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Mary’s dime(一毛钱)
It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel 1 when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.
What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly 2 the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light 3 her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.
How much I 4 that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so 5 — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.
I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the 6 in her old dirty dress, looking at the 7 that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt 8 and looked straight at me, just as if(似乎)nobody had spoken so 9 to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would 10 . I haven’t had anything to eat today.”
Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today, 11 this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your 12 . She needs it a great deal more than you do.”
I could not run away from that little girl’s sad, 13 look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How 14 the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime, 15 I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.
1. A.disturbed B.unhappy C.satisfied D.interested
2. A.saw B.remembered C.forgot D.described
3. A.filling B.protecting C.attracting D.touching
4. A.hated B.loved C.missed D.noticed
5. A.valuable B.meaningful C.expensive D.cheap
6. A.market B.library C.store D.bookshop
7. A.dresses B.magazines C.books D.candies
8. A.surprised B.excited C.pleased D.worried
9. A.happily B.kindly C.angrily D.sadly
10. A.taste B.sound C.feel D.smell
11. A.since B.so C.and D.but
12. A.apple B.hamburger C.dime D.candy
13. A.proud B.angry C.calm D.hungry
14. A.grateful B.unlucky C.lonely D.friendly
15. A.unless B.if C.though D.because
When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was ____80____ and I was playing with my younger brother Tony. Suddenly I ran to my mother and said, “Tony fell from the open window!” She was very ____81____ and ran out of the kitchen. Then I said, “Don’t worry, I’m just joking.” And my mother shouted at me, “If you do it again, I’ll hit you.”
One day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on them. In the beginning, I swam fast, and I called out, “____82____!” All my friends came to help me, only to find that I was joking. But half an hour later, I wasn’t joking. I swam so fast that I got ____83____ and couldn’t swim on in water. I tried my best to call my friends for help, but this time nobody came to help me.
____84____, they found I was telling the truth. They came and saved my life. They took me to the hospital. This is the best ____85____ in my life. From then on, I haven’t joked on anyone.
80. A. sleeping B. writing C. cooking D. swimming
81. A. happy B. angry C. worried D. sorry
82. A. Come on B. Help C. Look D. Hello
83. A. bored B. hungry C. surprised D. tired
84. A. In the end B. In addition C. Since then D. Instead
85. A. time B. lesson C. experience D. sport
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| One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited patiently for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became 1 . When he saw a photograph booth (照相亭) nearby, he had 2 . He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not 3 in the situation. In a few moments, he was holding four small prints that shocked even him. He wrote his wife's name on the back of the photos and handed them to a clerk behind the desk in the booth." 4 you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression, obviously 5 someone, would you please give her this?" he said. He then returned to his office in Morrison Building, 6 that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good lecture! He sat down with a smile. His wife 7 those pictures. She carries them in her purse now and shows them to anyone who asks if she is married … How are you with patience? One person calls it "wait training." It seems that there is always something we are waiting for. We wait on traffic and we wait in lines. We wait to hear about a new job. We wait to complete school. We wait for someone to change his or her mind. Patience is an important quality of a happy and rewarding life. 8 , some things are worth waiting for. Every day presents many opportunities for wait training. We can hate waiting, 9 it or even get good at it! But one thing is 10 —we cannot avoid it. How is your wait training coming along? | ||||
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