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The policeman on the beat moved around as it was his turn to patrol the avenue. The time was about ten at night, but freezing wind with a taste of rain had almost emptied the streets. Trying doors as he went, swinging his club（棒） with many clever movements, he turned now and then to set his watchful eyes down the peaceful street. When about midway of a certain block, he suddenly slowed his walk. In the doorway of a closed store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. As the policeman walked up to him, the man spoke up quickly.

    “It’s all right, officer,” he said, confidently. “I’m just waiting for a frienD．It’s an appointment made twenty years ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll explain. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands―‘Big Joe’ Brady’s restaurant.”

“Until five years ago,” said the policeman. “It was torn down then.”

The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. “I came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight, and it’s worthy,” said the man, “Twenty years ago tonight, I dined here at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s with Jimmy Wells, my best frienD．He and I were brought up here in New York, just like two brothers together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn’t have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be.”

1. The underlined part “on the beat” most probably means ______.

       A．walking down the street on duty            B．moving his club following a beat

       C．on the point of beating a wrong doer      D．experiencing a fast heart-beating

2. The writer described the weather at the beginning of the story to ______.

       A．sing high praise for the greatness of friendship

       B．create an atmosphere for the coming appointment

       C．praise the officer for his willing awareness of his duty

       D．inform us of the situations of the appointment made 20 years ago

3. Which of the following can be a most reasonable guess?

A．The man may have been to “Big Joe” several times in the past year.

       B．Jimmy must have broken the appointment they had arranged.

       C．The man from the west might have made a large fortune.

       D．The policeman must have been Jimmy Wells himself.

4. We can learn from the story the man from the West was “ ______”.

  A．proud                 B．loyal              C．easy-going             D．optimistic

【回答】

ABCB

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