Part IV Short Answer Questions15 minutes
DirectionsIn this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements.Read the passage carefully.Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible wordsnot exceeding 10 words
In the darkness of early morning many people waited.About ten miles away was an atom bomb that was set to go off.On a loudspeaker a voice was countingfourthreetwoonezero
Zeroand nothing happenedWhy didn't the bomb go offSomething had gone wrong.But no one knew what was the matter.
Now there was only one thing left to do.Some men must go and take the bomb apart.There was much danger in this work.If anything happened to make the bomb go offit would be the end.
Three men were picked.It would be their task to go to the top of a five-hundred-foot tower. Up there in a little room was the atom for bomb. The men rode in cars to the tower.Then they got ready for the five-hundred-foot climb.They must go by ladder all the way.Each man carried a box of tools on his back.When they reached the top they would be as high up as a forty-storey building.
As the men started the climbthey sawa rabbit hopping about.
There is a lucky rabbitif we make itsaid one of the men.
Up and up they climbed.Two hundred feet three hundred feetfour hundred feet.Only one hundred feet left to go.How small the cars below lookedjust like little toys
At the topthe men stood at the door of the little room in which the bomb lay.With much carethe first man opened the door and went in. Everything looked all rightso the other two followed.
Carefully the men worked on the bomb.Now there was just one more step to go.They must pull the wires from the bomb.With a strongeven pull their work was finished.
Back on the ground the men again saw the rabbit.
Yesthat is a very lucky rabbitlaughed one of the men.
We were lucky toosaid another.
Questions
71.When was the atom bomb set to go off
72.The tower was as high as .
73.How did the men get to the top of the tower
74.Why were the menlucky
75.What is the story about
Part V Writing30 minutes
DirectionsFor this partyou are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topicIMPORTANT WORDS.You should write at least 100 words and you should base your composition on the outlinegiven in Chinesebelow
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2.ڶҪĴǡ뭹
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