Three men arrived in New York for a holiday. They stayed in a very large hotel and their room was on the forty-fifth floor. In the evening, they went to the theater and came back late. “I’m very sorry, ” said the attendant of the hotel. “The lifts are not working tonight. Do you want to walk up to your room or sleep in the hall for the night?” “Oh!” said one of the three, “We do not want to sleep in the hall. We’ll walk up to our room.” He turned to his two friends and said, “I think we can walk up to our room more easily. On the way, I’ll tell you some jokes, and then you, Alan, will sing us some songs and then you, Peter, will tell us some interesting stories.” Then they began to walk up to their room. Tom told the jokes. Alan sang the songs. At last they came to the forty-fourth floor. They felt tired and stopped to have a rest. “Well,” said Tom, “it’s your turn now, Peter. Please tell us a long and interesting story with a sad end.”
“OK, I’ll tell you a sad story,” said Peter. “It is not long, but it’s the saddest story of all. We left the key to our room in the hall.”
【小题1】Tom, Alan and Peter went to New York to_________.
| A．visit their friends | B．live there | C．have a holiday | D．visit a large hotel |
【小题2】That evening, they went to _________.
| A．see the sights | B．watch a play | C．their friends’ house | D．a restaurant |
【小题3】The attendant of the hotel_________.
| A．didn’t let them in | B．told them they couldn’t use the lifts |
| C．wasn’t very happy | D．got angry |
【小题4】Suddenly, they found __________.
| A．the key was missing | B．they left the key in the theater |
| C．they had to go back to the hall for the key | D．the lifts started to work again |
【小题5】What does the underlined word “attendant” mean in this passage? ________
