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[单项选择]Jonathan Rivers lived alone in a neat house in Compton Street and worked in London. Like many other single men in their middle age, he was getting rather set in his ways. He looked after the house well and had a beautiful garden. Before he left the house in the morning, he would carefully close all the doors downstairs, open some windows upstairs to let the air in and lock the front door.
One summer evening Jonathan returned home as usual, just at five minutes to seven. When he opened the front gate he immediately noticed something strange. There was a heavy footprint (脚印) in the earth in one of the flower beds. Jonathan was just going to blame the milkman when he noticed that one of the white curtains in the front room downstairs was out of place. Jonathan never left anything out of place.
He walked up to the front door and opened it quietly. He listened carefully for a few moments but could hear nothing. The front-room door was half-open. Jonathan studied it thoughtfully, w
A. Middle-aged men are likely to have different ways of living
B. Many other single men in the world would rather live like Jonathan
C. Jonathan liked to do things in the same way as other middle-aged single men did
D. Jonathan was getting into the habit of doing things in the same way every day
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Jonathan Rivers lived alone in a neat, two-storey, semi-detached house in Compton Street. Like many bachelors approaching middle age, he was getting rather stable in his ways. He caught the same train to London each morning, ate his lunch in the same crowded restaurant near the office where he worked and always came home on the 6:00 train. People were so used to seeing Jonathan set off at a quarter past eight, dressed in a simple dark suit, wearing a black bowler hat and carrying a rolled umbrella on his arm, and they said you didn’t need to wear a watch if you lived in Compton Street.
Ever since Jonathan had set up house in Compton Street, he had looked after it very care fully. He worked hard in the garden every weekend and set out to impress the neighbours with his flower beds and lawn. Before he left the house in the morning, he carefully closed all the doors downstairs, opened some windows to let the air in and locked the front door. Everything Jonathan did was
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[填空题]The ways Bushes worked and lived in White House are unlike those of the Clintons.
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Mr Brown lived in a house less than two miles from his office. He was able to drive home every day for lunch. Every time he drove home in the middle of the day, he found that oars were parked on the road outside his house and there was no room for his own. He had to drive two hundred meters more before he could find a place to park his oar. Then he had to walk back home. This made him very angry.
Then, he set up a board in the garden facing the road. It had two words "No Parking" on it, but nobody seemed to notice (注 意) it. If it was a blue board with the words "Police Notice: No Parking", no car would be parked in front of his house. So, Mrs Brown suggested that he make one like the police notice (告示). Mr Brown said he was not the police and couldn’t use the word "police". But he decided he must find a way out and started thinking hard.
Several days passed. Then one evening, he showed his wife a new blue board with the words "Po
A. in his office
B. at home
C. outside his house
[填空题]We have lived in this house for more than 30 years. It now needs (repair) ______.
