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A father told us about his nine-year-old daughter who had developed a passion for horse. One day she asked him
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he would buy her a horse. He said it
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some effort not to tell her that it was impossible because of money and space.
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,he said,
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So you wish you could have a horse of your
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.Tell me about it.
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Then he listened as she went
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long detail about how she’d feed her horse and groom him and take him
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rides every day. Just talking about her
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to him seemed to be enough for her. She never pressed him
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to buy the horse. But after that conversation, She took books out of the library
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horses, drew sketches of horses, and started saving part of her allowance to buy land one day for her horse. A few years later she
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for a job helping out at a local stable, where she traded her services for occasional rides.
B.
根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。
The first person stood up and told a very funny joke about an Englishman who fell in love with his umbrella. When he finished, he was in tears
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laughter, for he always laughed at his own jokes. The
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of the group remained dead silent. You could tell from their faces and their eyes
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they found the joke funny, but not one of them was going to laugh, and give
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the chance to win the competition. The second told a story
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a three-legged pig, which was so good that, some years later, a film company
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a cartoon of it. When she sat down, the others
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their faces in their handkerchiefs, coughed, pretended to sneeze,
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pencils under the table
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anything to cover
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their laughter. And so it went on, joke after joke, the sort of
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that make your sides ache. And nobody dared to laugh.
V.
根据所学课文内容完成下列句子。（本大题共
10
小题，每小题
2
分，共
20
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81.According to Dr. Applebaum, the cruelest lie of all on TV is
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