解析：

文章大意：一个traveler在一个只身着蓝色衣服的保守村庄的经历

41.B 细节题. 原文Long long ago, a traveler once visited a city where everyone

wore blue. Puzzled...

42.C. 细节题. 根据traveler和第一个dyer的对话原文“Please dye the

handkerchief red...Then dye it green.”

43. C. 细节题. 原文 “We never allow a stranger to enter our field”

44. D. 推理判断题. 原文 When the master dyers saw this, they quickly

apologized for their past words, begging him to hire them and teach them his art.

B

I’ll never forget my first day at Senior High in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened. On my way to school I wondered what kind of questions the other boys would asked me and practiced all the answers: “I am six years old. I was born here but I haven’t lived here since I was five. I was living in Farley. It’s about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago.” I was wondered if it was the custom for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hope they would decide not to risk it.

No one took any notice of me in school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say “hello”, but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me, but that was all.

My teacher was called Mr.Black. There were boys in the class, so I didn’t stand out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr Black was very fond of Charles Dickens he dad decided to read loud to us from David Copperfield, but first he asked several boys if they knew Dickens’ birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said:

“Timbuktu” and Mr.Black went red in the face. Then he asked me. I said:”Portsmouth” and everyone stared at me because Mr. Black said I was right. This didn’t make me very popular, of course.

“He thinks he’s clever” Brian said.

After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian’s team, and he obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to be the goalkeeper because no one ever wanted to be the goalkeeper.

“He’s big enough and useless enough.” Broan said when someone asked him why he had chosen me.

I suppose Mr. Jones, who served as the judge, remembered Dickens, too, because when the game was nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and he gave them a punishment. As the boy kicked the ball to my right, I threw myself down instinctively(本能地) and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were injured and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.

45. The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT“_______”

A. How old are you?

B. Where are you from?

C. Would you like to join my gang?

D. When did you come back to London?

46. What can we know from the passage?

A. The writer was glad to be a goalkeeper.

B. The writer was not greeted as he expected.

C. Brian praised the writer for his cleverness.

D. Boys were usually friendly to new students.

47. Why was the writer offered a handkerchief?

A. Because he was no longer a clever boy.

B. Because he pushed a player on the other team.

C. Because he threw himself down and saved him.

D. Because he was beginning to be accepted.

解析：

文章大意：作者到新学校逐渐被接受的事情

45.C 事实细节题目，“I wondered what kind of questions the other boys would aske me and practised all the answers: “I am six years old. I was born here but I haven’t lived here since I was five. I was living in Farley. It’s about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago.””可知答案应为C项。

46.B 推理判断题目，从文章第二段以及第四、五和六段判断得出，答案应为B项。

47.D 事实细节题目，从文章最后一段的描述“As the boy kicked the ball to my right, I threw myself down instinctively(本能地) and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were injured and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.”

C

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You may think a restaurant for dogs is strange. However, the restaurant owner Vera Carter does not. She says, “People want to return the loyalty and love their animals give them. For a dog, the best way to do that is to give them good food.”

Carl Gregory, a pet-industry expert agrees. He says Americans are not just buying food, but they spending millions of dollars on toys, beds, classes and even clothing for their pets. In fact, today Americans spend twice as much on their pets as they did in the twentieth century.

For these reasons, many different types of businesses are offering services to pet owners. Some hotels now rent pet-friendly rooms. Some even have room service for dogs. Mail-orders companies