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     Everyone knows the smart blackandwhite dog that sits on top of a red doghouse with

his best friend-a bird called Woodstock.

     Created by the American cartoonist Charles Schulz in 1950, the clever dog is loved

by generations of kids and adults. He speaks more than 20 languages and appears daily

in 26,000 newspapers around the world.

     When Snoopy first appeared, he was not different from other pet dogs.  But two

years later, he had begun to speak with simple words and sounds. By 1957 he could

walk on two legs and was going to school with his master, Charlie Brown, who failed

in just about everything. Later he learned to use the typewriter.

Snoopy has done lots of jobs. He has been a bowtie wearing lawyer, a tennis player,

an Olympic figure skater, a world famous grocery checkout clerk, a pilot and even the

first astronaut on the moon.

     However, Snoopy has always dreamed of being a famous writer. The beginning of

his story is always, "It was a dark and stormy night..." Unfortunately for him no one has

ever wanted to publish the story.

In love, Snoopy is as much of a failure as Charlie Brown is at baseball. He easily falls in

love but always has his heart broken. He eats to forget, but it never works.

Snoopy is an insightful (富有洞察力的), feelgood and sometimes sad dog. If you think

a little about his words, you might find them full of life lessons. Among his most famous

lines are "To live is to dance, to dance is to live." and "Yesterday I was a dog. Today

I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement"．

1. Snoopy has done all the following jobs EXCEPT ________.    

A. a lawyer                

B. a player

C. a clerk                 

D. a writer

2. From the passage, we can learn that ________.

A. Snoopy is always a sad dog

B. Snoopy can not speak in the beginning

C. Snoopy often dreams of true love

D. Snoopy is a real smart pet dog

3. It can be inferred that Snoopy ________. 

A. has many bird friends and relatives

B. is a wellknown writer and clerk

C. has been unfortunate since it was born

D. is very popular in the whole world

4. The underlined word "advancement" probably means ________.

A. success  

B. progress

C. growth  

D. popularity