Question

People have been burying the dead at Salem’s Hope Cemetery since 1833. The place is filled with old gravestones and gothic mausoleums(哥特式陵墓), the spirits of the dead hanging over the land like an early morning fog.

Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that.

“And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the Italian made statue, which today marks her grave.

At first, it was her father who brought the flowers and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal.

It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s statue.

1.The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably refers to________.

A. her face in good condition     

B. her bunch of pink roses

C. Goldie Belle Taylor is holding pink roses 

D. Goldie Belle Taylor always holds flowers

2.It can be inferred from the third paragraph __________.

A. her father was poisonous       

B. the iron kettle was poisonous

C. elderberry juice was poisonous  

D. it was her father that hated her

3.After her father died, the flowers in the hands of Goldie Belle Taylor_______.

A. usually change               

B. were stolen

C. are no longer fresh            

D. come from a criminal

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. A fairy brings the flowers.      

B. The mystery of Goldie’s flowers.

C. What happens to the girl?       

D. How do the flowers get there?

Answer

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.B

【解析】文章主要讲述了在墓地中的Goldie手中的花不断变化，讲述了这个故事，并告诉了我们原因。

1.D 考察代词。根据上文的she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers可知这里的that就是指Goldie Belle always holds flowers.

2.C  推理题。根据In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning.可知她是因为碰了elderberry juice而死亡，那么elderberry juice就是有毒的。

3.A 细节题。根据Her flowers are different per season可知她的花是随着季节而变化的，是不同的。故A正确

4.B 主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了在一个墓地中的Goldie手中的花不断变化，讲述了这个故事，并告诉了我们原因。