It’s nothing new that you can find many files or services you can download or use from the Internet. The question is: Is downloading legal or not? In most cases the answer is negative, because sharing and downloading are illegal. Of course, you can find files for legal downloading, but you have to pay for them.
It seems innocent if you click on the download mark, but it isn’t. It should be compared with stealing in a store. Would you steal a magazine, an MP3player or a car? Downloading from the Internet is a theft, and sharing files, once you have stolen them, only makes it wore. For example, if everybody only downloaded, movies wouldn’t make money and the studios wouldn’t invest millions of dollars to make new ones.
Many people may think it better, easier and cheaper to do downloading. I think, that is the main reason why Internet users prefer sharing something to buying them. In the modern world we love convenience and what could be more convenient than getting music, films and games without having to leave your house? You don’t need to pay for what you get, there is no registration, and you don’t have to wait until shops open or the CD/DVD you want is posted to you. However, you could be in big trouble if you are caught. You could go to prison as a result of acting unlawfully, but so far only a tiny amount of people have been charged for downloading illegally. The majority of people who download illegally, and use the files for their personal use, will not get in trouble. And that's why it’s important for people to understand what the long-term consequences are if they don’t want to pay for their music, films and TV. Will film and music companies still spend millions of pounds every year if they have no chance of making a profit? The answer is plainly “no”.
Finally I would like to say that the Internet offers a lot of services for money, but people will always try to get them for free. To summarize my thoughts, I’d like to highlight that illegal downloading is both unfair towards producers and dangerous for those who practice this kind of activity. You have to decide whether to buy or download.
1. Many people download files free from the Internet because ________.| A．they follow others’ examples to do such things |
| B．they don’t think they may be charged by the producer |
| C．they think everything on the Net can be shared by others |
| D．they think it is legal, convenient and easy |
| A．Downloading helps movies become more popular. |
| B．Downloading free files is as illegal as stealing. |
| C．Sharing files on the Internet is dangerous. |
| D．Sharing files on the Internet can make a profit. |
| A．Stress. | B．Explain. | C．Admit. | D．Deny. |
| A．He advises readers to download legal files. |
| B．He asks readers to limit the amount of free downloading. |
| C．He wants to make it clear that downloading for free is against the law. |
| D．He tells readers how to avoid being charged for downloading. |
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【推荐1】Lately, everywhere you look, people are running around with fitness trackers(健步跟踪器)on their wrists. Along with a smartphone and an accompanying app, these trackers can report how many calories you've burned and the distance you've traveled. Still curious about yourself? You can also learn the number of stairs you've climbed and steps you`ve taken, metrics(度量)it had never occurred to me to wonder about.
Not one to resist peer pressure(同辈压力), however, I paid S100 for a Fitbit Flex. I chose that brand on the basis of research: asking my friend Sari which tracker she was using.
The Fitbit website offered instructions on setting up my new tracker. I entered my height and gender(性别)and certain information I considered none of its business: birth date and weight. Then I established goals. The American Heart Association recommends we all walk 10,000 steps a day-about five miles, and so does Fitbit. I decided 6,000 steps was a good place for me to start.
I changed my tune when, on day one, I hit 5,000 steps and tiny LED lights flashed on my wristband. Confident enough now, I went back to my phone and upped my goal to 8,000 steps. OK. So I got a little obsessed(着迷). On day live at a department store, I decided to check my progress. My target umber was just 275 steps away! I walked around the dress department watching my smartphone register each step I took. I hate to tell you how much pleasure this gave me.
Now I always wear my tracker, not because I've grown to love fitness but because 1 like being fashionable and self-absorbed(自恋的). Last night I was leaving a restaurant when Fitbit emailed to congratulate me on walking more than 10,000 steps. Who wouldn't love a tool that turns your every footstep into an accomplishment(成就)?
