【正文】 playing his drums too loud and too often. The drummer repeatedly ignored her. One day the woman walked upstairs and shot the drummer in the head and his girlfriend in the chest. The woman was sentenced to pr ison for 20 years. The dead drummer won’t bother anyone with his drums, but the woman might be wishing now that she had learned to grin and bear it. If she were still living in her apartment, she could always move. When you’re in prison, you don’t have that option. 24． The man living below where Edward lived was . A ． a deaf man B． the owner of the house C ． a tenant D． an old neighbor 25． What did Edward always do with rude neighbors? A ． Grinning and bearing it. B ． Persuading them to stop repeatedly. C ． Shouting them to dead. D ． Moving away from the rude neighbors. 26． The woman killed her neighbor because . A． he ignored her advice repeatedly B． she could not stand his playing the music too loud C． she could not put up with him any longer D． he played the drums too often 27 ． The author writes the last paragraph to prove that . A ． being in prison means the loss of freedom B． grinning and bearing it is the best policy C． Edward should follow the example of the woman D． the woman was right to kill her neighbor C Canadian short story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eightytwoyearold Munro is only the 13th woman to win the 112yearold prize. Munro didn’t publish her first collection of short stories until she was 37 years old, but her stories have always been wellreceived. Lots of her stories share similar themes and characters, but each story has its own twists and turns. Even though she’s won Canada’s most famous literary award, the Giller Prize twice, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is the peak of Munro’s career. “It brings her incredible recognition, both of her and her career, and of the dedication( 投身，奉獻 ) to the short story,” said one person. Along with the wellrespected title es million dollars. Munro said everything was “so surprising and wonderful” and that she was “dazed by all the attention and affection that has been ing my way.” Munro knew she was in the list—— she was named the secondmost likely person to win this year’s prize, after Haruki Murakami ( 村上春樹） of Japan—— but she never thought that she would win. Munro’s win also represents the long way Canadian writers have e. “When I began writing there was a very small munity of Canadian writers and little attention was paid by the world. Now Canadian writers are read, admired and respected around the globe,” Munro said on Thursday. She is technically not the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, but many like to think that she is. In 1976 Saul Bellow, who was born in Quebec but moved to Chicago when he was still a child, won the prize. Even though he was born in Canada, he is mostly considered to be an American writer. “This is a win for us all. Canadians, by our very nature, are not very nationalistic,” said Geoffrey Taylor. “But things like this suddenly make you want to find a flag.” She wasn’t sure if she would keep writing if she won the prize, saying that it would be “nice to go out with a bang. But this may change my mind.” 28. What is the feature of Munro’s stories? A. They have pl icated (復雜的 )contents. B. They have similar story backgrounds. C. They have specific themes for children. D. They have the same characters in each book. 29. For Munro, the Nobel Prize is an award for______. A. her love for Canadian culture B. her devotion to the short story C. her special form of writing D. her career of editing short stories 30. What can you infer from the sixth paragraph? A. Canadian writers paid little attention to the prize. B. Canadian writers were respected across the globe. C. Canadian writers have long been ignored. D. Canadians e a long way to win the prize. 31. What does the passage mainly tell us? A. How Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize B. An introduction to the Nobel Prize in Literature C. Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature D. A world famous writer, Alice Munro D YOU CAN HELP! Everyone was born with his own built— in burglar alarm. It’s called the sense of sight and sound. Unfortunately, many of us go around with the alarm switched off. We don’t see the stranger wandering outside the house next door. We don’t notice the sounds from the flat upstairs. (Weren’t they supposed to be on holiday?) The police can only do so much to prevent crime. There never can be enough of them to guard every home in every town. So they need your help in fighting with the burglars(竊賊 ), the vandals, and the car thieves. Not, of course, by setting out to have a go every time you see something suspicious. It’ll always be the job of the police to arrest criminals. But by acting as a line of munication between them and your munity. For instance, you probably know far more about your immediate neighborhoods than the police ever could. A stranger in someone’s garden would probably be far more obvious to you than it would to even t