A. Not all the ants go 　　　　　　　　　　    B. All the ants not go

C. Both the ants don’t go 　　　　　　　　   D. All the ants go

　 Everyone had their friends, but I knew one girl who didn’t. I guess you could call her a geek, because all she did was read, study, and do homework. I don’t think she even played a sport. She was one of those quiet people who no one really paid attention to, and those who was often laughed at. I had heard all kinds of rumors (谣言) that she had problems, but I didn’t really believe them.

　 My friends and I were nice to her. We let her sit at our lunch table and we often said “Hi” to her, but she wasn’t our best friend. Throughout the year, she started talking to us more and more. We continued being kind to her. She was normal as far as I was concerned (就我而言). She was just really quiet.

　 During the summer holidays I got a letter from her. It read, “I just wanted to thank you so much for being so extremely kind and friendly to me this year. Before you became my friend, I had no one to talk to or sit with at lunch. I didn’t think anyone wanted me around. I even wanted to kill myself because of this. But you and your friends changed that. You made me feel wanted. It meant so much to me. I am going to be moving and going to another school next year. I’ll never forget you and what you did.”

　 By the time I finished the letter, I was in shock. I could not believe what I had just read. I learned that the simplest things and the smallest acts of kindness can mean the world to someone else.

1. The underlined word “geek” (in Paragraph 1) probably refers to a person ______.

A. who is naughty and always makes fun of others

B. who is confident and works very hard

C. who is not popular and does strange things　　

D. who is not honest and is badly behaved

2. How did the girl feel before the author became her friend?

A. Happy and comfortable.　 B. Pleased and confident.

C. Worried and surprised. 　 D. Sad and lonely.

3. From the third paragraph, we can learn that the author and her friends ______.

A. helped get the girl out of trouble　

B. made the girl go to another school

C. were not the girl’s friends　　　

D. didn’t want to help the girl at all

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. A strange girl　　　 　　

B. Just the smallest things

C. A girl without problems 　　　

D. I’m going to be moving

Stratford –on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry—William Shakespeare—but there are two clearly separate and different branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company （RSC）, which presents excellent productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are townsfolk who largely live on the tourists who come, not to see the play, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.

The townsfolk of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their income. They frankly dislike the RSC actors, those who walk with long hair and beard and great noise.

The tourist stream are not entirely separate. The sightseers, who come by bus and often take in Warwick on the side, don’t usually see the plays. And some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their play-going. It is the playgoers, the RSC declares, who bring in much of the town’s income because they spend the night （some of them four or five nights ） pouring money into hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.

The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local government does not put away some money for the RSC. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless, every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or a cocktail room. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you will be sure will be decorated with Hamburger bars, dinner rooms ad so forth, and will be very expensive.

Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the RSC needs help from the government. The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year, its 1,431 seats were 94 occupied all year long and this year they will do better. The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed the same. It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford’s most attractive customers. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike, though they come from all over.

64．From the first two paragraphs, we learn that 　　　 .

　 A．the townsfolk think little of the RSC’s contribution to the town’s income

　 B．the actors of RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage

　 C．the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms

　 D．the townsfolk earn little from tourism

65．It can be inferred from the third paragraph that 　　　 .

　 A．the sightseers cannot visit the castle and the palace separately

　 B．the playgoers seem to spend more money than the sightseers

　 C．the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theatre

　 D．the sightseers do no other things than shopping in town

66．By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally”, the author means that _________.

　 A．Stratford has long been in financial difficulties

　 B．Stratford cannot afford the new projects

　 C．the town is not really short of money

　 D．the townsfolk used to be poorly paid