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The dog, called Prince, was an intelligent animal and a slave to Williams. From morning till night, when Williams was at home, Prince never left his sight, practically ignoring all other members of the family. The dog had a number of clearly defined duties, for which Williams had patiently trained him and, like the good pupil he was, Prince lived for the chance to demonstrate his abilities. When Williams wanted to put on his boots, he would murmur "Boots" and within seconds the dog would drop them at his feet. At nine every morning Prince ran off to the general store in the village, returning shortly with not only Williams’ daily paper but a half-ounce packet of Williams’ favorite tobacco, John Rhine’s Mixed. A gun-dog by breed, Prince possessed a large soft mouth specially evolved for the safe carrying of hunted creatures, so that the paper and the tobacco came to no harm, never even showing a tooth mark. Williams was a railway man, an engine driver, and he wore a blue uniform which smelled of oil and oil fuel. He had to work at odd times—"days", "late days" or "nights". Over the years Prince got to know these periods of work and rest, knew when his master would leave the house and return, and the dog did not waste his knowledge. If Williams overslept, as he often did, Prince barked at the bedroom door until he woke, much to the annoyance of the family. On his return, Williams’ slippers were brought to him, the paper and tobacco if previously delivered. A curious thing happened to Williams during the snow and ice of last winter. One evening he slipped and fell on the icy pavement somewhere between the village and his home. He was so badly shaken that he stayed in bed for three days, and not until he got up and dressed again, did he discover that he had lost his wallet containing over fifty pounds. The house was turned upside down in the search, but the wallet was not found. However, two days later—that was five days after the fall—Prince dropped the wallet into Williams’ hand. Very muddy, stained and wet through, the little case still contained fifty-three pounds, Williams’ driving license and a few other papers. Where the dog had found it no one could tell, but found it he had and recognized it probably by the faint oil smell on the worn leather. How did Prince perform his duties

A. He was delighted to show them off.
B. He did his best but was not often successful.
C. He did them quickly, so as not to be punished by his master.
D. He had few opportunities to do them.

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Titanic, the largest vessel in the world, entered service in 1912. It was said that the builders and owners of Titanic claimed that she was "practically unsinkable". However, as soon as the waves of North Atlantic closed over the Titanic, its disastrous destiny began. It sank on 15 April 1912, with the loss of the 1503 passengers and crew. From then on, the myth began surrounding her design, construction and trans-Atlantic voyage. Today, the Titanic disaster is a classic tale, a modern folk tale. Though it sank, the steel and coal from the Titanic have been transformed into a new line of luxury wristwatches that claim to capture the essence of the legendary ocean liner which sank in 1912. Geneva watchmaker Romain Jerome SA billed its "Titanic-DNA" collection as among the most exclusive pieces showcased this week at Baselworld, the watch and jewellery industry’s largest annual trade fair. "It is very luxurious and very inaccessible," said Yvan Arpa, chief executive of the three-year-old company that hopes the limited edition watches will attract both collectors and luxury goods buyers. "So many rich people buy incredibly complicated watches without understanding how they work, because they want a story to tell," he said. "To them we offer a story." The North Atlantic wreck site of the Titanic, which hit an iceberg and sank on its first voyage from the English port of Southampton to New York, have been protected for more than a decade but many relics were taken in early diving expeditions. Romain Jerome said it purchased a piece of the hull weighing about 1.5 kg (3 pounds) that was retrieved in 1991, but declined to identify the seller. The metal has been certified as authentic by the Titanic’s builders Harland and Wolff. To make the watches, which were offered for sale for the first time in Basel for between $7,800 and $173,100, the Swiss company created an alloy using the thick fiat pieces from the Titanic with steel being used in a Harland and Wolff duplicate of the vessel. The gold, platinum and steel time pieces have black dial faces made of lacquer (亮漆) paint that includes coal recovered from the remains of the Titanic wreck site, offered for sale by the U.S. company RMS Titanic Inc. Arpa said the combination of new and old materials saturated the watches with a sense of renewal, instead of representing a reminder of the 1,500 passengers who drowned when the ocean liner met her tragic end off the coast of Newfoundland. "It is a message of hope, of life stronger than death, of rebirth," he said in an interview in Romain Jerome’s exposition booth in Basel, where more than 2,100 exhibitors are showing their latest wares amid a boom for the luxury goods sector. The company will make 2,012 watches to coincide with the centenary anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking in 2012. Arpa also said the young watchmaker would unveil a new series next year commemorating another famous legend, but declined to offer clues of what is to come. "For a new brand, you have to find something different to be interesting," he said. Asked if the next collection would be based on Scotland’s legendary Loch Ness monster, he smiled and said: "Ooh. Have you found it" According to Paragraph 2, the wristwatches

A. are made out of fragments of Titanic.
B. are the most expensive pieces in the exposition.
C. have the essence of the legendary Titanic.
D. have some connection with the sunk Titanic.

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Many schoolteachers say that as difficult as their students can be to deal with, parents can be even worse. Some parents are quick to【C1】______and protest when their son or daughter gets in trouble or performs poorly on a test. For example, a Time magazine report【C2】______one college professor who has had students who " call their parents from the classroom on a cell phone to complain about a low grade and then pass the phone over to her,【C3】______class, because the parent wanted to intervene. And she has had parents say they are paying a lot of money for their child’ s education and【C4】______that anything but an A is an unacceptable【C5】______on their investment." Such parents are doing their children no favors. In fact,【C6】______" rescuing" their children, they are preventing them from " having real experiences of decision making, failing, and【C7】______their own messes," writes the report. The author adds: " If parents run too much interference【C8】______problem solving for their children while the children sit back and do【C9】______the parents will get stronger,【C10】______the children get weaker and fall over when they try to run on their own." 【C3】

A. inside of
B. in between
C. in the middle of
D. in the center of

______all my relatives, I like my Aunt Emily the best.

Above
B. For
C. Of
D. In

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