【正文】 ents asked the author to have a test of their ability.s ability.s power of observation. A. Wolfe39。 D. Thomas Wolfe39。 C. Thomas Wolfe39。 B. Thomas Wolfe39。 A. Thomas Wolfe39。 As I rejoined Wolfe， I was speechless with surprise. He， on the contrary， was wholly calm as he said， “The worst thing about it is that I39。 Upon arriving at the university that day， I found Wolfe alone in the large room which served all the English position teachers as an office. He did not say anything when I asked him to e with me out into the hall， and he only smiled when we reached a classroom door and I told him to enter alone and look around. Indeed， his students made so much of his power of observation that I decided to make a little test and see for myself. My chance came one morning when the students were slowly gathering for nine o39。 In the fall of 1924 Thomas Wolfe， fresh from his courses in play writing at Harvard joined the eight or ten of us who were teaching English position in New York University. I had never before seen a man so tall as he， and so ugly. I pitied him and went out of my way to help him with his work and make him feel at home. C. farming ）54. Grandma Moses spent most of their life ________. D. gain an international fame（ B. keep active C. improve her salary ）53. Grandma Moses began to paint because she wanted to _______.A. make her home beautiful D. alone （ C. rich B. pretty s words of herself in the first paragraph， it can be inferred that she was _______. C. Grandma Moses： Her Best Pictures A. Grandma Moses Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby， but only changed to oils in old age because her hands had bee too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at an exhibition， and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures were shown in the Museum of Modern Art， and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 193039。A外語學習網 Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentiethcentury painters of the United States， yet she had only just begun painting in her late seventies. As she once said of herself： “I would never sit back in a rockingchair， waiting for someone to help me.”） D. quiet C. funny D. with B. for ）. on （ D. At least C. At once B. At last ）. At first （ C. too D. falling D. Around and around ）. Backwards and forwards D. his neck（ C. his face D. air B. tree ）. garden （ B. high ）. hard （ C. took B. grasped ）. carried（ D. stop B. walk ）. run（ C. stick D. with D. arrived B. gone ）. left（ B. doing ）. passing（ D. excited C. worried D. for B. as ）. because Mr. Jones saw the professor _38_ when he saw the rope and looked carefully up and down the road. When he saw that there was _39_ in sight， he stepped into the garden （there was no fence）， put his umbrella， newspaper， bag and hat nearly on the grass and _40_ the rope. He pulled it _41_ to see whether it was strong enough to take his weight， then ran as fast as he could and swung into the _42_ on the end of the rope， his grey hair blowing all around _43_. _44_ he swung， sometimes taking a few more _45_ steps on the grass when the rope began to