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专四阅读真题
PART V READING COMPREHENSION
[35 MIN]
SECTION A MULTIPLraved
it,
my whole
being begged for
it.
But every
time
I
made a move to
get
it
some
passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked
indifferent and
pretended that
I hadn ’ t
been
thinking about the pear at all. This
same think kept happening and happening, and I couldn
’ t get the pear.
I was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying:
“Step in here, please. ”
I was admitted by a man servant, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They sent away the servant, and made me sit down. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of
it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best as I could.
Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is th