1. Why do people wear fitness trackers while running?| A．To measure the amount of exercise. |
| B．To be informed of the right direction |
| C．To show off their latest equipment |
| D．To receive emails of congratulations. |
| A．it is the suggestion from Fitbit Flex |
| B．it is the best choice for beginners |
| C．the author wasn't confident at first |
| D．the friend Sadri asked the author to do so |
| A．Joyful and encouraging. | B．Painful and expensive. |
| C．Meaningless and uncomfortable. | D．Exciting and astonishing. |
【推荐2】Around the new year, many people are making and checking their list, trying to ensure they have gifts for their beloved ones. Most people have a few names that keep getting pushed to the bottom of their lists because they can’t think of anything for them. Usually, the people who are most difficult to choose presents for are men.
But why? The reason is that men are given more social permission to buy what they want for themselves, so if there is something they want they have probably already bought it.
Below the surface, however, is the fact that men are socialized to find their self-worth in taking care of women and children, and not to want anything for themselves from anyone else. That is why men, when asked, often insist that they don’t need anything for themselves.
It is easier for men to accept gifts meant to help them be more productive in their role of taking care of the family which they can explain as “not really being for me”. For example, men may be gifted household tools, or ties in recognition of their role as a breadwinner. On the other hand, men rarely are given gifts that are designed just to give them pleasure but have no productive value.
In general, men’s ability to be playful or allow themselves to experience pleasure is significantly impaired. They can be comfortable with pleasure as long as it is productive in some way, or if it benefits other people like a vacation for the kids. However, any play or pleasure that is not for someone else’s benefit or productive is often a real challenge for men.
Young boys certainly know how to play and experience pleasure, but somewhere along the way they forget how. In the delightful movie Hook(1991), Robin Williams plays Peter Pan after he grows up into a workaholic lawyer who has completely forgotten how to be a little boy and have fun. Captain Hook comes from Neverland and catches his children, and the only way Peter can rescue them is to reconnect with his ability to be a little boy.
1. What does the author think of the reason given in paragraph 2?| A．It needs to be tested further. |
| B．It has little to do with the reality. |
| C．It fails to touch the real cause. |
| D．It doesn’t take everything into account. |
| A．Gifts that increase their efficiency at work. |
| B．Gifts that remind them of their childhood. |
| C．Gifts that promote their role in the family. |
| D．Gifts that provide them with great pleasure. |
| A．Ignored. | B．Recognized. | C．Increased. | D．Weakened. |
| A．To give a suggestion. | B．To make a comparison. |
| C．To tell a story. | D．To recommend a movie. |
【推荐3】China has put in place a new policy that limits online video game playing for young people to three hours a week. The new rules restrict online gaming for those under the age of 18 to one hour on Friday evenings, weekends and public holidays. They were announced by General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), which is responsible for regulating video games. The new rules place the responsibility for carrying out the policy on the gaming industry. The limits don’t include punishments for individual gamers.
China is the world’s largest video gaming market. Chinese media reported that about 63% of Chinese minors (未成年人) often play online games. About 13%of underage mobile game users are believed to play them for more than two hours a day on weekdays. The Chinese government has worried for years about young people becoming addicted to games. Treatment centers have been set up for people thought to have developed “gaming disorders”.
The first government restrictions took effect in 2019. Those rules limited minors to one hour and a half of gaming time a day and three hours on weekends. The policy also limited the amount of money minors could spend on virtual items in gaming each month. The limit ranged from $28 to $57, depending on the age of the gamer.
Current rules require minors to use their real names and national ID numbers when they are signing in to play. Gaming companies created systems to identify minors. However, many young gamers found ways to avoid the requirement, such as signing in under the names of adult family members. Therefore, the GAPP said online gaming companies would have to prove they had effective identification systems in place. Measures will be taken to make sure they follow the new limits. The agency said it would also increase punishment for gaming companies not following the rules.
Some young Chinese gamers criticized the new rules on social media. Some parents, however, told the news agency that they supported the new limits.
