Question

Bond had walked for only a few minutes when it suddenly occurred to him that he was being followed. There was no evidence for it except a slight headache and a little knowing the people near him but believed in his sixth sense and he at once stopped in front of the shop window he was passing and looked occasionally back along 46th Street. Nothing but a lot of miscellaneous people moving slowly on the sidewalks, mostly on the same side as himself, the side that was back from the sun. There was no sudden movement into a doorway, nobody wiping his face with a handkerchief to avoid recognition, nobody bending down to tie a shoelace.

He went on and turned into the Avenue of the Americans, stopping in the first doorway, the entrance to a woman’s underwear store where a man in a blue suit with his back to him was examining the black lace paints on a particularly realistic-dummy（模型）.

And then something grasped his arm and a voice came, “All right, Limey. Take it easy unless you want lead for lunch,” and he felt something press into his back just above the kidney.

There was a tap as his fist was caught in the other man’s left hand, and at the same time as the contact telegraphed to Bond’s mind that there could have been no gun, there came the well remembered laugh and the lazy voice saying: “No good, James. The angles have got you.”

Bond straightened himself slowly and for a moment he could only gaze into the smiling face of Felix Leiter with blank dis-belief, his built-up tension（緊張）slowly relaxing.

“So you were doing a front tail, you bastard（贗品）,” he finally said.

1. Bond realized that he was being followed by means of _____.

A. his common sense　 B. his sense of humour C. his sight　 D. his sixth sense

2. When Bond stopped and looked back along 46th Street, he observed all the following except _____.

A. most people on the sidewalks were on the same side as himself

B. no one suddenly turned into a doorway

C. a man was looking into the window of a store

D. no one wiped his face with a handkerchief

3. Why did Bond stop in the doorway to the underwear shop?

A. To see who was following him.　　　 　 B. To look at the man in the blue suit.

C. To avoid the sunshine.　　　　 　　 D. To look at the underwear.

4. What did the man mean by saying “Take it easy unless you want lead for lunch”?

A. Put up your hands.　　

B. Don’t move or I’ll shoot you.

C. If you want to have lunch, you must listen to me.　　

D. You go first slowly and we’ll have lunch together.

5. What is “a front tail”?

A. Pretending to be someone else.　 　 B. Following somebody from in front.

C. Following someone from behind.　 　 D. Standing in front of a shop window.

Answer 1

1—5 DCABB

1. 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)There was no evidence for it except a slight headache and a little knowing the people near him but believed in his sixth sense可知，他是通過第六感覺覺察到自己被人跟蹤了。

2. 細(xì)節(jié)題。當(dāng)Bond停下來時，他觀察到的情況有：mostly on the same side as himself... no sudden movement into a doorway...nobody wiping his face with a handkerchief ... nobody bending down to tie a shoelace.只有C項(xiàng)沒有提及。

3. 推斷題。根據(jù)he was being followed, ...believed in his sixth sense and he at once stopped in front of the shop window... looked occasionally back along 46th Street可以推斷出，Bond停下來的目的是要弄清楚到底是誰在跟蹤他。

4. 句意推測題。后面有句話：he felt something press into his back just above the kidney.他感覺到什么東西頂在他的腰部，他意識到可能遇上歹徒了。持槍歹徒通常會威脅受害人：Don’t move or I’ll shoot you.故B項(xiàng)最佳。

5. 詞語猜測題。從前面部分我們了解到，當(dāng)他往后面看的時候，并沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)可疑的情況。后面有人跟蹤的話，我們一般會說：“后面有尾巴�！倍鴄 front tail則是反過來說的，所以，a front tail，應(yīng)該是“被人從前面跟蹤了”。因?yàn)檫@是朋友搞的惡作劇。