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1、精品名师归纳总结新 SAT 阅读真题二Exercise 2This passage is excerpted from L.M. Montgomery,“ The Gossip of Valley View,” originally published in 1910.It was the.rst of April, and Julius Barrett, aged fourteen, perched on his fathers gatepost, watched ruefully the low descending sun, and counted that day lost. He h
2、ad not succeeded in fooling a single person, although he had tried repeatedly. One and all, old and young, of his intended victims had been too wary for Julius. Hence, Julius was disgusted and ready for anything in the way of a stratagem or a spoil.The Barrett gatepost topped the highest hill in Val
3、ley View. Julius could see the entire settlement, from Young Thomas Everetts farm, a mile to the west, to Adelia Williamss weather-grey little house on a moonrise slope to the east. He was gazing moodily down the muddy road when DanChester, homeward bound from the post of. ce, came riding sloppily a
4、long on his grey mare and pulled up by the Barrett gate to hand a paper to Julius. Dan was a young man who took life and himself very seriously. He seldom smiled, never joked, and had a Washingtonianreputation for veracity. Dan had never told a conscious falsehood in his life; he never even exaggera
5、ted.Julius, beholding Dans solemn face, was seized with a perfectly irresistible desire to fool him. At the same moment his eye caught the dazzling re.ection of the setting sun on the windows of Adelia Williamss house, and he had an inspiration little short of diabolical. Have you heard the news, Da
6、n. he asked.No, what is it. asked Dan.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结I dunnos I ought to tell it, said Julius re. ectively. Its kind of a family affair, but then Adelia didnt say not to, and anyway itll be all over the place soon. So Ill tell you, Dan, if youll promise never to tell who told you. Adelia Wi
7、lliams and Young Thomas Everett are going to be married.Julius delivered himself of this tremendous lie with a transparently earnest countenance. Yet Dan, credulous as he was, could notbelieve it all at once.Git out, he said.Its true, pon my word, protested Julius. Adelia was up last night and told
8、Ma all about it. Mas her cousin, you know. The wedding is to be in June, and Adelia asked Ma to help her get her quilts and things ready.Julius reeled all this off so glibly that Dan. nally believed the story, despite the fact that the people thus coupled together in prospectivematrimony were the ve
9、ry last people in Valley View who could have been expected to marry each other. Young Thomas was a con. rmed bachelor of. fty, and Adelia Williams was forty; they were not supposed to be even well acquainted, as the Everetts and the Williamses hadnever been very friendly, although no open feud exist
10、ed between them.Nevertheless, in view of Juliuss circumstantial statements, the amazing news must be true, and Dan was instantly agog to carry it further. Julius watched Dan and the grey mare out of sight, fairly writhing with ecstasy. Oh, but Dan had been easy. The story would be all over Valley Vi
11、ew in twenty-four hours. Julius laughed until he came near to falling off the gatepost.At this point Julius and Danny drop out of our story, and Young Thomas enters.It was two days later when Young Thomas heard that he was to be married to Adelia Williams in June. Eben Clark, the blacksmith, told hi
12、m when he went to the forge to get his horse shod. Young Thomas laughed his big jolly laugh. Valley View gossip had been marrying him off for the last thirty years, although never before to Adelia Williams.Its news to me, he said tolerantly.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结Eben grinned broadly. Ah, you cant
13、bluff it off like that, Tom, he said. The news came too straight this time. Well, I was glad to hear it, although I was mighty surprised. I never thought of you and Adelia. But shes a. ne little woman and will make you a capital wife.Young Thomas grunted and drove away. He had a good deal of busines
14、s to do that day, involving calls at various places the store formolasses, the mill for. our, Jim Bentleys for seed grain, the doctors for toothache drops for his housekeeper, the post of. ce for mail and at each and every place he was joked about his approaching marriage. In the end it rather annoy
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