[填空题]Victor

[填空题]Victor

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Molly, an English woman, is talking to Victor, who is Asian and they are discussing different superstitions and customs.
Molly: There’s a black cat. That’s a lucky sign.
Victor: I don’t think that as it just scratched me.
Molly: Black cats are often used as good luck symbols in Europe.
Victor: You have a lot of strange beliefs. I think I was told if you give someone a present with a sharp edge or point, like a knife or a brooch, you also have to give a coin.
Molly: Yes, that’s right, then we say that the friendship will never be cut or broken.
Victor: What about crossed knives
Molly: That’s supposed to be unlucky but we cross our fingers for good luck.
Victor: The old people of my country believe in lots of things like that but I think it’s all a lot of rubbish. I can’t see how it can affect any thing.
Molly: Well, many people say it’s bad luck to walk under a l
A. To specially celebrate his birthday.
B. To express some special meaning which you dare not tel1 directly.
C. To wish for a long-lasting friendship.
D. To wish your friend good luck in his life.

[单项选择]When he died in 1885 at the age of 83, Victor Hugo was beyond question the most famous man of letters in France, and perhaps the world -his only rival being Charles Dickens. The English put up memorials to show where their literary celebrities lived or were born, and sometimes grant them burial in Westminster Abbey. Hugo, however, is the only writer to have stone to mark his place of conception. His parents’ epochal embrace took place in a forest 3,000 feet up on Mount Donon, overlooking the Rhineland, in May 1801, though it’s typical Of Hugo’s own overstating habit that in adult life he claimed it happened 3,000 feet higher still, and on Mount Blanc.
In his life he was compared to (often by himself) an eagle, a titan, a monster; to Homer, Shakespeare, Dante and Cervantes. He wrote enormous, turbulent, dark novels, two of which (Les Miserable and The Hunchback of Notre Dame) in our own day have been turned, respectively, into a musical and a Disney film. Few read the originals,
A. The English like to set up memorials for themselves.
B. Victor Hugo was born on the French Mount Donon.
C. Charles Dickens was not on good terms with Hugo.
D. The French writer liked to overstate his experience.

[单项选择]Victor took a bus and headed for home, （）if his wife would have him back.
A. not to know
B. not known
C. not knowing
D. not having known

[填空题]A new start means Victor is (self-confidence) ______ again after he has got several times of failure.

[单项选择]Victor promised to keep his boss ______ what was going on in the factory.
A. to be informed
B. informing of
C. inform about
D. informed of

[单项选择]Victor: Can I get you a cup of tea
Kathy: ______
A. That’s very nice of you.
B. With pleasure.
C. You can, please.
D. Thank you for the tea.