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                                                                         Goldie's Secret
         She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No
    way,   not me anyway.  Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We're
    moving house." "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but
    what could we have done?She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an
    animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.  
         I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more
    creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such
    an air of sadness about her.  There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven
    knows what had happened to her at her previous owner's. But eventually at the end of the first week
    she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the
    fire.  
         That's why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a
    walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually
    I couldn't hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as
    fast as she could.  
         By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking
    (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn't know what had
    happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies
    were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost,"
    added a boy from behind her.  
         I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I've got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And
    I've learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.  
    1. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?
    A. Shocked.  
    B. Sympathetic.
    C. Annoyed.    
    D. Upset.  
    2. In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie________.
    A. felt worried  
    B. was angry
    C. ate a little  
    D. sat by the fire
    3. Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ________.  
    A. saw her puppies
    B. heard familiar barkings
    C. wanted to leave the author
    D. found her way to her old home
    4. The passage is organized in order of ________.  
    A. time  
    B. effectiveness
    C. importance  
    D. complexity
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    B.The way of making them was special.
    C.The wood of the violins was special.
    D.They could only be analyzed by chemists.

    3.From the underlined sentence, we can learn that the author's father ____.
    A. liked the violin very much
    B. got crazy after this happened
    C. lost interest in instruments        
    D. didn't want to become famous

    4.How long did the author's father live after the violin was stolen?
    A. About 11 years.              
    B. About 14 years.
    C. About 25 years.                    
    D. About 80 years.

    5.We can infer from the last paragraph that the author  ____ .
    A.really hates the thief
    B.misses his father a lot
    C.really wants to play the violin
    D.wonders who's playing the violin now

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         "Grandma, Grandma, tell us a story!" Four darling children sat by my feet, looking up at me
    expectantly.
         Suddenly, we were interrupted clapping. "Terrific," the director said, stepping up the stage from the
    aisle(过道). “Except, could you kids face the audience a bit more?"
         The kids shifted to face the empty seats, which would be filled in a few days for the church play.
    "Perfect," the director said. "Now, Grandma, read to your grandchildren." A pang of sadness hit me.
    If only I could read to my real grandchild!
         I had a granddaughter, but I'd never met her. Sixteen years earlier my son was involved in a
    relationship that ended badly. But out of it came a blessing: a baby girl named Lena. I hoped to be a
    grandmother to her-but shortly after the birth, the mother moved without any address left. Over the
    years, I asked around town to try and find my son's exwife(前妻), but it seemed that she didn't want
    to be found.
         I'd just joined this new church a week earlier, and was at once offered the part of Grandma in the
    play. At least now I could pretend to be a grandma. The rehearsals went well, and finally the day of the
    show arrived. The performance was great. “You all looked so natural up there," one of my friends said.
         Afterward, we went to the church basement for refreshments(茶点). I walked over to one of the
    girls in the play, Rehearsals had been such a whirlwind(一片忙乱) that we never really got to talk.
    "How's my granddaughter?" I joked.
         "Fine!" she answered. Just then, someone else walked up and asked the girl her name.
         I wasn't sure I heard the girl's answer correctly. But it made me ask her another question. "What's
    your mother's name?"
         She told me, I was still in shock. "And what's your father's name?" I asked. She told me. It was my
    son.
         She'd only started going to that church a week before I did. Since that day of the play, we've stayed
    close. Not long ago, she even made me a great grandma.
    1. What was the author doing at the beginning of the story?
    A. Telling a story.  
    B. Playing a game.
    C. Preparing for a play.  
    D. Acting in a movie.
    2. Why did the author feel "A pang of sadness" at the words of the director?
    A. The director's words reminded her of her lost granddaughter.
    B. The director's words hurt her so badly.
    C. She wished that she had a real grandchild.
    D. The director wasn't content with her performance.
    3. What happened in the church basement after the play?
    A. The author played a joke on Lena.
    B. Lena treated the author as a friend.
    C. The author got to know who Lena was.
    D. Lena mistook the author for her grandmother.
    4. This passage is mainly organized in the pattern of ________.
    A. time and events  
    B. contrast and conclusion
    C. cause and effect  
    D. questions and answers
    5. We can infer that when writing the story, the author felt ________.
    A. lighthearted  
    B. heartbroken
    C. confused  
    D. anxious

