16．According to Professor Martin, suffer from changing schools regularly.
A．Army children B．quite a few children
C．bright children D．slow children
E
Maureen
stood by the lake. Suddenly the other children came running through the trees
with sharp cries of excitement. They rushed up to the lake, leaning over the
crystal-clear water, watching the crowds of tiny fish. Some children demanded
loudly to go to the boats, but all at once those who had been left behind at
the ice-cream stall (小摊) came running up to make some announcement or other, and they all
left the water and dashed back the way they had come. With growing excitement,
Maureen ran after them.
When she saw
what they had been running for, she stopped running. They were buying things
again. The toy stall was open and they were crowded around it. Behind the stall
a calm middle-aged woman was selling a great variety of small rubbish. She took
money from the forest of small hands in exchanging for little boats, plastic
dolls, yellow pencils and rubbers, anything. Maureen leaned against a tree,
looking on. The idea of spending washed against her face like a strong current,
trying to draw her in.
Nona Parker
pushed out to the edge of the group and laid what she had bought on the ground
so that she could see what money she had left in her white purse. Under
Maureen’s eyes lay a boat, a mouth oran, and little plates of doll’s food in
colored plaster--a brown load
of bread, a joint of beef, a pink pudding--all tiny and terribly desirable. Maureen was so full of the wish for
the things like that she couldn’t bear to look at it. She turned her head
sharply. Her face against the tree, she shut her eyes and prayed eagerly for
some money, for the price of a set of toy plates.
In a moment,
she opened her eyes, but she didn’t turn back to the stall. It was too painful
to see the others buying whatever they wanted. She rubbed almost round the
tree, her eyes on the ground. And there at her very feet was a ten pence piece.