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When I was eight, I had to cross a crime-filled neighborhood to school. Nobody got involved when there was a__41    ,not even if a killing was happening directly across from our  42  :"What's that, Mom? Someone is screaming！""Turn off the light！ Stay  43  I Keep your voice down!" Mom would    44  .     Usually,1 would see other girls that I knew, and I would catch up and we would  45 together.     Along this route was an old grey house with a    46  .  It never caught my attention   47    a kind and lovely elderly lady    48    us with a musical voice and a smile. "Look in my apple tree!" she said. "Do you see the Cedar Waxwings?" Well, I had never known what the    49  was called.  My friends and l would,    50  ,look for the old lady to see if she was    51  .She had taken this little yard and made it a small paradise of flower beds: s0    52    that she probably had lived there for many years. She enjoyed our frequent visits and told us all kinds of things about birds and nature. We    53    to love her.     But one day, we didn't   54    her. Though we looked, there was never a    55    0f her: her garden began to look    56    and the greyness of the house seemed to take over the colorful mood. One of us    57    to open the gate and knocked at the door, but the dear old woman would never greet us again. It was to be my first experience with death, though I didn’t know it then, a death to my childhood  58   ．     Every time I    59    a bird, especially a Cedar Waxwing,I think of her.  Every time I face a hardship, I remember her grace and dignity. Her    60    in the old house made it beautiful.     41.A. gathering    B. celebration    C. murder    D. crime     42.A. school    B. house    C. neighborhood    D. town     43.A. awake    B. low    C. asleep    D. active     44.A. reply    B. shout    C. announce    D. whisper     45.A. walk    B. play    C .fight    D. study     46.A. view    B. pond    C .yard    D. mystery      47.A. until    B. when    C. because    D. where     48.A. begged    B.  treated    C. ordered    D.  greeted     49.A. fruit    B. tree    C. bird    D .flower     50.A. once a year    B. every school day  C. occasionally    D.  rarely     51.A. gardening    B. smiling    C .reading    D. watchlng     52.A. old-fashioned  B .established    C .tidy    D. large     53.A. agreed    B. expected    C. tried    D. grew     54.A. visit    B. miss    C. see    D. love     55. A. sign    B .story    C. memory    D .photo     56. A. fresh    B. wild    C. dirty    D .green     57.A. promised    B. planned    C .threatened    0.dared     58.A. pleasure    B.  innocence    C.  independence    D.  friendship     59.A. admire    B .draw    C. keep    D. catch 60.A. death    B.  Labor    C. presence    D. Interest 答案：DBBDA CADCB ABDCA  BDBAC

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