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[单项选择]My new home was a long way from the center of London but it was becoming essential to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the tube. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a band and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I would be a tube guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I would be overqualified hut I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges—those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city center.
The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after half an ho
A. he could no longer afford to live without one
B. he wanted to work in the center of London
C. he had received suitable training
D. he was not interested in any other available job
[单项选择]It’s a long way from London to Moscow but London to Sydney is even （）.
A. further
B. far
C. short
D. more
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When sailors are allowed ashore after a long time at sea, they sometimes get drunk and cause trouble. For this reason, the navy (16) has its police in big ports. Whenever sailors cause trouble, the police come and (17) them.
One day, the police in a big seaport received a telephone call (18) a bar in the town. The barman said that a big sailor had got drunk and (19) the furniture in the bar. The officer in charge of the police guard that evening said that he would come immediately.
Now, officers who (20) and punish the sailors (21) drunk usually chose (22) policeman they could find to go with them. (23) this particular officer did not do this. (24) , he chose the smallest and (25) man he could find to go to the bar with him and (26) the sailor.
Another officer who (27) there was surprised when he saw the officer of the guard chose such a small man. A. Yet
B. But
C. So
D. hen
