What trick had Lewis learnt in the army？A．Opening windows from the outside.B．Climbing pipe

Why had Lewis stayed the night at number 25?

A．He had lost his way in the dark.

B．His lorry had something wrong with it.

C．Nottingham was too far for him to drive that night.

D．He had suddenly felt ill.

It is customary to leave a house_______.

A．through the kitchen window

B．through a bedroom

C．by the door

D．down a drain-pipe

The policeman questioned the man because_______.

A．he had seen him doing a strange thing

B．he thought he recognised him

C．the man had fallen and needed attention

D．the man had tried to escape

iet night on duty and was looking forward to his rest day. As usual he took a short cut down the path behind Dugby road and after a minute or two he saw a man climbing down a drain-pipe from an open bedroom window of number 25. Silently James crept into the garden. The man reached the ground and was dusting himself down when he felt his arm gripped.

"It's 8:45 on a Sunday morning, "said the policeman, "and this sort of thing seems an unlikely adventure at such a time. Would you mind explaining?"

The man was obviously startled but kept calm immediately. He said, "I know what you' re thinking, officer, but it isn' t true. This is a very funny mistake. " " It' s part of my job to take an interest in unusual events. I think you' ve just left this house in a manner other than the customary one. That may be quite innocent, but I' d like to make sure. "James took out his notebook and a pen. "Name, address and occupation and then, please, tell me what happened. "

"Charlie Lewis, lorry driver, from Nottingham, 52 Brecon Street. My story. . . "" Yes. What were you doing like a fly on that wall, Mr. Lewis? . . . . Well, I had a breakdown yesterday and had to stay the night here. Bed and breakfast. The landlady' s name is Mrs. Crane. She gave me breakfast at seven, and I was out of here in the right way and down at the lorry by half past. It was only when I felt around for a cigarette I found I' d left $ 90 in my pay envelope under the pillow here at number 25. I always put it under my pillow at night. It' s a habit I' ve got into. I even do it at home. . . "

"I see. Why didn't you miss it when you went to pay Mrs. . . What's her name? . . . . I'd paid her last night. You' ve got to pay when you take the room, right? So I came rushing back, but it's Sunday, and she' d gone back to bed, and could I wake her? I rang the bell and banged on the front door for several minutes before I came round here to the back spotting my bedroom window still open. Up I went, then, up this pipe. It' s a trick I learnt in the army. She hadn' t made the bed, and the money was still there. You know the rest, and I hope you believe it because. . . "

"Mr. Lewis, whatever are you doing here? I thought you' d gone one hour and a half ago. "It was Mrs. Crane, speaking from the kitchen window at the corner of the house.

Why was James walking along that path?

A．He usually discovered something suspicious along that way.

B．He had an appointment with a man at number 25, Dugby Road.

C．He chose to go that way by chance.

D．He knew he would get home quicker that way.

The space animal theory would seem to indicate that_______.

A．living creatures are extremely adaptable

B．life in space is impossible for man

C．the fittest creatures always survive

D．life cannot exist in the depth of the sea

_______.

A．escape detection

B．arouse curiosity

C．search for man-made energy

D．make contact with man

The theory says that during the daytime the space animals_______.

A．glow brightly in the sky

B．are invisible

C．can be seen from earth

D．visit the earth' s surface

The strange orange lights were first seen_______.

A．from the ground

B．from a rocket ship

C．during World War I

D．during World War Ⅱ

Part A

Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

On the night of May 7, 1942, a plane took off from an Air Force base in England to stop Germa fighters over the English Channel. Pilot of the plane was Captain Thomas Nash. Looking eastward, Nash saw twelve orange lights in a row , moving at a fantastic rate of speed. As a sophisticated flyer, he had never seen anything like them. Thinking that they might be a new German weapon, he decided to chase them. But when he swung the plane around and headed directly for the lights, they vanished.

Captain Nash may have been the first to see such orange lights but he wasn' t the last. His experience was repeated several times by pilots during World WarⅡin Europe and the Far East. What were they? No one knows for sure, but there is an interesting theory to explain them. According to this theory, the orange lights are space animalsanimals specially adapted to life in the upper atmosphere just as some creatures are adapted to life at the bottom of the sea. These space animals, the theory says, live so far up in the atmosphere that they are invisibl from earth. They feed in part on the air and partly on energy from sunlight. Being almost pure energy themselves , they can adjust their bodies to glow at night. During the day they become invisible.

Before World War Ⅱ, continues the theory, there was little radiated energy available on the earth' s surface. Then came the development of rockets, atomic reactors, and hydroelectric plants The space creatures are attracted by these sources of energy. At night when no energy emitted from sunlight, they go down into the lower levels to search a meal. They may even drift into the scope of human eyesight. This explains the fact that they have been sighted periodically from the earth since 1942.

The best statement of the main idea of this passage is that_______.

A．Captain Nash saw twelve orange lights moving at a fantastic rate of speed

B．Captain Nash may have been the first to see lights in space

C．according to an interesting theory, the orange lights are space animals

D．the mysteries of nature can be completedly explained

【C20】

A．people

B．men

C．humans

D．adults