【正文】 am a board member. I got to the spot first and, no surprise, no opossum. People unaccustomed to seeing nocturnal animals (夜行動(dòng)物 ) during the day often think that the animals are in trouble. Although the callers are wellintentioned, sometimes the animal is neither in trouble nor a threat. When DiGiao, a trooper, drove up, he said the opossum had been spotted farther south and we proceeded south on the grass while steady traffic flew by in the other direction! Then I finally saw the grayish opossum sitting precariously at the top of the highway divider, obviously frightened and only a few feet from certain death on each side. The animal was frozen in place, shaking. Its dark eyes looked straight down. DiGiao turned on his car’s flashing lights, drove south a few hundred yards farther on the grassand very carefully turned into the oning traffic, which came to a stop behind him. Then he drove slowly ahead, with the cars at a crawl behind him. I grabbed my and a towel, put on my Kevlar gloves and slowly approached my frightened creature. I dropped the over him, threw a towel over that to make sure the animal stayed on my side of the highway divider, and then grabbed it. The opossum protested with a few attempts to bite my hand, but I imagined it was relieved to get off that divider. I placed it on the road to check for any injury, but as soon as I lifted the , the opossum was off like a shot toward the roadside, heading for the safety of the trees. It was a shared moment of joy. I followed the opossum as it disappeared into the woods and smiled. 24. What can we learn about the calls to the hotline? A. They usually offer no help. B. They usually cause trouble. C. They often give volunteers a surprise. D. They sometimes give false information. 25. What situation was the opossum in when the author spotted it? A. It was extremely weak. B. It was in great danger. C. It got injured in the eye. D. It was shaking with anger. 26. What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 5 refer to? A. The . B. The gloves. C. The opossum. D. The divider. 27. Where did the opossum run finally? A. On the grass. B. Onto the divider. C. Into the woods. D. Toward the roadside. C One night in 1966, Michael Chapman rushed into a folkmusic club in Cornwall, England to get out of the rain, and soon found himself onstage playing the guitar. “They offered me a job to play for the rest of the summer. And I’ve been playing ever since,” Chapman says. “I’ve told that story so many times, but it’s absolutely true. If it hadn’t been raining that night, I wouldn’t be talking to you.” The British guitar player has spent the 50 years since then on the road. He released some praised albums in the 1970s, but his health went downhill in the 80s and 90s. Like a lot of British artists in the 1960s, Chapman taught himself to play the guitar by listening to American jazz and blues records. Chapman actually taught photography, but quit when he was 26 to play music full time. When he was starting out, he was often pared to other British acoustic (原聲的 ) guitar heroes of the time, like John Martyn and Bert Jansch. “The fascinating thing about Michael Chapman is that he doesn’t fit in with those guys of his generation,” says Andrew Male, a music journalist. “He’s always been an outsider. He never moved to London.” And while he never became part of the London music scene, Chapman was noticed by those musicians. “The 70s caught up with him in the 80s,” Male says. “He had a huge heart attack at the end of the 80s that nearly finished him off. When he made his way back into the world in the early 90s, people had fotten about him.” But not everyone. A younger generation of musicians in America, including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and a younger singer and guitarist named Steve Gunn, recently rediscovered Chapman. “We wanted to capture Michael’s voice and character where he is now. You know, it’s a little roadweary, but he still has it,” Gunn says. “For me, it was really important to get that right.” “He’s the right old musician for present times,” Male says. “I think the music he makes seems quite in tune with where we’re at.” 28. Which can best describe Michael Chapman’s first involvement in music? A. Untrue. B. Accidental. C. Unfortunate. D. Reasonable. 29. What can we learn about the British guitarist John Martyn from the text? A. He used to teach photography full time. B. He can not get along well with other musicians. C. He may be very familiar with American jazz and blues. D. He may be one of the best guitar players in the early 90s. 30. Why did Michael Chapman quit his music career once? A. He lost his special voice. B. 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