The writer Margaret Mitchell, who wrote under the name Peggy Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936.Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started writing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer's life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900.She started writing stories when she was a child. She once worked as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal newspaper. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men towered over her, but she seemed very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains, "Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as 'Would you really marry a woman who works？' And today it'd be ‘Would you marry one who doesn't work？’"

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it "The Dump".

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

【小题1】The book Gone with the Wind was ________.

A．first published in a newspaper

B．awarded ten Academy Awards

C．written in "The Dump"

D．adapted from a movie

【小题2】Which of the following can replace "towered over" underlined in Paragraph 2?

A．Were very pleased with.

B．Showed great respect for.

C．Were much taller than.

D．Showed little interest in.

【小题3】Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?

A．Because she got an award for her book.

B．Because she was injured then.

C．Because her husband didn't like it.

D．Because she wanted to write books.

【小题4】Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success

B．Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer

C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House

D．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell

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【小题1】Most vegetables we buy in winter are planted in ____________________.
【小题2】Some ________ lent me a hand when they saw me fall down.
【小题3】Many countries have sent up ________________ satellites to circle the earth.
【小题4】He would have liked to go to the _________________, but his wife was ill.
【小题5】My sister asked me to think of a name for her lovely ________ baby.
【小题6】The little boy over there is _________________ and cannot tell blue from yellow.
【小题7】By serving the people _________________, Comrade Lei Feng set us a good example.
【小题8】It isn’t only children that like such jokes；________________ are fond of them, too.
【小题9】He worked hard day and night, which led to the _________________ of his health.
【小题10】My neighbors are ____________________ and they are always ready to help people in trouble.

   I was attending a party one night given in Sir Ross's honor. During the dinner, the man sitting next to me told a humorous story and spoke of the quotation:“There's a divinity（神）that shapes our ends, /Rough-hew them how we will. ”

The storyteller mentioned that the quotation was from the Bible. He was wrong. I knew that； I knew it positively. There couldn't be the slightest doubt about it. And so, to get a feeling of importance and show my high quality, I chose myself as an unwelcome person to correct him. He stuck to his guns. “What? From Shakespeare? Impossible! Absurd ! That quotation was from the Bible. ”

The storyteller was sitting at my right hand, and Frank Gammond, an old friend of mine, was seated at my left hand. Mr. Gammond had devoted years to the study of Shakespeare, so the storyteller and I agreed to leave the question to Mr. Gammond. Mr. Gammond listened, kicked me under the table, and then said ,“Dale, you are wrong. The gentleman is right. It is from the Bible. ”

On our way home that night, I said to Mr. Gammond,“Frank, you knew that quotation was from Shakespeare. ”

“Yes, of course,”he replied. “Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2. But we were guests on a festive occasion, my dear Dale. Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save his face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him?”The man who said that taught me a lesson I would never forget. I not only had made the storyteller uncomfortable, but had put my friend in an embarrassing situation. How much better it would have been if I hadn't become argumentative.

Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants（竞争者）more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right. You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it； and if you win it, you lose it.

【小题1】At the party, the author tried to get a feeling of importance by ___________ .

A．telling a humorous story

B．showing off his rich knowledge

C．teaching the storyteller a lesson

D．correcting the storyteller's mistake

【小题2】The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means that ___________ .

A．he realized he was wrong

B．he didn't change his mind

C．he felt sorry for what he said

D．he wanted to fight with the author

【小题3】What do we learn about Frank Gammond?

A．He was very humorous.

B．He was very thoughtful.

C．He knew much about the Bible.

D．He didn't know much about Shakespeare.

【小题4】What does the author learn from his friend Gammond?

A．Having an open mind.

B．Respecting others opinion.

C．Never getting into an argument.

D．Avoiding making mistakes in public.

Grammar
【小题1】The train _______ (leave) at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning.
【小题2】It _______ (get) warmer and warmer.
【小题3】He ____________(总是来晚)，which makes me angry.
【小题4】The concert __________ (start) in a minute.
【小题5】Your homework ____________ (hand) in next morning.
【小题6】When Bob _____ (come), ask him to wait for me.
【小题7】–Look at these black clouds.—It___________(rain)
【小题8】The plane ________(leave) for London.
【小题9】We _____________(leave) when it begins to rain.
【小题10】If I ______ (sleep) when he comes, wake me up, please.

【小题1】Mother always tells me not to___________________________（瞧不起）anyone,even if he is not well educated.
【小题2】I hope Tom will__________________（表现得规矩点）at the party to be held next Sunday.
【小题3】Every morning my grandfather spends 45 minutes doing physical exercises to__________________（增强）his health.
【小题4】The magician performed many magic tricks to___________________________（娱乐观众）.
【小题5】In the past,they were too__________________（太穷了）to afford a holiday.