When I returned to the common the sun was setting. The crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky--a couple of hundred people, perhaps. There were really, I should think, two or three hundred people elbowing one another, the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active."He's fallen in the pit!" cried some one."Keep back!" said several.

The crowd swayed a little, and I elbowed my way through. Every one seemed greatly excited. I heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit.

The end of the cylinder was being screwed out from within.I turned, and as I did so the screw must have come out, for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion.For a moment that circular cavity seemed perfectly black. I had the sunset in my eyes.
I think everyone expected to see a man emerge--possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man. I know I did. But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks--like eyes. Then something resembling a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me--and then another.
A sudden chill came over me. I stood petrified and staring. A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather.

Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous. There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty. Even at this first encounter, this first glimpse, I was overcome with disgust and dread

73. Why was the crowd “elbowing one another”according to paragraph 1?

A. There were no officials to control them.

B.They were curious and wanted to get a good view of the hole.

C. They were angry and trying to push people into the hole.

D. They were trying to get away from the hole in fear.

74.The Martian shocked the narrator because______________.

A. it did not look like the other Martian that had arrived earlier.

B. it arrived on Earth in a strange and nasty-looking cylinder.

C. it was moving surprisingly slowly for a Martian.

D. like most people, he had thought it would resemble a human

75.A“sudden chill”(paragraph5)came over the narrator because_____________.

A. the Martian was heading directly towards the crowd

B. it cold tentacle had almost reached the narrator

C. he saw the Martian’s terrifying features as it climbed out of the cylinder

D. the sun had set and he suddenly noticed the night-time chill.

76. What did the narrator find most impressive about the creature?

A.The horrible shape of its mouth and face.

B.Its long and strange tentacles.

C.The way it moved in the Earth’s atmosphere.

D.Its unusual large and intense eyes.

77.The description of the Martian implies that they are_____________.

A. cute and charming

B. Friendly and cooperative

C.frightening and probably dangerous

D.ugly but unluckily misunderstood