1. What can be inferred from paragraph 1?| A．Minors addicted to online games may get punished. |
| B．Minors can only have access to online games on holidays. |
| C．The new policy forbids minors from playing online games. |
| D．Gaming industry plays a vital role in conducting the policy. |
| A．To promote the spread of the new rules. |
| B．To express the concern about online gaming. |
| C．To offer the background of the new policy. |
| D．To arouse public awareness of minors’ health. |
| A．A few gaming companies tend to break the rules. |
| B．Some minors may register with adults’ ID numbers. |
| C．Adult family members may conduct illegal operations. |
| D．The existing regulation has no effect on the minors’ addiction. |
| A．Disturbed. | B．Relaxed. | C．Frightened. | D．Calmed. |
【推荐1】Moving forces us to face the extraneous. File cabinets and drawers stuffed to the brim, boxes piled high in the backs of closets — why keep letters and cards that we never re-read? One card with my grandmother’s handwriting should be enough.
An unnerving yet productive strategy is to envision someone dealing with the piles of papers if you suddenly weren’t here. You instantly realize that most of your accumulation will one day be thrown into a recycling bin. The things you are saving as reminders of your past are useless to others. Sure, you may value what you keep, but worth is essentially all in your head.
In a real sense, to throw things away is to prepare to die. This is not a gloomy declaration but rather an enlivening recognition of the freedom that follows when we take ourselves less seriously. It’s the same as looking at a sky full of stars and feeling the relief of being tiny and unimportant. Awareness of the briefness of our time on earth and the impermanence of both our attachments and our sufferings can become a powerful basis for clearing things and emotions alike.
A few years ago, dear friends were called home from work to a big fire. They watched as their house burned to the ground, despite the efforts of several fire crews. Everything material, cherished things, and accumulations were reduced to ashes —clothes, photo albums, furniture, paintings, books, boxes of old letters, the piano.
By nightfall, what they had left were the clothes they had worn that day and the photos they had kept at their workplaces. At first, they felt completely collapsed, but once they emerged from the initial shock and grief, they were sustained by a lot of love from family and friends. They were alive, and this is what really mattered. It is astonishing to discover how little weight our possessions carry in this calculus of true necessity.
1. What does the underlined word “extraneous” mean in Paragraph 1?| A．Invaluable. | B．Irrelevant. | C．Suitable. | D．Necessary. |
| A．It’s useless. | B．It’s essential. | C．It’s personal. | D．It’s recyclable. |
| A．By recognizing the burden of freedom. | B．By letting oneself fade into insignificance. |
| C．By being aware of the preciousness of time. | D．By treasuring the attachments and sufferings. |
| A．To demonstrate the cruelty of a fire. | B．To stress the weight our possessions carry. |
| C．To emphasize the importance of love from friends. | D．To show the insignificance of our possessions. |
【推荐2】Mobile phones have become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones during school hours.
Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, and more students will want them.
Mary Bluett, an official, said mobile phone use is a distraction to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.
She said some schools had tried to ban mobile phones at school. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with their children.
Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at school: they were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.
Many people say that they understood why parents would want their children to have a mobile phone, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phone.
1. Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones _____________.| A．because they are young | B．when they are free |
| C．when they are at school | D．because they are children |
| A．the markers and sellers | B．the passers-by and strangers |
| C．their parents ,friends or relatives | D．some mobile phones users |
| A．use their mobile phones |
| B．leave their mobile phones at school office |
| C．help the teachers with their work |
| D．get in touch with their children |
| A．student shouldn’t have mobile phones at school except for some special reasons |
| B．it is impossible to ban students from using mobile phones at school |
| C．some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t use their phones at school |
| D．parents should teach their children how to use mobile phones during school hours. |
| A．there weren’t any good reasons |
| B．they usually cheated during exams |
| C．the phones were easy to lose and were a distraction |
| D．the headmaster didn’t agree |
【推荐3】Earthquake in Japan. Donald Trump is accused of planting story about actress’s height after she rejected him. Mexico arrests ex-police chief in case of 43 missing students. Do you really need to know all these things?
Three years ago, I began an experiment. I stopped reading all newspapers and magazines. Televisions and radios were rejected. I deleted title news apps from my iPhone. I didn’t touch a single free newspaper and deliberately looked the other way when someone tried to offer me any such reading material. The first weeks were hard. Very hard! I was constantly afraid of missing something. But after a while, I had a new understanding. The result after three years: clearer thoughts, more valuable ideas, better decisions, and much more time. And the best thing? I haven’t missed anything important.
