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sent me word you would give me a home and be a kind mother to me. I have never forgotten the day when I made the long journey to your house. I can still recall my disappointment when, instead of coming for me yourself, you sent your servant James to fetch me.
I well remember my tears and anxiety as I rode off to my new home. Night fell before we finished the journey, and as it grew dark I became lonely and afraid. “Do you think she’ll go to bed before we get there?” I asked James anxiously. “Oh, no, ” he said reassuringly. “She’ll stay up for you. When we get out of these woods you’ll see her candle shining in the window. ”
Presently we did ride out into the clearing, and there, sure enough, was your candle. I remember you were waiting at the door, that you put your arms close about me and that you lifted me — a tired little boy — down from the horse. You had a fire burning on the hearth, a hot supper waiting on the stove. After supper you took me to my new room, heard me say my prayers, and then sat beside me until I fell asleep.
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You probably realized why I am recalling all this to your memory. Some day soon God will send for you, to take you to a new home. Don’t fear the summons (召唤) , the strange journey, or the dark messenger of death who will fetch you. God can be trusted to do as much for you as you were kind enough to do for me so many years ago. At the end of the road you will find love and a welcome waiting, and you will be safe in God’s care. I shall watch you and pray for you till you are out of sight, and then wait for the day when I shall make the journey myself and find you waiting at the end of the road to greet me.
21．John Todd’s aunt wrote to him thirty-five years later because_____________.
A．he was a doctor and could cure her illness B．she wanted him at her side when she died C．he was a minister and was used to comforting dying people
D．she was afraid that she would die
22．When recalling what happened thirty-five years ago, John Todd expressed a feeling of_____________. A．anxiety B．appreciation
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C．regret D．sadness
23．John Todd has never forgotten the day when he arrived in North Killingworth, because_____________. A．he was to have a home
B．he was left alone in the world
C．he was so disappointed to see his aunt’s servant to meet him, rather than his aunt
D．he liked his aunt, but didn’t like her servant 24．John Todd compared death to_____________. A．a warning from God B．a nightmare
C．a journey home to God D．a frightening story
25．We can infer from the passage that John Todd’s aunt would _____________ after reading his letter. A．feel even more
frightened B．feel even more depressed
C．get much relieved of the fear of death D．get cured
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【答案】21．D 22．B 23．A 24．C 25．C Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
What happens when employees have access to their company’s financial information over an intranet (a netword inside the company)? The company grows. There was widespread fear and worry in our company when we decided to put all our financial information, including salaries, on our wide area network (WAN) in 1987 and then on our intranet in the early ’90s. People feared our competitors would get the numbers and use them against us — to scare our customers, steal our employees, or attempt some other unimaginably horrible tricks. But that has never happened. And I don’t believe it will.
Back in 1968, when I started my company, now an $ 11-million engineering-design firm, out of my house in Blacksburg, Virginia, my wife did the books. Later an employee took them over. As we added employees here and there, we saw no reason to keep
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any secrets. We just left the books open wherever they were last used. It wasn’t until a business writer told me, “Oh that’s what we call open-book management, ” that I knew there was a name for what we did and that it was something unusual. As we grew and opened five branch offices — three in Virginia, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina — this casual system was no longer possible. But we knew we wanted to continue the open style. I can’t say we’re always more profitable because of OBM; we have the same ups and downs as our competitors. And I can’t say we are always happier; we have the same quarrels as in other workplaces. But we do have a great deal of trust here, and our employees stick with us. When we have tough financial times, our 170 employees know that nobody ’s drawing off money from the company for private purposes and that they’ve got to make the pie bigger if they’re going to get a bigger price. 26．From the passage we can learn that_____________. A．most business firms have adopted OBM B．it was very unusual for business firms to make known their financial information
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