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英语阅读理解训练(二) （A） Lucy comes from Japan. She studies English very hard. She usually writes down the new words in a note book because it’s helpful for her to remember them. One day, she asked her teacher, “May I ask you some questions?” “Sure. What questions do you have?” “She’s blue today. What’s the matter with her? A little white lie. White lie? She has a green thumb(大拇指). Do people have green thumbs?” After looking at the notebook, the teacher says, “In English, `blue` sometimes means sad. For example, 憇he is blue today抎oesn(大’t she is wearing a blue coat. It means that she is sad. 慡he has a green thumb抦eans that she is good at growing plants. And a write lie is not a bad lie.” “ I don’t understand the last one.” “ For example, I give you some cakes. You don’t like them, but you don’t say that. Instead, you say,慛o, thanks. Io’m not hungry!扵hat is a white lie.t” “ I see. Thanks a lot.” ( ) 1. Lucy is an American girl. ( ) 2. If somebody is blue, that means he is sad. ( ) 3. Lucy writes down the new words in a notebook because it is helpful to her studies. ( ) 4. “She has a green thumb” means her thumb is green. ( ) 5. The story tells us a word sometimes has some otheer meanings. （B） Once upon a time there lived two brothers named Jacob and William in Germany. They liked to listen to old stories and then write them down. So they had enough stories to make a book. You can guess the name of the book! It is Grimms’ Fairy Tales. The story of this little book began when the brothers were still in school. And it started with a good teacher. The teacher liked to find out how things happened. Soon the two brothers were doing the same thing. They asked questions and then looked for answers. Among the questions the brothers asked, “Who made up the old fairy tales? Who first told about Cinderella ? Why made up the story of the Snow white and the story of Sleeping Beauty?” They found that no one knew the answers to such questions. The tales were made up in