题目

The amount of money that he saved reached _________ 30000 dollars.    A. as many as   B. as much as   C. as high as   D. as far as 答案：BEvery Thanksgiving Warren roasted a monstrous thing he called “The Twenty － Four － Hour － Turkey.” His preparation began at six o'clock on Thanksgiving Eve, and with the help of an alarm clock that woke him every hour for what he called “the Bastings（烤肉涂的油脂）”, he produced“the T － Bird at six on T － Day.”Nobody in our family had actually sampled his turkey, but unsettling rumors about it trickled down to us. We heard it came out from the oven in a charred（烤焦的）shell（壳）that had to be cracked（爆裂）open. (1)The passage is about ________. [　　] A．how Warren roasted the turkey B．the coming out of a roasted turkey C．the good taste of the turkey D．the twenty four turkeys (2)“The Twenty － Four － Hour Turkey”was ________. [　　] A．for the family to eat for twenty － four hours on Thanksgiving B．the roasted turkey cooked for twenty － four hours by Warren C．the turkey Warren bought twenty － four hours before the day D．the meaning of twenty － four hours to Thanksgiving (3)Warren began to prepare the turkey ________. [　　] A．on the morning of Thanksgiving B．on the morning before Thanksgiving C．at six o'clock on the morning of Thanksgiving D．at six o'clock on the evening before Thanksgiving (4)Warren put the bastings on the turkey ________. [　　] A．every time that the clock woke him up B．before he put the turkey into the oven C．at six o'clock on Thanksgiving Eve D．at six o'clock on the Thanksgiving Day (5)From the passage we can infer that________. [　　] A．Warren was sorry for his roast turkey B．we all liked“The Twenty － Four － Hour Turkey” C．Warren prepared the turkey every Thanksgiving D．all the people in the family learned to cook the turkey