【文章內容簡介】 illed and transported by a book—it was Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises—and I just needed to be alone with it for a little while. I ached to know what would happen to Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley and Robert Cohn. I couldn’t bear the thought of sitting in a classroom taking another biology exam when I could be traveling through Spain in the 1920s with a bunch of expatriates(異鄉(xiāng)客).I spent that day lost in words. Time fell away, as the room around me turned to mist, and my role—as a daughter, sister, teenager, and student—in the world no longer had any meaning. I had accidentally e across the key to perfect happiness: I had bee pletely absorbed by something I loved.Looking back on it now, I can see that some subtle things were happening to my mind and to my life while I was in that state of absorption. Hemingway’s language was quietly braiding itself into my imagination. I was downloading information about how to create simple and elegant sentences, a good and solid plot. In other words, I was learning how to write. Without realizing it, I was hot on the trail of my own fate. Writing now absorbs me the way reading once did and happiness is their generous side effect.28. Why did the author skip school on that day?A. Because her parents left home early. B. Because she was fascinated by a novel.C. Because it was a cold winter morning. D. Because she hated to take the biology exam.29. What did the author think is the source of true joy?A. Reading by the fire. B. Travelling in Spain.C. Breaking the regulations. D. Being occupied by one’s passion.30. Which can best replace the underlined phrase “braiding itself into” in the last paragraph?A. Maintaining. B. Entering.C. Mending. D. Blocking.31. What can we infer from the passage?A. I was tired of my reallife roles.B. I learned how to write on the Internet.C. Being a writer was my childhood dream.D. Hemingway skipped school when he was young.DRoughly the size of a soda can, sitting on a bookshelf, a relatively harmless device(設備) may be turning friends away from your home. The elephant in your living room is your Internetconnected camera, a device people are increasingly using for peace of mind in their homes. But few stop to think about the effect these devices may have on house guests. Should you tell your friends, for instance, that they’re being recorded while you all watch the big game together?It’s certainly new territory, especially as home security cameras bee easier to fix, says Lizzie Post, president of the Emily Post Institute, America’s distinguished manners advisors. I think it will be very interesting to see what manners appear in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be turned off, if it’s not a security issue. Post wants to make clear that she’s not talking about legal rights, but rather personal preference.When it es to security cameras, Post says it’s a host’s responsibility to make sure guests feel fortable within their home. If the host casually acknowledges that there is a camera in the room by telling a story about it, that may be enough to provide an opening for a guest to say if they are unfortable.However, if a contractor(合約工)is working in your home, you don’t need to tell them that there are cameras watching. Then again, the camera can also work in contractors’ favor. If anything does go wrong while they’re in the house, they don’t want to be blamed for it, she says. In fact, the camera could be the thing that proves that they didn’t steal the $20, or knock the vase off the table.32. The visitors are concerned that the security camera may .A. threaten their health B. spoil their peace of mindC. disturb their privacy D. affect their preference33. What is a host’s responsibility concerning the security camera?A. Indicating its position. B. Making their guests feel at easeC. Turning it oil in time. D. Having a casual talk with guests.34. How can the home security camera benefit contractors working in your home?A. It can prevent the accidents happening. B. It can prove their innocence.C. It can record their