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elephant was damaging the town. Would I please come and do something about it?
I did not know what I could do, but I got onto a horse and started out. I took my gun,
maybe too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might scare him. Various local
people stopped me on the way and told me about the elephant"s doings.
It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one. It had been chained up but last
night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its owner had set out to run after it, but had taken
the wrong direction. He was now twelve hours" journey away, and in the morning the elephant
had suddenly appeared in the town. It had already destroyed somebody"s bamboo hut (棚屋),
killed a cow and turned over fruitstalls.
I came round the hut and saw a man"s dead body sprawling in the mud. He was an Indian,
and he could not have been dead many minutes. The people said that the elephant caught him
with its trunk, put its foot on his back and grounded him into the earth. This was the rainy season
and he was lying on his stomach in the soft mud, the peacebreaker standing beside, looking
innocent.
As I lifted my gun, I hesitated a few seconds. Then I fired. That was a shot that did for him.
You could see the pain of it knock the last strength from his legs. But in falling he seemed for
a moment to rise, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree. He trumpeted, for the first and only time.
And then down he came, with a crash that shook the ground.
B. He knew elephants well.
C. He was not a local villager.
D. He was the owner of the elephant
B. it got out of control
C. it hated the village people
D. it was a wild elephant
B. the dead man
C. the author
D. the subinspector
B. sad
C. frightened
D. happy
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I know smoking is bad for me, and 1 . I had tried to kick the habit, but 2 . Not even when my
aunt Bernie got lung cancer. How many times had she begged me to give _3_ up? After she died, I
made up my mind to stop, and did so, but 4 I started up again.
The house had been one of Aunt Bernie"s favorite places to stay. Lately, I had earned some 5
income by renting it out. New renters were 6 to arrive that afternoon.
The house has no electricity, so I had to 7 there was enough propane (丙烷) in the tank to
8 the fridge and the stove (火炉). Seeing the house in the distance through the trees, I thought
about 9 . I could still hear her 10 telling me, "Give up smoking; it will 11 you."
As I was 12 the house, the voice grew stronger, 13 my aunt were standing right beside me.
Finally, I couldn"t 14 it any longer. I smothered (弄熄) it. "Fine, Auntie, I 15 . See?"
I continued down the path, 16 the urge to light up again. Reaching the house, I opened the
door. Whoa! I stepped back. The 17 was strong. Propane gases! I ran around to the back and
found the problem. The previous 18 had forgotten to turn off the propane tank before they left. The
house had been 19 up with gas for a week!
If I had still been smoking that cigarette... I thought now, 20 . My aunt Bernie was right. Smoking
can kill me. The next day I started a quitsmoking program, and I haven"t lit up since.
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| Much as Robby tried, he lacked the sense of tone and basic rhythm (节奏). But he dutifully reviewed his lessons. Over the months he tried and tried, and often repeated to me "My mom"s going to hear me play some day." But he seemed hopeless, with no born ability. A real bad advertisement for my teaching! I was so happy when one day he stopped coming. Several weeks later my students were to have a recital (演奏会). To my surprise, Robby came, asking to play in the recital. "But, it is for current pupils; you dropped." "My mom was sick. But I have been practicing. I"ve just got to play!" I didn"t know what led me to agree, maybe... The recital came. I__put__Robby__up__last__to__play__before__my__"curtain__closer", by which, I could save the recital if... The recital went on well. Robby came up on stage, clothes wrinkled and his hair looked like he"d run an eggbeater through it. "How could his mom...?" Robby pulled out the piano bench and began. It was Mozart"s work! I was not prepared for what I heard next. Like in a dream, I was then woken up by the wild applause-everybody was on their feet! "I"ve never heard you play like that, Robby! How"d you do it?" Through the microphone Robby explained: "Well, Miss Hondorf, remember I told you my mom was sick? Actually she had cancer and died this morning. She was born deaf, and tonight was the first time she ever heard me play. I wanted to make it special." My eyes were wet. He was not a student of mine, but a teacher! 1. We can infer from the underlined sentence that the writer ________. A. was fully confident that Robby would perform well in the recital B. thought that Robby would make the recital special C. thought that Robby wouldn"t play in the recital D. had no confidence in Robby at all in the recital 2. What made the boy succeed in the recital? A. Love for his mother. B. Musical talent. C. The writer"s help. D. Regular practice. 3. What made the writer think that Robby was her teacher, not a student? A. That he played better than her in the recital. B. That he loved his mother more than she did. C. That he never gave up. D. That the audience gave him more applause than her. 4. What is the highlight of the recital? A The writer"s performance. B. Robby"s performance. C. Robby and his mom"s story. D. The audience"s applause. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| I was in the queue for the supermarket checkout(付款台) earlier today. All of the checkouts were 1 , and the woman behind me was not happy! Every word that came from her mouth was a(n) 2 ! She wasn"t happy with the number of checkouts 3 ; she wasn"t happy with the amount of shopping some people had in their baskets; she wasn"t happy because this supermarket didn"t have a stand where she 4 scan her own shopping. I listened to her 5 looking around as I loaded my stuff onto the conveyor belt (传送带). I didn"t want 6 to do with that kind of attitude, and if ever I"d felt like letting someone go 7 of me, it wouldn"t be such a woman! But then I 8 back. Standing beside the woman was a five-year-old girl, 9 her granddaughter. The girl"s part of the shopping 10 of some comic books. I couldn"t 11 it. I pushed my shopping back to the end of the conveyor belt, 12 a space. "After you," I said to the woman and the girl, and 13 them to a big 14 . The woman was delighted, and even 15 to complain - until she was walking away. So, 16 bother having helped? It was because that little girl was probably taking in her granny"s complaint like a sponge(海绵). She was learning how to 17 situations like that by listening to her granny. I"d seen that I could interrupt that complaining, and put a smile and some 18 into the middle of it. We can all complain; we can all react 19 , but it doesn"t have to be like that. And, even if only for a few 20 , I wanted to leave that little soul with just a glimpse of another way | |||||||||||||||||||||
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