江苏开放大学 大学英语(A)(专) 形 成 性 考 核2(4)

江苏开放大学 大学英语(A)(专)形 成 性 考 核 2

III. Reading Comprehension（每小题 2 分，共 30 分）

Passage one

Bill and Barri Hamiilton didn’t imagine they would make their home at an old school house someday. Then one day they drove to Martindala, a small town, located in the east of San Marcos, Texas, south-west of the U.S.A. They came for an old German car. Bill has a business of buying and selling old cars. They found the Martindale school-house and fell in love with is. It was forsale and they wanted to buy it. It was for sale and they wanted to buy it. Some Martindale residents were worried that they would buy their beloved schoolhouse, but the Hamiltons say the feel like its doorkeeper and love the old school.

At last they bought it, They built a garden and a swimming pool behind the house. They built two kitchens, three bathrooms, four toilets, four drawing- rooms and eight bedrooms inside it. They even had a dancing-hall in the central part of the house. They repaired the playground as well. They made the old schoolhouse into their comfortable home. Most important, the schoolhouse looks almost the same it was before.

Small-town life, especially living in an old school , might seem an unusual choice for the Hamltons. She works for a company and he recently retired. Before coming to Martindale, they enjoyed the good life in their beautiful, four-bedroom home in the city.

So they started their new country life. Barri Hamilton says she and her husband have made many friends in Martindale. She didn’t make so many friends though she had lived in Houston for 30 years.

Still, the Hamiltons care about their newcomer status. Barri says that, for some residents, buying the school was a “sensitive thing”, since so many had educated there, “it’s important that Bill and I explain to everybody that we fell like doorkeeper of this school, and that we’ll leave it in better shape when we are gone than when we found it.” 1、Bill and Barri are _________. A、friends B、a couple

C、business partners（伙伴）

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