We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a number of things to happen. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this means your troubles are beginning. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table, destroying your prepared meal. You hang up hurriedly and attend to your baby. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if these were not enough to bring you to tears, your husband arrives unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on-a number of people on the road. During the rush hour one evening, two cars hit each other and both drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly went into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her stop suddenly. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the window and landed on the road’. Seeing a cake-flying through the air, a truck driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the truck and fell onto the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic to move again. In the meanwhile, the truck driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs were enjoying themselves from the accident; for they were happily having what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days.
小題1:What does the writer mainly tell us?
A．Troubles always happen at the same time.
B．Everyone may have trouble every day.
C．A small matter can cause great trouble.
D．Only the lucky man won’t have any trouble every day.
小題2:according to the passage, what should be the correct order?
(1) The woman driver stopped her car suddenly.             ?
(2) The driver’s wife dropped her cake on the road.
(3) Only two dogs were happy.
(4) Two cars hit each other.
(5) The truck driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles.
A．(2)(3)(3)(5)(1)B．(4)(1)(2)(5)(3)
C．(3)(5)(2)(4)(1)D．(1)(4)(2)(3)(5)
小題3:Which of the following is true?
A．The woman’s husband brought three guests home to dinner unexpectedly.
B．The meal got burnt.
C．Her baby pulled the table-cloth off the table.
D．It is not strange to experience such accidents.
小題4:What does the word "these" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refer to?
A. Your husband brings three guests to dinner unexpectedly.
B. The meal gets burnt.
C. The baby pulls the table-cloth off the table.
D. Both B and C.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:D

文章論述了生活中suddenly everything seems to get out of control現(xiàn)象。
小題1:A 主旨題。根據(jù)第一段第三句It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a number of things to happen可知，麻煩的事情總是同時(shí)發(fā)生。
小題2:B 細(xì)節(jié)題。將第二段所說的一連串的事件進(jìn)行比較，可知選B。
小題3:D 推斷題。根據(jù)文章Let us suppose…可知，選項(xiàng)A、B、C都只是一種假設(shè)，可推知選D。
小題4:D 詞義題。由下文Let us suppose…可知，它應(yīng)該指前面的兩件事。
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