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    阅读理解。
         The silent young woman in bed number six is called Jasmine. So am I, but names are only superficial
    things, floats on the surface of the water, and we share deeper connections than that. That is why she
    fascinates me-why I spend my off-duty time sitting beside her.
          Today is difficult. The ward (病房) is full of patients and I am kept busy emptying bed-pans, filling
    out forms, changing dressings. Finally, late in the afternoon, I get a few moments to make coffee, to take
    it over to the orange plastic chair beside her bed. I am thankful to be off my feet, glad to be in her
    company once again.
          "Hello, Jasmine," I say, as if greeting myself.
          She does not reply. Jasmine never replies. She is down too deep.
          She has been sea-damaged. I too am the daughter of a fisherman, so I choose my words like
    fish-hooks, cast them into her ears, imagine them sinking down through cold, dark water. Down to
    wherever she may be.
          "I have little time today," I tell her, touching her hair.
          With Jasmine, it is always difficult not to touch. She is that rare thing, a truly beautiful woman.
    Because of this, people invent reasons to walk by. I catch them looking, drinking her in, feeding on her.
    They are barracuda (梭鱼), all of them.
          Great beauty is something Jasmine and I do not share. I am glad of it.
          "Your father may be here soon," I say. "Last week he said he would come."
          Jasmine says nothing. Her left eyelid flickers, perhaps.
          It is two months since the incident on her father's fishing boat, since she fell overboard, sank, became
    entangled in the nets. It was some time before anyone noticed, then there was panic. Her father hauled
    her back on board and sailed for home. When he finally arrived, he carried ashore what he thought was
    his daughter's body.
          "Jasmine," I whisper. I want her to take our baited (用作诱醒的) name. I want her to swallow it.
          Fortunately, there was a doctor in the village that morning, a young man visiting relatives. It was he
    who brought this drowned woman back from the brink, he who told me her story. She opened her eyes,
    he said, looked up at her father and spoke a single word-then sank again, this time into coma.
          Barracuda. That is what Jasmine said.
          When her father visits, he touches her hair, kisses her cheek, sits in the orange plastic chair at the
    side of her bed and holds her hand. Like my own father, he has the big, brown, life-roughened hands
    of a fisherman. He too smells of the sea, and pretends he is a good, simple man.
          Jasmine. We share so much, we are almost one.
          I remember early mornings, my hair touched to wake me, my father lifting me half-asleep from my
    bed, carrying me, dropping me into his boat. His voice rough in my ear, his hands rough on my skin. I
    never wanted to go, but I was just a child. He did as he wished.
          I remember salt water, hot sun, my mother shrinking on the shore. I remember the rocking of the
    boat, the screams of the seagulls.
          "Jasmine, you have a life inside you. Can't you hear it calling?"
          Nothing.
          The ward door bangs, and I see Jasmine's father walking towards us, carrying flowers. He smiles
    at me. Even in death, my own child had my father's smile, and Jasmine's will have this man's. I know it.
    He stops by her bed and touches her hair. Something stirs deep inside me. I watch Jasmine's eyelids,
    waiting for her to bite.
    1. Why does the author show special sympathy for Jasmine?
    A. They share the same name.
    B. Jasmine looks very fascinating.
    C. They have much in common.
    D. Jasmine's father is very pitiful.
    2. From the passage we can learn that Jasmine's father _________.   
    A. comes to see his daughter every day 
    B. is a good and simple man in the author's eyes
    C. took his daughter out to the sea against her will 
    D. thought his daughter dead when back to the shore
    3. What kind of situation is Jasmine in now? 
    A. She is unconscious.
    B. She is nearly dying.
    C. She is completely deaf.
    D. She is in a bad mood.
    4. We can learn from the story that __________. 
    A. ihe author enjoys her early life on the sea
    B. Jasmine was pulled out of water without delay 
    C. the author spends her duty time attending Jasmine
    D. it was a young doctor who happened to save Jasmine

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