Arnold followed Eugie down the slope, stealing, as his brother did, from one stock of wheat to another. Eugie paused before climbing through the wire fence that divided the Wheatfield from the marshy pasture （牧场）around the lake. They were screened from the ducks by the trees along the lake’s edge.

    “If  you hit your duck, you want me to go in after it?” Eugie said.

    “If you want.” Amold said.

Eugie lowered his eyelids, “You’d drown before you got it, the legs of yours are so weak.” he said contemptuously（轻蔑地）.

He shoveled the tub under the fence and, pressing down the center wire, climbed through into the pasture.

Arnold pressed down the bottom wire, pushed a leg through and leaned forward to bring the other leg after. His rifle caught on the wire and he pulled at it. The air was rocked by the sound of the shot. Feeling foolish, he lifted his face, uncovering it to an expected shower of derision （嘲弄）from his brother. But Eugie did not turn around. Instead, from his crouching position, he fell into his knees and then fell forward onto his face. The ducks rose up crying from the lake, cleared the mountain background and beat away northward across the pale sky.

Arnold squatted beside his brother. Eugie seemed to be climbing the earth, as if the earth ran up and down, and when he found he couldn’t scale it he lay still.

“Eugie?”

Then Arnold saw it, under the rolling hair at the back of the need — a slow rising of bight blood. It had an unpleasant movement, like that of a parasite（寄生虫）.

“Hey, Eugie, ” he said again. He was feeling the same discomfort he had felt when he had watched Eugie sleeping; his brother didn’t know that he was lying face down in the pasture.

Again he said, “Hey, Eugie,” an anxious push in his voice. But Eugie was as still as the morning about them.

72．What does the underlined word “screened” in Para 1 probably mean?

       A．Separated.           B．Stopped.       C．Dragged.       D．Hidden.

73．According to the passage, we know that       .

       A．Eugie always laughed at Arnold

       B．Eugie would help Arnold hit the ducks

       C．Arnold begged Eugie to go in after the ducks

       D．Eugie was worried that Arnold might drown

74．Why did Eugie lie still?

       A．Arnold shot him intentionally.       B．Arnold killed him accidentally.

       C．He pretended to be unconscious.     D．He was ready to shoot some ducks.

75．It can be inferred from the passage that         .

       A．the relationship between Arnold and Euie was not so good

       B．Arnold followed Eugie approaching the lake to steal ducks

       C．they were crouching forward to steal the wheat

       D．Eugie was always taking care of Arnold

A policeman saw two thieves ____ a girl’s mobile phone on a bus and he caught them at once.

A policeman saw two thieves ____ a girl’s mobile phone on a bus and he caught them at once.

A. to steal              B. stealing             C. stole                   D. stolen

A small store sold a lot of jewels and the owner was always careful to prevent people（l） ______ stealing them．One day, a thief came and tried to（2） ______ a beautiful necklace,（3） ______ the owner caught him at once and went to the telephone to call the（4） ______．“Please don’t do that!。the thief said，“I have a wife and three（5） ______at home．And I will（6） ______ for the necklace．”

The owner felt sorry for the man and he didn’t want to have much（7） ______ with the police，So he（8） ______ the man’s offer．He went to prepare a bill for it．But when the owner gave it to him．the thief looked very（9） ______ and said．“I didn’t mean to get something as expensive as that．Do you have anything （10） ______?’’

Roger was a thief，but he wasn't very clever. When he was in school, he stole apples or oranges from other children. Sometimes he stole pencils or books from other children. But he always got caught.
The teacher spoke to Roger's parents and they tried to stop him from stealing things, but Roger wouldn't stop. He kept stealing.
When he was older, he began to steal from stores, but he was still stupid. Once, he went into a store wearing the clothes he had stolen the day before. The still had the price tags（标签） on them, and the store manager called the police. They warned him that he would go to jail if he didn't stop stealing.
Then Roger decided to rob a bank. He planned everything. He got some gloves so that he would not leave fingerprints, and a mask so that no one would recognize him.
" But what if they recognize my voice?" he thought.
He decided to write his message on a piece of paper so that he wouldn't need to speak. He found an old envelope and wrote "give me all the money" on the back of it. He got a toy gun and went to the bank. He put on his mask and his gloves（ and showed the note to the bank clerk. The clerk gave him all the money, and Roger ran out of the bank and went home.
Ten minutes later he heard a knock on the door. It was the police. They had come to arrest him for robbing the bank.
" How did you find me so quickly?" asked Roger
" It was easy," said the police." Your address was on the envelope!"
【小题1】How old was Roger when he started stealing things?