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第三部分：阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Where is the missing dollar?

Mr. White was the owner of a hotel in Springfield. One weekend all of the hotels were full because a large meeting was being held in the city. On Saturday night , three men came into the hotel and asked for rooms. Mr. White explained that there were no rooms for them. The men didn’t want to go because they had no place to stay.

   Mr. White wanted to help them. He remembered that Room 418, a very small room, was empty. He asked them if they would share a room. The three men said that they would.

   Mr. White told them that the room would be $30, $10 for each man. Each man gave him $10, and then they went up to their room.

   Mr. White soon began to feel sorry. “Thirty dollars is too much for the small room.” He called his assistant over and said, “Here is $5. Give it to the men in Room 418. They paid too much for the room.”

   The assistant took the money. While he was on the way to Room 418, he thought, “ How can three man divide $5? I’ll give each of them only $1, and I’ll keep $2. They will be happy to get something back. I’ll make a little money and Mr. White will never know.” So he returned $1 to each man.

   Each man had first paid $10. After the assistant gave $1 back to him, each one had actually paid only $9. $9×3=$27. The assistant kept $2. $27 + $2= $29.

   Where is the missing dollar?

51. The meet ing was held on __________.

A. Monday    B. Wednesday    C. Thursday    D. Friday

52. If there had been empty rooms in the hotel, _________.

A. the dollar would not have been missing   

B. each of them would have had a room.

C. they would still have stayed together in a room.   

D. they would have shared a larger room

53. We can conclude（推断）that _______.

A. the money was lost            B. the assistant kept more than $2

C. there was a mistake in calculating  D. the missing dollar is nowhere to be found

54. Which of the following is not true?

A. Mr. White actually took $25 for the small room.      

B. The assistant kept no more than $2.

C. The three man paid $27, including the two dollars that the assistant kept.

D. No one could find out where the missing dollar was.

55.The last sentence shows that _____.

A. Mr. White found one dollar missing.

B. the assistant wondered where the missing dol lar was

C. the writer put a puzzling question to the readers

D. the writer was not good at maths and asked the readers a silly question.