I I.阅读理解。认真阅读下列两篇短文，每篇短文后有5个问题，根据短文的内容从A、

　　B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并将所选答案的字母填写在答题纸相应位置上。

　　(本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分)

　　Passage One

　　I was only eight years old when the Second World War ended, but I can still remember something about the victory celebrations in the small town where I lived on the day when the war in Europe ended. We had not suffered much from the war there. But both at home and at school I had become accustomed to the phrases “before the war” and “when the war’s over”. “Before the war”, apparently, things had been better, though I was too young to understand why, except that there had been no bombs then, and people had eaten things like ice-cream and bananas, which I had only heard of. When the war was over we would go back to London, but this meant little to me. I did not remember what London was like.

　　What I remember now about VE (Victory in Europe) Day was the May evening. After dinner I said I wanted to see the bonfire(大火堆), so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street. The bonfire was very high, and somehow people had collected some old clothes to dress the unmistakable figure(人形) with the moustache they had to put on top of it. Just as we arrived, they set light to it. The flames rose and soon swallowed ( 吞噬) the “guy”. Everyone was cheering and shouting, and an old woman came out of her house with two chairs and threw them on the fire to keep it going.

　　I stood beside my father until the fire started to go down, not knowing what to say. He said nothing, either. He had fought in the First World War and may have been remembering the end of that. At last he said, “Well, that’s it, son. Let’s hope that this time it really will be the last one.”

　　21. Where did the author live before the Second World War?

　　A. In London.

　　B. In a small town.

　　C. In Europe.

　　D. In the countryside.

　　22. What kind of food had the author certainly not tasted during the war?

　　A. Bread.

　　B. Butter.

　　C. Meat.

　　D. Ice-cream and bananas.

　　23. The unmistakable figure with the moustache most probably represents______.

　　A. those who died in the war B. those who had won

　　C. an imaginary figure D. the most hated person in the war- Hitler

　　24. Which of the following statements is true?

　　A. The author’s father built a bonfire on VE Day.

　　B. The author’s father had fought in the First World War.

　　C. The author’s father had fought in the Second World War.

　　D. The author’s father threw two chairs on the fire to keep it going.

　　25. By saying, “Let’s hope that this time it really will be the last one”, the father meant that______.

　　A. he wished people had not built the bonfire

　　B. he hoped people would not build any more bonfire

　　C. he hoped there would be no more wars in the world

　　D. he wished the Second World War had not happened