【正文】 lk began marching toward the center of town, driving all the game in front of them, and killing virtually every wild animal they encountered. The settlers took some of the deer and the wild turkeys for the holiday dinners, but left all of the other dead animals out in the snow. When spring came, the remaining dead animals attracted many buzzards, and since 1819 they39。ve been ing back here in March. Hinkley locals have e to appreciate the buzzards39。 annual return. In midMarch, on Buzzard Sunday, they celebrate the birds39。 arrival with costumes, exhibits and songs. Exercise 11. B 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. AExercise 21. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 6. T Practice Four Almost seven centuries ago, in Central Asia, there lived a great king called Tamerlane. He was a mighty, powerful, conquering soldier, and his greatest ambition was that one day he would rule a massive empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. He made his imperial capital in the oasis city of Samarkand, which he planned to make the most beautiful city on earth. Many magnificent mosques were built and they were decorated with exquisite blue ceramic tiles on the outside, and with pure gold on the inside. Tamerlane, like the great oriental king that he was, had many wives, including a Chinese girl called Bibi Khanym. Now Bibi Khanym was the most beautiful of all Tamerlane39。s wives, and she was also the youngest. She was his favorite wife and was deeply in love with him.In order to demonstrate her great love of Tamerlane, she decided to build a magnificent mosque to honor him, while he was away fighting in a distant war. She engaged the best architect, who designed for her the most magnificent mosque you could imagine. And then she found the best master builder, who began work immediately. But as the weeks and months passed by, the master builder began to fall in love with Bibi Khanym. She resisted all his advances, but at last he threatened to leave the mosque unfinished unless she allowed him to kiss her just once. Bibi Khanym wanted the beautiful mosque finished more than anything else. She was expecting Tamerlane to return any day. So at last she agreed to let the master builder kiss her, just once.But that was her terrible mistake, for so powerful was the master builder39。s love for Bibi Khanym that when he kissed her he left a permanent mark on her face.King Tamerlane returned and saw the guilty mark on his wife39。s face. The master builder was executed immediately, and then, thinking that a woman39。s beauty can be a dangerous thing, Tamerlane ordered that from that day on all the women in the kingdom should never be seen in public without a veil to cover their face. Exercise 11. B 2 . C 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. AExercise 21. F 2. F 3. T 4. T Part Four Testing YourselfSection 1Long long ago, there was a pretty girl named Red Riding Hood because she was always wearing a red hood. One day her mother asked her to take some snacks to her grandmother because her grandmother was ill. Her mother told her, Don39。t hang around on your way. Don39。t leave the main road. On her way, she saw a wolf. The wolf asked her where she was going and she told him that she was going to her grandmother39。s house. The wolf thought to himself how delicious she would taste. Red Riding Hood danced in the woods, picking flowers for her grandmother and forgetting what her mother had said to her. The wolf went to the grandmother39。s house and ate up the poor lady. Then he waited in the bed for Red Riding Hood. As Red Riding Hood came into the grandmother39。s house, she found her grandmother looked rather strange with very large ears, eyes, hands and mouth. And suddenly the wolf jumped out of the bed and devoured the little girl. At that time, a hunter passed the house and heard loud snores made by the wolf. He went in and carefully cut the wolf39。s stomach open because he thought the wolf had probably eaten the grandmother. Then both little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother escaped from the wolf39。s stomach. After that, Red Riding Hood remembered the importance of her mother39。s words and never left the main road again. Questions: 1. Why was the girl called Red Riding Hood? 2. What was she asked to take to her grandmother? 3. What did her mother tell her NOT to do on the way? 4. How did the wolf think Red Riding Hood would taste? 5. What did the wolf do to both the girl and her grandmother? 6. Who rescued Red Riding Hood and her grandmother? 1. C 2 . B 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. CSection IIMoon was sad. She had spent many years looking at the people on Earth and she saw that they were afraid. They were afraid of dying. To make them feel better she decided to call on her friend Spider to take a message to them. Spider, she said. The people on Earth are afraid of dying and that makes me very sad. Please tell them that they will all die sooner or later but it is nothing to be scared of. So Spider slowly made his way to Earth, carefully picking his way down on moonbeams and sunbeams. On his way he met Hare. Where are you going, Spider? asked Hare.I am going to give the people of Earth a message from Moon, he said.Oh, you39。ll be far too long. Tell me the message and I39。ll take it there for you, replied Hare.OK! Moon wants the people of Earth to know that they will all die... Spider started.Right! Tell the people of Earth that they will all die, said Hare. And with that, Hare disappeared off to Earth.Spider gloomily made his way back to Moon and told her what had happened. Moon was very angry with Hare when she heard what he had said to the people, and hit him on the nose! That is why, to this day, Hare has a split lip.You should have taken the message yourself, said Moon to Spider.And to this day, Spider is still carefully carrying Moon39。s message and spinning the web in the corner of our rooms—but how many of us listen? 1. T 2. F 3