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  3. Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A~H the one which

Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A~H the one which

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问题     Read the following passages. Eight sentences have been removed from the article.
    Choose from the sentences A~H the one which fits each gap.
    For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A~H)on the Answer Sheet.
    Do not mark any letter twice.
    A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn’t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. 【R1】______
    The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. 【R2】______
    We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. 【R3】______
    When I’m in New York, I’m a New Yorker. I don’t turn either.【R4】______I hardly hear a siren there.
    At home in my little town in Connecticut, it’s different. 【R5】______
    It’s the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest.【R6】______I’ve been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime?
    I’m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
    I’ve turned against whistling, for instance, 【R7】______
    The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. 【R8】______
A. It got me thinking about sounds again.
B. Like the natives.
C. The distant wail of a police car, an emergency vehicle or a fire siren brings me to my feet if I’m seated and brings me to the window if I’m in bed.
D. I often like the sound when I write better than the looks of it.
E. I used to think of it as the mark of a happy worker but lately I’ve been associating the whistler with a nervous person making compulsive noises.
F. In the middle of the night, I can hear a dripping tap a hundred yards away through three closed doors.
G. People in New York City seldom turn to look when a fire engine, a police car or an ambulance comes screaming along the street.
H. A woman had dropped what appeared to be a dime.
【R5】
选项
答案C
解析 第5段开头提到，在我的老家，情况就不一样了，是指人们对声音的反应不一样。句C：“The distant wail of a police car,an emergency vehicle or a fire siren brings me to my feet if I’m seated and brings me to the window if I’m in bed．”进一步具体叙述了这种不同，因此选C。
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