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B. toward
C. afterward
D. forward
开心蛙口算题卡系列答案Never stop doing ___________you are fond of.
| A．no matter what | B．whatever | C．if | D．that |
The American newspaper has been around for about three hundred years. In 1721, the printer James Franklin, Benjamin’s older brother, started the New England Courant, and that was what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. He filled his paper with stories of adventure, articles on art, on famous people, and on all sorts of political subjects.
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s Courant, few believe that newspapers in their present printed from will remain alive for long. Newspaper companies are losing advertisers(广告商)，readers, market value, and in some cases, their sense of purpose at a speed that would not have been imaginable just several years ago. The chief editor(主编) of the Times said recently, “At places where they gather, editors ask one another, ‘How are you?’, as if they have just come out of the hospital or a lost law case.” An article about the newspaper appeared on the website of the Guandian, under the headline “NOT DEAD YET.”
Perhaps not, but the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and out of step with the world, has brought about a real sense of death. Some American newspapers have lost 42% of their market value in the past three years. The New York Times Company has seen its stock(股票) drop by 54% since the end of 2004, with much of the loss coming in the past year. A manager at Deutsche Bank suggested that stock-holders sell off their Times stock. The Washington Post Company has prevented the trouble only by changing part of its business to education; its testing and test-preparation service now brings in at least half the company’s income.
【小题1】What can we learn about the New England Courant?
| A．It is mainly about the stock market. |
| B．It marks the beginning of the American newspaper. |
| C．It remains a successful newspaper in America. |
| D．It carries articles by political leaders. |
| A．They often accept readers’ suggestions. |
| B．They care a lot about each other’s health. |
| C．They stop doing business with advertisers. |
| D．They face great difficulties in their business. |
| A．The Washington Post. |
| B．The Guardian. |
| C．The New York Times. |
| D．New England Courant. |
| A．Satisfied. |
| B．Hopeful. |
| C．Worried. |
| D．Surprised. |
The day was Thankful Thursday. It's a weekly tradition that my two little girls and I began years ago. Thursday has become our day to go out and make a positive contribution. On this particular Thursday, we had no idea exactly what we were going to do. At noon, I drove to a McDonald’s with my daughters because they kept complaining that they hadn’t had enough to eat at breakfast. There we saw some homeless people in the street and we bought lunch for them.
We were about to complete when we found a small woman standing at the corner, asking for change. We handed her some food, and then started to head home. Suddenly from the mirror of the car, I saw the woman waving at us, so I had to turn around and stopped where the small woman stood. She walked to our car, and said, "Thank you, lady! No one has ever done anything like this for me before." I replied, "Well, I'm glad that we were the first." Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, "So, when do you think you'll eat your lunch?"
She just looked at me with her huge, tired brown eyes and said, "Oh honey, I'm not going to eat this lunch." I was confused, but before I could say anything, she continued. "You see, I have a little girl of my own at home and she just loves McDonald's, but I can never buy it for her because I just don't have the money. But you know what…tonight she is going to have McDonald's!"
I don't know if the kids noticed the tears in my eyes. So many times I had questioned whether our Acts of Kindness were too small to have effect on those poor people. Yet at that moment, I realized the truth of Mother Teresa's words: "We cannot do great things — only small things with great love."
【小题1】
According to this passage, the small woman was ______.
| A．too happy to stand at the corner |
| B．too eager to ask for more food |
| C．too poor to buy McDonald’s |
| D．too busy to care for her daughter |
What can we know from the passage?
| A．The author finally realized what she did was of use to the poor. |
| B．The author would stop doing her acts of kindness to the poor. |
| C．The author’s daughters found their mother cried at the end of the day. |
| D．The author’s daughters would make friends with the woman’s daughter. |
What would be the best title of the passage?
| A．No Pains No Gains |
| B．No Pleasure Without Pain |
| C．No Small Act of Kindness |
| D．No Sweet Without Sweat |