Geoffrey Payne talked for the first time about the night his wife was killed. The judge(法官) thought he killed his wife. Now he wrote to a magazine from the prison (監(jiān)獄) about what happened on the night of 13 October, 2006.

I had to stay late at the hospital that night to do an operation(手術(shù)) . I finally left at about 11p.m, I drove home slowly because the weather was terrible—the wind  was blowing and it was raining heavily, I was turning into our road when a man suddenly ran in front of my car. I almost hit him but I stopped just in time. I was frightened and the man looked frightened too. I got out of the car but he ran away before I could ask if he was all right. It was very strange.

When I got home, the lights were on but it was very quiet. I called to my wife but there was no answer. Then I remembered that she was out at a concert.

I was still very upset (不安) about what happened on the road, so I made myself a drink. Then I went upstairs to have a bath. I saw the window in the bedroom was open. This was strange because my wife always locked the doors and windows before she went out. She was afraid of burglars(夜盜者).When I went to close it, I found Ellen. She was lying on the floor. There was blood everywhere. I rushed over and felt for her pulse(脈搏) but she was dead. I sat on the floor beside her body and was too frightened to do anything.

The next thing I knew was that the sky was getting light. I can’t remember anything about that night. In the morning I phoned the police. They arrived about half an hour after I phoned them. But it seemed like hours. During that time I tried hard to remember anything I could about the night before. I couldn’t stop thinking about the man on the road. What was he doing at that time of the night in our quiet neighborhood? Why did he look so frightened?  Why did he run away?

1.       Geoffrey Payne was a ________________________.

A.      doctor 

B.      policeman

C.      judge

D.     taxi driver

2.       ___________________while Payne was turning into his road that night.

A.      A man suddenly ran in front of his car

B.      His wife called him from the concert hall

C.      A man stopped him and asked him the way

D.     A man hit Payne’s car with a big stone and ran away

3.       When Payne got home, he found ____________________.

A.      Ellen waiting for him

B.      the bedroom window closed

C.      Ellen lying on the floor and there was blood everywhere

D.     a burglar in his house

4.       After he found Ellen dead, Payne__________________________.

A.      called the police at once

B.      called out for help

C.      tried to find out who killed his wife

D.     sat beside his wife’s body without knowing what to do

5.       Which of the following is NOT true?

A.      Payne called the police the next morning.

B.      Payne could remember clearly what had happened

C.      The policemen arrived thirty minutes after Payne’s call.

D.    Payne wondered what the man was doing in his neighborhood that night

Thomas Edison lost the first job. For the next five years he went around the country from job to job. At last Edison went to New York. He had little money. He could not buy enough food to eat. He had no place to sleep.

For many days Edison looked for work. He was hungry. At last he found work fixing machines. He could fix the old machines. He also made new ones. The head man liked Edison’s new machines. He was going to give Edison $ 40,000 for them. Edison would now have money to do what he wanted.

Thomas Edison was then 23. He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey. He had many people working for him. But he worked more than any of them. He rested very little. Soon he was making more than 40 new things at one time.

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone. But it could carry voices only a little way. Edison wanted to make a better telephone. He soon made one. It could carry voices a long way.

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1．After he lost his first job, Edison ________.

   A. found no jobs in the next five years 

   B. lived in New York for the next five years

   C. had a bad time in the next five years

   D. had no food and no sleep during the next five years

2．In New York ________.

   A. Edison was always hungry

   B. Edison began to have good luck after he found the work fixing machines

   C. Edison got $ 40,000 by fixing machines

   D. Edison made more money by fixing old machines

3．The head man was interested in ________.

   A. Thomas Edison himself      B. The old machines

   C. the new machines           D. Edison’s telephone

4．Edison made a telephone. It ________.

   A. was the first one in the world    B. carried more voices

   C. carried voices more clearly      D. carried voices much farther

5．The best title for this passage might be “________.”

   A. The First Telephone            B. Thomas Edison’s Shop

   C. Thomas Edison’s New Job       D. Thomas Edison—An Inventor