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Darayya’s Library

John Edwards, July 21 2016
SYRIA – Darayya
In Darayya, a city in Syria, there’s a library, and it has 15,000 books on almost every subject you can think of. However, it is different from any library you know. It is a secret underground library, and only people in Darayya know where it is.

Over the years, war has shaken Darayya badly. Every day, houses are bombed and people are killed. Stores are closed one after another, and so are schools. To help the kids in Darayya with their learning, Anas Ahmad, a 19-year-old student, and his friends decided to build a library. They built the library under the ground to keep it safe from bombing. But it is dangerous to collect books for the library. Often, Ahmad and his friends look for books in houses that were bombed. They need to be careful because they may be killed in another bombing.

You may ask, “In a place like Darayya, would people be interested in books?” “Just like the body needs food, the mind needs books,” says one library user. In the library, people enjoy their time of reading and forget about the terrible world above, so their life doesn’t seem so hard. Through reading, they are able to dream of a better life after war.

32. Below are the ideas that are talked about in the reading.
a. The problems Darayya has.
b. How Darayya’s library was started.
c. What makes Darayya’s library special.
d. How Darayya’s library helps people there.
In what order does the writer put his ideas in the reading?
(A) c   b   a   d.
(B) b   a   d   c.
(C) a   c   b   d.
(D) c   a   b   d.

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Usually I wouldn’t cross the park at this time of night. But walking around the park would take more time, and it was raining so hard that I couldn’t even see clearly what was right before me. So I entered the park. And that was the first stupid thing I did tonight.
Soon after I walked into the park, I saw a man under a tree up ahead. My heart fell. The stories I’d heard about the park __38___ into my head at this moment. Anyone with a clear mind would just turn back. But me? No. I did __39___ stupid thing: I decided to hurry past him.
Just when I was passing the man, he raised his head and gave me the strangest smile ever. I got scared and started running. “Hey!”” the man shouted from behind. “”Wait!”” He was running after me!
I ran like crazy. I had hoped the trees would keep some rain off. And they __40___. But they also made the park look even darker. I couldn’t see what was ahead of me. Then, I ran into something. It was the man!
“Don’t kill me!” I cried.
“What? I __41___ to give back your bag! You dropped it,” the man gave me my bag.
Now, I felt saying that to the man was the stupidest thing I did tonight.

38.
(A) are all coming
(B) have all come
(C) were all coming
(D) would all come