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a corn field at last. 9. The dog can39。s my last day on the__52__. Tomorrow I39。s studies because________. A. he was sure his son was good at his lessons B. he spent all his energies on his business C. he knew nothing about the education D. his wife looked after their children 57. The bad young men taught Young Reese to gamble in order________. A. to play with him B. to spend spare time C. that they could get much money from him D. that they could find jobs in his father39。t gamble any longer. His friends made him pay his debt. He had to ask his mother to help him and the woman often gave him some money. But one evening his father happened to find it. The old man stopped his wife from doing so. They began to fight in the room. The young man brought out a knife and killed his father. His mother helped him to run away, but soon after that he was caught and sentenced (判刑 ) to death. It was a cold and wet day. Suddenly it began to rain hard when Mr. Reese was being sent to the execution ground(刑場 ). Soon both he and the soldiers were wet through. He said angrily,“Bad luck! I shall be shot in such bad weather! ” “Don39。s pockets__42__he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always__43__to find gold or other valuable things__44__in the straw, he never found__45__. He was sure the man was__46__something, but he was not__47__to think out what it could be. Then one evening, after he had looked__48__the straw and emptied the worker39。s pockets__49__usual, he__50__to him, “Listen, I know you are smuggling things__51__this frontier. Won39。t plain(抱怨 ), brother, ”said one of the soldiers.“You39。ll have to go back to the city after that! ” 56. Old Reese never wanted to know about his son39。m an old man, and today39。t________(康復(fù) ) ever since it was run over by the car. 10. With a________(尖叫聲 ) , an old man fell off a window to hit the ground heavily. 11. After ten years of ha