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Many years later as he faced the firing
squad,
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Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel
Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when
his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a
village of twenty mud brick houses, built on the bank of a river of
clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones・ The world
was so recent that many things lacked names
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Every year during the month of March a family of ragged
gypsies （吉普赛人）would set up their tents near the village, and
with a great sound of pipes and kettledrums they would display
new inventions. First they brought the magnet. A heavy gypsy with
a wild beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as
Melquiades, put on a public presentation he himself called the
eighth wonder of the learned alchemists （炼金术士）of
Macedonia. He went from house to house dragging two metal
pieces and everybody was amazed to see iron things drop down
from their places and even iron objects that had been lost for a long
time appeared from where
they had been searched for most. "Things have a life of their
own," the gypsy said, "It，s simply a matter of waking up their
souls."
Jose Arcadio Buendia thought it would be possible to make
use of that useless invention to extract gold from inside the earth.
Melquiades warned him: "It won't work for that." But Jose Arcadio
Buendia did not believe in the honesty of gypsies, so he traded his
horse and a pair of goats for the two magnetized pieces. JosG
Arcadio Buendia" s wife, Ursula Iguaran, who relied on those
animals to increase their poor family condition, was unable to
persuade him.
For several months he worked hard to explore every inch of
the region, even the riverbed, with a shovel, dragging the two iron
pieces along and reciting Melquiades5 incantation （咒语） aloud
・
The only thing he succeeded in doing was to unearth a suit

fifteenth-century armor 住岂甲）which had all of its pieces
connected together with rust・ When he managed to take the
armor apart, he found inside a s

keleton with a copper box containing a woman's hair around
its neck
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8. Which of the following about Jose Arcadio Buendia is
TRUE?

A. He was a villager from Macondo, a remote village where
gypsies lived
・
B. He wanted to make money with the two metal pieces
bought from the gypsy.
C・ He lived in Macondo with Ursula Iguaran for several
months to extract gold.
D. He traded his horse and a goat for magnets and finally
found a valuable armo
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9. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?
A. Colonel Aureliano Buendia missed his fathe
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B. Melquiades settled in the village with his family.
C. Ursula Iguaran was unwilling to buy the metal pieces
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D. Melquiades was proud of the two metal pieces
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underlined word in the last paragraph means .
A. knock out B.

find out C. dig out D. turn out
11. According to the passage, which of the following is
WRONG?
A. Macondo was a village built on the riverside with a small
population.
B. A skeleton inside the old armor was discovered by Jose

Arcadio Buendfa.
C・ Some gypsies thought that things in the world had
souls of their own.
D. Macondo villagers hated gypsies because the y always
cheated them.
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