Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a very
1 woman. She didn’t buy many jewels(珠宝)or
2 clothes.
3 , she spent millions in
4 a house. She began to do it at the age of 45. The strange thing about Sarah’s 5 was that it seemed never finished. The work on the house went on for 38
6 because Sarah was afraid to
7 building it.
Sarah’s house was near San Jose. Every day, a lot of
8 arrived there to work for her. Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows,
9 the workers kept on building them. The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 200 doors and 1,000
10 . There were also three lifts, nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces.
Why did Sarah want a house that kept getting
11 ? It was because Sarah was afraid of
12 . She thought she would die when the house was finished, so she didn’t want her house to be finished.
Sarah Winchester’s
13 seemed to have worked
14 she lived to be 83 years old. But
15 , her house was finished.
| 小题1: | | A．poor | B．rich | C．useful | D．brave |
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| 小题2: | | A．cheap | B．expensive | C．simple | D．old |
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| 小题3: | | A．Still | B．Usually | C．Instead | D．Even |
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| 小题4: | | A．building | B．buying | C．selling | D．setting |
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| 小题5: | | A．door | B．window | C．kitchen | D．house |
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| 小题6: | | A．years | B．months | C．weeks | D．days |
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| 小题7: | | A．keep | B．enjoy | C．stop | D．help |
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| 小题8: | | A．drivers | B．workers | C．farmers | D．visitors |
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| 小题10: | | A．floors | B．kitchens | C．windows | D．rooms |
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| 小题11: | | A．bigger | B．smaller | C．stronger | D．cleaner |
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| 小题12: | | A．working | B．dying | C．living | D．growing |
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| 小题13: | | A．age | B．family | C．plan | D．husband |
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| 小题14: | | A．or | B．because | C．neither | D．nor |
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| 小题15: | | A．hardly | B．usefully | C．carefully | D．finally |
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