One day Marilla said, “Anne, your new teacher, Miss
Stacy, spoke to me yesterday. She says you must study for the examinations for
Queen’s College in two years’ time. Then if you do well, you can study at
Queen’s in Charlottetown for a year, and after that you’ll be a teacher!”
“That doesn’t matter, Anne. When Matthew and I adopted
you three years ago, we decided to look after you as well as we could. Of
course we’ll pay for you to study.”So in the afternoons Anne and some of her
friends stayed late at school, and Miss Stacy helped them with the special
examination work. Diana didn’t want to go to Queen’s, so she went home early,
but Gilbert stayed. He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they
were enemies, because they both wanted to be first in the examination.
Secretly, Anne was sorry that she and Gilbert weren’t friends, but it was too
late now.
For two years, Anne studied hard at school. She
enjoyed learning, and Miss Stacy was pleased with her. But she didn’t study all
the time. In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends, or walked
through the fields with Diana, or sat talking to Matthew.
“Your Anne is a big girl now. She’s taller than you,”
Rachel Lynde told Marilla one day.
“You’re right, Rachel!” said Marilla in surprise.
“And she’s a very good girl now, isn’t she? She
doesn’t get into trouble these days. I’m sure she helps you a lot with the
housework, Marilla.”
“Yes, I don’t know what I’d do without her,” said
Marilla, smiling.
“And look at her! Those beautiful grey eyes, and that
red-brown hair! You know, Marilla, I thought you and Matthew made a mistake
when you adopted her. But now I see I was wrong. You’ve looked after her very
well.”
“Well, thank you, Rachel,” replied Marilla, pleased.
That evening, when Matthew came into the kitchen, he
saw that his sister was crying.
“What’s the matter?” he asked, surprised. “You haven’t
cried since… well, I can’t remember when.”
“It’s just… well, I was thinking about Anne,” said
Marilla. “I’ll…I’ll miss her when she goes away.”
“When she goes to Queen’s, you mean? Yes, but she can
come home at weekends, on the train.”
“I’ll still miss her,” said Marilla sadly.”
In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to
Charlottetown to take their examinations.
“Oh, I do hope that I’ve done well,” Anne told Diana
when she arrived back at Green Gables. “The examinations were very difficult.
And I’ve got to wait for three weeks before I know! Three weeks! I’ll die!”
Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert. But she also
wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla. That was very important to her.
Diana was the first to hear the news, she ran into the
kitchen at Green Gables and shouted, “Look, Anne! It’s in Father’s newspaper!
You’re first… with Gilbert… out of all the students on the island! Oh, how
wonderful!” Anne took the paper with shaking hands, and saw her name, at the
top of the list of two hundred. She could not speak.
“Well, now, I knew it,” said Matthew with a warm
smile.
“You’ve done well, I must say, Anne,” said Marilla,
who was secretly very pleased.
For the next three weeks Anne and Marilla were very
busy. Anne needs new dresses to take to Charlottetown.
1.Which of the following statements is true?
A．To be a
teacher was one of Annes’ dreams.
B．Both Anne and
Diana studied hard for the special examination.
C．Matthew and
Marilla were Anne’s parents.
D．Anne was
adopted by Matthew and Marilla.
2.Why are Anne and Gilbert enemies? Because
_____________.
A．they were
competitors in school B．they didn’t like each other
C．it wasn’t mentioned in the passage D．their parents
were enemies
3.The paragraph “Oh Marilla! I’d love to be a teacher!
But won’t it be very expensive?” should be put between___________.
A．paragraph ③ and ④ B．paragraph ⑦ and ⑧
C．paragraph ① and ② D．paragraph ⑨ and ⑩
4.What will be written in the following paragraph?
A．Anne’s summer holiday.
B．What will
Anne talk about her college life with Diana
C．How will Miss
Stacy help Anne study.
D．What will
Anne do before attending college.
5.From the passage, we can learn that _____________.
A．Miss Stay
liked Anne very much
B．when Anne
became a teacher, she would have lived in the family for six years
C．Marilla cried
because Anne would leave for ever
D．Rachel was a
teacher of Anne’s
Her parents thought she was too young for the violin, and persuaded her to start on the piano. But Anne-Sophie has always had a mind of her own. “I longed to play the violin,” she says, “It seemed to me a much more interesting instrument.” After six months, her parents gave in.