2015考研英语阅读集中练：farmer's winter store
考研英语阅读水平的提高重在练习，多练才能够增加词汇量，提升对语法语义的把握，才能够更容易的理解和总结文章中心主旨。正所谓熟能生巧，就是这个道理。十一刚过，后续复习任务依然很重，新东方在线小编希望考生能够继续努力，多读多练。下面分享英语阅读集中练篇章，望考生认真阅读。2015考研英语阅读集中练：farmer's winter store
I think the building must have been used as a farmer's winter store, for I
found piles of forgotten dried chestnuts and grain in rotting barrels. I tried
the chestnuts but they tasted sour, Paulo said he would bring me food, but that
was three days ago.
Yesterday, I heard a car engine getting closer, and climbed up to hide in
the beams of the patched roof. But the men just looked in quickly through the
worn-out windows and broken doors before they left. I clung to the dusty wooden
beam, feeling it would bend under my weight, and tried to make no noise. My arms
and legs grew numb, then began to tremble. I longed to move, but I waited until
I heard the policemen drive off.
I know that they will return. When we began the final part of our journey,
we were warned that the police patrolled the land around here regularly. They
are always searching for us, or others like us; the coast of Morocco and the
Presidio of Ceuta are only ten miles away across the Straits.
That is how I got here: squeezed in with fifteen other men in a shallow
boat meant for eight, with the cold waves reaching over the sides and the night
deep and black as a tomb. I have never been more scared. I prayed all the way
across, and thought about my family. I told myself, over and over, that I was
doing it for them. That trip took almost all of my money. All of the money I had
saved in Ecuador . The boatmen left us on a beach in the middle of the night. We
lost sight of them but we could still hear their small engine across the waves.
Six of us started walking inland but the others waited for the contacts, the
friends of the boatmen, as they had been told.
We were lucky: we met Paulo. We found the town and waited until the first
bar opened; I went in alone while the others hid in the orchard nearby. When I
asked for a cup of coffee, the young barman looked at me and nodded. He made the
coffee, then disappeared into the back room. Cold and without strength, I
wrapped my hands around the warm cup, not caring whether the barman had called
the police, not caring about the next moment, just about the present.
But the man had called Paulo, who came and helped us. Paulo was always
smiling, always happy. He was from Seville , a busy city of many people, and he
knew many people. Paulo found work for us. I made good money on the farms. I
picked cabbages, beans, cucumbers and peas. I picked great round yellow squashes
that smelled of rich perfume when you broke them. The farmers hired us by the
day, and were content. The local people would never work for the wages we are
paid. But there were many farms, and many crops to be picked. We were
welcomed.
I shared a small clean house in the town with seven other workers. We had
journeyed from Ecuador, Colombia , Venezuela , even Argentina. Paulo found the
house for us - he knew the landlord and arranged a good price. We lived well,
with enough food and sometimes wine. I earned more in a week than I could in
three months back home if there had been work to do there. I sent most of the
money that was left to my wife and parents, and wrote many letters to them. Then
the government changed the rules so that we needed work permits.
I queued with hundreds of other workers, waiting for the application forms.
We sat on the stone benches beneath the trees and read the forms. Some of the
other workers are from small villages and towns, and cannot read as well as I
can, so I explained to them that the government wanted our birth certificates,
driving licenses, passports and many other documents. Many of the workers had
perhaps one or two of these documents, but most had none. I helped the others
complete the forms and we gave them to the clerk. He looked at our documents,
stamped the forms many times and told us that they would be sent to Madrid , and
our permits would be returned in two or three months if the forms were
approved.
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