Yang Ling is showing a map _ the town _ her friends.

—I’m sorry，sir. I didn’t mean to hurt you by showing you those pictures?
—________It just reminded me of my old friends.

A．Not at all.

B．All the best.

C．No sorry，please.

D．Never mind.

My mother-in-law, Dorothy, is showing me the red notebook that’s almost as precious to her as my husband’s baby pictures. Inside the notebook is a list of the books she has read since 2007. For some people waking up in the middle of the night is a terrible thing. But for my mother-in-law, that time is a gift. At 87, she is getting the education she never had by working her way through great literature. She has now read close to 100 books, including every single novel by Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Henry James and Thomas Mann.
My mother-in-law discusses her passion with the enthusiasm of a young girl, although she can also be a very tough critic, writing “VG’ for “ very good” in the margins next to her favorites. So far, only a handful of books have received the top prize.
Born in Ridgefield, Conn, Dorothy was the youngest daughter of an Italian gardener. She taught herself English by reading The New York Times. Eager to come to Manhattan, she became a nurse, married a dentist and spent the next several decades keeping the house and raising a family. In her later years, she put her nursing skills to good use by taking care of my father-in-law, who had lung cancer. There were many trips to the emergency room in the middle of the night and then a long hospital stay. She stayed awake to watch over him for 15 hours a day. Always a light sleeper, she developed sleeplessness as a result of the stress.
It worsened after he died. Deeply sad and lonely for the first time in her life, she began waking up around 2am. Julian and Sylvia, the elderly couple next door suggest she read literature. And so Julian, a great lover of literature, became her “professor”, providing books from his large library. Suddenly the terrifying hole turned onto a world of amazing characters.
小题1:Why is Dorothy considered a tough critic?

A．Because no books are inspiring enough in her eyes.

B．Because only a few books are thought highly of by her.

C．Because she only reads books by famous writers.

D．Because she finds fault with every book she reads.

小题2: It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

A．the books Dorothy has read were bought by her husband.

B．the couple next door are college professors.

C．the author loves literature too.

D．Dorothy was a great wife.

小题3:The underlined part “the terrifying hole” in the last paragraph refers to _____.

A．the frightening death

B．Dorothy’s lack of education

C．waking up in the middle of the night

D．a hole in a book that Dorothy read

小题4: What helped Dorothy get over the sadness and loneliness of losing her husband?

A．Living with her son.

B．Reading literature.

C．Seeing her son’s baby pictures.

D．Talking with neighbors.

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The law has a great many rules, showing when and how far a man is to be punished, or if he should be made to hand over money or property to his neighbors, and so on. These rules are contained in books. A lawyer learns them mainly by reading books.
He begins by doing little else than reading, and after he has prepared himself by three years’ study, still, he has to, almost every day, read more about some new questions which he has to answer.
The power to use books, then, is a special skill which a would-be lawyer ought to possess. He ought to have enough flexibility（灵活性）to make it easy for him to collect ideas from printed words. He ought to have some readiness to find what a book contains, and something of an instinct（直觉）for where to look for what he wants.
But although this is the power which he will first feel in need of, it is not the most important. A lawyer does not study law to recite it; he studies it to use it and act upon the rules which he has learned in real life. His business is to try cases in court and to advise people what to do in order to keep out or get out of trouble.
小题1:The first thing a law student has to do is to _______.

A．read books	B．hand over money
C．practice law	D．answer questions

小题2:The major business of a lawyer is ________.

A．to discuss the material he has read

B．to advise people who have law problems

C．to learn about real life

D．to study the law

小题3:What is the most important to a lawyer?

A．To possess a lot of books.

B．To have enough flexibility when collecting ideas from printed words.

C．To be able to quickly find out what a book contains.

D．To be able to use his book knowledge in the right way in his future business.

小题4:According to the passage, a good lawyer should know how to ________.

A．understand and use what he reads

B．be effective in everything

C．collect ideas from different sources

D．be effective in court