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senior citizens are permitted to travel cheaply on a bus if they have a special card. women may get cards when they are sixty.
mrs. matthews lived in the country but she went into town once a week to buy food and other things for the house, and she usually went by bus. she always had to pay the full price for her ride.
then she reached the age of sixty and got her senior citizen’s card, but when she used it for the first time on the bus, it made her feel very old.
the bus driver had often seen her traveling on the bus before, and he noticed that she was feeling unhappy, so after she had paid her money, he winked at her and whispered, “don’t forget to give your mother’s card back to her when you see her again.”
mrs. matthews was very happy when she heard this.
小题1:senior citizens in the story refer to .

a．those who have special cards

b．old people with special cards

c．people who hold high positions in the ***

d．those who wanted to travel cheaply

小题2:women over sixty .

a．don’t have to pay for taking buses

b．pay less for their ride if they have a special card

c．have to pay the full price for their ride

d．have to pay their special card

小题3:mrs. matthews used to pay the full price for her ride because .

a．she didn’t know the rule

b．she wasn’t old enough

c．she didn’t know where to get the card

d．she had reached sixty but had not got her senior citizen card

小题4:mrs. matthews felt unhappy on the bus because .

a．she still had to pay for the ride

b．the card wasn’t hers

c．she felt she was now an old woman

d．the driver found out she was not honest

小题5:the driver whispered to her .

a．in order to make her feel younger

b．because he thought that she shouldn’t have borrowed her mother’s card

c．because he wanted her to pay the full amount

d．because he knew her mother was still alive

In 1901, the citizens of Colorado Springs in the USA decided to collect everyday items and to seal (封住）them in a special box. The box was marked “To be opened after midnight, December 31 ^st , AD 2000”，and was kept in the Colorado College Library.
One hundred years later, on the appointed (约定）day, 300 people gathered to watch the opening of the box. Many in the crowd were the descendants (后代）of people who had placed things inside the box.
When the box was opened after midnight, the things inside the box were in very good condition. There were newspapers, photos, diaries, name cards, family trees, books and lots of letters, including one written by Theodore Roosevelt, who became the President of the USA later that year. One of Roosevelt’s friends lived in Colorado Springs at that time.
Many of the letters were written to their descendants. They describe the hopes that the people of 1901 had for the people of the next century. At that time, Colorado Springs had just a few thousand people. Now nearly half a million people live there.
Colorado College Library has scanned the materials and put them on a website. Cecil Muller, whose grandfather had placed a collection of postcards in the box, said that the time capsule was a great treasure. “This is a wonderful educational resource(资源）. We can learn so much about our history,”he said. “I never knew my grandfather, but now I feel very close to him. ”
小题1:According to the passage, “time capsule” means ______.

A．a collection of clocks and watches

B．a machine for travelling through time

C．a collection of items for people to look at in the future

D．a collection of unwanted items

小题2:Many of the letters in the time capsule talked about .

A．the history of the town

B．the people who lived in the town

C．the politics of the USA

D．people’s hopes for the future

小题3:Cecil Muller says that the time capsule ______.

A．helps him to get to know his grandfather

B．is worth a lot of money

C．brings back his memories of his grandfather

D．helps him to remember his younger day

_____from the top of the mountain, the citizens find ____ the city is not _____it used to be.

A．Seen, that, what

B．See, what, that

C．To see, what, that

D．Seeing, that, what

Folk music can usually ______ senior citizens because of their experiences.

A．express

B．cover

C．play

D．reach