C
Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together ： piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding.
When I was 13，my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address Unknown. ” I had no idea how to find Linda.
Over the years，I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.
One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wag man—Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Waxman’s, ” I thought，but I still wrote to her.
She called as soon as she got my letter. “ Mrs. Tobin! ” she said excitedly，“ Linda Evans Waxman is my mother. ”
Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much，even after 40 years，laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And There’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure : we won’t lose each other again!
84. They didn’t often write to each other because they .
A. got married
B. had little time to do so
C. didn’t like writing letters
D. could see each other on special time
85. There was an empty place in the writer’s heart because she .
A. was in trouble
B. didn’t know Linda’s address
C. received the card that she sent
D. didn’t have a friend like Linda to share her happiness or sadness
86. The writer was happy when she .
A. read the newspaper
B. heard Linda’s voice on the phone
C. met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda
D. wrote to the woman whose last name was Wagman
87. They haven’t kept in touch .
A. for about 40 years
B. for about 27 years
C. since they got married
D. since the writer’s family moved away
D
Thomas Alva Edison was awarded more patents on inventions than any other American. When he died in 1931, Americans wondered how they could best show their respect for him. One suggestion was that the nation observe a minute or two of total black-out. All electric power would be shut off in homes, streets and factories.
Perhaps this suggestion made Americans realize fully what Edison and his inventions meant to them. Electric power was too important to the country. Shutting it off for even a short time would have led to complete confusion. A black-out was out of the question.
On the day of Edison’s funeral, many people silently dimmed their lights. In this way they honored the man who had done more than anyone else to put the great force of electricity at his countrymen’s fingertips.
88. People deciede to honor edison when .
A. he made the first electric light
B. electric power was 100 years old
C. the country realized electricity’s importance
D. he died in 1931
89. The suggestion was to .
A. turn off the lights in factories and schools
B. observe a few minutes of total silence
C. dim all electric lights
D. shut off all electricity for a short time
90. Americans fully realized what Edison’s inventions meant when they .
A. heard of his death
B. heard of the plan to honor him
C. first used electric power
D. tried to carry out the plan
91. The plan was never carried out because .
A. not everyone wanted to honor edison
B. it was too difficult
C. electric power was too important to the country
D. it honor only one of Edison’s inventions
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