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　　第三篇：

　　I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(怪僻的) farmer. I had never met him before although I had often heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understood anything. Even then I could make out was that someone called Milly had had a very bad accident. I hadn’t the slightest idea who she was but I obviously had to go.

　　It had been snowing heavily that I didn’t know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. It seemed Milly had died. “She meant more to me than anyone… even my own wife!” he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal (丑闻) . I was even more shocked when he told me he had put her in the barn. “I wouldn’t leave her out in the cold!” he said.

　　Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground. “She was such a good cow! I wouldn’t let anyone but a doctor touch her !” he said, and burst into tears again.

　　1.The underlined phrase “make out” in the first paragraph means____.

　　A. expect B. understand C. see clearly D. hear clearly

　　2. Before he arrived at the farmer’s house, the writer expected to see Milly lying ____.

　　A. on the ground of a barn B. on the floor of a room

　　C. in bed in a room D. in bed in a barn

　　3. What do we know about Milly from the story?

　　A. She had met with an accident B. She had caused a scandal.

　　C. She was seriously ill. D. She was hidden somewhere.

　　4. The farmer wished that the writer might ____.

　　A. look into the matter B. bring Milly back to life

　　C. free him from a scandal D. keep the whole thing a secret

　　5. The person who told the story is probably a ____.

　　A. armer B. policeman C. country doctor D. newspaper reporter

　　第四篇：

　　More than 6000 children were expelled(开除) from US schools last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8.

　　The department gave a report on the expulsions as saying handguns accounted for 58 per cent of the 6093 expulsions in 1996—97, against 7 per cent for rifles(步枪) or shotguns and 35 per cent for other types of firearms.

　　“The report is a clear sign that our nation’s public schools are cracking down(严惩)” on students who bring guns to school, “Education Secretry Richard Riey said in a statement. “We need to be tough-minded(坚强的) about keeping guns out of our schools and do everything to keep our children safe.”

　　In March 1997, a 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old using hand-guns and rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a Missisippi school. Two months later, a 14-year-old boy killed three high school students and wounded five in Daducab, Kentucky.

　　“Most of the expulsions(开除), 56 per cent, were from high schools, which have students from about age 13, 34 per cent were from junior high schools and 9 per cent were from elementary schools.” The report said.

　　1. From the first paragraph we can infer that in the US schools ____.

　　A. students enjoy shooting B. students are eager to be soldiers

　　C. safety is a problem C. students can make guns

　　2. The report from the US Department of Education shows that ____.

　　A. the number of the expulsions is now large

　　B. the number of the expulsions is wrong

　　C. there are soldiers hiding among the students

　　D. guns are out of control in US schools

　　3. The main idea of paragraph four shows us ____.

　　A. some examples of shootings in US schools

　　B. the Americans’ feeling

　　C. some famous schools