Why did Twain go to West？A．To prospect for silver and gold.B．To get away from the war and

What job did Twain get on the Mississippi?

A．Type-setter.

B．Writer.

C．River pilot.

D．Reporter.

PART C

Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

听力原文： Mark Twain, who wrote the story we are going to read, travelled quite a lot, often because circumstances, usually financial circumstances forced him to. He was born in Florida Missouri in 1835, and moved to Hannibal Missouri with his family when he was about four years old. Most people think he was born in Hannibal, but that wasn't true. After his father died when he was about 12, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left so that he could earn more money. He worked for a while as a type-setter on various newspapers and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi. Twain loved his job and many of his books showed it. The river job didn't last, however, because of the outbreak of the Civil War. Twain was in the Confederal Army for just two weeks and then he and his whole company went to West to get away from the war and the army. In Nevada and California , Twain prospected for silver and gold without much luck but did succeed as a writer. When that happened, Twain travelled around the country, giving lectures and earning enough money to go to Europe. Twain didn't travel much the last ten years of his life and he didn't publish much either. Somehow, his travels, even when forced, inspired his writings. Like many other popular writers, Twain derived much of the materials for his writing from the wealth and diversity of his own personal experiences.

When was Twain born?

A．1865.

B．1825.

C．1835.

D．1845.

What is his pension hardly enough to pay for?

A．One big apartment.

B．A two-room apartment.

C．One cockroach-infested room.

D．His well-being life.

When he got out of bed, Scobie ______

A．jumped out like a young man, to show how healthy he was

B．got out slowly because he was too busy talking

C．could hardly get out although he suffered badly from rheumatism

D．got out with difficulty because his bones were stiff and painful

Scobie’s morning discovery that he was still alive made him feel______.

A．delighted with his success in surviving the night

B．delightful because of his achievement in living

C．satisfied with his victory over life

D．satisfying with his victory over death

Every morning Scobie ______.

A．refused to open his eyes until he had had his first cigarette

B．according to himself, did not open his eyes in case he had died in the night

C．denied that he opened his eyes until he had had his first died in the night

D．could not see anything when the first noises in the street woke him

a wistful eye on the blank wall of rotting mud-bricks which shuts off his view of the sea.

Scobie is getting on for seventy and still afraid to die; his one fear is that he will awake one morning and find himself dead--Lieutenant-Commander Scobie, O. B. E.. Consequently it gives him a severe shock every morning when the water-carriers shriek under his window before dawn, waking him up. For a moment, he says, he dares not open his eyes. Keeping them fast shut (for fear they might open on the heavenly host) he gropes along the cake-stand beside his bed and grabs his pipe. It is always loaded from the night before and an open matchbox stands beside it. The first whiff of tobacco restores both his composure and his eyesight. He breathes deeply, grateful for reassurance. He smiles. He gloats. Then, drawing the heavy sheepskin which serves him as a bed-cover up to his ears, he sings a little triumphal song to the morning.

Taking stock of himself he discovers that he has the inevitable headache. His tongue is raw from last night’s brandy. But against these trifling discomforts the prospect of another day in life weighs heavily. He pauses to slip in his false teeth. He places his wrinkled fingers to his chest and is comforted by the sound of his heart at work. He is rather proud of his heart. If you ever visit him when he is in bed he is almost sure to grasp your hand in his and ask you to feel it. Swallowing a little, you shove your hand inside his cheap night-jacket to experience those sad, blunt, far-away humps--like those of an unborn baby. He buttons up his pajamas with touching pride and give his imitation roar of animal health--bounding from my bed like a lion--that is another of his phrases. You have not experienced the full charm of the man unless you have actually seen him, bent double with rheumatism, crawling out from between his coarse cotton sheets like a ruin. Only in the warmest months of the year do his bones thaw out sufficiently to enable him to stand erect. In the summer afternoons he walks in the park, his little head glowing like a minor sun, his jaw set in a violent expression of health.

His tiny nautical pension is hardly enough to pay for one cockroach-infested room; he ekes it out with an equally small salary from the Egyptian government, which carries with it the proud title of Bimbashi in the Police Force. Origins he has none. His past spreads over a dozen continents like a true subject of myth. And his presence is so rich with imaginary health that he needs nothing more—except perhaps an occasional trip to Cairo during Ramadhan, when his office is closed and presumably all crime comes to a standstill because of the past.

Scobie liked to have his telescope in bed because ______.

A．he enjoyed looking at the passers-by, even if he could see the sea

B．he refused touching it and looking through it at the wall

C．he refused to accept the fact that he could not see the sea

D．he enjoyed looking at the passers-by, even if he could not see the sea

When he died in 1905, Taylor ______.

A．purchased a steel mill

B．sold a steel mill

C．started to protect environment

D．left a huge school of followers

Taylor's scientific management method was described as ______.

A．scientific and human

B．efficient but slave-driving

C．academic but practicable

D．brutal but highly successful

Charles Babbage, an English academic,______.

A．tried to use computers in production processes

B．first used computers in the area of cost accounting

C．was the father of modern computers

D．tried a scientific management approach