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In every British town, large and small, you will find shops that sell second-hand goods. Sometimes such shops deal mostly in furniture, sometimes in books, sometimes in household goods, sometimes even in clothes.
The furniture may often be "antique" and it may well have changed hands many times. It may also be very valuable, although the most valuable pieces will usually go to the London salerooms, where one piece might be sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. As you look around these shops and see the polished(擦亮的) wooden boxes and tables, you can’t help thinking sadly of those long—dead hands which polished that wood, of those now—closed eyes which once looked at these pieces with love.
The books, too, may be antique and very valuable; some may be rare first printings. Often when someone dies or has to move to a new place his books may all be sold, so that sometimes you may find whole libraries in one shop. On the border be
A. be on sale dozens of times
B. be rare first printings
C. all be sold
D. be well worth what is charged for them

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In every British town, large and small, you will find shops that sell second-hand goods. Sometimes such shops deal mostly in furniture, sometimes in books, sometimes in household goods, sometimes even in clothes.
The furniture may often be "antique" and it may well have changed hands many times. It may also be very valuable, although the most valuable pieces will usually go to the London salerooms, where one piece might be sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. As you look around these shops and see the polished(擦亮的) wooden boxes and tables, you can’t help thinking sadly of those long—dead hands which polished that wood, of those now—closed eyes which once looked at these pieces with love.
The books, too, may be antique and very valuable; some may be rare first printings. Often when someone dies or has to move to a new place his books may all be sold, so that sometimes you may find whole libraries in one shop. On the border be
A. may have had many former owners
B. is on sale mainly in London salerooms
C. has usually been polished before being sold
D. has usually been rejected

[单项选择]A small town on the border between England and Wales ______.
A. does not deal in anything but books
B. deals mainly in books
C. deals in anything but books
D. does not deal in anything but sheep

[单项选择]He enjoyed living in the small town at first but the _______ soon wore off, and he began to miss city life.
A. certainty
B. productivity
C. novelty
D. morality

[单项选择]At last, we （）the small town before dark.
A. got off
B. arrived at
C. came on

[单项选择](The population) of this small town has (more than) (doubled) it in the past (few decades).
A. The population
B. more than
C. doubled
D. few decades

[单项选择]The story took place in a small town （）the morning of February 6.
A. at
B. on
C. in

[单项选择]After 10 o'clock in the evening the small town ______.

[单项选择]This place, originally a small town, has been ______ into a modern city.
A. transported
B. transferred
C. transmitted
D. transformed

[单项选择]Today the small town is better ______ against flood than it was 20 years ago.
A. protected
B. prevented
C. preserved
D. prepared

[单项选择]As I grew up in a small town at the foot of a mountain, the visit to the village ______ scenes of my childhood.
A. called up
B. called for
C. called on
D. called in