Polly wandered over the rough field looking for the smaller potatoes that the pickers had accidentally   1   . She found one, then another, then a handful. She was pleased. They were delicious   2   cooked.   3   she caught sight of something else. It looked like a piece of colored stone. Polly   4   it up and thought how   5   it was. She could see a   6   on it: a picture of a fish and a part of leaf. She scraped（刮除） the soil away around her feet and found that she was standing on   7   seemed to be a piece of pavement（鋪路石）.   8   to another piece of stone was something small and round like a button. She realized it was   9   .

The field was   10   the next morning. A group of distinguished-looking men and women   11   . That evening the local   12   station showed some pictures of the field with Polly pointing to the place.

   13   was proved to be of Roman origin and the discovery was being   14   as the most exciting thing that had happened in the area   15   the end of World War II.

A week later, the excavation（挖掘）was   16   under way. Permission had been given and the “dig”, as it was called, was expected to   17   several months. Polly noticed that so many   18   people around and cars coming and going had made the cows and sheep   19   . Her father said their cows produced less milk.

   20   , it was great fun. They had let her keep the gold coin.

1．A．lost                       B．found                  C．missed                D．got

2．A．once                     B．until                    C．while                  D．though

3．A．And                      B．So                      C．Then                   D．But

4．A．took                     B．picked                 C．got                     D．looked

1,3,5
 
5．A．expensive              B．pretty                  C．funny                  D．heavy

6．A．pattern                  B．photo                  C．model                 D．portrait

7．A．which                   B．what                   C．where                 D．that

8．A．Stuck                   B．Opposite              C．Tired                  D．Similar

9．A．precious stone       B．a(chǎn)n unusual photo  C．a(chǎn) gold button       D．a(chǎn)n old coin

10．A．quiet                   B．moving                C．busy                   D．worrying

11．A．turned up             B．turned out            C．turned back         D．turned round

12．A．railway                B．radio                   C．television             D．police

13．A．He                      B．They                   C．It                        D．She

14．A．found                  B．described             C．written                D．recognized

15．A．by                      B．in                        C．a(chǎn)t                       D．since

16．A．secretly               B．suddenly              C．officially              D．gradually

17．A．keep                   B．cost                    C．spend                  D．last

18．A．strange                B．poor                    C．strong                 D．foreign

19．A．surprise               B．calm                   C．restless               D．homeless

20．A．Besides               B．Even                   C．Therefore            D．Still

1—5  CACBB    6—10  ABADC   11—15  ACCBD                16—20  CDACD

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