[单项选择]The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by
A. Charles Dickens.
B. Edgar Allen Poe.
C. John Richardson.
D. Henry Savery.

[单项选择]The famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher was written by
[A] Charles Dickens. [B] Edgar Allan Poe.
[C] Washington Irving. [D] Thomas More.

[单项选择]
Who does the story tell us really believed in life after death

[单项选择]What does the story tell us about the old woman
A. She was found stealing in a bookstore.
B. She caught someone in the act of stealing.
C. She admitted having stolen something.
D. She said she was wrongly accused of stealing.

[填空题]The story tells us a lady whose husband had died suffered loneliness.

[单项选择]The story Bob Seelert described tells us that
A. performance can be better performed under standard．
B. work can be exactly done under standard．
C. standard is easily maintained once you set it．

[单项选择]Three weeks ago, a story we published put us in the middle of a controversy. It was hardly the first time that has happened, but this instance suggested an opportunity for more than usual colloquy in the letters pages. So for this occasion and others like it, we have revived a section of TIME called Forum, which begins on page 28, concerns our cover subject this week—the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Parrakhan.
The decision to pursue an in-depth investigation of this subject was prompted by the anti-Semitic and otherwise racist speech that Farrakhan’s aide, Khallid Muhammad, gave at Kean College in New Jersey. The story was newsworthy in large part because it came just as some mainstream black groups were attempting to form a constructive alliance with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. News of the speech loosed a flash flood of reportage and commentary on the subject, and at that time we began the kind of weeks-long investigation a cover story like this one requires. At t
A. a reader
B. a critic
C. a racist
D. editor of TIME

[单项选择]Carter tried to tell us by the story that
A. it is easy to protect tigers in the Himalayas.
B. the local government protected tigers in order to earn money.
C. the local people have the ability to make some difference in protecting the nature.
D. protecting the nature will also bring people economic benefits.

[填空题]The text tells us about the life story of Charles Schulz and popular characters he created in the famous comic strip "Peanuts".

[简答题]19. The house they put us in was ugly,with an ugly yard and a few ugly bushes.
20. Yet our guardians’ efforts to punish us were not always effective.
21. And the clothes we wore were continually pieced;the food we ate was terrible.
22. After our parents’ death, our comfortable life came to an end and we were kept well below the poverty line by our guardians.
23. No more could they put a halt to it than they could keep us.
24. They could keep books out of our hands, restrict our communication with the neighbors’ children by penning us within a wire-net fence.
25. The passionate pleasure we got from soap bubbles, rainbows, holy pictures and spider webs was beyond our guardians’ power of prevention.
26. However, they could not stop us from using our eyes.