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Reading literrature 7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading literrature 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ----------- GED LITERATURE AND THE ARTS 60. Why does Thomas keep opening and closing the refrigerator a. He keeps hoping food will magically appear. b. He can t believe that the refrigerator is empty. c. He is angry and wants the door to break off. d. He likes the noise the door makes. e. He is bored. 61. The narrator tells us that Thomas was hungry on a reservation where there are ninety-seven ways to say fry bread. What is the purpose of this sentence a. to show us how important fry bread is to the language b. to show us how hungry Thomas was c. to make us want to try fry bread d. to show us the irony of the situation e. to show us how Thomas was inspired Questions 62 through 65 refer to the following excerpt. What Is the Author s Father Like 1 It was an impressive place old solidly built in the Tudor style with leaded windows a slate roof and rooms of royal proportions. Buying it had been a big step for my parents a sign of 5 growing wealth. This was the best neighborhood in town and although it was not a pleasant place to live especially for children its prestige outweighed its deadliness. Given the fact that he wound up spending the rest of his life in that 10 house it is ironic that my father at first resisted moving there. He complained about the price a constant theme and when at last he relented it was with grudging bad humor. Even so he paid in cash. All in one go. No mortgage no monthly 15 payments. It was 1959 and business was going well for him. Always a man of habit he would leave for work early in the morning work hard all day and then when he came home on those days 20 he did not work late take a short nap before dinner. Sometime during our first week in the new house before we had properly moved in he made a curious kind of mistake. Instead of driving home to the new house after work he went 25 directly to the old one as he had done for years parked his car in the driveway walked into the READING PRACTICE QUESTIONS -------------------------- 27 .