When Houdini tried to call her mother, he was told that ______.

Everyone left the scene when they found that Houdini had failed to escape.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

The writer states that when Houdini escaped from the milk churn ______.

A．the role of the orchestra was important

B．he made use of the hacksaw to free himself

C．the container had been modified beforehand

D．he was in full sight of the audience

听力原文：M: Have you called John to come and fix the TV？

W: I tried reaching him again and again, but it seemed his phone was out of order.

Q: Why couldn't the woman get John to come？

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A．John's phone wasn't working.

B．John wasn't at home when she called.

C．The woman didn't get the right phone number of John's.

D．John was too busy to come.

Mark tried to tie the boat to the buoy so that ______.

A．he could spend the night on it while John was looking for help

B．he and John could go sailing again when the fog cleared

C．it wouldn't he hit by other ships

D．he might be picked up by a passing ship

Houdini managed to get out of the trunk, but couldn' t find the hole cut in the ice.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

When the author was a child, how did he feel about his mother’s coldness？

A．He wished his mother were different.

B．He didn’t let it bother him.

C．He tried to change their lives.

D．He wondered if the woman was really his mother.

o mug (抢劫) a five-foot, 74-year-old grandmother. The youth rushed at Mrs West and tried to take her things and money when she was walking out of a church. The result should have been an expected conclusion. Surprisedly, however, when Mrs West grasped the mugger's wrist (手腕), he cried, "Oh, God! Oh, no! Stop!" Encouraged by these pleas (哀求), she put him in arm lock at which the mugger cried, "Oh, no! Oh! God!" and ran away. "If I hadn't been carrying my shopping I would really have put him on his back." said Mrs West who had practised judo (柔道) when younger. "When my husband was living. I used to pracise throwing him at Christmas," she explained.

Why did the youth cry when grasped by the old lady？ Because he______.

A．was sorry for his failure

B．couldn't bear the pain and had to ask for mercy

C．felt angry with the old lady

D．became so excited that he couldn't help doing so

e theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes—from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his "magic" tricks.

Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.

Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.

It was the publicity (宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini's success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck—and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.

Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result？ World-wild fame and a name remembered today.

According to the passage, Houdini's success in prison escapes depends on______.

A．his special tricks and supernatural powers

B．his unusual ability and a skeleton key

C．his magic tricks and unhuman powers

D．his wisdom and magic tricks

countries know the names Washington, Kennedy and so on. However, many men who have served as president of the United States have not been famous in other parts of the world. One example is J. Q. Adams, the sixth man to serve as U.S. president.

Very little happened while Adams was president. It was an unhappy time for him, and he wasn't very effective, when his term ended, he went back to the Congress and served as a representative (众议院议员). White he was in Congress, people began to respect him more than they had done while he was president. Adams was strongly against slavery and tried to outlaw it in Washington D. C. People began to look hack on his presidency with a different view. Now they saw that he was an independent man with high ideal who loved his country and hated slavery. Adams died in 1848 while speaking in the House of Representative.

When Adams served as the sixth U.S. president, ______.

A．his people didn't regard him as a great man

B．he tried a lot of means to get rid of slavery

C．his high ideal made an impression on American people

D．he did a lot of things against laws