A dozen reasons exist togive news a wide berth. Here are the top three: First, our brain reacts differently to different types of information. Shocking, people-based, fast-changing details all appeal to us. News producers capitalize on this. The result: Everything complex, abstract, and profound(深刻的) must be systematically singled out, even though such stories are much more relevant to our lives and to our understanding of the world. As a result, we walk around with a misrepresented mental map of the risks and threats we actually face.
Second, news is irrelevant. In the past year, you have probably consumed about ten thousand pieces of news. Be very honest: Name one of them, just one that helped you make a better decision－for your life, your career, or your business-compared with not having this piece of news. No one I have asked has been able to name more than two useful news stories—out of ten thousand. News organizations claim that their information gives you a competitive advantage. Too many fall for this. If news really helped people advance, journalists would be at the top of the income pyramid.
Third, news is a waste of time. An average human being spends half a day each week reading about current affairs. This is a huge loss of productivity. Take the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai. Let’s say a billion people viewed the minute-by-minute updates and listened to the chatter of a few “experts” and “commentators.” Thus our conservative calculation: One billion people multiplied by an hour’s distraction equals one billion hours of work stoppage. News wasted around two thousand lives—ten times more than the attack.
I would predict that turning your back on news will benefit you as much as removing any of the other ninety-eight errors we have covered in the pages of this book. Read long background articles and books. Nothing beats books for understanding the world.
1. What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 3 probably mean?| A．Refuse to read news. | B．Select news carefully. |
| C．Question news. | D．Help spread news. |
| A．represents a competitive advantage | B．offers a mental map of the world |
| C．leads to a loss of productivity | D．brings journalists’ income up |
| A．To offer tips on choosing news. |
| B．To advocate(支持) giving up reading news. |
| C．To share experiences on avoiding news. |
| D．To criticize media's misleading choice of news. |
【推荐1】Top trends in IT for 2021
The year of 2020 was almost entirely dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, and its effects have not only changed life on Earth but our digital lives as well. What are the technological trends that will continue into and through 2021? Let’s take a look.
Quantum computing
Like its name suggests, quantum computing is based on the principles of quantum theory, which explains the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic levels.
Different from classical computers, which store and process data as either ones or zeros, quantum computers use something called quantum bits-or qubits. Qubits allow information to be stored in more than one state, so it can be both one and zero at the same time.
Therefore, quantum computers can handle complex operations at speeds much faster than traditional computers without needing as much energy. Quantum computers have proven to be especially helpful during the pandemic For instance, they were used to search for potential vaccines and find other therapies to help affected people. Its potential will be explored more in 2021.
Working from home
There’s no real going back to normal “Gerard Grech, CEO of networking company Tech Nation, told Wired magazine. The pandemic has given us an opportunity to rethink how we work and why.
After working from home for much of 2020, some companies noticed an increase in productivity when their employees worked remotely. Not only that, but providing this option canal so help cut down operating costs for companies.
This is great news for workers, too, as many people have wanted more flexibility with their work arrangements for quite sometime. More hybrid workspaces with work from home options will thrive this year.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity has recently become more important because people are more dependent on working online- to name one of the main reasons.
In fact, according to Forbes, hackers took advantage of the pandemic and ramped up cyber attacks worldwide. In just the first four months of 2020. alone, attacks on banks increased 238 percent and cloud servers by 600 percent.
One solution is the cybersecurity mesh. This method puts a security barrier around each individual instead of around the company or organization. You can think of the cybersecurity mesh as each person being in their cybersecurity bubble instead of everyone staying in a walled city.
Going into 2021 and beyond, cybersecurity will become crucial a sour world becomes even more digitalized and interconnected.
