Two traveling angles stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angles stay in the mansion’s guestroom. Instead the angles were given a small space in the cold basement. As they made their bed in the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angle asked why, the older angle replied, “Things aren’t always what they seem.”
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing the little food they had the couple let the angles sleep in their bed where they could have a good night’s rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angles found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field. The younger angle was infuriated and asked the older angle how he could have let this happen. “The first man had everything, yet you helped him,” he accused. “The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die”.
“Things aren’t always what they seem,” the older angle replied. “when we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn’t find it.”
“Then last night as we slept in the farmer’s bed, the angle of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren’t always what they seem.”
小題1:What's the best title of the passage?
A．Two Angles Spread Love
B．Things Aren’t Always What They Seem
C．The Rich And The Poor
D．Tales of Angles
小題2:In paragraph 2, the underlined word “infuriated” most probably means ___________.
A．a(chǎn)musedB．a(chǎn)ngryC．puzzledD．disappointed
小題3:According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?
A．In the home of the wealthy family, the older angle put some gold into a hole in the wall.
B．In the home of the poor family, the older angle killed their cow.
C．The younger angle agreed with what the older angle did at first.
D．The angle of death is in charge of humans’ death.

小題1:B          
小題1:B
小題1:D
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·Get a group of friends together and go exploring. You’ll need a good map, a compass(指南針), a raincoat, a cellphone to call for help in case you get lost, and a bit of spare cash for emergencies. Tell someone where you’re going before you set out and let them know what time you expect to be back. The test is not in getting lost, not in seeing how fast you can go, so always stick together, waiting for slower friends to catch up.
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A．To get information when in danger.
B．To be saved in case of an accident.
C．To share the fun with him/her in exploration.
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A．make people work fastB．help people stay healthy
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