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　　Long ago, people sent messages in different ways. A man put his ear to the ground. He 1 the horses. They were coming this way. He ran to 2 his people. He was a 3 . That was one way to send messages.

　　People in 4 countries also sent messages. One man made a cloud of smoke. In the next village people saw the smoke and went on doing that, too. The messages went from village to village by 5 .

　　Much 6 , some soldiers kept many pigeons, and these pigeons 7 flew back. When a soldier was sent far away from his own 8 , he might take a pigeon along. He could tie a message to the bird's let. It would fly back 9 the soldier's message.

　　These are slow ways to send messages. Can you think of 10 ways?

1．

[　　]

A．saw	B．found
C．heard	D．lost

2．

[　　]

A．speak	B．talk
C．say	D．tell

3．

[　　]

A．runner	B．winner
C．cleaner	D．farmer

4．

[　　]

A．another	B．other
C．others	D．the others

5．

[　　]

A．animals	B．horses
C．people	D．smoke

6．

[　　]

A．better	B．more
C．later	D．late

7．

[　　]

A．sometimes	B．always
C．never	D．often

8．

[　　]

A．place	B．home
C．family	D．house

9．

[　　]

A．and	B．to
C．without	D．with

10．

[　　]

A．farther	B．further
C．faster	D．more quickly

Answer 1

C;D;A;B;D;C;B;A;D;C

　　1．C（他把耳朵贴在地上，所以是“听”，所以选C．）

　　2．D（speak to，talk with，say to，tell sb．，所以选D．）

　　3．A（通过上下文可以看出他是个信使，所以选A．）

　　4．B（“其他的国家”用“other countries”来表示，所以选B．）

　　5．D（通过说明的描述可以知道这里是一个村子接一个村子地用烟来传递信息，所以选D．）

　　6．C（much修饰形容词的比较级，又因为这里的意思是“晚一点儿”，所以选C．）

　　7．B（根据常识，鸽子最终都会飞回来，所以选B．）

　　8．A（one's own place意思是“……某人的家乡”，所以选A．）

　　9．D（这里的意思是“带着士兵的消息飞回来”，所以选D．）

　　10．C（前一句说“这些都是慢的方法”，所以后面应该说到快的方法，所以选C．）