Text B——Ferragamo’s Gift （菲拉格慕的礼物）

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Exercises for Text B

A. Choose the best answer according to the text.

1. What is special about the author’s feet?  

One of her feet   was smaller than the other   because she had had   polio as a baby  .  

2. What did her mother do to fit the author’s smaller foot into the shoe?  

She stuffed one shoe with toilet paper so it would fit her smaller foot  . 

3. What happened that made the author give up going to the dancing school?  

She went to the first dance and danced with a boy when the toilet paper began to tail in a long ribbon across the dance floor  . 

4. Why was her mother so certain that Ferragamo would reply to her letter?  

Because she  read somewhere in the fashion magazines that Salvatore Ferragamo also had a child with polio . 

5. What special service did Ferragamo’s company offer to give in the next ten years?  

The author could have made-to-order shoes of the latest fashion for $35 a pair .

B. Read the sentences below and decide if they are true or false according to the text. Write T for true or F for false.

1. I was unable to walk because of polio.   

2. Mother forced me to go to the dancing school despite my unusual feet.   

3. Due to mother’s request, Ferragamo agreed to meet us in Florence.   

4. On the day of my wedding, I wore a pair of Ferragamo with pearls in the shape of a butterfly.   

5. Mother was eager to give me a chance to live just as happily as any girl of my age.

Key : 1. F   2. F   3. F   4. T   5. T

Comprehensive Exercises

A. Choose the best answer.

1. They were all tired, but ________ of them would stop to take a rest. 

A. any 

B. some 

C. none  

D. neither   

 

2.  — Why don’t we take a little break?     

— Didn’t we just have ________ a while ago?  

A. it

B. that 

C. one  

D. this   

 

3.  — What did you think of her speech?   

— She ________ for an hour but didn’t ________ much.  

A. spoke; speak 

B. spoke; say 

C. said; speak

D. said; say   

 

4.  As she ________ the newspaper, Granny ________ asleep.   

A. read; was falling 

B. was reading; fell    

C. was reading; was falling

D. read; fell   

 

5. Helen ________ her keys in the office so she had to wait until her husband ________ home.   

A. has left; comes 

B. left; had come     

C. had left; came 

D. had left; would come   

 

6.  We decided not to climb the mountains because it was raining ________.   

A. badly 

B. hardly 

C. strongly

D. heavily   

 

7. If I had ________, I’d visit Europe, stopping at all the small interesting places.  

A. a long enough holiday 

B. an enough long holiday  

C. a holiday enough long 

D. a long holiday enough   

 

8. Would you like a cup of coffee ________ shall we get down to business right away?   

A. and 

B. then 

C. or 

D. otherwise 

C. Translate the following sentences into English, using the given words or phrases.

1.  在拜访外教时，你可以送给他一件文化小礼品。(present) 

When you visit your foreign teacher, you may present him with a small cultural gift. 

 

2.  只有在知道主人喝酒的情况下，你才能送给他一瓶酒。(only when) 

You can give the host a bottle of wine as a gift only when you know that the host drinks wine.   

 

3.  女店员用彩纸把礼物包好。(wrap)  

The saleswoman wrapped up the gift in color paper. 

 

4.  在解决这个问题时，杰克遇到了一些困难。(have difficulty in) 

Jack had some difficulty in solving the problem.  

 

5.  妈妈告诉我生活充满惊喜，要随时做好准备。(be ready for; surprise)  

Mum told me that life was full of surprises and one should be ready for them.   

 

D. Translate the following passage from Text A into Chinese.

Be careful in giving alcoholic drinks as a gift. A bottle of wine is usually all right if you know your host drinks wine, but hard liquor can be given as a gift only when you know the host well and are certain that he would welcome such a gift.

 

送酒作礼物时要当心了。如果你知道主人喝葡萄酒，那送上一瓶葡萄酒还是不错的，但如果是烈性酒，那只有当你与主人很熟并且确定主人会喜欢收到这样一份礼物时才能送