英文阅读测验(Day)(8)

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Peter, a friend of mine, lived with his mother in the middle Taiwan. Two years ago, he

married Helen, my classmate. After that, three of them lived together in an apartment in Kaohsiung, and sold the house they used to live in. Peter’s father has been dead for twenty years since Peter was ten. Peter loved his mother and his wife. But Peter’s mother didn’t think

SO.

Last week on Valentine’s Day (情人節) Peter brought home several beautiful flowers for his wife. His mother saw it and said jealously (吃醋的)

"Flowers for lovers, and what is for old Mother?” "My dear mother, I did not buy the

flowers, ” answered Peter, "I took the flowers from my office. Someone threw (throw過去式) them on the floor. I thought the flowers were still fresh, so I brought them to my wife.” After

talking to his mother, Peter went into his room to see Helen with the flowers. He saw her sitting on the bed a little angry. "Flowers picked up (拾起) from the floor ? How can you give me the garbage?” asked Helen unhappily.

"You really believe what I just said to Mom?” answered her husband,

I bought them at a flower store near our home. They’re $50 for each (每一個)

And I spent $ 1000 ! ”

( )1. How did Peter get the flowers ?

(1). He picked them up from the floor.

(2). Someone gave them to him.

(3). He bought them at a flower store.

(4). He grew them.

( )2. They sold their house which might be located (位於) in

(1). Nantou (2). Taipei

(3). Kaohsiung (4). Hualien

( )3.How many flowers did Peter buy for his wife?

(1). Fifty. (2). Twenty.

(3). One thousand. (4). Thirty.

( )4.How was Helen when she heard Peter talking to his mother?

(1). Happy. (2). Unhappy.

(3). Excited. (4). Jealous.

NO12 Do You Know? Sorry I Don’t Know

When we travel from Taipei to the United States, we may think that we live in a very large world because it takes us almost a day to go to New York even in a fast airplane. However (無論如何), many teachers tell us that the world is only a small ball and, out of the world, there are many big “suns” larger than the sun we see every day. Our sun itself is said to be many hundred thousand times (次數) larger than our small ball – our world. Do you know how far (遠) away the sun is from us? People say when we go around the world three thousand times we still can not go as far as the sun is from our world.

The sun is even farther (far之比較級) than we finish traveling around our

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