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Now the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories.
Baloney is a kind of sausage that many Americans eat often. The word also has another meaning in English. It is used to describe something, usually something someone says that is false or wrong or foolish. Baloney sausage comes from a name of the Italian city Balonia. The city is famous for its sausage, a mixture of smoked, spiced meat from cows and pigs.
But baloney sausage does not taste the same as beef or pork alone. Some language experts think this different taste is responsible for the birth of the expression“baloney”.“Baloney”is an idea or statement that is nothing like the truth. In the same way that baloney sausage tastes nothing like the meat that is used to make it.
“Baloney”is a word often used by politicians to describe the ideas of their opponents. The expression has been used for years. Fifty years ago, a former governor of New York State, Alfred Smith, criticized some claims by President Franklin Roosevelt about the successes of the Roosevelt administration. Smith said,“No matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney.”
A similar word has almost the same meaning as“baloney”. It even sounds almost the same. The word is“blarney”. It began in Ireland about 1600. The lord of blarney castle near Cork agreed to surrender the castle to British troops. But he kept making excuses for postponing the surrender. And he made them sound like very good excuses. This is just more of the saying“blarney”.
The Irish castle now is famous for its Blarney Stone. Kissing the stone is thought to give a person special powers of speech. One who has kissed the Blarney Stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them even when you know they are false.
A former Roman Catholic bishop of New York City Fortin Shin once explained,“Baloney is prayed so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is prayed so thin we like it.”
Another expression is“pulling the wool over someone's eyes”. It means to make someone believe something that is not true. The expression goes back to the days when men wore false hair or wigs similar to those worn by judges today in British courts. The word“wool”was a popular joking work for hair. If you pull the man's wig over his eyes he could not see what was happening. Today, when you pull the wool over someone's eyes he cannot see the truth.
1．Which city does the Baloney sausage come from?
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A．Italian city. B．American city.
C．British city. D．Canadian city.
2．What kinds of meat is the Balonia's sausage from?
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A．Cows and dogs. B．Cows and pigs.
C．Cows and sheep. D．Pigs and sheep.
3．What is the meaning of“baloney”in the passage?
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A．It's a kind of sausage.
B．It's a mixture of smoked, spiced meat from cows and pigs.
C．It's an idea or statement that is nothing like the truth.
D．It's nothing but meat.
4．What is the Irish Castle famous for?
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A．Blarney Stone. B．Special Power of speech.
C．Sausage. D．Catholic bishop.
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王安石【注】
数间茅屋闲临水，窄衫短帽垂杨里。花是去年红，吹开一夜风。
梢梢新月偃，午醉醒来晚。何物最关情，黄鹂三两声。
【注】：此词为王安石晚年罢相后回到金陵卜居于半山时所作。
词的开篇就点出“闲”字，请结合全词，谈谈作者是怎样表现“闲”字的？
素洁平易而又含蓄深沉是这首词的基本特色，请你就“含蓄深沉”这一特色谈谈对这首词的理解。
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Scars of Love
Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks and shirt as he went.
He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator（短吻鳄） was getting close. The mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two as they got closer and closer together. In great fear, she ran toward the water, yelling to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her, the alligator reached him. From the dock, the mother grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the alligator snatched (抓住) his legs. That began an unbelievable tug-of-war (拔河比赛) between the two. The alligator was much stronger than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard their screams, rushed from his truck, took aim and shot the alligator.
Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely scarred (留下伤疤) by the terrible attack of the animal. And on his arms, were deep scratches where his mother’s fingernails dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.
The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy after the trauma （外伤）, asked if he would show him his scars. The boy lifted the pant legs. And then, with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, “Look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my mum wouldn’t let go.”
You and I can identify with （认同） that little boy. We have scars, too. Not from an alligator, but the scars of a painful past. Some of those scars are unsightly and have caused us deep regret. But, some wounds, my friends, are because we have refused to let go.
56. The underlined part “the two” in the second paragraph refers to ______.
A. the alligator and the mother B. the mother and the son
C. the driver and the alligator D. the son and the alligator
57. From the passage we can infer ________.
A. The mother was unwilling to let the alligator go
B. The mother was actually stronger than the alligator
C. The son was proud of his scars on his arms
D. The son was ashamed of his scars on his legs
58. According to the last paragraph, what is the writer’s real meaning?
A. To forget the past is to betray. B. We should forget the scars.
C. Wounds are different from scars. D. We should learn to let go sometimes.
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