People have been burying the dead at Salem’s Hope
Cemetery since 1833. The place is filled with old gravestones and gothic
mausoleums(哥特式陵墓), the spirits of the dead hanging over the
land like an early morning fog.
Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her
skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face
weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch
of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that.
“And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the
last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope
Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor
titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her
hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her
father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love
of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the
Italian made statue, which today marks her grave.
At first, it was her father who brought the flowers
and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her
flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously
appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but
not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal.
It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery
looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s
statue.
1.The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably
refers to________.
A.her face in
good condition
B.her bunch of
pink roses
C.Goldie Belle
Taylor is holding pink roses
D.Goldie Belle
Taylor always holds flowers
2.It can be inferred from the third paragraph
__________.
A.her father
was poisonous B.the iron
kettle was poisonous
C.elderberry
juice was poisonous D.it was her
father that hated her
3.After her father died, the flowers in the hands of
Goldie Belle Taylor_______.
A.usually
change B.were stolen
C.are no longer
fresh D.come from a
criminal
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.A fairy
brings the flowers. B.The mystery
of Goldie’s flowers.
C.What happens
to the girl? D.How do the
flowers get there?