【正文】 my pillow. But I rose , looked round , and could see nothing。 while , as I still gazed , the unnatural sound was reiterated , and I knew it came from behind the panels. My first impulse was to rise and fasten the bolt。 my next , again to cry out , ?Who is there?39。 B. Jαne Eyre Questions 2225 (12 points) 22. From which novel is the extract taken? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet. ) A. Heart of Darkness C. The Old Man and the Sea 23. What time of the day did the marrowfreezing incident happen? 24. What words did the author use to describe the laugh she heard? 25. What did the narrator I observe after she rose from her bed? 22. B 23. It was around two in the morning / It was after midnight. 24. It was a demoniac laughlow , suppressed , deep or unnatural , goblinlaughter , etc. 25. The narrator looked around but she could see nothing. Text 4 Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part III. Thief He is waiting at the airline ticket counter when he first notices the young woman. She has glossy black hair pulled tightly into a knot at the back of her head 一 the man imagines it loosed and cascading to the small of her back and carries over the shoulder of her leather coat a heavy black purse. She wears black boots of soft leather. He struggled to see her face she is ahead of him in line but it is not until she has bought her ticket and turns to walk away that he realizes her beauty , which is pale and darkeyed and fullmouthed , and which quickens his heartbeat. She seems aware that he is staring at her and lowers her gaze abruptly. The airline clerk interrupts. The man gives up looking at the woman he thinks she may be about twentyfive and buys a round trip , coach class ticket to an eastern city. His flight leaves in an hour. To kill time , the man steps into one of the airport cocktail bars and orders a scotch and water. While he sips it he watches the flow of travelers through the terminal including a remarkable number , he thinks , of unattached pretty women dressed in fashion magazine clothes until he catches sight of the blackhaired girl in the leather coat. She is standing near a Travelers Aid counter , deep in conversation with a second girl , a blonde in a cloth coat trimmed with gray fur. He wants somehow to attract the brute39。 s attention , to invite her to have a drink with him before her own flight leaves for wherever she is traveling. but even though he believes for a moment she is looking his way he cannot catch her eye from out of the shadows of the bar. In another instant the two women separate。 neither of their directions is toward him. He orders a second scotch and When next he sees her , he is buying a magazine to read during the flight and bees aware that someone is jostling him. At first he is startled that anyone would be so close as to touch him, but when he sees who it is he musters a smile. ? Busy place.39。 he says. She looks up at him Is she blushing? and an odd grimace across her mouth and vanishes. She moves away from him and joins the crowds in the terminal. The man is at the counter with his magazine , but when he reaches into his back pocket for his wallet the pocket is empty. When could I have lost it? he thinks. His mind begins enumerating the credit cards , the currency , the membership and identification cards。 his stomach churns with something very like fear. The girl who was so near to me , he thinks and all at once he understands that she has picked his pocket. What is he to do? He still has his ticket , safely tucked inside his suitcoat he reaches into the jacket to feel the envelo肘， to make sure. He can take the flight , call someone to pick him up at his destination since he cannot even afford the bus fare conduct his business and fly home. But in the meantime he will have to do something about the lost credit cards call home , have his wife get the numbers out of the top desk drawer , phone the card panies so difficult a process , the whole thing suffocating. What should he do? First: Find a policeman , tell what has happ巳 ned， describe the young woman。 damn her , he thinks , for seeming to be attentive to him, to let herself stand so close to him, blush prettily when he spoke ?and all the time she wanted only to steal from him. And her blush was not shyness but the anxiety of being caught。 that was most disturbing of al l. Damned deceitful creatures. He will spare the policeman the details ?just tell what she has done , what is in the walle t. He grits his teeth. He will probably never see his wallet again. He is trying to decide if he should save time by talking to a guard near the xray machine when he is appalled ? and elated 一 to see the blackhaired girl. CEbonyTressed Thief , the newspapers will say. ) She is seated against a front window of the terminal , taxis and private cars moving sluggishly beyond her in the gathering darkness。 she seems engrossed in a book. A seat beside her is empty , and the man occupies it. ?I39。ve been looking for you , 39。 he says. She glances at him with no sort of recognition. ?I don39。 t know you , 39。 she says. ? Sure you do. 39。 She sighs and puts the book aside. ?Is this all you characters think about picking up girls like we were stray animals? What do you think I am?39。 ? You lifted my wallet , 39。 he says. He is pleased to have said ? lifted , 39。 thinking it sounds more worldly than stole or took or even ripped off. ? I beg your pardon?39。 the girl says. ? I know you did at the magazine counter. If you39。 11 just give it back , we can fet the whole thing. If you don39。t , then I39。ll hand you over to the police. 39。 She studies him, her face s