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I had saved the grain carefully and finally had enough to plant. I built a wall around my garden to keep wild goats away.
Then when my crops bore fruit, birds discovered it. The birds were not afraid of my dog at all. I shot them but as soon as I walked away, they returned. At last, I killed some birds and hung them among the crops, hoping they would serve as scarecrows. This turned out to be successful. By the harvest time, I had nearly two bushels of rice and two and a half bushels of barley(大麦).
With my new grain to store, I met
a new problem. The fine grain ran through my baskets. It took me nearly two months to make two ugly pots—one for rice and the other for barley.
Next, I built a clay oven(烤炉) and made some other tools from hard wood and cloth to bake(烘烤) bread. I made and baked bread in my oven. I spent the third year on the island in farming and baking.
Soon after that, I began to think of my days sailing in a tidy boat with Xury. I wished to have a boat and explore the island by sea.
I tried to turn over the ship's boat that I had seen washed up, but failed. I was still determined to have a boat. So I chose a strong tree and spent weeks cutting it down. Then it took me months to turn it from a tree into a boat.
When it was time to launch(使下水) it, I realized I had made my boat too far from the nearest stream. The boat was far too heavy for me to move. I tried bringing water to the boat instead of the boat to the water. I soon saw it would take me twenty years of constant labour.
I celebrated my fourth year on the island with two boats, but
I was no closer to a sea journey.
—Adapted from *The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe*
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)7. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us
.
A. how much rice and barley Robinson Crusoe harvested
B. how many tools Robinson Crusoe made to bake bread
C. how Robinson Crusoe protected his crops from birds
D. how Robinson Crusoe kept wild goats away from his crops
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)8. What does “a new problem” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. How to plant grain.
B. How to make pots.
C. How to store grain.
D. How to fix the baskets.
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D
)9. The sentence “I was no closer to a sea journey” means “
”.
A. Robinson Crusoe was getting closer and closer to the sea
B. Robinson Crusoe was getting farther and farther from the sea
C. it was possible for Robinson Crusoe to have a sea journey in his boats
D. it was still impossible for Robinson Crusoe to explore the island by sea
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)10. What can we infer(推断) from the passage?
A. Robinson Crusoe managed to turn over the ship's boat.
B. Robinson Crusoe spent months bringing the boat to the nearest stream.
C. Robinson Crusoe tried to solve problems with his courage and wisdom.
D. Robinson Crusoe spent the second year on the island in farming and baking.
