It was Thanksgiving morning and in the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together. “Any old papers, lady?” asked one of them.

I was busy. I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals, wet with heavy snow.

“Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”

They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget.

The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich?”

I looked at my shabby slipcovers. The girl put her cup back in its saucer carefully and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” Her voice was hungry with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that, holding their bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn’t said “Thank you.” They didn’t need to. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.

I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these matched, too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am.

1.Two children came to the writer’s front door because _________________.

A.it was Thanksgiving Day                   B.they were beggars

C.they wanted old papers                   D.they wanted a cup of cocoa

2.Why did the writer let the children in?

A.She showed great pity on them

B.She had old papers to sell

C.She wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving feast

D.She wanted them to see how rich she was

3.The girl thought the writer was rich perhaps because ________________.

A.she saw that the lady’s room was comfortable

B.she saw the cups matched the saucers

C.the writer’s slipcovers were very new

D.the writer was preparing a big meal while she was too hungry.

4.From the passage, we can infer that whether you are rich depends on ________.

A.how much money you have had

B.how you feel about your life

C.how you have helped others

D.what job your husband is doing

5.The writer left the muddy prints of small sandals on the floor for a while to ____________.

A.show her husband that someone had come

B.remind her that she had helped two children

C.remind her that she was very rich in the neighborhood

D.remind her how life should be

 

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Stress is very common in all walks of life and in all fields of work.

  1  It can be related to  work,  an unhappy  marriage,  money problems or a whole host of things that cause people to become very unhappy with their lives.  People who suffer from this condition often cannot see anything good about their lives.____2____

Teen stress is one of the leading causes of suicide(自杀)among teenagers who are unable to cope with all the pressures that seem to come at them from all sides.  Even a child as young as two or three years of age can feel stressed,  when he/she is trying to

live up to the parents expectations of being a good boy or girl.   3   

   4  New research suggests that exercising as a way of stress management helps people to improve their minds as well as their bodies because they become fit, giving them a whole new feeling about themselves.

You have to think about what is causing you to become stressed and if it is possible to avoid these things.  If you feel stressed because it seems that people are always taking up your private time, you need to learn to say "No" once in a while.____5____If your work stress is the cause of your illness and if you are experiencing problems with your heart,the doctor may need to send you for a stress test to determine whether or not there is a serious problem developing.

A. Using exercise as a form of stress relief has many benefits.

B. You do need to talk to someone who can help, such as your doctor.

C. As a result of that, people began to choose easy jobs.

D. Doctors also have pressures from their tiring work.

E.  It can lead to suicide, heart attacks and cancer as research has shown.

F.  School age children  have pressures on them  from  schoolwork,  parents and    friends.

G.   It is most dangerous because it can affect a person's health.

 

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