Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited
a place once, they will be able to find it again years later. 　
     I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time
after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete
strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the
spot I was heading for. 　
     I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people
do not like to admit that they didn't know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do
not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long
list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell
between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction. 　
     If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to
avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results. 　
     Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the
way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that
he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back
and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did
not want to keep him waiting. 　
     Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions to
my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1. What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

A. He will direct the right way to the person willingly.
B. He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.
C. He will give the very person long list of direction.
D. He is going to show the man an opposite direction.

2. How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

A. He felt strange.
B. He felt embarrassed.
C. He felt very sad.
D. He felt astonished.

3. Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

A. Someone we don't know.
B. The writer did it for himself.
C. The secretary did so.
D. A warm-hearted old lady did such a thing.

     MONTREAL (Reuters)-Crossing the US-Canada border (邊界) to go to church on a Sunday cost a US
citizen ＄10,000 for breaking Washington's strict new security (安全) rules.
     The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border.
Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The
nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church.
     There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between
Canada and the US-which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings.
     As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the
US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs (海關(guān)) station in this are is closed on
Sundays, so be just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared
last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later. Albert was told to go to the customs
office, where an officer told him be had been caught on carnera crossing the border illegally (非法).
     Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country
when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the
people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint.
     Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a
Sunday church since. "I feel like I'm living in a prison," he said.

1.We learn from the text that Richard Albert is _____.

A. an American living in Township 15
B. a Canadian living in a Quebec village
C. a Canadian working in a customs station
D. an American working in a Canadian church

2. Albert was fined because he _____.

A. failed to obey traffic rules
B. broke the American security rules
C. worked in St. Pamphile without a pass
D. damaged the gate of the customs office

3. The underlined word "detour" in paragraph 5 means _____.

A. a drive through the town
B. a race across the fields
C. a roundabout way of travelling
D. a journey in the mountain area

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A. A Cross-country Trip
B. A Special Border Pass
C. An Unguarded Border
D. An Expensive Church Visit