Dear Editor (编辑),
     After I finish my homework, I often go online and chat with my friends and play Internet games. But
my parents hate to see me playing games on the computer. Maybe they have heard too much news about
how QQ and Internet games harm (伤害) children. Once I went to a net bar (网吧) to play games after
school. But after that I told my parents that I was playing basketball at school. I said so because I didn't
want to make them unhappy. I feel bad about it. However, I need to rest for a while by playing computer
games after studying for a long time. I really want my parents to understand that. Do foreign parents do
the same to their children? Please help me.
                                                                                                                                      Yours,  
                                                                                                                                       Li Ping  

Dear Li Ping,
     I think it's not strange for parents to keep their children away from anything bad. Foreign parents will
do the same as your parents! They may not let their children watch TV for a long time, or like your
parents, they don't want their children to play computer games.
     Talk to your parents and be honest (诚实) to them, I think. Tell them what you are doing and why
you are doing so to make them understand you. It's never good to do things behind your parents' backs.
They aren't fools as you think sometimes! Our parents seem to know what is the best for us. Remember:
to be honest is the best way. 
     Good luck!
                                                                                                                                        Yours,  
                                                                                                                                         Zhang Yu

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. From the passage we can learn that Li Ping often ________.
A. talks to his friends on the Internet    
B. plays basketball after school
C. plays computer games at home  
D. chats online before doing his homework
2. The boy goes online ________.
A. to get news about QQ              
B. just to have a rest
C. to show that he hates study          
D. just to find some friends
3. The underlined (划线的) sentence in Letter Two means "________".
A. You must do everything in front of your parents
B. You must always listen to your parents carefully
C. You should tell your parents what you do before or after doing it
D. You should not do anything to make your parents worry about you
4. The editor thinks ________.
A. children should play computer games secretly
B. playing computer games can be very helpful to children's studies
C. children should be honest and try to make their parents understand them
D. foreign parents don't care for their children as much as Chinese parents

     Learning experiences happen to us throughout our lives, and not too long ago, I had one that I would like
to share.
     This story began with a sailing trip. It's a story of pizza (比萨), sailing and being afraid of buying
ice-cream with a US $20 bill.
     I was going to Marblehead, Massachusetts, with my Optimist (a sailboat) racing team for the New
England Optimist Championship.
     The team was racing down the highway at 85mph (miles per hour) when we all realized we were hungry.
     Luckily, we saw a rest area ahead. I was very excited, because I had a new US $20 bill. I was so excited
because I had never had that kind of money before. I had money I had saved, but spending it on food seemed
like throwing it away.
     We all rushed into the pizza line. Finally I got a cheese pizza and drink, and walked to my table.
     About halfway through the meal, I realized I had not actually handed my money to the cashier (收银员). I
had just walked out, and nobody had noticed. I felt terrible.
     My conscience (良知) opened its mouth and swallowed me. I couldn't get over it. I just couldn't go back
to the cashier and pay for my stolen, half-eaten pizza. I would be more embarrassed than I ever had been.
      I was so sorry that I refused to give myself the pleasure of an ice-cream in fear that someone would say,
"Hey, Jeff, why don't you use the change from the pizza instead of that nice, new US $20 bill?" I was not so
proud of my money now.
     For the next two years, whenever I was reminded of (thought of) the "Pizza incident," I closed my eyes
and said to myself, "Don't think about it. Don't think about it." I have learned two things from this experience.
Maybe I was an unwise person for giving in to my conscience, and being too stupid to appreciate a free pizza.
But I think the real lesson is that if you let being embarrassed get in the way of doing the right thing, then your
conscience will catch up with you.
     I think this reflects the saying, "A coward (懦夫) dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies one." I was a coward
and have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times. If I had been a "hero" and gone back up to
pay for the pizza, then I would have felt a little embarrassed about it only once, or maybe twice.

1. Why didn't the boy buy ice-cream?

A. He wanted to save the money.
B. He didn't want to eat ice-cream then.
C. He didn't have enough money for it.
D. He was afraid that someone would find out the fact.

2._________ pay for the pizza with his money at first.

A. In order to keep the bill, he didn't
B. He completely forgot to
C. His teammates told him not to
D. The cashier didn't ask him to

3. The underlined word "embarrassed" in the passage means _________.

A. happy and comfortable
B. disturbed and silly
C. uneasy and uncomfortable
D. sad and angry

4. Why did the writer think of the saying "A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies one"?

A. He used to be a coward then but is not now.
B. He had a long terrible time for his stolen pizza.
C. He would have been a hero if he had paid for the pizza.
D. He wanted to die once like a hero.