1. What makes quantum computers faster than traditional ones?| A．The way they store data. | B．The number of bits they use. |
| C．The common materials they use. | D．The diversity of data they can store. |
| A．Remote working should be reconsidered. |
| B．The pandemic has given new insight into our routines. |
| C．We must adapt to new situations more quickly. |
| D．The damage caused by the pandemic can not be undone. |
| A．It was developed by hackers during the pandemic. | B．It ensures cybersecurity like a walled city. |
| C．It can defend individuals against cyber attacks. | D．It provides a secure online trading platform. |
【推荐2】If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice: there are four skills in learning English. They are reading ,listening, speaking and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.
Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentences, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammar or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passage or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.
As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.
For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.
If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.
1. According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?| A．Reading and listening. |
| B．Reading and writing. |
| C．Writing and speaking. |
| D．Speaking and listening. |
| A．look up all the new words in the dictionary |
| B．think about what you are reading actively |
| C．spend more time studying grammar |
| D．copy as many words and sentences as possible |
| A．everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day |
| B．You needn’t practice listening if you keep on reading every day |
| C．being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening |
| D．you should take notes of whatever you are hearing |
| A．choose suitable listening materials |
| B．deal with new words in reading |
| C．improve your English as quickly as possible |
| D．become fluent in speaking and writing English |
【推荐3】It's long been understood that there is a connection between memory problems and diabetes(糖尿病), a disorder characterized by excessively high blood sugar.Sugar provides the body with fuel for various processes, including memory processing. In fact, glucose(葡萄糖)carried in the blood stream supplies the brain with 90 percent of the energy it requires to function properly.
In order to fuel those processes, glucose has to get from the blood to the tissues, where it can be broken down and put to work. High blood sugar levels, such as in diabetes, are an indicator that a body is experiencing difficulty moving sugar from the blood to the tissues.
However, some non-diabetics have a less severe form of high blood sugar, a condition called impaired glucose tolerance. And it is this condition that seems to be the cause of memory problems in a significant number of non-diabetic elderly people who experience memory difficulties.
Subjects were given glucose intravenously(静脉注射), and then researchers measured how quickly glucose moved from the blood to the tissues. Next, the subjects were tested for overall cognitive functioning and the ability to recall short paragraphs. It turned out that subjects who scored lowest in memory recall tests also showed impaired glucose tolerance.
In addition, brain scans demonstrated that these same subjects each had a significantly smaller hippocampus, a brain area important to learning and memory. The researchers hypothesize that impaired glucose tolerance may over time cause damage and atrophy (萎缩) to the hippocampus.
What can a body do to prevent this? A healthy diet and exercise can help maintain good glucose tolerance, perhaps preventing gradual memory decline.
1. What does a high blood sugar level suggest?| A．A body has already developed diabetes. |
| B．Problems arise when glucose is transported. |
| C．Glucose begins to reproduce itself in the blood stream. |
| D．Fewer fuels are needed for a body to function properly. |
| A．It may gradually cause damage to people's brains. |
| B．It is associated with a minor disorder of blood pressure. |
| C．People with this condition have a high risk of falling down. |
| D．It is an acute disease caused by a shortage of regular workout. |
| A．Explain in detail. | B．Jump to a conclusion. |
| C．Make an assumption. | D．Declare with certainty. |
| A．The causes and symptoms of diabetes. |
| B．An experiment to find a cure for diabetes. |
| C．The connection between memory and sugar. |
| D．A study to differ diabetes from impaired glucose tolerance. |
【推荐1】At this selection of five museums, more French will be heard and visitors might feel a sense of satisfaction when knowing they have arrived at a place that native Parisians also enjoy when going on a trip.
Museum of Natural History
Being a must-see place in the museum at present, the Grand Gallery of Evolution dates back to the 1880s. Playing as a zoology building in the past, it reopened to the public in 1994. The entire museum exhibits more than 9,000 preserved(保存）animals and insects.
Museum of Music
The museums collection covers centuries of European classical music and instruments, with decorated pianos and hundreds of horns and string instruments. Live performances take place in the galleries of the museum every day. The museum provides two versions (版本）of its English-language audio (声音的）guide, one for children and the other for adults.
