Last month the manager of a jewelry shop (珠宝店) received a letter. As he was very busy then, the letter lay on his desk till tea-time. He opened it and a 10-pound note(票) fell out onto the desk. Within the note was a letter which said:

Dear sir:

In 1935 I got engaged(订婚). But unfortunately I lost my job. At the time a lot of people were out of work. Six months later I got a job again, but of course I was very short of money. I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring(婚戒). The assistant took out some rings for me to look at, but she was called away for a moment, and I put one of the rings in my pocket. When she came back, I said I didn’t know the size of my girl’s finger. So I left the shop without buying a ring. My wife died a short while ago and the fact that I never paid for the ring has been heavy in my heart all these years. At that time, the ring cost 2 pounds so I think it is 10 pounds at today’s price and I’m sending 10 pounds.

Yours truly,

A customer (顾客)

1.When did the manager open the letter?

A.In the morning

B.When he received the letter

C.At lunch time

D.Till tea-time

2.The customer didn’t write the letter until_____.

A.he was dying

B.his wife’s death

C.he had enough money

D.he got a job again

3.What happened in 1935?

A.The jewelry shop lost some rings.

B.The customer married a girl.

C.The customer stole a ring for his wife.

D.The customer stole a ring for his girl friend.

4.Which of the following is Not true?

A.The customer was poor at that time.

B.The ring was bigger for his girl friend.

C.The shop assistant was careless.

D.The customer was too poor to buy a ring for his girl friend.

5.What do you think of the customer?

A.Honest

B.Forgetful

C.Dishonest

D.Careless

 

In 1638, John Harvard donated some money and about four hundred books to a new university. This was the beginning of the library at Harvard University. The gift was so important that the university was named for John Harvard.

Thomas Bray began the first free lending library in the late 1600s. He set up more than 30 or these libraries in the American colonies. However, the idea for this kind of free library ended when Bray died in 1730. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and some friends started the first subscription(订阅费) library in the United States. In a subscription library people pay money to become members, but they may borrow the books without paying again.

In the United States, every child had a free education. This idea soon led to free libraries. One of the first libraries that used tax money to buy books was a library in Peterborough, New Hampshire. This library was set up in 1833.

1.The main idea of paragraph 2 is________.

A.Franklin started the first subscription library

B.in a subscription library people pay money to become members

C.Bray and Franklin were important in the history of public libraries

D.Bray died in 1730 and Franklin died in 1833

2.The underlined word “borrow” means_______.

A.read and write with no help from another person

B.use for a short time and then return

C.like very much

D.lend

3.The reading does not say it, but we can guess that_______.

A.there were free schools in the United States before there were free libraries

B.free schools and free libraries in the United States began at about the same time

C.the library in New Hampshire also had a free school in it

D.there were free libraries in the United States before there were free schools

4.Havard University began_______.

A.in 1731

B.in 1730

C.in 1833

D.in 1638

5.At the library that Franklin started, ________.

A.children could use books for no money at all

B.people paid a little money in the beginning but none after that

C.people paid a lot of money in the beginning but none after that

D.both A and B

 

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