模拟试题（一） Part I Reading Comprehension (40% 35minutes) Directions; In this part there are four passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question. Then, mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the follow ing passage: Two traveling angels (天使) stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and filled it up. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied: "Things aren't always what they seem." The next night the pair came to rest at a farmer's house. The farmer was very poor, but he and his wife were very hospitable（好客的）. After sharing a little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good rest that night. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their only income, lay dead in the field. The younger angel was very angry and asked the old angel, "How could this happen? Why did you not watch out for the cow? The first man had everything, yet you watched over his house." she accused. "The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you did not help." "Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we stayed in the basement, from the hole I noticed there was gold stored in the wall. Since the owner was ...
