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I am running down an alley with a stolen avocado，having climbed over a white brick fence and into the forbidden backyard of a carefully manicured estate at the corner of El Dorado and Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills，California. I have snatched a rock-hard Fuerte avocado from one of the three avocado trees near the fence, I have been told that many ferocious dogs patrol the grounds； they are killers，these dogs. I am defying them. They are nowhere to be found, except in my mind, and I’m out and gone and in the alley with their growls directing my imagination. I am running with fear and exhilaration, beginning a period of summer.
Emerging from the shield of the alley I cut out into the open. Summer is about running, and I am running, protected by distance from the dogs. At the comer of Crescent Drive and Lomitas，I spot Bobby Tomitzer on a bike. I shout “Tornitzer! ” He turns his head. His bike wobbles. An automobile moving rapidly catches Tornitzer’s back wheel. Tornitzer is thrown high into the air and onto the concrete sidewalk of Crescent Drive. The driver, a woman with gray hair, swirls from the car hysterically and hovers noisily over Tornitzer, who will not survive the accident. I hold the avocado to my chest and stand, frozen, across the street. I am shivering in the heat, and sink to my knees. It is approximately 3:30 in the afternoon, it is June 21，1946. In seven days, I will be 8 years old.
31. The best title for this story could be .
A. Summer B. Killer Dogs
C. My Eighth Birthday D. The Alley
32. The main image in paragraph 1 is of a young boy .
A. climbing a white brick fences B. snatching avocados
C. running with fear and exhilaration D. defying ferocious dogs
33. The main image in paragraph 2 is of .
A. Tornitzer riding his bike
B. exhilaration turning into horror
C. the 7-year-old emerging from the alley
D. the hysteria of the woman driver
34. The story start with the feeling of and ends with the feeling of .
A. joyful action... horrified inaction
B. running…standing
C. being alone…being with others
D. being alone in the open".shivering in the heat
35. The phrase “shivering in the heat” (near the end of this passage) dramatically describes shock through .
A. the use of minute detail
B. the unexpected combination of hot and cold
C. its implied reference to the word “frozen”
D. the contrast of death and play
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