Martin Henfield talks about some of his experiences as a twin: When we were small my mother dressed us ____1___ the same clothes. That was bad enough and we didnt like it. But when we went on our first camping trip with the scouts1 , it was even ____2____. We were only ten years old, and while ___3___ went into their sleeping bags for the night, we were not happy to snuggle inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us.
At school our classmates ____4____ us Henfield One and Henfield Two, so people couldnt even see our difference according to our initials2 because _____5__ of us were M. O. It was only when I went to college and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity3 .
Before I went to college , during my last secondary4 school ____6____, I got a job on a building site . My twin brother, Mike Henfield, didnt work. He was resting. One day I said to the foreman , Can I have a week off? Certainly, he said, but you wont have the job when you ____7____ back. I didnt want to ___8___ the job. So on Monday morning, Mike went down in my jeans , jacket and hat and he worked for me for one week. ____9____ of them knew the difference.
Now I am growing old and I feel very different ___10__ my twin brother. And hell tell you the same. We have really worked towards that for forty years.
1. a. inb. forc. ond. with
2. a. badb. worsec. goodd. best
3. a. all boysb. another boyc. all the other boysd. all the boys
4. a. calledb. askedc. tod. knew
5. a. everyb. eachc. bothd. all
6. a. holidaysb. holidayc. weekd. weekend
7. a. getb. will getc. gotd. are getting
8. a. looseb. lostc. missingd. lose
9. a. Allb. Nonec. Eachd. Both
10. a. inb. fromc. withd. as
When the Americans were getting ready to send their first man to the moon, an old Irishman was watching them on the television in the bar of a hotel. There was an Englishman5 in the bar, too, and he ___11____ the Irishman, The ____12___ are very clever, arent they? They are going ___13____ some men to the moon. It is a long ____14___ from the world.
Oh, thats ____15___, the Irishman answered quickly. The Irish are going to send some men to the sun in a few months. Thats ____16___ away from the moon, you know.
Yes, it is. The English man said, ___17___ it is too ___18__ for the people to go to.
The Irishman laughed and said, Well, the Irish arent stupid, you know, we ____19___ go to the sun during the day, of course, we will go there ___20____.
11. a. said tob. toldc. talk tod. spoke6 to
12. a. Englishmenb. Americansc. Irishd. Frenchmen
13. a. to reachb. to sendc. to gived. to rest
14. a. timeb. streetc. roadd. way
15. a. Goodb. Nicec. trued. nothing
16. a. longb. farc. farther7d. much farther
17. a. andb. butc. ord. because
18. a. hot b. warmc. coldd. cool
19. a. dontb. cantc. wontd. mustnt
20. a. in the morningb. in the afternoonc. in the eveningd. during the night
答案：
1.a 2.b 3.c 4.a 5.c6.b 7.a 8.d 9.b 10.b
11.a 12.b 13.b 14.d 15.d 16.d17.b 18.a 19.c 20.d
