Ashley Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man _____ her to her door, and put a gun(枪) to her side. “I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really _______ ,”she said in a TV interview last week. The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He _______at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11.The police were __________him. Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but set her free after she begged him not to take her ______ again and again. “I told him ______ he hurt me, my little girl wouldn’t have a mummy,” she said with tears. “I just talked to him and tried to ______ believe me,” Smith said. She asked Nichols ________ he chose her. “He said he thought I was an angel ______ from God, and God asked him to do so.” Smith even ______ for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was _____ when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing ________ looking for him. “I cannot _______that’s me on the TV!” Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he ________ do. She said, “I think you should turn yourself in. If you don’t, lots more people are going to get _______.” Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.

1.A. took B. followed C. found D. noticed

2.A. sad B. angry C. frightened D. amazed

3.A. slept B. lost a car C. caught a thief D. killed three people

4.A. waiting for B. thinking of C. looking at D. searching for

5.A. money B. life C. daughter D. clothes

6.A. if B. unless C. that D. when

7.A. make him B. help him C. ask him to D. tell him to

8.A. how B. why C. when D. where

9.A. sent B. taken C. given D. come

10.A. cooked dinner B. made tea C. made cakes D. cooked breakfast

11.A. surprised B. excited C. afraid D. unhappy

12.A. his family B. his friends C. the pllice D. the little girl

13.A. understand B. believe C. say D. expect

14.A. might B. could C. should D. was able to

15.A. tired B. hurt C. caught D. worried

Dragons can be friendly or fierce (凶猛的).They can bring good luck or cause death, but one thing is sure—people talk about them almost everywhere in the world.

In Chinese culture, dragons are generous and wise, although they can be unpredictable.The dragon was closely connected to the royal family:the emperor's robes (礼服) have a symbol of a gold dragon with five claws.Other members of the royal family were allowed to wear dragon symbols, too, but with fewer claws and of a different colour.According to popular belief, if you are born in the year of the dragon, you are intelligent, brave, and a natural leader.

But in the west, dragons have a different reputation (名声).The very first text in English, the Anglo?Saxon poem Beowulf, tells the story of a Scandinavian hero, Beowulf, who fights and kills a dangerous dragon but he himself is killed in the fight.However, across the border in Wales, the red dragon which appears on the Welsh flag is a positive (积极的) symbol, indicating strength and a sense of national identity.

Why_should_the_dragon_have_a_different_character_in_different_parts_of_the_world? Some experts believe it is because of the animals that the myths(神话) grew out of.In the west, the idea of the dragon probably came from the snake—an animal which people hated and were afraid of(害怕).

But in China, the idea of the dragon may have come from the alligator—a shy animal which lives in rivers, but which is usually only seen when there is plenty of water—a good sign for agriculture(农业).②因此中国龙是好运的使者(bringer)。

1.Are there any differences between Chinese dragons and western dragons?

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2.In China, if a boy is born in the year of the dragon, what do the people think of him?

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3.Who fights and kills the dangerous dragon according to the Anglo?Saxon poem Beowulf?

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4.将画线句子①译成汉语。

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5.将画线句子②译成英语。

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