet
D. see
解析：从本句的上下文线索可知，spot意思应是see，即“发现，看到”的意思。
5.By saying \\(A)
A. it’s hard to believe there is still someone so honest
B. there are honest people like Mr. Payseur
C. we should believe most of the people
D. Mr. Brazzell is a nice man
解析：本句的汉语可译为“我简直不敢相信竟有人如此的诚实”，暗含的意思是现在很多人都已经不再诚实，尤其是在金钱面前。这句话含有作者的吃惊、怀疑和感激的感情。
Lane waited on the bench nearest the bridge, as he had been instructed. The wind blew straight across the river, sharp as a razor, and he had to pull his overcoat closer about him.
He went over his instructions in his mind. The agent would appear at four o\’ clock. He would chat to Lane for a while, after which he would get up, leaving his newspaper behind. The plan would be fastened inside.
A distant clock began to strike the hour. As if from nowhere, a man appeared and sat down beside Lane, placing his newspaper on the seat between them.
He was thin and middle-aged, and seemed in need of a good meal. He bore no resemblance to Lane\’s idea of a successful spy. His conversation, confined to trivial observations about the weather, was painfully uninteresting.
A few minutes later he got up and continued on his way. Lane picked up the paper which lay on the bench, as if he wanted to look at the news. He was excited to see the plans pinned to the center page. At that moment, however, there was a strong wind which lifted the newspaper into the air, like a kite, and blew it into the river.
6.Lane______.(D)
A. memorized his orders
B. recited his orders
C. tried to remember his orders
D. repeated his orders himself
解析：文章第二段第一句的意思是，莱恩在脑海里不断重复得到的指示。go
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