Sarah Winchester lived in California.She was a very rich woman.She didn’t buy

   many jewels(珠宝)or  1  clothes.Still,she spent millions of dollars in  2  a house.

   She began to do it at the age of 45.The strange thing about Sarah’s  3  was that it seemed

   never finished.The work on the house went on for 38  4  because Sarah was afraid to

   stop building it.

     Sarah's house was near San Jose.Every day,a lot of  5  arrived there to work for

   her.Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows, 6  the workers

   kept on building them.The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms.There were

   200 doors and 1,000  7  .There were also three lifts,nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces.

     Why did Sarah want a house that kept getting  8  ?It was because Sarah was afraid of dying.She thought she would die when the house was finished,so she didn’t want her house to be finished.

    Sarah Winchester’s  9  seemed to have worked(奏效)because she lived to be 83

   years old.But 10  ,her house was finished.

   (   )1.A.cheap    B.expensive   C.simple   D.old

   (   )2.A.building   B.buying    C.selling  D.setting

   (   )3.A.door    B.window    C.kitchen  D.house

   (   )4.A.years    B.months    C.weeks   D.days

   (   )5.A.drivers   B.workers    C.farmers  D.visitors

   (   )6.A.but     B.until     C.since   D.so

   (   )7.A.floors    B.kitchens    C.windows  D.rooms

   (   )8.A.bigger   B.smaller    C.stronger  D.cleaner

   (   )9.A.age    B.family     C.plan    D.husband

   (   )10.A.hardly   B.usefully    C.carefully  D.finally

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