高分重赏广州市普通高中毕业班英语模拟试题(二)及答案 英语
Polly wandered over the rough field looking for the smaller potatoes that the pickers had accidentally missed 。 She found one ,then another,then a handful 。She was pleased 。They were dilicious once cooked。Then she caught sight of something else。 It looked like a piece of coloured stone。Polly pic...全部
Polly wandered over the rough field looking for the smaller potatoes that the pickers had accidentally missed 。
She found one ,then another,then a handful 。She was pleased 。They were dilicious once cooked。Then she caught sight of something else。
It looked like a piece of coloured stone。Polly picked it up and thought how pretty it was 。She could see a pattern on it :a picture of a fish and a part of a leaf。
She scraped(擦去)the soil away around her feet and found that she was standing on what seemed to be a piece of pavement(铺路石)。
Stuck to another piece of stone was something small and round like a button 。She realized it was an old coin 。
The field was busy the next morning though not with potato pickers 。In front of the house where the farm machinery usually stood were several cars and a police van。
A group of distinguished-looking men and women had appeared the morning after her father's telephone call。
The local television station had shown to be of Roman origin and was being described as the most exciting thing that had happened in the areasince the end of the Second World War 。
In those days an American airbase had occupied the site of the potato field。 A week later about forty students arrived from the local university 。
That afternoon a truck with equipment arrived 。The excavation(挖掘)was officially under way。Permission had been given and the "dig",as it was called ,was expected to last several months 。
Polly wondered how the everyday work of the farm would get done with so many strange people around and cars coming and going all day long 。
All the unusual activity had made the cows and sheep restless 。Her father said their cows produed less milk。
Still ,it aws interesting and great fun。They had let her keep the gold coin。 这是完形~~。收起
