阅读理解DorotheaShawis71yearsoldandn

阅读理解Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chose to live alone far away from people. She lives in Belize — a county the size of Wales with a population only that of Swansea. Her home is at Gales Point, a tiny village which can be reached only by sea or air; after a 10-mile walk into the hills one finally reaches a piece of land and two small houses so hidden in the thick over-grown forest that only a handful of people know Dorothea is there.She lives happily and totally alone – growing her vegetables, looking after her trees and dogs, cats and chickens. Once a month or so an old friend passes by with her food supplies and letters-usually including a letter from her sister in Scunthorpe and some bits of clothing from friends in Canada. Sometimes a local man will e and cut wood for her and a group of British soldiers will e across her and be greeted with the offer of a cup of coffee.At night she lies in her tiny sleeping room with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table near the typewriter and one of the hens settled down in a corner of the bookshelf, and listens for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French broadcasts she can find on her radio. Sometimes she gets lonely but most of the time the animals and the radio are pany enough.But recently the very things that she had tried to get free from so well have begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has been destroyed by the noise of earth-moving machines not many miles away. What she once only heard of distantly on the radio is now on her doorstep. Things began to change three years ago. The new main north-south road in Belize was cut through the forest only four or five miles away. “Now more people know I’m here.” She says. “I feel more and more uneasy each day.”1.Dorothea’s small houses ________.    A.are entirely surrounded by treesB.have always been her homeC.were built for just a few peopleD.are in a county with the same population as Wales2.Dorothea lives in the tiny village because ________.A.she doesn’t like living near peopleB.she is too old to moveC.machines destroyed her homeD.there’s nowhere else for her to live3.Dorothea doesn’t get lonely since she has _______ with her.A.her sisterB.some animalsC.friends from CanadaD.a postman4.Dorothea spends a lot of time __________.A.growing all the food she needsB.cutting down treesC.listening to the radioD.studying languages