Fairground Art Museum
At this museum, guides describe the history of Europe’s traveling fairs and explain signs (符号）that identify the beginning of the country with a carousel horse (旋转木马）.Book your tickets ahead of time on the museum’s website. Tours in French are offered several days a week all year round，and English -language tours are offered in the summer months.
Museum of Arts and Crafts
It was founded during the French Revolution to show its advanced (先进的）science and technologies and has since received several updates (更新）.Early planes，including the first to cross the English Channel, hang from the ceiling of one building. The collection has different exhibitions, with ancient cars, early engines and elements (元素)used in the building of the Statue of Liberty.
1. What do we know about the Grand Gallery of Evolution?| A．It was once closed to the public. |
| B．It was first built 25 years ago. |
| C．It studies all kinds of wildlife in nature. |
| D．It shows several thousand kinds of animals. |
| A．Choose a proper guide for your travel. |
| B．Learn some French before your travel. |
| C．Know the history of France ahead of time. |
| D．Book tickets beforehand at proper time. |
| A．It keeps many old collections. |
| B．It still keeps its original look. |
| C．It's a museum about art and culture. |
| D．It only provides French-speaking guides. |
【推荐2】School is still out for the summer, but at Eastern Senior High School,students are hard at work.In a garden bursting with vegetables and herbs, nearly a dozen teenagers are harvesting them for the weekend's farmers market. They work Tuesday through Saturday with City Blossoms, a non-profit that brings community gardens to schools and other places where kids gather in urban areas.
Roshawn Little, going into her junior year at Eastern, believes that working in the garden has taught her to try all sorts of new things—like eating different kinds of vegetables more often. And she has taken those healthy behaviors home with her and her family now buy more fruits and vegetables.“We mainly live around liquor（酒）stores and snack stores. There aren’t that many grocery stores. They're way out, and you have to drive so far”—a common problem in low-income urban areas.
City Blossoms is one of many groups across the country teaming up with local communities to establish school gardens, like the one at Eastern. These gardens, advocates say, are really outdoor classrooms where kids learn valuable lessons — not just about nutrition, but also about science and math, even business skills. For example, the gardens can be used for math lessons—like calculating the area of a plant bed—or learning the science of how plants grow.
On a recent weekend at the Aya farmers market, the kids work at a table decorated with handmade signs that read “onions” and “garlic”, inviting people to try their herbed salt with bread. Working at the market helps them practice public speaking skills and business skills.
Nadine Joyner of a nutrition education company has a food table next to the kids at the market and often buys produce from them. She is constantly impressed by the kids’ knowledge of what they're selling—they know how to grow it, how to prepare it, and how to cook it
1. What do students at Eastern do with the harvested vegetables?| A．Sell them on market . | B．Take them to school. |
| C．Give them to farmers. | D．Share them at home. |
| A．It is inconvenient in traffic. | B．It is crowded with grocery stores. |
| C．It has poor access to fresh foods. | D．It suffers from income inequality. |
| A．To provide nutritious food. | B．To improve classroom conditions. |
| C．To cooperate with local community. | D．To create outdoor learning chances. |
| A．Green Vegetables, Healthy Gardeners | B．School Garden: a Promise Land in Summer |
| C．Young Gardeners, Knowledgeable Minds | D．City Blossoms: an Exciting Garden Project |
So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.
Well, one day he died.He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to her closest friend.When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!"
She had a shoe box with her, she came over with the box and placed it in the casket.Then the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away.Her friend said, "I hope you weren't crazy enough to put all that money in the casket."
"Yes," the wife said, "I promised.I'm a good Christian, I can't lie.I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him."
"You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?"
"I sure did.I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check."
1. What was the woman’s reaction to her husband’s last words?
| A．She remained silent. | B．she said no. |
| C．She said yes. | D．She was annoyed. |
| A．she shouldn’t put all the money in the casket |
| B．she should put all the money in the casket. |
| C．she should give his husband a promise. |
| D．she should not break her promise. |
| A．attractive | B．clever | C．dishonest | D．lazy |
| A．Take All My Money With Me | B．A Promise Cleverly Kept |
| C．A Loving Wife | D．Miser and his Wife |
