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Reading 1 Two traveling angels (天使) stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy(富有的) family. The family was rude and r 1 to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement(地下室). As they made their bed on the hard floor，the older angel saw a h 2 in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied: “Things aren’t always what they seem.” The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable(好客的)farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had，the couple let the angels sleep in their bed w 3 they could have a good night’s rest. When the sun came up the next morning，the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had beentheir only income(收入), lay 4 d in the field. The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel, “How could this happen?” “Why did you not watch out for the cow? The first man had everything, 5 y you watched over his house,” she accused(控告). “The 6 s family had little but was willing toshare everything, and you did not help.” “Things aren’t always what they seem,” the older angel replied. “When we stayed in the basement，I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. 7 S the owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune(财富)，I asked God if I could seal(封) the 8 w so he wouldn’t find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmer’s bed，the angel of death came for his wife. I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead. Things aren’t always what they seem.” Reading 2 Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia(栀子花was delivered to my house. No 1 c came with it. Calls to the flower-shop were not helpful at all. After a while, I stopped trying to discover the sender’s name and I was just 2 i in the soft pink paper in the beautiful white flower. But I never stopp