“I believe you’re the right person to write an advice
column (专栏) for the students called Dear Amy!” Jenny,
editor of the school newspaper, said to Andy, who finally agreed to accept the
job if Jenny promised not to tell it to anyone else.
At first it wasn’t too bad. Most of the letters he
received were interesting and quite easy to answer. Then came a letter from a
person named Joe.
“Dear Amy,” it began, “I’m in real trouble. I’ve
wanted to be a songwriter all my life, but my parents don’t even let me take
music lessons. I have a guitar, but they both get angry if I play. I’ve tried
explaining, but they didn’t listen. I feel sad. Should I run away from home?
Maybe that will make my parents agree.” The letter signed “Joe”.
Andy thought about this letter for a long time. Should
he advise someone to run away from home? Probably not. But didn’t Joe have a
right to be a songwriter if he wanted to? Andy thought hard, but couldn’t think
out a good answer. Andy couldn’t sleep. He just worried about poor Joe.
At a bar a few days later, Eleanor, a girl in Andy’s
maths class, sat down next to him and asked, “ What’s wrong with you? You look
a little worried.”
“I guess I do,” said Andy.
“If you get a problem, why don’t you try writing to
Dear Amy about it?” asked Eleanor.
Andy sighed. But Eleanor continued, “In fact, I guess
Dear Amy is rather busy with other problems. She still hasn’t answered the phony
letter I wrote her last week. You’d better read it — it may even make the most
hard-hearted person cry! It was supposed to be from a songwriter named Joe.”
1.Andy might be ______.
A.an editor of
the school newspaper
B.a songwriter
C.a maths
teacher
D.a doctor in
the school
2.It’s clear that Dear Amy ______.
A.helps
students who want to run away from home
B.answers
letters from the students
C.writes songs
for the students
D.meets readers
at a bar
3.It seemed to be easy for Andy to do the job until
_____.
A.he changed
his name
B.he received a
letter signed “Joe”
C.he met
Eleanor at a bar
D.his name was
well-known
4.In the letter Joe says that ______.
A.his parents
don’t know about music
B.his
classmates don’t understand him
C.he would stay
away from his parents
D.he would obey
his parents
5.The underlined word “phony” means “______”.
A.unreal B.boyish C.popular D.favourite