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    4．What would be the best title of the article ? A．Teenagers today B．A special day C．My view on teenagers D．An exciting experience B It was on January 24, 1848, that James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the territory of California . The news spread quickly . Thousands rushed west . By 1894 , the great gold was in full swing . Towns and cities sprang up overnight . One year later , California had enough people to be taken into the Union as a state . Throughout the territory , thousands searched for gold . Bedises food and blankets they had picks and pans . Some found veins of mountain rock thick with gold . These men got rich . Others “panned for gold in the mountain streams , They were looking for the leftovers . They searched for chunks of gold that the rains had washed down from above . Panning was the only way to find gold . One put dirt in a pan and added water . Then the pan was swished around so that the water could wash the dirt . Slowly , the water was poured out of the pan . Each one hoped that the place he claimed “panned out well --that is , turned up gold . The word California gold rush the miners turned to farming and ranching . Some left for the state of Colorado where gold also had been discovered . For many , gold mining did not “pan out . For a few , it panned out well . But in time , huge machines were built that could wash many tons of dirt at a time , “Panning died out . The word , however , remained in the language . Today , Americans still say , “It panned out well , when something they have done pleases them . In recent years , “pan has taken on another meaning . Today , it also means to criticize . How it got this meaning is hard to discover . But critics are always “panning some writer , artist or singer . Sometimes , critics may pan a movie or play so severly that no one will go to see it . This can also happen to a book , if critics pan it strongly enough , There have been times , however , when a play became highly successful , even though most of the critics panned it without mercy .The pans should have made the play a washout . But , as actors have pointed out , sometimes a critic’s pan surprisingly turns up gold . 【查看更多】

     

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    　　I can't count how many times people have complained, while shaking their heads in obvious disappointment, “just don't know what is with teenagers today.”

    　　The other day I was in my car on my way to the farmers market when I passed two teens standing by the side of the road with a car wash sign. My car was filthy and my heart was full, so I pulled over. There was a group directing the cars and another group spraying them down. As sponges (海绵) were wiped over every square inch of my dirty car, I sat enjoying the little water battles. I was amazed at how forteen to fifteen teenagers had devoted their Saturday to washing cars.

    　　After I handed them a twenty-dollar bill I asked what they were raising money for. They explained to me that a friend of theirs, C. T. Schmitz, had recently died of cancer. He was only fifteen years old. He had gone to school with a lot of the teenagers who were there that day and each of them had memories of a boy sweeter than any they had known. His friend Kevin had decided to put this car wash together because he wanted to honor his friend and also bring together his classmates with his boy scout troop (童子军). He told me that they wanted to plant a tree in front of their school and if they raised enough money they would put a plaque(匾) there also. Both would be in memory of their friend C. T.

    　　They handed me a bag of homemade cookies with my receipt (收条) saying “Thanks for helping us plant a tree of C.T.”

    　　Yeah! I don't know what is with teenagers today!

    1．The boys were raising money because they intended to ________.

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    A．buy a plaque for their school

    B．help those who suffered from cancer

    C．plant a tree in memory of their friend

    D．put a plaque near his friend's home

    2．From the passage, we can infer that

    C．T. Schmitz was ________.

    [　　]

    A．kind-hearted but lonely

    B．brave and popular with his classmates

    C．shy and sensitive

    D．a boy you can get a good impression of

    3．What does the underlined word “filthy” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

    [　　]

    A．new
    B．dirty
    C．good - looking
    D．ordinary

    4．What would be the best title of the article?

    [　　]

    A．Teenagers today.

    B．A special day.

    C．My view on teenagers.

    D．An exciting experience.

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