Tolstoy, the greatest Russian writer, liked to walk about in a railway station near his home. One day when he was walking up and down as ___1___, looking at people getting on and off the trains, he heard a lady __2___ after him, “Hey, you old man, go and bring back my handbag I left in the __3___ room.”
Tolstoy went there. He picked the bag up and walked quickly along the platform (站臺). At the same time the lady was waiting beside the carriage (車廂), looking __4___. When at last the old man gave the bag back to her, she opened it to make sure nothing was __5___. “ Good, old man,” said the woman. “ You are just as quick as I can __6___. Here you are. ” She gave a coin to him. Tolstoy __7__ the coin and put it into his pocket with a smile.
The woman was very _8__ when she heard he was Tolstoy, the writer of the great novel
War and Peace. She returned to Tolstoy and said, “ Oh, excuse me ….. Oh, how silly I was to __9__ you as a porter (搬運工). Please throw back that coin if you forgive me.”
“Oh, madam, why? You have nothing wrong,” Tolstoy laughed and said, “ The coin is given for my work, so I’ll __10___ it. Thank you, madam! ”
【小題1】 | A.possible | B.often | C.usual | D.well |
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【小題2】 | A.talking | B.speaking | C.telling | D.shouting |
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【小題3】 | A.reading | B.meeting | C.waiting | D.dining |
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【小題4】 | A.happy | B.back | C.well | D.worried |
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【小題5】 | A.there | B.inside | C.missing | D.wrong |
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【小題7】 | A.showed | B.watched | C.accepted | D.picked |
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【小題8】 | A.angry | B.surprised | C.happy | D.sad |
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