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【正文】 ations from almost every stage of its history.A written record came out in 1924. It says that the island was once the home of the Konoh people. The name Konoh was mispronounced and finally became “Coney.”Another explanation finds the name connected with the arrival of Henry Hudson in New York Harbor in 1609. According to it, John Coleman, Hudson’s righthand man, was killed by Indians. To honor him, people named the island after him.The Dutch settled in Manhattan in1624, and they became to Coney Island soon afterwards. Since the Dutch word for rabbit (兔子) was konijn and the island had a large population of wild rabbits, many people have supposed this fact to have led to the name. There was a different story about the Dutch word. The Dutch fought the Indians there and were believed to have said that their enemies “ran like rabbits.”According to an article in a magazine, an Irish captain named Peter O’ Connor sailed between New York and Ireland in the late 1700s, and he named Coney Island after an island that was close to his home in Ireland and of the same size as the American island.Unfortunately, there is little evidence (證據) that the Dutch, or the English after them, used any word “Coney” for several centuries. There is a lot of evidence, however, that the name Coney Island came into use in the first half the 19th century, after a ferry (渡船) service to carry passengers from the island to the mainland.54. According to the passenger, the name Coney______. A. was mispronounced by the Konoh ColemanB. was given by a man called John ColemanC. es from an island close to the English coastD. is close in pronunciation to a Dutch word55. It is said that John Coleman ______. A. used his right hand better than the left oneB. was an important assistant of Henry HudsonC. killed many Indians in battles in 1609D. was the first man to reach the island56. The writer believes that the name Coney Island most probably _____. A. has a history of less than 200 yearsB. came into use several hundred years agoC. was used first by the English, not the DutchD. is related to the sail from New York to Ireland57. From the passage we know that the word mystery means something ____. A. that history books keep a record of B. people have found explanations forC. that has not been known enough aboutD. people have not yet thought aboutCBen Carson, a doctor at Johns Hopkins Children’s center, talks about how he grew up in a poor Detroit Neighborhood, when peer (同齡人) pressure almost controlled his behavior and even his clothes. He wanted so badly to be considered cool that he begged his mother to buy him an expensive Italian shirt.“My mother made me a deal,” Carson remembers, “She said, ‘I’ll give you all the money I make next week. You’ll be in charge of the family finance (財務)—buying food and other necessities and paying the bills. Whatever you have left over you can spend on whatever you want.’”“I thought, this is going to be great,” Carson says, “I bought things we needed most and then began going through the bills. Of course I ran pletely out of money long before everything was paid.”Then I realized my mother, with her thirdgrade education, was a financial genius (理財能手)—just to keep food on our table and clothes on our backs with such a small sum of money. I’d been a fool. I wanted her to buy me a ＄75 shirt when she only took home ＄100 a week, cleaning other people’s floors and washing their toilets. I took a hard look at my behavior and wondered how I could be so selfish.”“I started studying again. My grades went back up to A’s. Some of my peers laughed at me because I did not follow their pattern. But I refused to let that trouble me, because I had a goal.”The experience had a lasting effect, “I not only saw and felt the difference my mother made in my life, I am living out that difference as a man.”58. When Ben Carson was young, he _____