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    Three million people visit Pisa each year to see a tower. A look at the picture will tell you why. The tower leans! It is known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

   The tower looks as if it might fall at any time. Engineers say that the visitors are safe--at least for a while. But the tower does lean. It slants (倾斜) 14 feet 10 inches at the present time. The tower has been leaning for 800 years. And every year it leans a little bit more. If this keeps on, the tower will fall.

   If you look at the picture, you will see that one side of the tower is deeper in the earth than the other. Why has this happened?

   Pisa's tower weights 14,500 tons. A heavy tower like this must have a very strong foundation. The Leaning Tower's foundation is just not deep or wide enough for the tower above it.

   Can anything be done about the tower?

   Italian engineers have special plans. They don't want to make the tower straight--just keep it from leaning any further. So all the plans ask for a new foundation that Won't sink. But a new foundation can't be built while the tower is resting on the old one. The tower must be raised．One plan is to place 15 big Jacks (千斤顶) around the tower. They would raise the tower and hold it up while the new foundation is being built.

    The Italian engineers are searching for the best plan to rescue the tower. They know that any plan will take a lot of money. But many Italians refuse to believe that the old tower is in danger. “It leans and leans and leans,” they say “but it will never fall down.”

    The engineers want to make sure that it won't.

(1)Engineers believe if the tower keeps on leaning, it will fall ________.

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(2)The tower is leaning because ________.

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A．the foundation of it is not strong enough

B．it was wrongly designed

C．it was designed so on purpose

D．the tower was built carelessly

(3)The Italian engineers want to ________.

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A．stop it from leaning further

B．make it straight

C．build a new tower

D．move the tower to a safe place

"A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right", says Mollie Hunter． Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people．She firmly believes that there is and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is．In Mollie’s opinion, it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing．"If you aren't telling a story, you’re a very dead writer indeed．" she says．With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer．"I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,’ she says, "This love goes back to early childhood．I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said’Nonsense, Mollie; dear, you’ll be a writer.’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer．"

This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical （自传体的） and gives a picture both of Mollie’s ambition and her struggle towards its achievement．Thoughts of her childhood inevitably （不可避免地） brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup （金凤花） meadows and strawberry fields—sadly now covered with modern houses．"I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood．I’ll never go back, "she said．"Never．When I set one of my books in Scotland” she said,'* I can recall my romantic feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work． And that’s important because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us．”

1．What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

　 A．It should not aim at a narrow audience．

　 B．It should be attractive to young readers．

　 C．It should be based on original ideas．

　 D．It should not include too much conversation．

2．In Mollie Hunter’ s opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

　 A．Being poor in life experience．

　 B．Being short of writing skills．

　 C．The weakness of description．

　 D．The absence of a story．

3．What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?

　 A．She didn’t expect to become a writer．

　 B．She didn’t enjoy writing stories．

　 C．She didn’t have any particular life aims．

　 D．She didn’t respect her teacher’ views．

4．What’s the writer’s purpose in this text?

　 A．To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter’s book．

　 B．To introduce Mollie Hunter’s works to a wider audience．

　 C．To provide information for Mollie Hunter’s existing readers．

　 D．To describe Mollie Hunter’s most successful books．

— How beautiful the dress looks ____ you! Don’t you want _____, Madam?

— Please show me _______.

　 A. in; one; another　 B. on; it; another C. in; it; the other D. on; one; the other