One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me....

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One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me. She had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed something more difficult for him to do. “Could you help me in the library?” she asked. I said, “Send him along.”
Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. “Do you have a job for me?” he asked. I told him about a system for sorting books. He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards for some unreturned books that I thought had been returned but not recorded. Maybe some books were put on wrong places. He said, “Is it a kind of a detective（侦探）job?” I answered yes, and then began his work.
He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and said, “Time for rest!” he argued for finishing the finding job, but the teacher won.
The next morning, he arrived early, “I want to finish these books,” he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to work with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.
After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boy’s home. At the end of a pleasant evening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to another school. Her son’s first concern, she said, was leaving the library. “Who will find the lost books?” he asked. When the time came, it was hard to say goodbye. Though at the beginning he had seemed an ordinary boy, his strong feeling of interest had made him different.
    Do you know who he is? This boy became a great man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.
1). Why did the teacher go to the library to find a job for Bill Gates?
A.  Because the teacher found the librarian quite busy.
B. Because Bill Gates wanted to find a job.
C. Because Bill Gates finished his study quickly and had more free time than the others.
D.  Because the library needed a new worker.
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2). What do you know from the passage?
A. Library work was very difficult for Bill Gates.
B.
Bill Gates did his job without any difficulty.
C. The librarian was too busy to have a rest.
D. His mother hoped that Bill Gates would stay for his job.
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3). The sentence “He picked up the idea immediately” means that ______.
A. he learned that system quickly
B. he collected that system quickly
C. he lifted up that system quickly
D. he improved that system quickly
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4). What was Bill Gates expected to do in the library?
A. Finding the lost cards.
B. Learning the system.
C. Helping the worker with everything in the library.
D. Finding books with wrong cards.
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5). How did Bill Gates feel when his family would move to another school area?
A.  Sad.
B. Pleasant.
C. Worried.
D.  Interested.
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2.  
When I begin to look back on all friends whom I have had, I quickly came to the conclusion that Jerry was the most important and had the greatest effect upon my life. His family moved to my block when I was only 10. Jerry was 15 at the time, but the fact that he was so much older than me seemed to make no difference to him. I was very glad that he liked me. We took long walks together, on which he would tell me stories he had heard form TV and radio programs.
But as months went by, a change came into our friendship. Jerry almost stopped coming by the house, and every time I went to his house or telephoned, he put me off with some excuses such as “I’m studying now” or “I’ve got some jobs to do for Mum”. When we passed on the street, he would still give me a warm smile and friendly wave with a “Hi, kid”, but he would hardly ever stop to talk. Finally I realized that he was no longer interested in me and that his taste had changed. I noticed him with a girl once in a while and several times saw him going out in his family’s car on a Friday or Saturday night. I simply couldn’t understand what was so great about girls and parties.
    But I was hurt when he finally made me know that our friendship was at an end. Of course he didn’t really mean to hurt me, but it was a long time before I realized that it was an age problem that caused the break. There were a world of differences between the ideas and interests of a 17-year-old and a 12-year-old. Now that I’m over sixteen myself, I realized this, and the hurt I got then has become happy memories of the good times we were once together. I wonder if millions of other boys and girls have had a similar experience.
1). When the writer and Jerry first met, Jerry was ______.
A. 10 years old
B. 5 years older than the writer
C. of the same age as the writer

D. the writer’s classmate
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2). Their friendship lasted for ______.
A. a few years
B. a few weeks
C. a few months
D. a few hours
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3).  Jerry stopped playing with the writer because ______.
A. the writer had changed
B. he was busy with his study
C. he has some jobs to do
D. he was not interested in the writer
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4). When a change came in their friendship, the writer ______.
A.
accepted it at once
B. couldn’t understand his friend for a long time
C. stopped visiting his friend
D. started going to parties with girls
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5). The main idea of the passage is that ______.
A. the age difference plays a part in friendship
B. friendship is the most important thing for children
C. many boys and girls have a similar experience as the writer
D. “friends are made in wine and tested in tears”
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