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     Slowly I climbed into the driver's seat of the old brown pontiac. "Hi, Miss Caroline!" cried the three
passengers, my friend Annie and her two children. No, I'm not Annie's driver. I'm just a friend.
     Let me explain. I'm 68, retired and live alone. Annie's 27, works as a part-time bank teller and is married
with two kids. We're different, but we have one very important need in common-a car. I couldn't afford to
fix my own car and the bus didn't go everywhere I needed to go.
     A friend had a suggestion. "My daughter Annie's been using my old pontiac while her husband job-hunts,"
he said, "He got laid off and I know they could use help with gas. Maybe you two could share the car."
     Share a car? We Americans are pretty territorial about our automobiles. Still, need overrode (压倒)
nervousness and I gave Annie a call. We quickly worked out a schedule. Three days a week for me, the rest
for her.
     Having wheels again was a huge help. Soon the car brought something more. Driving each other home
on the days we switched, Annie and I talked about everything.
     She had plenty of worries. Besides her finances, her dad's health was failing. However, she lifted my spirits!
She once said, "Life doesn't always turn out the way I want, but I trust things will work out. And they do.
Just like this car!"
     Annie and her family moved to Los Angeles. I still borrow the pontiac from her dad, who is healthy once
again. Now, whenever I drive the car, I think about Annie, and about how a simple exchange born of economic
need can become such a blessing. Like Annie says, life doesn't always turn out the way we want. But that
doesn't mean it doesn't turn out good.
1. What did the writer have in common with Annie?
A. They were both in financial difficulty.
B. They both lacked love and care in life.
C. They had both been searching for a job.
D. They were both too poor to own a car.
2. Who was the real owner of the old brown pontiac?
A. The writer.
B. Annie.
C. A bank teller.
D. Annie's father.
3. Annie impressed the writer much mainly because _____.
A. she had a deep love for her dad
B. she had many worries in her life
C. she had a positive attitude to life
D. she knew how to lift others' spirits
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  Conan Doyle became famous for writing stories about Detective Holmes. So he was often asked to settle puzzling problems.

  One day, a woman told him a strange story. Her husband had died 5 years before, and a grave had been built for him. The grave was built like this: on the huge stone base was a big stone ball, in the front of which a cross was cut. The ball would move in winter and the cross in the stone hall could hardly seen.

  Conan Doyle decided to see how matters stood with the woman. The grave was just like the woman had told him. And nobody could move the stone ball, which was put in a very shallow hole in the stone base. So it couldn't roll off. There was water in the hole, too. He thought for a minute and then said to the woman. “The problem is easy to explain, it's very cold and often rains or snows here. So there is always water in the hole. The water turns into ice at night. During the day, the southern part of the ice in the hole turns into water again while the northern part of it still remains ice, so the stone ball leans southward little by little and the cross in the stone ball moves downwards with the ball.”

1.Why did the woman leave her husband's grave built like that?

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A.Conan Doyle told her to do so.

B.Holmes told her to do so.

C.Her husband told her to do so before he died.

D.The story didn't tell us the reason.

2.From the story we can see that Conan Doyle was a man ________.

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A.who was always ready to help others

B.who wrote a lot of funny stories

C.who was careful and thoughtful

D.who always explained funny problems

3.On hearing what Conan Doyle had said, perhaps the woman would ________.

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A.think what Conan Doyle said was responsible

B.feel that she might be fooled by him

C.feel that she was too silly to explain it

D.think that Conan Doyle said was without reason

4.From the following cutaway views (剖视图) choose the correct one which shows the relationship between the stone.

(sl=stone ball  SE=stone base)

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A.
B.
C.
D.

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