阅读简答题专项练习印4

阅读简答题专项练习（高三专业生专用）4

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Long long ago, people who were rich or important rode horses that were very tall. Today, if a girl acts like she’s better than everyone else, you might say she should get off her high horse.

Yesterday my children wanted me to take them to the playground. But I had to finish my work, so I told them to hold their horses. I meant I wanted them to wait until I finished what I was doing. My two boys like to compete against each other and play in a violent(暴力的) way. I always tell them to stop horsing around or someone could get hurt.

We live in a small town. It doesn’t have any exciting activities to offer visitors. My children call it a one-horse town.

Last night, I got a telephone call while I was watching my favorite television show. I decided not to answer it because wild horses couldn’t drag (拉，拽)me away from the television. There was nothing that could stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

Sometimes you get information straight from the horse’s mouth. It comes directly from the person who knows most about the subject. Let us say your teacher tells you there is going to be a test tomorrow. You could say you got the information straight from the horse’s mouth. However, you wouldn’t want to call your teacher a horse!

The above expressions about horses are very interesting, right? Hope you’ll learn more!

81. Why do Americans still use the expressions about horses?(No more than 15 words) (3 marks)

____________________________________________________________________________ 82. What did the author do when his children played in a violent way? (No more than 12

words) (2 marks)

____________________________________________________________________________ 83. What is a one-horse town? (No more than 12 words) (3 marks)

____________________________________________________________________________ 84. What happened when the author was watching TV last night? (No more than 6 words)

(2 marks)

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A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead, police said on Sunday.

Chitra Bahadur Pulami had been climbing a tree to chase away macaques(猕猴) that had become a dislike to the family but his father Gupta Bahadur, 55, spotted the boy and opened fire, wrongly believe him to be one of the animals.

“The son was hiding in a tree at their farm to chase away monkeys that used to come searching for food in the maize field,”said Arun Poudel, deputy superintendent(负责人) of police in the remote Arghakhanchi district.

“The son died on the spot after Gupta Bahadur mistakenly thought there was monkey in the tree and opened fire. Our Preliminary investigation shows that the