题型：阅读选择 题类： 难易度：困难
浙江省温州市鹿城区温州市实验中学2024-2025学年九年级上学期10月月考英语试题
In the open field, a crowd was in front of the board, from which a piece of bad news comes-- France lost the battle to Germany.
That morning, I started for school very late with fear of being punished(惩罚). I hurried as fast as I could to school.
When school began, there was usually a- great noise. But now it was all so silent! I went in and sat down. I found our teacher had put on his beautiful coat that he never wore except on prize days. On the back benches that were always empty, the village people were sitting quietly like us.
While I was wondering, M. Hamel said," My students, the order has come from Germany to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. So this is your last French lesson."
How sorry I was for hardly knowing how to write French! Now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting here. They were sorry, too, that they had not gone to school more. It was their way of thanking our teacher for his 40 years of service and of showing their love for the country that was theirs no more.
Then, M. Hamel talked of the French language, saying it was the most beautiful language in the world. He opened the book and read us our lesson. I was amazed to. see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy! After it, we were asked to write. Whenever I looked up from my writing, I saw M. Hamel staring first at one thing, then at another, as if he wanted to fi x everything in his mind. On the roof the pigeons(鸽子) cooed very low, and I thought to myself," Will German soldiers even make pigeons sing in German?"
All at once the church- clock struck twelve. It was the time to dismiss(解散) the class.
M. Hamel stood up, very pale. I never saw him look so tall.
" My friends" said he,"I …I…" But something choked(哽咽) him.
Then he returned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk, with all his strength, he wrote as large as he could:
" Vive La France!(法国万岁)"
—— Adapted from The Last Lesson
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