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Passage 2
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me.

After breakfast one Saturday morning in the orphanage (孤儿院)，when I was a little boy, I saw thehouse parent chasing the beautiful butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close. When the telephone r
I sat there in the dirt, trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too lard to do. So I prayed for them and then I put them in an old shoe box and I buried them near the blackberry bushes.
Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and drive them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.
In the passage, the“house parent”（Line 2, Paragraph 2) is one who________.
A.does gardening
B.cleans the house
C.studies butterflies
D.looks after orphans

试题出自试卷《2013年4月全国自主考试综合英语(一)真题及答案》

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Passage 2There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me.