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as listening to Paddock‟s speech at his school. C. When he was watching Paddock running in the Olympics. D. After he talked to Charles Riley, his junior high track coach. 59. When the boy shared his dream with his coach, the coach . A. didn‟t think much of it B. considered it impossible for him to realize it C. offered him some useful advice D. listed some difficulties that he might meet with 60. To the boy, the greatest difficulty in achieving his dream might be that . A. he didn‟t have a strong ladder B. he couldn‟t get support from his coach C. he couldn‟t afford the training D. he was looked down upon as a black 61. What can we learn about Jesse Owens from the passage? A. Gerald Ford gave him freedom in the year of 1976. B. The name of a street in Berlin was changed to honor him. C. Two German postage stamps have been issued in honor of him. D. Adolph Hitler awarded him a gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. C Do you think telling lies, whether a little or a lot, isn‟t that big of a deal? Well, that depends on the situation. If someone asks, “Does this dress make me look fat?” we might all lie somewhat. We might say, “Of course not. You look great.” Lying to spare someone‟s feelings is one thing. Lying to destroy someone‟s character or fame is another. “What‟s really terrible is that you can‟t undo a big lie,” says a minister we‟ll call Man. “I promise if you go house to house to say, „I feel terrible I wrongly accused my neighbor of stealing,‟ the lie will spread like a fire fueled by gasoline. You can‟t call back a lie very easily.” Man goes on to say that lies have hurt people more than guns. “We have a grandfather in our church whose former soninlaw told people the man treated his own children cruelly,” Man says. “To this day, we don‟t know whether it is true or not. I would tend to doubt it, but I can‟t take a chance, especially if he is working with young people in our church.” Disarming someone who lies is tough. It‟s like disarming someone who‟s prepared to fire. That‟s why our society is full of people who are forced to cover up the lies of other people. “I worked with a man who was stealing money from our employer,” says a man we‟ll call Fred. “He was so good at lying and doctoring the books (做假账 ) that it would have taken an FBI agent to stop him. I worried, „If I turned him in, and he got out of the trouble, my career at our pany would e to an end.‟” Fred says he came up with a plan to drop hints (暗示 ) to the pany owner. “I found printed materials on monitoring possibly dishonest employees. I started mailing them to the pany owner without leaving my name. Then one day, over lunch, I told my boss he should have the books checked carefully. He got the hint.” Fred told us that when the books were checked, the dishonest coworker tried to blame him for the errors. However, Fred told the pany owner he had been dropping hints for some time. The boss got the picture. Fred kept his job. The dishonest guy was fired. Figuring out how to make a liar public takes work. It can be done, but you might have to move at the pace of a turtle. The slower you move, the more control you will have. You have to give others time to take in the truth. 62. The underlined phrase “spare someone‟s feelings” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by . A. destroy someone‟s feelings B. avoid hurting someone C. put someone in a bad mood D. express someone‟s ideas 63. Which of the following can be used to conclude Paragraph 2? A. It‟s no use crying over spilt milk. B. Every man has his faults. C. There is no smoke without fire. D. Pride goes before a fall. 64. How does the author develop this passage? A. By listing numbers. B. By making parisons. C. By giving examples. D. By following order of time. 65. What can we know from the passage? A. It was true that the grandfather treated his own children cruelly. B. It is not difficult to persuade a dishonest man into telling the truth. C. Fred‟s boss believed the dishonest employee‟s words and fired Fred. D. To make a liar public, we should figure out effective ways in advance. D There are four pearl dealers in our town of La Paz. About a week after my father had cut the pearl, the four men came to our home. They came early in the afternoon, dressed in their best black suits and carrying a scale and calipers (卡尺 ) and their money in a bag. When word got around that the dealers were going to buy the great black pearl, a crowd followed them and stood outside our gate. The four men wore serious faces and they put their scale and calipers on the table and their brown bag as well. They sat down and folded their hands and said nothing. Then my father said. “The bag is very small, gentlemen. I doubt that it holds enough money to buy the great Pearl of Heaven.” The four dealers did not like this. One of them, named Martin, was big and shaped like a barrel and had small white hands. “I have heard that the pearl is the size of a grapefruit,” he said, “If so, we have more money than we need. For as you know, the large ones are of little value.” “They do not live long, these monsters,” said Palomares, who was as fat as Martin. “They often die or bee dull before a year passes.” “And so do many of the small ones,” my father said. “Like the pink one Palomares sold us last month.” Palomares shrugged his shoulders. “Before I show the Pearl of Heaven,” my father said, “I will tell you the price. It is twenty thousand pesos, no more and no less.” My father went out of the room and came back with the pearl wrapped in a piece of white velvet. He laid it on the table in front of the four dealers. The great pearl caught the light, gathered it and softened it into a moon of dark fi。