About a hundred people lived in a very small mountain village. It was very  1  from the other villages and towns. They had few friends and they got bad harvest (收成). And  2  ever left the village. Of course there wasn't electricity (电)  3  gas (煤油) here.

    Once a writer  4  the village. The backwardness (落后) of the village surprised him. He decided  5  about it to the world. So he took the oldest villager to London. The old man told all about his home village to the people. Several months 6   he returned. All the villagers went to see him and asked him  7  he had enjoyed the time in the city.

    "Everything is wonderful in  8  , "the old man said, "I visited many good places and ate all kinds of nice food and other things. But the trouble was that I could not 9  at night. "

    "What happened to you? "his wife asked.

"The  10  was on in my bedroom all the time." 

"Why not blow it out(吹灭), then? "

    "I tried--but it was inside a little glass box. "

1. A. close            B. far             C. near                D. high

2. A. anybody         B. somebody        C. everybody        D. nobody

3. A. and             B. or              C. but              D. so

4. A. visited          B. lived              C. stayed               D. got

5. A. to write                B. write             C. writing             D. wrote

6. A. after            B. before         C. soon            D. later

7. A. what             B. why                  C. how              D. when

8. A. town                B. mountain        C. village                  D. London

9. A. sleep           B. help             C. walk                   D. see    

10. A. window        B. radio          C. light                D. TV

People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944, when she acted in the movie National Velvet — the story of Velvet Brown, a young girl who won first place in a famous horse race. At first, the producers of the movie told Elizabeth Taylor that she was too short to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for four months until three inches (英寸) added to her height. Elizabeth Taylor’s acting in National Velvet is still considered to be the best and National Velvet became Elizabeth Taylor’s first success.
Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved to London for business. When World War II started, the Taylors moved to California, where Elizabeth Taylor started acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Elizabeth Taylor had no trouble moving into adult roles and won the Academy Award twice for Best Actress for her performance in Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (1966).
Elizabeth Taylor is a legend (传奇人物) of our time. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, Elizabeth Taylor was very lucky, and she was hard-working, beautiful, famous and rich. When Elizabeth Taylor got older, she seldom acted in movies. Instead, she spent most of time on her business, and she often helped others. Several years ago, she raised more than $40 million for research and education. In March, 2011, Elizabeth Taylor died at the age of 79.
【小题1】The producers didn’t let Taylor play the part of Velvet at first because ______.

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Once there was a rich man in a village. He never gave anything to help   42 . The villagers didn’t like him. One day he said to them, “I know you don’t like me. I will give everything I have    43  you when I die. Then everyone will be happy.”
But nobody   44  him. The rich man couldn’t understand why they didn’t believe him. One day he went for a walk by a lake. Under a big tree he happened to hear a pig and a cow   45.   The pig   46  to the cow, “Why everyone likes you and nobody likes me? After I die. I provide people with pork, ham, etc. I give three or four things to them. But you give    47  one thing—milk. Why do people like you all the time and not me?”
The cow said, “Look, I give them milk while I’m   48 . They see that I’m generous(慷慨的) with what I have. But you don’t give them anything before you die. You give them ham, pork and so on only after you’re dead. People don’t believe in the   49 ; they believe in the present. If you give something   50 you are living, people will like you. It is quite simple.”
From that moment on, the rich man did his  51  to help the poor.

The villagers used to______ drinking water from the river nearby, but now they spend two hours _______ to get it in the mountain because of the dry weather in Yunnan.