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A film crew was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This was in 1868, before they prohibited cigarette ads from American television. Darrell Winfield was watching the crew set up the equipment. The scene included an actor crossing a river on horseback, but when the time came to shoot, the man was too drunk to ride. Someone from the crew saw Winfield and asked him if he would ride the horse for 50 dollars. Hell, said Winfield, for 50 bucks, Ill jump that damn horse over the moon! 　To people in many countries, Winfield is just a familiar but nameless face, a simple cowboy with an advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is 55, a family man whos been married to the same woman for 37 years and has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. Most surprisingly, hes a real, working cowboy who raises horses in his ranch in Wyoming. One of the most striking things about the Marlboro Man is that success hasnt changed him much. He says that complete strangers sometimes come up to him and say, Ive met you,know you from somewhere. Whenever it happens, he says that he gets embarrassed. (1)、Marlboro commercials were allowed on television in America before 1868. A：T B：F 答案：A (2)、The word prohibited in the first paragraph mean forbidden. A：T B：F 答案：A (3)、When they filmed the ad, Winfield was too drunk. A：T B：F 答案：B (4)、From the passage, we know that Winfield was a rich man. A：T B：F 答案：B (5)、When people recognized Winfield, he felt uncomfortable. A：T B：F 答案：A Last Friday a storm tore through two villages in the New Territories destroying fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or torn roofs. One person was killed, several were badly injured and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller injuries. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless as a result of the storm. A farmer, Mr. C. Y.