Once many years ago, I pulled a family out of a burning car somewhere in Wyoming. Last week I received a telephone call from a woman who could not stop crying as she told me that one of my stories had saved her son from committing suicide. In closing she called me a hero.
That got me thinking about what a hero is. Was I a hero because I pulled a family from a burning car? If so, how could I be a hero just because I wrote a story that saved someone’s life?
Today I looked up the word “hero” in the dictionary to see exactly what it meant. It read “a person who does something brave” and also “a person who is good and noble”.
That statement impressed me more than the part about being brave. So I thought about something very important. And I remembered what happened to me years ago.
After my marriage of twenty years ended, I was in such a condition. I was within hours trying to get up enough courage to end the pain and misery. When I returned home, someone had sent me a card in the mail which told me how much they would appreciate me as a friend. That wonderful card probably saved my life. That person, without even knowing it, saved a life and became a hero.
The many stories I kept writing in the following years saved the life of a teenage boy. In turn that makes the person who sent me the card a double hero. I suppose that is why I fight so hard to help the children now living in orphanages (孤兒院). Most children come out of these institutions with a very hard and bitter attitude against the world. The gifts we send them let them know that they have not been forgotten. Hopefully, most of them will never hurt anyone because of the kindness shown to them by those of us who cared. If it works, we will also become "heroes".
小題1:The main idea of the passage is _______________.
A．why the writer should be a hero
B．whether the writer is a hero
C．what a hero exactly is
D．that everyone is a hero
小題2:Why did the woman call the writer a hero at the end of the call?
A．Because he was cute and kind to everybody
B．Because he saved a family from a burning car.
C．Because he asked her son not to kill himself.
D．Because his story saved her son’s life.
小題3:What does the underlined word “it” in the last sentence of Paragraph 5 refer to?
A．The wonderful card the writer received.
B．The action of sending the card.
C．The fact that the sender helped the writer.
D．The fact that the sender was a friend of the writer.
小題4:According to the writer, who can be considered as a hero?
A．A person who helps someone in trouble.
B．A person who writes wonderful stories.
C．A person who can hold a door for others.
D．A person who is brave.

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:A

小題1:主旨大意題。文章主要介紹了不同時期作者對什么樣的人才是“英雄”的不同認識。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的Last week I received a telephone call from a woman who could not stop crying as she told me that one of my stories had saved her son from committing suicide. In closing she called me a hero.可知女士感激作者是因為他的故事阻止了她兒子自殺，故可知答案。
小題3:詞義理解題。根據(jù)上文那個美好的卡片救了作者的命，盡管送卡片的人沒有意識到這一點可知，it應該指代作者獲救這件事。所以選C。
小題4:推理判斷題。根據(jù)作者對hero的解釋，見義勇為的人是英雄，幫助那些需要幫助的人也是一種英雄，因此只有A符合條件
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小題9:
A．broken B．fine C．shut D．open
小題10:
A．once B．before C．when D．until
小題11:
A．far B．deep C．long D．little
小題12:
A．driver B．engineer C．father D．son
小題13:
A．called B．made C．elected D．turned
小題14:
A．experienceB．earning C．life D．position
小題15:
A．stay up B．wake up C．stay home D．go home
小題16:
A．competitionB．performance C．debate D．party
小題17:
A．family B．company C．team D．whole
小題18:
A．build B．climb C．stand D．lay
小題19:
A．house B．garage C．car D．taxi
小題20:
A．who B．what C．which D．Where

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Talk about happiness
We should not hesitate too much during the first half of our lives, while we should not regret at what we’ve done during the other half. We should seize every opportunity to find a way out in our lives, for it goes off swiftly. We should say something urgent slowly, something serious clearly, something small humorously and something unsure cautiously. We should never say something that did not happen, something that you cannot do, something that does harm to others, and something that is disgusting. We should tell others our happiness on specific occasions and should not tell anyone our unhappiness. Do not easily say something about others. We should follow our own heart and interest, and fulfill what we should do instead of merely paying lip service and looking forward to the future.
Everyone is longing for a happy life, but owning wealth does not necessarily mean owning happiness. To truly reach happiness, we need to know how to get on with others. So we need to understand what happiness is really about and achieve what we desire.
We need to know and understand happiness before we finally get it. A smart man must know to do something good even though it may be small, and not to do something evil even though it may be tiny in the course of socializing. As long as we keep a kind heart and do everything morally and legally, we can live a peaceful life. But if we keep an evil heart and do whatever we want, we are indeed digging a tomb for ourselves. A smart man knows to learn a lesson from his falls, for he knows that every setback is a precious experience leading to happiness in the future. He will not waste his time in criticizing others. Instead, he tends to spend more time seeking his own happiness. He knows to keep a heart of conscience and not to spread others’ mistakes. He also knows to think before he leaps so that he will not feel regretful afterwards. Moreover, he knows to tolerate others, so he can naturally lead a happy life.
Without happiness, one will feel terribly miserable, for he always insists that he has done the right thing all the time and that others often do wrong to him. He blames every mistake on others or the environment instead of reflecting on himself, which keeps him farther and farther away from happiness. A celebrity once said, “Nobody intends to make mistakes. One makes mistakes because of his ignorance.” Therefore, if someone makes mistakes, we need to care about him, forgive him and enlighten him by setting a good example to him instead of losing temper and hating him. Otherwise, we are also ignorant like him, for we also make a stupid mistake that leads us farther from happiness.
In order to possess a happy life, we need to know more about others, about the society, about our culture and history. We should be patriotic(愛國的), obey the law and realize our own responsibility, and then we will definitely have a happy life.
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Talk about happiness
Wise actions in life
●Do things without小題1:_______and never regret at anything .
●Seize every opportunity to do the things we should.
●Avoid saying or doing what we are not小題2:________ about.
●Don’t comment on others easily.
Things about happiness we should小題3:________ in mind
●Getting on well with others is necessary.
●Doing good things with a kind heart may make us live 小題4:________.
●Knowing future happiness小題5:_______ from precious experiences learned from every setback.
●Thinking twice before action and tolerating others can 小題6:________ to a happy life.
Reasons for lack of happiness
●He blames everything wrong on others or the 小題7:________, not himself.
●His 小題8:________ results in making mistakes, which keeps him farther away from happiness
小題9:________on how to possess happiness
●We should care about the people who make mistakes instead of losing temper and set an example to them.
●We should have a rich 小題10:________  of society, culture, history and others.
●We should obey the law and shoulder our own responsibility.

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