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I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work. I read it, and I couldn't believe it, and I read it again. Then perhaps I just stared at it, at the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness which roared(隆隆響) outside.

It was not to be believed and I kept telling myself that, as I walked from the subway station to the high school. And at the same time I couldn't doubt it. I was scared, scared for Sonny. He became real to me again. A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long, while I taught my classes algebra. It was a special kind of ice. It kept melting, sending trickles(涓涓細流)of ice water all up and down my veins(血管), but it never got less. Sometimes it hardened and seemed to expand until I felt my heart was going to come spilling(溢出) out or that I was going to choke or scream. This would always be at a moment when I was remembering some specific thing Sonny had once said or done.

When he was about as old as the boys in my classes his face had been bright and open; and he'd had wonderfully direct brown eyes, and great gentleness. I wondered what he looked like now. He had been picked up, the evening before, in a sudden search on an apartment down-town, for selling and using heroin.

I couldn't believe it: but what I mean by that is that I couldn't find any room for it anywhere inside me. I had kept it outside me for a long time. I hadn't wanted to know. I had had suspicions(懷疑), but I didn't name them, I kept putting them away. I told myself that Sonny was wild, but he wasn't crazy. And he'd always been a good boy, he hadn't ever turned hard or evil or disrespectful, the way kids can, so quick, so quick, especially in Harlem. I didn't want to believe that I'd ever see my brother going down, coming to nothing, all that light in his face gone out, in the condition I'd already seen so many others.

67. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refers to ____.

    A. the swinging light of the subway car     B. the news of Sonny’s being arrested

   C. everything trapped in the darkness        D. newspaper

68. We can learn from the passage that ____.

   A. the news on the paper was unbelievable.

   B. I was too scared to believe the news

   C. I was ill because a great block of ice was in my belly

   D. Sonny and I hadn’t seen each other for a long time

69. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

   A. Sonny and I were brothers.

   B. Sonny had always been a good boy before being arrested.

   C. I didn’t care about Sonny.

   D. Many young men turned bad in Harlem.

70. Which of the following can best describe the author’s feelings towards Sonny?

   A. Concern, affection, expectation.             B. Concern, hatred, expectation.

   C. Affection, regret, sympathy.                   D. Regret, understanding, sympathy.

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