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　　B

　　How Coney Island got its name remains a mystery, though people have found explanations from almost every stage of its history.

　　A written record came out in 1924. It says that the island was once the home of the Konoh people. The name Konoh was mispronounced and finally became “Coney.”

　　Another explanation finds the name connected with the arrival of Henry Hudson in New York Harbor in 1609. According to it, John Coleman, Hudson’s right-hand man, was killed by Indians. To honor him, people named the island after him.

　　The Dutch settled in Manhattan in1624, and they became to Coney Island soon afterwards. Since the Dutch word for rabbit (兔子) was konijn and the island had a large population of wild rabbits, many people have supposed this fact to have led to the name. There was a different story about the Dutch word. The Dutch fought the Indians there and were believed to have said that their enemies “ran like rabbits.”

　　According to an article in a magazine, an Irish captain named Peter O’ Connor sailed between New York and Ireland in the late 1700s, and he named Coney Island after an island that was close to his home in Ireland and of the same size as the American island.

　　Unfortunately, there is little evidence (证据) that the Dutch, or the English after them, used any word “Coney” for several centuries. There is a lot of evidence, however, that the name Coney Island came into use in the first half the 19th century, after a ferry (渡船) service to carry passengers from the island to the mainland.

　　54. According to the passenger, the name Coney______.

　　A. was mispronounced by the Konoh Coleman

　　B. was given by a man called John Coleman

　　C. comes from an island close to the English coast

　　D. is close in pronunciation to a Dutch word

　　55. It is said that John Coleman ______.

　　A. used his right hand better than the left one

　　B. was an important assistant of Henry Hudson

　　C. killed many Indians in battles in 1609

　　D. was the first man to reach the island

　　56. The writer believes that the name Coney Island most probably _____.

　　A. has a history of less than 200 years

　　B. came into use several hundred years ago

　　C. was used first by the English, not the Dutch

　　D. is related to the sail from New York to Ireland

　　57. From the passage we know that the word mystery means something ____.

　　A. that history books keep a record of

　　B. people have found explanations for

　　C. that has not been known enough about

　　D. people have not yet thought about

　　C

　　Ben Carson, a doctor at Johns Hopkins Children’s center, talks about how he grew up in a poor Detroit Neighborhood, when peer (同龄人) pressure almost controlled his behavior and even his clothes. He wanted so badly to be considered cool that he begged his mother to buy him an expensive Italian shirt.

　　“My mother made me a deal,” Carson remembers, “She said, ‘I’ll give you all the money I make next week. You’ll be in charge of the family finance (财务)—buying food and other necessities and paying the bills. Whatever you have left over you can spend on whatever you want.’”

　　“I thought, this is going to be great,” Carson says, “I bought things we needed most and then began going through the bills. Of course I ran completely out of money long before everything was paid.”

　　Then I realized my mother, with her third-grade education, was a financial genius (理财能手)—just to keep food on our table and clothes on our backs with such a small sum of money. I’d been a fool. I wanted her to buy me a $75 shirt when she only took home $100 a week, cleaning other people’s floors and washing their toilets. I took a hard look at my behavior and wondered how I could be so selfish.”

　　“I started studying again. My grades went back up to A’s. Some of my peers laughed at me because I did not follow their pattern. But I refused to let that trouble me, because I had a goal.”

　　The experience had a lasting effect, “I not only saw and felt the difference my mother made in my life, I am living out that difference as a man.”

　　58. When Ben Carson was young, he _______.

　　A. wanted to be as cool as other boys of his age

　　B. tried to attract girls with his cool manner

　　C. was fond of improving family finances

　　D. was seldom good at his lessons

　　59. By saying “My mother made me a deal”, Ben Carson meant that his mother ____.

　　A. refused to buy him the shirt

　　B. made an agreement with him

　　C. asked him to deal with the problem

　　D. showed him how to save money

　　60. Ben Carson started studying hard again and rose back to the top because_____.

　　A. he had got his shirt anyway

　　B. he got his mother as his teacher

　　C. he wanted to be a financial genius

　　D. he had a better goal to run after

　　61. Ben Carson’s story tells us that ______.

　　A. a boy should not learn from his peers

　　B. he didn’t understand his mother as a boy

　　C. what his mother taught him has changed his life

　　D. people with little education may become a genius