(B)
Doris Kornish has an unusual hobby. She
collects autographs of film starts. But the film stars are very unusual-they
are all animals.
The basement of Mrs. Kornish's home in
Hemsburg. Geogia, has been converted into a display room. There, on the walls
and under glass cases, are nearly two hundred paw prints, hoof prints, and web
prints.
"I first got
interested in when my daddy and I hunted deer." Mrs. Kornish says. "I like following deer tracks. Later, when I saw the movie Lassie, I
wondered if I could get a copy of her paw prints. I wrote to the movie studio,
and they sent me a nice photo and the paw prints. My interest just snowballed
from there."
Mrs. Kornish's collection includes "signatures"from dogs, cats, horses, raccoons,
and ducks. There is even the autograph of a fish that starred in a film about a
killer shark. How does a fish make a signature?" You take it out of the water and press it in vegetable dye, " explained Mrs. Kornish. "But you've got to do it really
quick." Some of the
autographs are rather elegant. Mickey Mouse's gloved paw prints are hung within
a gold frame.
Mrs. Kornish wants to donate her collection
to a worthy group. The National Film Library has expressed an interest in the
collection. But the Hemsdurg Nature Center is just as interested. It thinks the
display would be a good way to honor our wildlife.
74. According to the passage, Mrs. Kornish
collected her first "autograph" from______.
(A) a deer
(B) Lassie
(C) A fish that starred in a
movie about a killer shark
(D) Mickey Mouse
75. The passage states that Mrs. Kornish
keeps her collection _______.
(A) in her basement
(B) in a library
(C) in a studio
(D) at the local
nature center
76. You can infer that Mrs. Kornish wants
to donate her collection to a worthy group because_____.
(A) she wants to get rid of
the collection
(B) she is running out of
the room for the collection
(C) she wants to start a new
collection
(D) she thinks that the
collection is valuable
77. "My interest just snowballed from there." probably means"_______".
(A) My interest is just like
snowball
(B) Snowball is what I'm
interested in
(C) I became more and more
interested in it
(D) I did not have interest
at first