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1、湖北省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（57）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AThe Colonel ask Ashenden a good many questions and then suggested that he had particular qualifications for the Secret Service. Ashenden knew several European languages and the fact that he was a writer provided excellent cover: on the
2、pretext that he was writing a book he could, without attracting attention, visit any neutral country. It was while they were discussing this point that the Colonel said, You know you might get material that would be very useful to you in your work. Ill tell you an incident that occurred only recentl
3、y. Very dramatic. A foreign government minister went down to a Mediterranean resort to recover from a cold and he had some very important documents with him that he kept in a dispatch case(公文箱). A day or two after he arrived, he picked up a beautiful blonde at some restaurant or other, and he got ve
4、ry friendly with her. He took her back to his hotel, and when he came to himself in the morning, the lady and the dispatch-case had disappeared. They had one or two drinks up in his room and his theory is that when his back was turned the woman slipped a drug in his glass. Do you mean to say that ha
5、ppened the other day? said Ashenden. The week before last. Impossible, cried Ashenden. Why! Weve been putting that incident on the stage for sixty years, weve written it in a thousand novels. Do you mean to say that life has only just caught up with us? Well, I can guarantee the truth of the story.
6、said the Colonel, And believe me, the government has been put to no end of trouble by the loss of the documents. Well sir, if you cant do better than that in the Secret Service, sighed Ashenden, Im afraid that as a source of inspiration to the writer of fiction, its washout.1How did the Colonel sugg
7、est that Ashendens being a writer would relate to his work as a spy?A. It would make traveling abroad more possible.B. It would make it easier for him to meet people.C. It would enable him to avoid arousing suspicion.D. It would enable him to use the languages he knew.2The reason for the Ministers t
8、rip was _ .A. to fetch some documentsB. to get over an illnessC. to meet a spyD. to deliver some papers3According to the Colonel the incident happened _ .A. a few days before B. a few weeks beforeC. two weeks beforeD. sixty years before4Ashenden cried Impossible after hearing the Colonels story beca
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