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[2023·洛阳市第一次统一考试]
Last month our class project was to make a school newspaper. Our teacher divided us into groups and each group was supposed to work on a column (专栏). I missed the first planning meeting because of a dentist appointment so my group filled me in the next day. “We decided to do a gossip (闲言碎语) column，” Emily informed me. “We took along our notebooks and paid extraclose attention to everything happening around us.”
Austin read from his notebook, “James either has a cold or really bad allergies because he's been sneezing nonstop.” Jessica said, “Jackson is either going through a major growth spurt or getting ready to run a marathon because he's been eating two entire sandwiches for lunch.”
This gossip column was making me very uncomfortable. It was already spinning out of control. “Hold on，” I said, “don't you think kids will feel embarrassed to have that stuff shared with the school？” Austin jumped in, saying that I had a point and that the gossip column idea was not that friendly.
Then we thought about it for a bit, and then Emily brightened. “What if we do a friendly gossip column instead? We can call it an opgop column！” And that was exactly what we did. The next day at school, we took out notebooks everywhere we went. But this time, we wrote down the good stuff we witnessed. Here are a few snippets (一小条消息) from the column we ended up publishing：
Katie Myers was spotted picking up other people's litter and throwing it into the garbage can without even being asked.
Danny Gonzales was seen helping a second grader get a ball unstuck from a high, hardtoreach place.
And Soe Zaleski was overheard very patiently explaining a maths problem to a very grateful person.
1．What did the author's team members do the day the project was announced?
A．They were divided into three groups.
B．They went to the dentist's on schedule.
C．They discussed their topic with the author.
D．They gathered information for their topic.
2．Which of the following can best describe the author's attitude to the gossip column?
A．Supportive. B．Indifferent.
C．Opposed. D．Objective.
3．What does the underlined word “spurt” in the second paragraph most probably mean?
A．The age limit. B．Sudden increase.
C．Inborn disability. D．The highest height.
4．What's the author's purpose in writing the passage?
A．To call on people to spread people's good deeds.
B．To introduce the content of their opgop column.
C．To show people love to catch the gossip news.
D．To prove it's easy to catch the gossip news.
