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er days in Nebraska,where she grew from child to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plain with its wild flowers,wheat fields and rivers.“It’s a rather strange thing about the flat country,” she wrote later.“It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly great many people find it very dull;they like a church tower,an old factory,a waterfall,the country all made to look like a German Christmas card ...But when I e to the open plain,something ’ m breathe differently.”1.Willa Cather wrote because she found writing________.A.simple and livelyB.opened up a road to successC.neither too hard nor too easyD.interesting and enjoyable2.What was the place like where Cather grew up?A.It was cold,plain and without a church.B.It was vast,open and flat.C.It was like a German Christmas card.D.It was a colorful world of wild flowers.3.When she said “It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold.”,Willa Cather meant that________.A.you either love the place or hate itB.you decide either to stay or to leaveC.some find the place warm;others find it coldD.some find the place peaceful;others find it wild4.What happens when Cather es to the open plain?A.She breathes differently from others.B.She wants to make the place her home.C.She feels pletely fortable.D.She finds the place similar to her home.(2010年福建四地六校聯(lián)考)Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others,as they are similar to or different from unfortunately,our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted (扭曲的) one.Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign is only by traveling in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second173。han