包九中2014年
高考英语模拟
试卷（二） 2014-5 第一卷第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(a、b、c、d)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 a recently, my mother asked me to drop off some letters at the post office and pick up some stamps for her. without giving it a thought, i took the letters and purchased her stamps. a few days later, she mentioned that one of the letters i had mailed was missing a stamp, and asked me if i had put a stamp on it. she had remembered asking me to put a stamp on it, though i certainly had not heard her. so, unfortunately, it looked like the letter, which was a bill of course, would come back marked "return to sender for insufficient postage". a few days went by and i returned to the post office to pick up our mail. while i was there, i saw the postmaster and happened to tell him about mom's letter missing the stamp. i asked him to be on the lookout for it coming back. it was then that he told me his story. "you know", he said, "i immediately sa
