I'm confused these days. We are taught at home and at school that using violence(暴力) is the least civilized(文明的) way to solve problems. For example, last week I thought about hitting my friend for winning a beautiful shell while we were playing at the beach. I talked with him instead and we came to an agreement. If two adults had a disagreement, and if they used violence towards each other in order to win, is it all right?

When two countries disagree, they often fight a war. Why is using violence not okay at home, at school, or in your country but okay between countries? So many people have been killed because of wars, not only soldiers but ordinary people, even small children and babies. And refugees(难民) exist, too.

A war is a great violence, like two people fighting over a shell, just much bigger. Adults say they are fighting wars in order to solve problems and make peace. But can you really “make peace” by killing so many people? I don't think bombs(炸弹) can reach people's hearts and change them. Bombs can't create love and caring, and that's what we need in the world. Why do adults use violence so quickly? Why can't they use their wisdom(智慧) and talk it over?

Adults might say that things are not that easy. But they are the ones that teach us to be kind, not to hurt people, and not to kill. Why don't they act as what they say?

---A page from a 12-year-old boy, Joshua's diary.

1.At the beach, Joshua  .

A.hit his friend

B.won a beautiful shell

C.played with a beautiful shell

D.came to an agreement with his friend

2.What's the key to peace in Joshua's opinion?

A.Love and care for each other

B.Don't use violence so quickly

C.Stop using bombs in wars

D.Don't hurt or kill people in wars

3.What does the sentence “Bombs can't create love and caring ,and that's what we need in the world.” mean?

A.We need to use violence to solve problems

B.What we need is bombs

C.We need bombs to create love and caring

D.What we need in the world is love and caring

4.From the reading we can see Joshua wants adults to  .

A.learn from children

B.be children's models

C.be kind to children

D.teach children how to solve problems

5.Choose the best title(标题) for the passage.

A.Adults and Wars B.How to Stop Wars

C.Wars Can't Make Peace D.Ways of Solving Problems

When I was eight years old, my mother told me to put my coat on because we were going to go somewhere_______. Usually, that meant we were going to see someone important. I would at least get a new toy. I asked which one it would be that day, and she told me that I would get something _________than a toy. She said I would get “access(通道)to a world of toys.”I had no real idea what she meant. Did that mean we were buying a toy _______?

But we did not end up at any toy store. Neither did we finally see anyone we knew.

_______, mother pulled her car into a parking lot in front of a building that looked like something out of the past. It didn’t have a modern_________at all.

We took stone steps up to the entrance. Only then I found out what this place was, because there was a sign that _______“Marcy Public Library”. We pushed the door open, and my mother led me to the front desk. “I’d like to get my daughter a library card”, she told the man_________the desk. He asked her to fill out a form. “What kind of books do you like to read?” he asked. I was too shy to _________. I only smiled. “Well, you’ll find it out in time,” he said. I do not remember_________I picked out that day, but I know that in the years that followed I read through books on history, books of poetry, and books about art. The library opened up a world that I __________knew that day.

So my mother was right. Getting a library card was like getting the access to a world of toys.

1.A.special B.strange C.lovely D.strict

2.A.worse B.better C.cheaper D.uglier

3.A.model B.car C.card D.store

4.A.Otherwise B.However C.Anyway D.Instead

5.A.smell B.look C.taste D.feeling

6.A.said B.printed C.spoke D.read

7.A.over B.above C.on D.behind

8.A.choose B.reply C.borrow D.scream

9.A.what B.how C.when D.why

10.A.ever B.always C.never D.already

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