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It was Sunday morning. All the summer world was bright and fresh, and full of life. There was cheer on every face and a spring in every step.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He stopped by the fence in front of the house where he lived with his aunt Polly. He looked at it, and all joy left him. The fence was long and high. He put the brush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated the operation. He felt he could not continue and sat down.

He knew that his friends would arrive soon with all kinds of interesting plans for the day. They would walk past him and laugh. They would make jokes about his having to work on a beautiful summer Saturday. The thought burned him like fire.

He put his hand into his pockets and took out all that he owned. Perhaps he could find some way to pay someone to do the whitewashing for him. But there was nothing of value in his pockets—nothing that could buy even half an hour of freedom. So he put the bits of toys back into his pockets and gave up the idea.

At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he picked up the brush and started again to whitewash.

While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared. Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. As he walked along, he was making noises like the sound of a riverboat. First he shouted loudly, like a boat captain. Then he said “Ding-Dong-Dong”, “Ding-Dong-Dong” again and again, like the bell of a riverboat. And he made other strange noises. When he came close to Tom, he stopped.

Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: "Hello! I’m going swimming, but you can’t go, can you?”

No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully along the fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Tom's mouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working.

Ben said, "Hello, old fellow, you’ve got to work, hey?"

Tom turned suddenly and said, "Why, it's you, Ben! I wasn't noticing."

"Say — I'm going swimming. Don't you wish you could? But of course you’d rather work — wouldn't you? Of course you would."

Tom looked at the boy a bit, and said "What do you call work?"

"Why, isn't that work?"

Tom went back to his whitewashing, and answered casually,

"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer."

"Oh come, now, you don't mean to say that you like it?"

The brush continued to move.

"Like it? Well, I don't see why I shouldn’t like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said,

"Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."

Tom thought for a moment, was about to agree; but he changed his mind:

"No — no — it won’t do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I don’t think there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough."

"No — is that so? Oh come, now —let me just try. Only just a little."

"Ben, I'd like to, but if it isn’t done right, I’m afraid Aunt Polly— "

"Oh, I'll be careful. Now let me try. Say -- I'll give you the core（核心）of my apple."

"Well, here — No, Ben, now don't. I'm afraid —"

"I'll give you all of it."

Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness on his face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun, Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. There were enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was tired, Tom sold the next chance to Billy for a kite; and when Billy was tired, Johnny bought in for a dead rat — and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures

And he had not worked. He had had a nice idle time all the time, with plenty of company -- and the fence had been whitewashed three times. If he hadn't run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belonging to his friends.

He had discovered a great law of human action, namely, that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to get.

68．Tom was about to agree to let Ben whitewash when he changed his mind because ______ .

A. Tom wanted to do the whitewashing by himself

B. Tom was unwilling to let Ben do the whitewashing

C. Tom was afraid Ben would do the whitewashing better

D. Tom didn’t want to let Ben do the whitewashing before he made him give up his apple first

69．The underlined word “casually” is most similar to “______” in meaning.

A. carelessly                 B. delightedly               C. seriously                  D. angrily

70．We can learn from the passage that ______ .

A. Tom was interested in whitewashing the fence.

B. Tom had a lot of friends who are ready to help others.

C. Tom was unwilling to whitewash the fence, but he managed to let other boys do it for him

D. Tom was good at whitewashing the fence, so he looked at the result of his work with the eye of an artist.

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　　What is intelligence (智力) anyway ? When I was in the army I 　1　 an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against 　2　 of 100, scored 160．

　　I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not 　3　 have scored more than 80．　4　 , when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him, and he always 5 it．

　　Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man 　6　 questions for some intelligence tests．By every one of them I'd prove myself a 　7　 ．In a world where I have to work with my 　8　 , I'd do poorly．

　　Consider my auto-repair man 　9　 ．He had a habit of telling 　10　．One time he said, “Doc, a deaf-and-dumb (聋哑) man 　11　 some nails．Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made 　12　 movements with the other hand．The clerk brought him a hammer．He 　13　 his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering．The clerk 　14　 him some nails．He picked out the right size and left．“Well, Doc, the 　15　 man who came in was blind．He wanted scissors (剪刀)．　16　 Do you suppose he asked for them?” I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers．He burst out laughing and said, “Why, you fool, he used his 　17　 and asked for them．I've been 　18　 that on all my customers today, but I knew 　19　 I'd catch you．” “Why is that?” I asked．“Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc．I knew you couldn't be very 　20　．”

　　And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there．

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    But this evening, she was standing at her living-room window,   11   out at the "SOLD" notice in the small front garden．Her feeling were   12   ．Naturally she was   13   at the thought of leaving the house, as it was full of so many memories.

    But at the same time she was looking forward to spending her last   14   near the sea, back in the little seaside town where she had been born．  15   the money from the sale of the house, she had   16   a little flat there, which was quite different from the old one.

