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（A）
Today there are policemen（1） ，but in 1700 London had no policemen at all．（2） old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid very much．
About 300 years（3） ，Lon don was starting to get bigger．The city was very（4） and many people were poor．There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as（5） as possible．In 1750，Henry Fielding started to pay（6） people to stop thieves．They were like policemen and were called“Bow Street Runners”（7） they worked near Bow Street．
Fifty years later，there were 120 Bow street Runners，（8） London had become very big and needed more policemen ．So，in 1829，the first Metropolitan（or Lon don）Police Force was started with 3000 officers．Most of the men worked（9） ，but a few rode horses．Until 1920 all the police in London were men ．
Today，London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses，the pay is（10） than for the others．
1．A．everywhere B．somewhere C．anywhere D．nowhere
2．A．little B．few C．a little D．a few
3．A．far B．later C．ago D．before
4．A．clean B．dirty C．busy D．wet
5．A．much B．many C．more D．most
6．A．a lot of B．a bit of C．a pair of D．a group of
7．A．unless B．though C．because D．however
8．A．while B．but C．if D．as
9．A．on foot B．by bike C．by boat D．by air
10．A．the best B．much good C．very better D．even better
（B）
根据所给的首字母填写单词。
Can fish smell？T hey may smell pretty fishy t （1），but can fish actually smell？Some k （2）of fish smell better than others．Some have nostrils（鼻孔）on e （3）side of their heads，while other fish，like eels（鳗鱼），have smell sen sors（嗅觉器官）on the fron t of their h （4）． A sense of smell helps fish f （5）food or warn them of danger．Sharks， who can eat other a （6），have a very strong sense of smell．The smell of blood（血）tells a shark that food is n （7）．They can smell blood in the water from very far a （8）—some species of shark can smell a single drop of blood in one million drops of sea water．So，i （9）you start to bleed in the sea—you had better start s （10）to shore（岸）！
参考答案：
A）1—5 ADCBA 6—10 DCBAD
B）1．themselves 2．kinds 3．either 4．heads 5．find 6．animals 7．nearby 8．away 9． if 10．swimming
