The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition-and I told the sisters: You take care of the other three. I take care of this one who looked worse. So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand as she said just the words “Thank you” and she died.
I could not help but examine my conscience before her and I asked what I would say if I was in her place. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more-she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face. So did that man whom we picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. “I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for”,he said at the end . And it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel-this is the greatness of our people. And that is why we believe what Jesus has said: I was hungry, I was naked, I was homeless, I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and you did it to me.
And with this prize that I received as a Prize of Peace, I am going to try to make the home for many people who have no home. Because I believe that love begins at home and if we can create a home for the poor I think that more and more love will spread. And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, be the good k*s#5^unews to the poor, the poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But to a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out from society, that poverty is so full of hurt and so unbearable… And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
56. What can be learned from the second paragraph?
A. The woman should have paid more attention to herself.
B. The man couldn’t blame anyone.
C. The author is religious.
D. The man died in the street.
57. The purpose of this passage is      .   
A. To appeal for more donation for the poor.
B. To call on the public to love each other.
C. To tell the readers the poor are wonderful.
D. To express how moved the author is to receive the prize.
58.       is NOT inferred from the passage?
A. The author has few supporters.
B. The author was somewhat surprised at what the man said.
C. The author is delighted to help others in trouble.
D. The author may agree to solve social problems in soft ways.
59. What’s the best title of this passage?
A. Have Sympathy for the Poor
B. The Poor are Wonderful
C. Smile and Love
D. Relieve Poverty

Jody was ten years old when he decided he needed a job. He thought it might be   36  to raise worms. He could sell them to farmers and people who fished. So in   37 , he bought many worms. But that winter the cold weather killed all the worms because he had not   38  them in a warm place.

The next spring Jody   39  again. He bought more worms, which he took good care of. When winter came, he took them inside   40  they would stay warm. Many people bought his worms.

One day when Jody was twelve, he got a letter. It was from state of New York. The letter said, “Everyone who   41  things has to pay taxes!” Jody made only one dollar selling worms. But he still   42  to pay part of that money to the state. He told many people in his town what had ___43  . Soon some people from a television station   44  with Jody. Many people saw it and they began to write letters to the state. The letters now said that the law was   45 . Finally the law was changed. Children like Jody can now sell things without paying money to the state.

1.

A.boring

B.lucky

C.fun

D.impossible

2.

A.autumn

B.spring

C.winter

D.summer

3.

A.caught

B.found

C.hidden

D.put

4.

A.tried

B.waited

C.failed

D.practised

5.

A.before

B.until

C.though

D.so

6.

A.buys

B.sells

C.keeps

D.presents

7.

A.hoped

B.wanted

C.had

D.remembered

8.

A.followed

B.appeared

C.happened

D.continued

9.

A.talked

B.visited

C.quarreled

D.worked

10.

A.common

B.unfair

C.different

D.useless

 

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