Question

     I have recently completed my college degree. The last project was called “Smile”. The class was asked to go out to smile at three people and document their reactions（反應(yīng)）. I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello anyway. So, I thought this would be a piece of cake.

    My husband, the youngest son and I went out to McDonald. We were standing in line when all of a sudden everyone around us began to back away. As I turned around I smelled a horrible body odour（氣味） and saw two poor homeless men standing behind me. As I looked at the short blue-eyed gentleman closest to me, he was “smiling”. The second man fumbled（摸索）with his hands as he stood behind his friend.

    The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted. He said, “Coffee is all, Miss, ” because that was all they could afford.

    Then I really felt it—I almost embraced（擁抱）the little man with the blue eyes. That is when I noticed all eyes in the restaurant were set on me, judging my every action. I smiled and asked the lady for two more breakfast meals and gave them to the men.

    The blue-eyed gentleman looked up at me, with tears in his eyes, and said, “Thank you. ”

    I turned in my project. My teacher said, “Can I share this? ” I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class. She began to read and that is when I knew that we as human beings share this need to heal people and to be healed.

    In my own way I had touched the people at McDonald’s and every soul that heard the story in the classroom. But, I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn.

55. The underlined part “a piece of cake” in Paragraph 1 means_______.

A. easy           B. embarrassing

C. moving         D. comfortable

56. Why did people around the author in the McDonald step back?

A. Because they were very polite to the two men.

B. Because they were moved by the two men.

C. Because the two men smelt terrible.

D. Because the two men seemed unfriendly.

57. Why did the two men only buy coffee?

A. Because they didn’t have enough money.

B. Because they didn’t feel hungry.

C. Because they knew others would help them.

D. Because they were looked down upon.

58. How did the teacher think of the author’s project?

A. Hard to believe.         B. Interesting to read.

C. Very puzzling.          D. Very satisfying.

Answer 1

 作者在大學(xué)畢業(yè)前，接到老師布置的作業(yè)；向三個(gè)人微笑然后記下他們的反應(yīng)。作者在麥當(dāng)勞時(shí)決定幫助兩個(gè)窮人，不僅僅感動(dòng)了這兩個(gè)窮人，同時(shí)也使在場的每個(gè)人以及作者的老師和同學(xué)感動(dòng)和高興。

55. 【解析】選A。詞義猜測題。此畫線部分前面一句提到作者對(duì)別人很友好，總是微笑，因此可知作者認(rèn)為這個(gè)任務(wù)非常簡單。

56. 【解析】選C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段第三句可知人們后退的原因是這兩個(gè)人身上的氣味很難聞。

57. 【解析】選A。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段第二句的because that was all they could afford. 可知。

58. 【解析】選D。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段可知老師看了作者的project后，把它讀給全班學(xué)生聽，因此可知老師對(duì)作者的作業(yè)感到很滿意。