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.
小題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
小題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
小題3:After her father died, the flowers in the hands of Goldie Belle Taylor_______.
A．usually change
B．were stolen
C．a(chǎn)re no longer fresh
D．come from a criminal
小題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?

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:B
文章主要講述了在墓地中的Goldie手中的花不斷變化，講述了這個故事，并告訴了我們原因。
小題1:D 考察代詞。根據(jù)上文的she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers可知這里的that就是指Goldie Belle always holds flowers.
小題2:C 推理題。根據(jù)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?yàn)榕隽薳lderberry juice而死亡，那么elderberry juice就是有毒的。
小題3:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)Her flowers are different per season可知她的花是隨著季節(jié)而變化的，是不同的。故A正確
小題4:B 主旨大意題。文章主要講述了在一個墓地中的Goldie手中的花不斷變化，講述了這個故事，并告訴了我們原因。
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