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　　Agatha Christie was born on September 15th, 1890. She didn't go to school because her mother wanted to teach her at home. She studied the piano and singing in Paris.

　　She got married(结婚) in 1914 to a pilot and they had one daughter. During the First World War(战争), when she was working as a nurse, she began to write detective novels(侦探小说). In the hospital, she learned a lot about drugs, and she used these in her novels.

　　She wrote her first novel in 1920. The hero(主人公) was a detective, Hercules Poirot. The book soon became a best-seller and made her famous.

　　In 1928, Agatha Christie was lost. The police found her two weeks later. She didn't know anything. This was front page news in all the newspapers in Britain, and even today nobody knows what happened to her during those two weeks.

　　In 1929, Agatha Christie went on holiday to the Middle East. She came home to England in 1930.

　　After that, she travelled with her husband to the Middle East many times, and a lot of her later stories took place there, for example, Murder On The Nile. She also wrote the detective in the West End of London in 1952, and still on later.

　　During her life she wrote nearly eighty detective stories. She also wrote other novels under the pen name of May Westmacott. She died in January 1976 at the age of eighty-six.

　　Agatha Christie's detective novels are famous for their surprising endings.

1．Christie began to write detective novels ________.

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2．What may the word “drugs” here mean ________.

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3．Why was Christie lost for two weeks in 1928?

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A．Because she was ill.

B．Because she got married.

C．Because she wanted to write novels herself.

D．Nobody knows.

4．Who is Mary Westmacott?

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5．Why did her detective novels interest so many readers? Because ________.

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A．they have a sad ending

B．they have an unusual ending

C．there is always a murder in her novels

D．Christie was very famous

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　　Timothy Lloyd, whose parents were both doctors, had always wanted to work in medicine. At last he did quite well in the examination, well enough to get into a school of nursing. On his first school day, Timothy was so excited that he could hardly eat any breakfast, and left home so early that he was at the school long before it opened.

　　The first thing he had to do was to have a meeting with new head of the school, whose name was Thompson, and other new students. The head, a woman who had herself been in the nursing profession(职业)for many years, congratulated the new students on entering the nursing profession, shook hands with each of them and hoped them to work hard during their time at the school. She warned them that their work would not be easy, begged them always to remain sincerely loyal(真诚地忠于职守) to their chosen profession and then wished them good luck.

　　When that was all over, the new students went off to their first lesson. The teacher whose class they joined always gave his new students a test on the first day, to judge how much they already knew, to see how clever they were, and so on.

　　“Does anyone know,”he asked,“why a doctor wears a mask(口罩) while he or she is doing an operation?”

　　“Oh, yes,”Timothy answered quickly.“Because then, if the operation isn't successful, the patient won't know whose fault (过错) it was!

1．Timothy Lloyd entered a school of nursing because ________.

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A．his parents wanted him to be a nurse

B．he himself wanted to be a nurse

C．he did well in the examination

D．both B and C

2．On the first day of the term, Timothy ________.

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A．was too excited to go to school early

B．went to school very early without breakfast

C．went to school just before it opened

D．had his breakfast quickly and went to school early

3．Thompson was ________.

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A．head of the school

B．Timothy's mother

C．the teacher who always gave his new students a test on the first day

D．another new student

4．The teacher gave his students a test on the first day ________.

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A．to see how much knowledge the students had

B．to see how clever they were

C．for some other reasons

D．both A and B

5．What do you suppose the teacher would do after he heard Timothy's answer?

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A．He would punish(惩罚)him by beating him hard.

B．He would say to Timothy,“Yes, you are right.”

C．He would be greatly surprised and gave a sad smile.

D．He would praise him for his clever answer.

David: I like blue. I have a clothes shop, and I find when I changed the wall’s color to blue, my clothes sold better. Someone told me that blue can make people feel safe.
Mary: I’m a nurse. I heard that green can make people feel energetic. Because it’s the color of nature, it can also give people a feeling of hope. It’s my favorite.
Li Ming: I like red. In our country, red means good luck. For example, during Spring Festival, most Chinese people like wearing red clothes , because we believe it will bring us good luck in the future.
Sam: I like orange because it’s a warm color. When I’m sad, if I see something orange buying things that are orange ---- bags, hats, cups, anything! I live in an orange world!
Linda: I think black is a powerful color . We know that the leaders of a country always wear black clothes. And, it makes people look thin.
【小题1】Of the following people, who likes green best?