She was returning from teaching out in a small community . It was a moonless night, and a heavy snow was falling.

She remembered back to when she had first started teaching out in small communities. In those days she had always picked up hitchhikers (搭便车者), until the day her sister told her of a friend who had been shot (中枪) in the head by a hitchhiker, all because she had stopped out of kindness to help him during a storm.

Her family didn’t become concerned (关心的) about her safety over the hitchhikers until the family heard the promise: “No more hitchhikers!” The snow that night was making her think back to this.

Then she saw a man waving. She slowed down for him, but now as he ran toward the car in the dark she shook with fear. Yet she thought that if he was truly in need she couldn’t leave him here in this storm.

The stranger explained that his car was dead, and she told him to get in. They drove for an hour into the next city and she took him to a telephone booth (公用电话亭). She waited until he had made a call. When he reported back to her that a family member would soon come for him, she wished him well and left.

Tears fell on her cheeks as she drove away. She felt as though she had been holding her breath for an hour. “I hope they’ll understand why I had to break my promise,” she thought.

1.What can we learn about the woman?

A. She was a taxi driver.

B. She used to be a hitchhiker.

C. She taught in small communities.

D. She seldom picked up strangers.

2.What made her family worried about her safety?

A. She had been hurt by a hitchhiker.

B. Her sister’s friend was killed by a hitchhiker.

C. There were often snowstorms on her way home.

D. Her car often broke down on her way home.

3.We can infer from the underlined sentence in the last paragraph that _________.

A. she was sorry for picking up the stranger.

B. she felt too tired to breathe.

C. she had been afraid being with the stranger.

D. she had been too careful driving in the storm.

任务型阅读

仔细阅读表格中五个段落,根据内容将标号A~E填在61~65小题相应的横线上,完成风筝制作的操作说明。

Make Your Own Kite

Materials You Will Need:

one 20-inch wooden dowel rod; one 24-inch wooden dowel rod; a pencil; a ruler; a craft knife; wood glue; fishing line; a piece of heavyweight paper, at least 26 inches square; scissors; tape; a sewing needle; string

Directions:

A

Place the kite frame(框架) on the piece of paper. Trace the shape of the kite, and then add two inches to the border. Cut out the larger shape. Center the frame over the paper, and then fold the edges over the frame. Tape the folded edges securely.

B

After the glue has dried, wind some fishing line around the intersection of the two rods to make sure they stay securely joined together. The fishing line should form an X at the intersection of the rods.

C

Now take the fishing line, which should still be joined to the X in the center of the frame, and thread in through the notch at each end of the dowel rods. Thread it through each notch a second time, and then return the fishing line to the center X. Make a few more loops around the X. Then knot the line and cut off the rest. The kite frame is OK.

D

Place the smaller dowel rod on top of the larger one. Glue the two rods together at the places where you made a mark. Be sure that the notches at the ends of the rods are horizontal when your kite frame is lying flat on a table.

E

Use the needle to make a small hole in the paper at the top and bottom of the kite. From the frame side, push a piece of fishing line through each hole and knot it. Take the rest of the fishing line, and tie the loose end of it about one-third of the way down the middle piece.

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