I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left a message the night before, telling me that my show was to be cancelled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my work, and he didn’t care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”
At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone! ” And she swept it into the wastebasket.
I stood watching her, speechless .What on earth?
She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the rest of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room-if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go!”
Then she turned to me, kissed me, and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.
After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight, I noticed that something in my mood（情緒）had changed. I was laughing. How could I have trouble with that phone? Her antics helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him calmly.
小題1:. Why did the author shout at the telephone?
A．He was mad at the telephone.
B．He was angry with his agent.
C．He was anxious about his wife.
D．He was impatient with the secretary.
小題2:. What did the author’s wife do after she heard his shouting?
A．She said nothing.
B．She shouted at him.
C．She called the agent.
D．She threw the phone away.
小題3:

小題4:

小題1:.B
小題1:.D
小題1:.A
小題1:.B
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小題2:..
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A．telephone B．drive C．ride D．stay
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B．the 12th winner for the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1901
C．the 13th woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

I arrived in London at last. The railway station was big, black and dark. I did not know the way to my hotel, so I asked a porter(搬運工).  I not only spoke English very carefully, but very clearly as well.The porter, however, could not understand me. I repeated my question several times and at last he understood. He answered me, but he spoke neither slowly nor clearly. “I am a foreigner”, I said. Then he spoke slowly, but I could not understand him. My teacher never spoke English like that! The porter and I looked at each other and smiled. Then he said something and I understood it. “ You’ll soon learn English!” he said. It seems to me that in England each man speaks a different language. The Englishman understand each other, but I don’t understand them! Do they speak English?
小題1: How did the writer of the passage get to London?
A．By trainB．On footC．By seaD．By air
小題2:What country did the writer of the passage come from?
A．EnglandB．AmeicaC．FranceD．We don’t know
小題3:Why couldn’t the porter understand the writer when he spoke English?
A．Because he was a foreigner.
B．Because the porter could only understand the London dialect (方言).
C．Because he spoke not British English but American English.
D．Because he couldn’t speak idiomtic (地道的) English.
小題4:“In England, each man speaks a different language.” The writer thinks so because_________________.
A．some people speak English, while others don’t.
B．he does not understand native(本國的) speakers of English
C．not every Englishman speaks English
D．each Englishman can speak several foreign languages

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