When I was walking down the street the other day, I happened to notice a small brown leather wallet lying on the side walk. I picked it up and opened it to see if I could find out the owner’ s name. There was nothing inside it except some change and an old photograph -- a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old, who looked like the woman’ s daughter. I put the photograph back and took the wallet to the police station, where I handed it to the desk sergeant. Be fore I left, the sergeant took down my name and address in case the owner might want to write and thank me.
That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle. They had also invited a young woman so that there would be four people at the table. Her face was familiar, I was quite sure that we had not met before, but I couldn’t remember where I had seen her. In the course of conversation, however, the young woman happened to mention that she had lost her wallet that
A. on her way to work
B. on her way to the bank
C. during the day
D. in the evening
Passage Two Look at a man walking down a street or road in’ the sunlight and you will see his shadow. If you watch two men walking in the sunlight and carrying a six-fool pane(窗玻璃片) of glass between them, you will see each man six feet apart, but there will be no shadow of the pane of glass. Shadows are easily explained since we know that light travels in a straight line. We also know that light waves pass through some bodies and not through others. When light strikes a body and passes through it unchanged, we call such a body or material transparent. Most glass is such a material, especially window glass, and it is for this reason that we do not see the shadow of the window pane which the men are carrying. Do you know of any other transparent materials The most common one, with which we are familiar, is air. Another is clear water. On the other hand, some materials do not let light pass through them at all. They stop the light waves just as you would-catch a ball th
A. Aluminium.
B. Silver.
C. Milk.
D. Mineral water.
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