Mr. Brown’s house was less than two miles from his office, so he could drive home every day for lunch. Every time he drove home at noon, he found many cars outside his house and there was no room for his own car. He had to drive somewhere else to park his car. Then he walked back home. This made him very angry.

He put up a board in the garden facing the road．The board said, “No Parking”. But nobody noticed it. People seemed to obey only a police notice with white letters on a blue board:

Mrs. Brown asked his husband to steal a police notice but he was afraid to do so. Then she asked him to make one just like a police notice. Mr. Brown said he was not the police and couldn’t use the word “police”. Several days later, Mr. Brown made a blue board with white letters.

“Oh!” Mrs. Brown said．“You told me you weren’t going to use the word ‘police’, but why do you use it now?” “Really?” he asked．

“Look again,” she started to laugh. “You are really clever”.

1. Mr. Brown’s office was ______ his house.

A．next to     B．not far from     C．2 hours’ drive from      D．5 miles from

2. Mr. Brown was angry because ______.

A．he found no room to park his car outside his house

B．he had nothing to eat for lunch at home

C．he lost the way when he drove back home one day

D．he couldn’t make a police notice outside his house

3. Mr. Brown made ______ notice board （s） altogether （总共）。

A．one                   B．two             C．three            D．no

4.In the end, Mr. Brown made a notice board and it _____.

A．was just the same as a police notice

B．was different in color from a police notice

C．just looked like a police notice

D．said “POLICE NOTICE, NO PARKING”

5. We can infer（推断） that ______ after he put up the blue board．

A．more people will park their cars outside his house

B．more policemen will park their cars outside his house

C．fewer people will park their cars outside his house

D．fewer people will visit him at noon later on