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

 

 

　　Mr Lee had never been up in an airplane before and he had read a lot about accidents. So one day when a friend came to his house and 1 to take him for a ride in his own small plane, Mr Lee was very 2 . He thought to himself. “If I don't agree, my friend may not be happy. 3 if I agree, I am really afraid that there might be some danger.” 4 , however, his friend made him believe that it was very 5 , and Mr Lee got on the plane.

　　His friend 6 the engine(发动机)and the plane began to move along on the ground of the 7 . Mr Lee was very frightened and closed his eyes. After a minute or two he opened them 8 , looked out of the window of the plane, and said to his friend, “Look 9 those people down there. They look as 10 as ants(蚂蚁), don't they?”

　　“Those are ants,” answered his friend, “we're still on the ground.”

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