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Ⅷ. Reading comprehension.（共56分） (A) It was a cold winter afternoon. A car came along a road. The car was not working well. The car slowed down and finally it stopped. Two men got out, and they began to talk. A: What happened? B: I think we have no more gasoline(汽油). A: What bad luck! It’s cold here. We can’t make a phone call. And there’s no traffic on this road. B: We’ll have to walk to the nearest town and find a gas station. A: But how do we know there’s a town nearby? We don’t have a map of this area, and we don’t have any idea how long it will take us to get to the nearest town. B: Wait a minute! Here comes a country boy. Maybe he can tell us how far it is to the nearest town. Let’s wait till he gets here. A: Excuse me, can you tell us how long it would take us to walk to the nearest town? B: Do you think he’s deaf? He just stands there and looks at us without saying a word. A: Maybe he didn’t hear me. I’ll try to explain our problem to him again. Can you please tell us how long it will take us to walk to the nearest town? We want to find a gas station. B: He still doesn’t answer. The best thing we can do is to stay here. A: You’re right Come on, let’s go back to the car. The two men walked quickly toward the car, which was about twenty-five steps away. The boy still kept silent, but he watched them carefully. Suddenly he called to them in a loud voice: The boy: Hey, mister! You can get to the nearest town in a forty-five minutes! B: Oh! Then you can hear and talk! The boy: Yes, of course I can! A: Then why didn’t you answer us before? The boy: How could I answer you , without knowing how fast you walked? True or false（本篇答案必须用2B铅笔填涂）（本篇每题1分） 71. The story took place on a cold winter afternoon. 72. The two men’s car stopped when they were driving on a busy road. 73. The car couldn’t go any farther because it ran out of gasoline. 74. They wanted to find a gas station in the nearest town. 75. They hoped that the country boy could take them to the town. 76. The