    Her husband had always been very   17   this house．She hadn’t been   18   here, but it didn’t mean as much to   15   as it had to him．Recently most of the people who lived in the street had moved away, and it was this that made her   20   to sell.

    The next morning Mrs. Robinson left the house for the station in her daughter’s car.

1．A．crossed

B．hurried

C．walked

D．ran

2．A．easy

B．difficult

C．convenient

D．useful

3．A．set

B．get

C．make

D．take

4．A．cruel

B．strange

C．kind

D．clever

5．A．up

B．down

C．out

D．off

6．A．hated

B．liked

C．thought

D．wanted

7．A．When

B．After

C．Since

D．Before

8．A．hoped

B．wished

C．refused

D．continued

9．A．comfortably

B．uneasily

C．lonely

D．alone

10．A．refused

B．accepted

C．decided

D．allowed

11．A．taking

B．glaring

C．staring

D．observing

12．A．happy

B．mixed

C．painful

D．angry

13．A．hard

B．sad

C．pleased

D．delighted

14．A．time

B．life

C．years

D．days

15．A．Without

B．By

C．For

D．With

16．A．repaired

B．bought

C．borrowed

D．lent

17．A．fond of

B．busy in

C．happy about

D．afraid of

18．A．happy

B．unhappy

C．busy

D．frightened

19．A．him

B．her

C．them

D．us

20．A．move

B．wish

C．agree

D．decide

    “Yes, I’ll be ready at nine．Goodbye, dear, and thanks again.” Mrs. Robinson replaced the receiver and   1   the hall into the living-room ．It had not been an   2  telephone call for her to   3   ．Her daughter had been very   4   , therefore and immediately agreed to picked her   5   , but Mrs. Robinson   6  to admit that she needed help．  7   her husband had died ten years ago, she had prided herself on her independence．She had   8   to live in their house   9    and had   10   to go and live with her daughter.

    But this evening, she was standing at her living-room window,   11   out at the "SOLD" notice in the small front garden．Her feeling were   12   ．Naturally she was   13   at the thought of leaving the house, as it was full of so many memories.

    But at the same time she was looking forward to spending her last   14   near the sea, back in the little seaside town where she had been born．  15   the money from the sale of the house, she had   16   a little flat there, which was quite different from the old one.

    Her husband had always been very   17   this house．She hadn’t been   18   here, but it didn’t mean as much to   15   as it had to him．Recently most of the people who lived in the street had moved away, and it was this that made her   20   to sell.

    The next morning Mrs. Robinson left the house for the station in her daughter’s car.

1．A．crossed

B．hurried

C．walked

D．ran

2．A．easy

B．difficult

C．convenient

D．useful

3．A．set

B．get

C．make

D．take

4．A．cruel

B．strange

C．kind

D．clever

5．A．up

B．down

C．out

D．off

6．A．hated

B．liked

C．thought

D．wanted

7．A．When

B．After

C．Since

D．Before

8．A．hoped

B．wished

C．refused

D．continued

9．A．comfortably

B．uneasily

C．lonely

D．alone

10．A．refused

B．accepted

C．decided

D．allowed

11．A．taking

B．glaring

C．staring

D．observing

12．A．happy

B．mixed

C．painful

D．angry

13．A．hard

B．sad

C．pleased

D．delighted

14．A．time

B．life

C．years

D．days

15．A．Without

B．By

C．For

D．With

16．A．repaired

B．bought

C．borrowed

D．lent

17．A．fond of

B．busy in

C．happy about

D．afraid of

18．A．happy

B．unhappy

C．busy

D．frightened

19．A．him

B．her

C．them

D．us

20．A．move

B．wish

C．agree

D．decide

Dick was born in a poor family. His father had a small boat and went fishing in the morning and sold the fish in the market in the afternoon. Then he bought some food for his family. When winter came, they were often hungry. One morning the hungry man fell into the river and wasn’t found. Dick’s mother left her three-year-old son without saying good-bye. His aunt had to look after him.

Twenty years passed. Dick became a tall, strong man. He found work on a farm. He worked hard and wanted to get more money. He often went to see his aunt with some nice presents. The woman was very happy but one day she died in a traffic accident. The young man was very sad. After he buried her, he decided to buy a beautiful tombstone(墓碑)for her. He went to town and came in a shop, but all the tombstones were too expensive. He asked, “Do you sell an old tombstone, sir?” “Yes, we do, sir, ” answered the shopkeeper. “Is it as expensive as the new one?”

“No, it’s much cheaper,” said the man. “But another name was engraved (刻) on it.” “It doesn’t matter, ” said Dick. “My aunt couldn’t read.”

1. If      , the family members were hungry.

2.Dick wanted to get more money to     .

3.Dick often went to see his aunt because       .

4.Dick wanted to buy an old tombstone because     .