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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
（一）
The Man of Many Secrets Harry Houdini was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes from prison cells， from wooden boxes floating in rivers， from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to e the great Houdini and his “magic” tricks. Of cour， his cret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.
Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17， in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a club in New York. They called themlves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894， he and his wife Bess worked together a
s a magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape， in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison， and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.
It was the publicity that came from this started Hairy Houdini’s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape from ankle chains. But his biggest cret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell， Bess gave him a kiss for good luck and a small skeleton key， which is a key that fits many locks， pasd quickly from her mouth to his. Harry ud the prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local jail of every town he visited. In the afternoon， the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers， and in the evening every at in the local theater would be full. What was the result？ World-wide fame and a name remembered today.
1. According to the passage， Houdini’s success in prison escapes depends on ________.
A. his magic tricks and inhuman powers
B. his special tricks and a skeleton key
C. his unusual ability and a skeleton key
D. his inhuman talents and magic tricks
2. In the fourth paragraph， the word “this” refers to ________.
A. the previous ntence B. “the publicity”
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C. the place， Chicago D. the time， 1898
3. According to the passage， how did Houdini get the key which helped him unlock prison doors？
A. He took the key from his wifes mouth.
B. His wife pasd it to his hand while kissing him.
C. His wife gave it to him by a magic trick.
D. He got it in his mouth through a kiss by the wife.
4. It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous ________.
我发现了A. when he was about 24 B. when he was about 17
C. after the year 1894 D. before the year 1898孔雀雉
5. According to the passage， which of the following statements is true？
起秧子A. Houdini ud to be a famous magician in the USA.
B. Houdini was first recognized widely in Chicago.
C. Houdini entered the entertainment world together with his wife.
痛经偏方D. Houdini owed his great success to his small skeleton key.
（二）
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On May 29， 1973， Thomas Bradley， a black man， was lected mayor of the Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States， with a population of three million. About sixteen percent of the city’s population are black.
News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspapers everywhere in the United States. Here is how one major newspaper reported the event：
LOS ANGELES ELECTES BRADLEY MAYOR UNSEATING YORTY谋利
BLACKS WINS% OF VOTES
Bradley called this victory over Yarty “the fulfillment[实现] of a dream”. During his childhood and youth， people had kept telling him， “You can’t do this， you can’t go there， becau you are a Negro.” Nevertheless he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been the city’s mayor for three terms. Bradley had won 43. 7 percent.
野菊花的功效与作用Los Angeles voters have had many opportunities to judge. Thomas Bradley had to form an opinion of him. The son of a poor farmer in Texas， he joined the Los Angeles police f
orce in 1940. During his twenty-one years on the police force he earned a law degree by attending school at night.
He was elected to the city council[市政厅] ten years ago. At the time of the Los Angeles election， three other American cities already had black mayors， but none of tho cities had as large a population as Los Angeles. Besides， the percentage of blacks in tho other cities was much larger. Cleveland， Ohio， had thirty-six percent black when Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967. In the same year Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Gary， Indiana， which have fifty-five percent black. In Newark， New Jery 60% of the population were black when Kenneth Gibson was elected in 1970. Thus election of a black mayor in tho cities was not surprising.
