After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall wa...

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After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, Albert Hall was forced to move to a new neighborhood. He surprised his landlord by telling him that he was leaving because he could not afford to buy any more chocolate.
    It all began a year ago when Albert Hall returned home one evening and found a large dog in front of his gate. He was very fond of animals and as he happened to have a small piece of chocolate in his pocket, he gave it to the dog. The next day, the dog was there again. It held up its paws（爪子）and received another piece of chocolate as a reward. Albert called his new friend “Bingo”. He never found out the dog’s real name, nor who his owner was. However, Bingo appeared regularly every afternoon and it was quite clear that he liked chocolate more than bones. He soon grew dissatisfied with small pieces of chocolate and demanded a large bar a day. If at any time Albert couldn’t give it, Bingo got very angry and refused to let him open the gate. Albert was now at Bingo’s mercy and had to “buy him” to get into his own house! He spent such a large part of his week’s wage to keep Bingo supplied with chocolate that in the end he had to move somewhere else.
1). Albert had been living in the same district for ______.
A. many weeks
B. under twenty years
C.  all his life
D. more than twenty years
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2). Albert decided to move because ______.
A. he didn’t get along well with his landlord
B.  he was afraid of animals, especially dogs
C.  he couldn’t get into his own house
D. he was not satisfied with that district
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3). Bingo waited for Albert every afternoon at the gate because ______.
A. he wanted some bones
B.  he wanted the chocolate
C. he liked Albert
D.  he had no other place to go
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4). We can tell from the story that ______.
A. Albert could afford to buy a large bar of chocolate for Bingo every day
B. Albert didn’t like animals any more from then on
C.  all dogs are excessive
D.  it took Albert too much money to buy chocolate for Bingo
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5). Albert had to “buy him” means ______.
A. Albert had to embrace him
B.  Albert had to drive him away
C. Albert had to give him chocolate
D. Albert had to call the police to take him away
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2.  
If you’ve been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals, you have become one of the millions who write in a special, short form of English.
Throughout the world, every night children and their elders are “talking” online ─ many of them are talking at the same time.
It’s fast: trying talking to six people once. It’s convenient: three or four words per exchange. It takes cleverness, concentration and quick fingers.
And it requires very simple language. There’s neither time nor space for explanations. Why waste precious time telling six friends you have to leave for a moment to take care of your little brother when BRB (=be right back) will do?
Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI (=pardon me for jumping in).
Interested in whom you’re talking to? Type A/S/L, the common request to know your pal’s age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a reply from your pal.
If something makes you laugh, say you’re OTF (=on the floor), or LOL (=laughing out loud), or join the two into ROTFL (=rolling on the floor laughing).
And when it’s time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG (=got to go) or TTYL (=talk to you later).
People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing feeling, as it takes more time to hold down the “shift” key and use capitals. Punctuation is going too.
1). When people are online, they talk by ______.
A.  using body language
B. drawing some strange pictures
C.  making phone calls
D. making use of an especially short form of English
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2). The Internet makes many people in the world ______.
A. talking at the same time
B. discover their friends and relatives
C.  pick out good things to buy
D.  find out about some problems in society
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3). The sentence “There’s neither time nor space for explanations” means that ______.
A. people should use words properly
B. people should know what time it is when they are talking
C. people online have to express themselves in a simple way
D.  people should communicate in a funny way
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4). If you get 19/M/HK as an answer to your A/S/L, it means ______.
A.
the person who is talking to you is 19 from Hong Kong and he is high
B. you are talking to a boy 19 years old and he lives in Hong Kong
C. you are talking to 19 boys from Hong Kong at the same time
D.  the boy from Hong Kong has been online for 19 minutes
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5). Which of the following is a way to save online time?
A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.
B. Many people draw pictures.
C. People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard.
D. People never use the “shift” key.
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