MRS Flowers was one of the few gentlewomen I have ever known. One summer afternoon, she stopped at our store to buy food. Mom said: “Sister Flowers, I’ll send Bailey up to your house with these things.”
    “Thank you, Mrs Henderson. I’d prefer Marguerite, though.” My name sounded so beautiful when she said it. “I've been meaning to talk to her, anyway.”
     There was a path beside the rocky road, and Mrs Flowers walked ahead of me.Without turning her head, she spoke to me: “I hear you’re working very well in school, Marguerite, but only in written assignments. The teachers report that they have trouble getting you to talk in class.” “Language is mankind’s way of communicating with our fellow men, and it is language alone, which separates us from the lower animals.” That was a totally new idea to me, and I would need time to think about it.
    “Your grandmother says you read a lot ---every chance you get. That’s good, but not good enough. Words mean more than what is set down on paper...”

    She said she was going to give me some books and that I must not only read them, but read them aloud. She suggested that I should make a sentence sound in as many different ways as possible.
    She brought a thick, small book from the bookcase. It was A Tale of Two Cities. She opened the book, started reading and I heard poetry for the first time in my life. “It was the best of times and the worst of time...” Her voice curved through and around the words. She was almost singing.

   61. Mrs Flowers preferred the author to send what she bought home mainly because __________.

      A. she knew the author better than Bailey
      B. she wanted to have a chat with the author
      C. she wanted to invite the author over for some snacks
      D. she wanted to help the author with her written tasks
   62. According to the article, the author ______.
      A. didn’t work hard in school
      B. was not active enough in class
      C. liked to talk with her classmates in class
      D. got along well with her teachers and classmates
   63. On the way back home, Mrs Flowers ______.
      A. tried to persuade the author to talk with her
      B. recommended some popular books to the author
      C. encouraged the author to interact more with others
      D. convinced the author of the importance of reading
   64. We can infer from the article that Mrs Flowers ______.
      A. is a kind-hearted and humorous teacher
      B. attaches more importance to written English than oral English
      C. believes reading literary works aloud helps people better understand them
      D. thinks reading classic literary works helps people communicate better

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I’ve often had difficulty remembering names. Proper nouns seldom found easy purchase in my brain unless I consciously repeat them over and over again. Needless to say, when people leave my life their names are often soon forgotten. This can have some embarrassing consequences.
Five or six years after high school graduation, I was reading carefully the shelves of a local auto supply shop when I noticed someone familiar enter the store. I knew him. He was in my graduation class and although he was not a good friend of mine, we had shared many classes and knew each other well. I began to feel an increasing sense of foreboding（預(yù)感）and quickly hid behind the nearest shelving unit. I should have known his name. How many times had I heard it during class role call? How many conversations had we had in the hallways?
I easily remembered his surname, “Ricca”. His was a large, well know family in the town of my childhood. I couldn’t have just acknowledged him using his surname. I might as well have admitted forgetting his name, which was not a choice. One’s name is important to every person’s identity. Not remembering an old acquaintance’s name is similar to forgetting your wife’s favourite flower, an embarrassing mistake of the highest order.
I quickly ran through the alphabet (字母表), a strategy I developed for just such an occasion. Abe? No, Adam, Andy, Bob? No, Bill? Yes! Bill sounded right. Of course, his name is Bill. I confidently made my way around the shelves and spoke to him as he was studying some cans of motor oil.
“Bill, how are you doing?”, I said offering him my hand which he took with a friendly shake. We talked a bit, some amusing remarks about our college experiences and such. I took his hand again, said how good it was to see him and gave him a happy wave, calling him by name again, as I left.
I was so pleased that I avoided yet another awkward encounter(相遇) that I could feel a big smile on my face as I paid the cashier and exited the store. As I marched merrily across the parking lot, an awful thought came into my mind. John, his name is John! Where did Bill come from? Was that one of my brothers? The sudden realization of what I did made me stop in my tracks. My head dropped when I realized my mistake. There was no way Mrs. Ricca would name one of her sons “Bill”. “Billerica” was the name of a town just north of Boston.
【小題1】Which one can show the charge of the writer’s feelings?
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A．Forgetting your wife’s favourite flower is a very serious mistake.
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