IV．阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
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May: Happenings from the Past
May 5, 1884
Issac Murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.
May 9, 1754
Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon (漫画), showing a snake cut in pieces with the words “Join or Die” printed under the picture.
May 11, 1934
The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, the result of years of drought (干旱), blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington, D.C.
May 19, 1994
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.
May 24, 1844
Samuel F.B Morse taps out the first message, “What hath God wrought,” over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Md.
We know from the text that Buchanan is _______.
A. Isaac’s fatherB. a winning horse
C. a slave taking care of horsesD. the first racing horse in Kentucky
What is the title of the first American political cartoon?
A. Join or DieB. Pennsylvania Gazette
C. What Hath God WroughtD. Kentucky Derby
In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die?
A. 1934B. 1960C. 1964D. 1994
Which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history?
A. Washing to, D.C.B. New York CityC. KentuckyD. Pennsylvania
B
I was the middle child of three，but there was a gap of five years on either side，and I hardly saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons，and I think from the very start my literary ambitions（文学志向）were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated（孤独）and undervalued. I knew that I had a natural ability with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts，and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
However, the quantity of serious writing which I produced all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five，my mother taking it down to dictation. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had "chair-like teeth”--a good enough expression. At eleven，when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a poem which was printed in the local（地方的）newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished "nature poems". I also, about twice，attempted a short story which was a failure. That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.
60. The underlined word“it" in paragraph 2 refers to_____.
A. the quantity of serious writingB. the writer's first poem
C. the writer's childhoodD. the tiger in the poem
61. From the text, we learn that as a little boy the writer＿．
A. had no playmates来源：www.examda.com
B. showed his gift for writing
C. put out lots of poems and stories
D. got his first poem published in 1916.
62. What can be inferred about the writer?
A. He was least favoured in his family.
B. He had much difficulty in talking with others.
C. He had an unhappy childhood for lack of care.
D. His loneliness resulted in his interest in writing.