San Francisco has its cable cars. Seattle has its Space Needle. And, Longview has its squirrel bridge. The bridge, which has attracted international attention, is now a local landmark.
The Nutty Narrows Bridge was built in 1963 by a local builder, Amos Peters, to give squirrels a way to cross the busy road without getting flattened by passing cars.
The original bridge was built over Olympia Way on the west edge of the library grounds. Before the bridge was built, squirrels had to avoid traffic to and from the Park Plaza office building where office staff put out a nutty feast for the squirrels. Many times, Peters and others who worked in and near Park Plaza witnessed squirrels being run over.
One day Peters found a dead squirrel with a nut still in its mouth, and that day’s coffee break discussion turned into squirrel safety. The group of businessmen cooked up the squirrel bridge idea and formed a committee to ask the blessing of the City Council(市政会).The Council approved, and Councilwoman Bess LaRiviere named the bridge “Nutty Narrows.”
After architects designed the bridge, Amos Peters and Bill Hutch started Construction, They built the 60-foot bridge from aluminum and lengths of fire hose(消防水带). It cost 1,000.
It didn’t take long before reports of squirrels using the bridge started. Squirrels were even seen guiding their young and teaching them the ropes. The story was picked up by the media, and Nutty Narrows became know in newspapers all over the world.
In 1983, after 20 years of use, Peters took down the worn-out bridge. Repairs were made and crosspieces were replaced. The faded sign was repainted and in July 1983, hundreds of animal lovers attended the completion ceremony of the new bridge.
Peters died in 1984, and a ten-foot wooden squirrel sculpture was placed near the bridge in memory of its builder and his devotion to the project.
【小题1】The Nutty Narrows Bridge was built in order to ________.

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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

It was to be our second Christmas in Germany and we decided to avoid the naked tree problem the year before. We wrote to my father, and he  1 to purchase a tree for us in States. He would ship it to us in several smaller  2 .

Two days before Christmas we were in a   3 .All the boxes had arrived except for one. The tree trunk and stand were still  4 .We decided to wait one more day.

  5 , in Bremerhaven, a young mail clerk  6 a long thin box under a counter. He picked it up and saw the customs tag(标签)which  7 “artificial（人造的）Christmas tree trunk and stand”. He realized that someone in Mannheim would be  8 a tree for Christmas. He felt  9for them, but there wasn’t much he could do. There was no  10 on Christmas.

He put the package on the  11 shelf and headed for the coffee bar. The place was 12 and he ended up sharing a table. Two men were speaking and the clerk  13 that one of his companions at the table was stationed in Mannheim. He had just picked up the  14 he had shipped from the States and was driving back that afternoon. The clerk thought of the 15 and said to the man,“You could really  16 Santa for someone in Mannheim tonight if you’d like to.”He explained about the lost tree trunk and stand. The man agreed.

The following day, my husband was reaching for his coat  17 the doorbell rang. There stood a  18 holding a long thin carton, our tree trunk and stand. He explained about the clerk and the coffee bar meeting. We invited him in,  19 it was Christmas Eve and he left in a hurry.

The next day as we celebrated the Christmas with the beautiful tree, I whispered：“Bless those two strangers who  20 our Christmas with their kindness.”

1.                A．agreed         B．refused         C．stopped  D．failed

2.                A．bags           B．containers       C．boxes    D．parts

3.                A．hope          B．loss            C．mess D．panic

4.                A．broken         B．separated       C．unknown D．missing

5.                A．Meanwhile      B．However        C．Therefore D．Afterward

6.                A．hid            B．forgot          C．covered  D．found

7.                A．read           B．wrote          C．signed    D．meant

8.                A．except         B．by             C．along D．without

9.                A．sure           B．happy          C．painful   D．sorry

10.               A．passage        B．message        C．delivery   D．labor

11.               A．safe           B．high           C．proper    D．secret

12.               A．taken          B．ordered        C．closed D．crowded

13.               A．supposed       B．discovered      C．expected  D．wondered

14.               A．car            B．mail           C．passenger D．gift

15.               A．difficulty        B．family          C．package   D．accident

16.               A．become        B．play           C．pretend   D．assist

17.               A．before         B．while          C．until  D．when

18.               A．postman        B．santa          C．stranger   D．driver

19.               A．but            B．and            C．so    D．as

20.                                A．celebrated  B．decorated

C．confirmed                        D．brightened

Some people were eating and drinking in a coffee house. A young woman was sitting alone at a table. She was wearing a beautiful diamond necklace. There was an ugly man at a table not far from her. He was looking at her necklace all the time.

Suddenly the lights went out. The coffee house was in darkness. The woman started to shout. She was very frightened. A few minutes later the lights came on again. The woman was crying. Her necklace was missing.

The manager quickly closed all the doors. He telephoned the police. No one could get out of the coffee house. The policemen soon came. The police inspector told his men to search everyone. The necklace was not on anyone. They then searched the whole coffee house. The necklace couldn’t be found.

The police inspector then looked at the faces of all the people in the coffee house. He saw the ugly man and looked at the man carefully. He went up to the man and picked up the bowl of soup that was on his table. He then poured the soup into a glass. The necklace fell out. The policemen caught hold of the man and took him away. The young woman was happy to get back her necklace.

A young woman lost her necklace in ______________.

A. a hospital      B. a shop    C. a coffee house    D. a restaurant

The manager closed all the doors and _______________.

A. searched everyone in the coffee house

B. searched the whole coffee house

C. telephoned the police

D. looked at all the people in the coffee house

The police inspector found the necklace in __________.

A. a cup of coffee                   B. a bowl of rice

C. a glass of milk                   D. a bowl of soup

The necklace was stolen by ___________.

A. a beautiful girl                   B. an old woman

C. a young student                 D. an ugly man

---Jenny, I think I’ll just have some coffee for a change．
--- _____．The coffee I bought yesterday is in the cupboard．

My husband hasn’t stopped laughing about the thing that happened to me. It’s  26  now but it wasn’t that time.
Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in town, I  27  a rest before catching the train, so I bought a   28  and some chocolate and went to the station coffee shop that was a cheap, self-service place with long   29 to sit at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, put the newspaper and chocolate on the table to   30  a place and went to get a cup of coffee.
When I came back with the coffee, there was someone in the   31   seat. It was one of those   32  young man, with dark glasses and torn clothes, and hair colored bright  33  at the front, not so unusual these days. What did  34  me was he’d started to eat my chocolate! Naturally, I was annoyed. However, to avoid trouble—then really I was rather uneasy about him—I just   35  down at the front page of the newspaper, tasted my coffee, and took a bit of chocolate. The boy looked at me    36   . then he took another piece of my chocolate. I could hardly   37  it. Still I didn’t want to start an argument. When he took a  38    piece , I felt more  39  than annoyed. I thought, “ Well, I shall have the last piece.” And I  40  it.
The boy gave me a   41  look, and then stood up. As he left, he shouted out, “This woman is mad!” Everyone   42  . That really made me feel silly, but it was   43   when I finished my coffee and got ready to leave. My face went red—as red as his hair when I   44    I’d made a mistake. It wasn’t my chocolate he’d been taking. There was mine, unopened, just under my  45   .