Ⅳ. 阅读理解(10分)

One evening three men came to a station and asked a porter(搬运工)，“What time is the next train for London? ”

The porter said, “You’ve just missed one. They go every hour. The next one is at ten o’clock. ”“That’s all right, ”they said, “We will go and have a drink. ”So they went to a refreshment room (茶点室). A minute or two after ten o’clock they came and said to the porter, “Has the train gone? ”

“Yes. It went at ten o’clock, ”he said.

“That’s all right. ”They said， “We will go and have another drink. ”So they went back again.

They missed the eleven o’clock train in the same way, and the porter said, “Now the next train is the last one; if you miss that, you won’t get to London today. ”Twelve o’clock came, and the three men ran quickly out of the refreshment room.

Two of them got into the train just as the train was leaving, but the third one didn’t run fast enough, and the train went out. The porter went up to the third man and said, “I told you this was the last train. Why didn’t you come earlier? ”

The man stood there and laughed for a long time. Then he said, “I was going to London; they only came here to see me off. ”

1. The three men came to the station because _______.

A. they wanted to have a drink there

B. they wanted to talk with a porter

C. they wanted to find out when the next train was for London

D. they wanted to see a friend off

2. They went to the refreshment room because _______.

A. they could know when the next train came

B. the porter asked them to do so

C. they could drink there when they were waiting for the train

D. they had to do so

3. Why did they go to have another drink?

A. Because they were so thirsty.

B. Because they didn’t want to leave then.

C. Because the train hadn’t arrived.

D. Because they missed the ten o’clock train.

4. How did they miss the eleven o’clock train?

A. They didn’t know when the train left.

B. They drank too much to catch the train.

C. The train left earlier.

D. They came out of the refreshment room too late.

5. From this passage, we know that _______.

A. the third man didn’t get to London that night

B. two of the men wanted to go to London

C. the third man was very clever

D. the third man didn’t want to get into the train