There was a small village by the sea in America. Every summer lots of people came here to spend their holidays. But a few of them came here only to end their lives. Two months ago right here a woman jumped into the sea in the darkness of the night. When she was taken up from the sea, nothing could make her come to life. From then on, the people in the village began to pay more attention to each of the visitors. If someone looked unhappy or worried, they would watch him all day long with care. They would never let the same thing happen again.

　　A week later, there came several visitors. Among them there was a young woman of twenty years old. One day she looked different from others. She went out alone at night. She was found just by a villager. The villager made no noise and followed her. When the young woman was walking to the beach, the villager rushed at her and tried hard to pull her back. “Let me go. Don't pull me!” cried the young woman, “I was playing on the beach this afternoon. Now I can't find the key to my suitcase. I think it must be left here.” “But why don't you look for it tomorrow morning?” said the villager. “Tomorrow morning I'll leave here and catch the early bus to New York. I must leave before the day breaks. “

　　When the villager heard this, he had a good laugh and helped her look for the key in the moonlight.

(1) The small village was ________ the sea.

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(2) ________ of the visitors came to this village in order to die.

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(3) Why did a young woman go out alone at night one day?

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(4) The villager rushed at the young woman because he wanted to ________.

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(5)The woman looked for the key at night because ________.

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A．she couldn't get up early the next morning

B．she had something important to do

C．she had little time to look for it the next morning

D．she wanted to leave the village at once

About ten men in every hundred have the trouble of color blindness in some way. Women are luckier, only about one in two hundred is affected（感染）in this matter. Perhaps, after all ,it is safer to be driven by a woman.
There are different kinds of color blindness. For example, a man cannot see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades (影子) of  green. Sometimes a person can’t tell the difference between blue and green. Only a few unlucky men may see everything in shades of green— a strange world indeed.
Color blindness in human beings is a different thing to explain. In only one eye there are millions of very small things called “cones（锥状细胞）” . These help us to see in the bright light and to tell differences between colors. These are also millions of “rods“（杆状细胞），but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shapes but not colors.
Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes(蚊子) like blue but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue light will. Human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the help of the cones in our eyes, we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the help of the rods we can see shapes at night.
【小题1】“Color blindness” means           in Chinese.
A. 盲目        B. 无色      C 色盲    D 讨厌颜色
【小题2】 Some people say it’s safer to be driven by women because         .

　　Every day some people are killed while they are crossing the roads. __1__ of these people are old people and children. Old people are often killed（被杀死）because they can't see or __2__ very well. Children are killed because they are not __3__. They forgot to look and listen before they __4__ the roads.

　　A car or a bus can't stop __5__. If a car is going very fast, it will travel many metres __6__ it stops. Some people don't always understand this. They think a car can stop __7__ a few seconds. It is difficult to __8__ how fast a car is moving. The only way to cross the roads safely（安全地）is to look __9__ ways, right and left. Then if the roads are __10__, you can cross them.

　　Every one of us must be more careful when you are crossing a road no matter（无论）you are a driver or a passer-by（过路人）. And all the drivers must drive more carefully and slowly when they are driving.