When a tornado touched down in a small town nearby, many families were left completely destroyed. Afterward all the local newspapers carried many human-interest stories featuring some of the families who suffered the hardest.
One Sunday, a particular picture especially touched me. A young woman stood in front of an entirely shattered mobile home, a depressed expression twisting her features. A young boy, seven or eight years old, stood at her side, eyes downcast. Clutching  (緊握)  at her skirt was a tiny girl who stared into the camera, eyes wide with confusion and fear.
The article that went with the picture gave the clothing sizes of each family member. With growing interest, I noticed that their sizes closely matched ours. This would be a good opportunity to teach my children to help those less fortunate than themselves. I taped the picture of the young family to our refrigerator, explaining their difficulty to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and to three- year-old Meghan.
“ We have so much. And these poor people now have nothing,” I said.“We’ll share what we have with them.”
I brought three large boxes down from the room upstairs and placed them on the living room floor. Meghan watched seriously, as the boys and I filled one of the boxes with canned goods and foods.
While I sorted through our clothes, I encouraged the boys to go through their toys and donate some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched quietly as the boys piled up discarded toys and games.
“I’ll help you find something for the little girl when I’m done with this,” I said.
The boys placed the toys they had chosen to donate into one of the boxes while I filled the third box with clothes. Meghan walked up with Lucy, her worn, faded, much-loved rag doll hugged tightly to her chest. She paused in front of the box that held the toys, pressed her round little face into Lucy’s flat, painted-on-face, gave her a final kiss, then laid her gently on top of the other toys.
“Oh, Honey,” I said.“You don’t have to give Lucy. You love her so much.”
Meghan nodded seriously, eyes glistening with held-back tears. ‘”Lucy makes me happy, Mommy. Maybe she’ll make that other little girl happy, too．”
Swallowing hard, I stared at Meghan for a long moment, wondering how I could teach the boys the lesson she had just taught me. For I suddenly realized that anyone can give their cast-offs away. True generosity is giving that which you value most.
Honest benevolence  (善行)  is a three-year-old offering a valuable, though shabby, doll to a little girl she doesn’t know with the hope that it will bring this child as much pleasure as it brought her. I, who had wanted to teach, had been taught.
The boys had watched, open-mouthed, as their baby sister placed her favorite doll in the box. Without a word, Brad rose and went to his room. He came back carrying one of his favorite action figures. He hesitated briefly, clutching the toy, then looked over at Meghan and placed it in the box next to Lucy.
A slow smile spread across Brett’s face. Then he jumped up, eyes twinkling as he ran to fetch some of his prized Matchbox cars.
Astonished, I realized that the boys had also recognized what little Meghan’s gesture meant. Swallowing back tears, I pulled all three of them into my arms.
Taking the cue from my little one, I removed my old jacket from the box of clothes. I replaced it with the new hunter green jacket that I had found on sale last week. I hoped the young woman in the picture would love it as much as I did.
It’s easy to give that which we don’t want any more, but harder to let go of things we cherish, isn’t it? However, the true spirit of giving is to give with your heart..
小題1:Why does the author give a detailed description of a particular picture in the Sunday newspaper?
A．To create an atmosphere of fear and depression brought by the tornado.
B．To appeal to unconcerned people to donate for the poor families.
C．To show the helplessness and hopelessness of the family mentioned in the paper.
D．To stress what touched her and made her decide to help the hopeless family.
小題2:Why did Brad and Brett also donate their favorite things finally?
A．They were encouraged to donate some valuable things by the mother.
B．Meghan’s decision inspired them to donate their favorite things.
C．They also wanted to show generosity by giving away their valuable things.
D．Meghan’s gesture reminded them to replace their favorite things with new ones.
小題3:By “ swallowing hard”, the writer means that   _   _ .
A．she was deeply puzzled by what the little girl did
B．she had trouble persuading Meghan not to give away Lucy
C．she was greatly moved by Meghan’s unexpected decision
D．she was uncertain what consequences Meghan’s action would bring about
小題4:It is suggested in the sentence “the true spirit of giving is to give with your heart” that ______.
A．sincere donation means offering help to others whole-heartedly
B．true giving means giving others what you treasure most
C．true generosity means helping others at the cost of your own benefit
D．honest benevolence means devoting yourself to the career of donation
小題5:What’s the best title for this passage?
A．The Greatest LoveB．A Beautiful Heart
C．True GenerosityD．A Precious Gift

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:B
小題5:C

小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題。結(jié)合a particular picture especially touched me和This would be a good opportunity to teach my children to help those less fortunate than themselves.可知作者受到感動(dòng)并決定利用此機(jī)會(huì)教育孩子幫助那些不幸的人。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。結(jié)合Astonished, I realized that the boys had also recognized what little Meghan’s gesture meant. 可知Brad and Brett都受到了Meghan的感染，不再有所保留捐出了更多心愛的東西。
小題3:推斷題。結(jié)合I stared at Meghan for a long moment可選出答案。
小題4:推斷題。結(jié)合全文可知，在作者看來(lái)捐出自己不喜歡的東西很容易，而捐出自己的最喜歡的則是很難的，由此作者得出結(jié)論：給予的真正精神是把自己最珍惜的東西捐給別嗯。
小題5:標(biāo)題題。 見上題分析。
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A．having B．thinking C．facing D．doing
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A．surprise B．disappointment C．happiness D．warmth
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A．pleased B．disappointed C．sorry D．sure
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A．dormitory B．class C．pattern D．group
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A．harmony B．friendship C．order D．a(chǎn)rrangement
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Paul answered, “Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was surprised. “You mean your brother gave it to you and it cost you nothing? Boy, I wish…” He hesitated.
Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He wished he had a brother like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.
“I wish,” the boy went on, “that I could be a brother like that.” Paul looked at the boy in surprise, and then he said again, “Would you like to take a ride in my car?”
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Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the boy wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again．“Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked.
He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled （殘疾） brother. He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.
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Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in and the three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride.
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In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition(學(xué)會(huì)) of each new skill---the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is usual that parents hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, and a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.
Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters, other are severe over time of coming home at night or punctuality (準(zhǔn)時(shí)) for meals. In general, the controls imposed (強(qiáng)加的) represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness.
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parent teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is not foundation for morality. Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach (說(shuō)教), their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
小題1: Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills ________.
A．should be avoided
B．is universal among parents
C．sets up dangerous states of worry in the child
D．will make him lose interest in learning new things
小題2:When children are learning new skills, parents should _________.
A．encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read
B．not expect too much of them
C．a(chǎn)chieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their own
D．create as many learning opportunities as possible
小題3:The second paragraph mainly tells us_________.
A．parents should be strict with their children
B．parents controls satisfy only the needs of the parents and the values of the community
C．parental restrictions vary, and are not always enforced for the benefit of the children alone
D．parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the situation
小題4:In moral matters, parents should _________.
A．observe the rules themselves
B．be aware of the marked difference between adults and children
C．forbid things which have no foundation in morality
D．satisfy their children’s needs

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