I was 15. She looked like she was over 70. But on that day. I think she understood me more than anyone else.
Walking into the church that Sunday was hard. I had never let anyone see me cry. But I knew I would cry that day .My grandfather was suddenly ill .The doctors said he might not live much longer. Everyone in my family was crying .Grandpa was the sweetest man in the world .Why was he leaving us?
There weren't many people at church that day. One of them was an old lady sitting at the end of my row. She was smiling. I closed my eyes and prayed for my grandfather to get better. Soon, my eyes were full of tears. I opened my eyes and saw a hand in front of me. It was giving me a tissue(纸巾)。
The old lady was sitting next to me, smiling. She didn't say a word. She just gave me a tissue and a smile. I tried to thank her, but only tears came out. Then she took my hand. I looked into her eyes. They were clear and blue, and they make me feel peaceful. Her smile said to me :I am with you. Everything will be OK. I closed my eyes again. When I opened them, she wasn't there. I left the church but still couldn't find her. I never saw her again.
My grandfather died the next week. We all cried a lot. But when I thought of that old lady's warm smile, I felt a little better.
How did she know how I was feeling ? I wish I could see her again, to say thank you.
【小题1】According to Paragraph 2, what made the whole family cry ?

When I received my grade on my first writing assignment, I was very disappointed．I met with Dr．Caldwell to discuss my    41 and my work．She gave me lots of _42 and allowed me to rewrite my paper．My grade improved but I was   43 not completely satisfied．Dr．Caldwell decided to help me and  44  me into a good writer, Before each paper was due, I turned in a   45 draft and she corrected it for me, Her dedication to my success was very encouraging because she 46 _ the time to personally help me time and time again．
Dr．Caldwell was behind my dedication to the learning process．Not only did she help me, but also Dr．Caldwell  47 me to become a teacher and dedicate my life to helping children who struggle through school. My most memorable   48  as a teacher was when I tutored a fourth-grade boy, Darnell, in math．He was unable to add, minus, multiply, or divide．He was far 49  his classmates and needed personal  50  to help him work at the same level．
51  we first began our sessions, Darnell was very quiet and  52 _ in learning．I was becoming annoyed and impatient because after two weeks, it seemed as if we had not   53  a thing．To my surprise, Darnell finally _54  __ up to me and began to work hard at his lessons．His progress began to show through and his teacher told me his grades in class had 55  greatly, I was very happy with the progress that we had made and． became even more dedicated to Darnell's success, We had a lot of   56   learning math; we created  many games and played them to make learning more  57  for Darnell． All that Darnell needed was the one-on-one attention that I was able to give him and once he 58   it, his improvement was evident almost  59 . I was able to work with Darnell and encourage him to learn the 60 Dr. Caldwell worked with me to become a better writer．

I worked hard for a whole week. So I decided to relax and went out of town with my son for the   1 . When we were walking on the street, we felt a little   2 . So we found a café and  3  to have lunch there. After we sat down at our table, I   4 an elderly couple having lunch at a table across the room. I must have looked over at them a few times because my son asked me if I   5  them. I shook my head and said no. But I told him that they   6  me of my own grandparents.

When the waitress came over, I asked her if she knew them. She said she did. She said it was the elderly man’s birthday today. On hearing this, I wanted to do something for them, so I told the   7  that I wanted to buy them the lunch and gave her the money.

Some time later, the elderly couple came over to   8  us. They were so excited that someone had bought them lunch. It was really a big   9  for them. They said that they had been a little   10  because their own son and daughter seemed to have   11  the old man’s birthday. But they were really cheered up by my   12 .

My son was surprised that I had paid for this couple who we didn’t know. He asked me why I did it. I smiled at him and replied that my grandparents used to go out for lunch to celebrate their birthdays in the same way and it just felt like the   13  thing to do to make this couple smile,  14  on their birthdays. Hearing my   15 , my son smiled.

1.                A．week          B．hour           C．month    D．weekend

2.                A．hungry         B．thirsty          C．hot  D．bored

3.                A．continued       B．decided        C．refused   D．begged

4.                A．noticed         B．visited          C．recognized    D．attracted

5.                A．interrupted     B．invited         C．knew D．needed

6.                A．introduced      B．reminded       C．brought  D．sent

7.                A．manager        B．man           C．couple   D．waitress

8.                A．support        B．comfort         C．impress   D．thank

9.                A．activity         B．surprise        C．chance   D．change

10.               A．moved         B．tired           C．shocked   D．sad

11.               A．ruined         B．delayed        C．forgotten  D．celebrated

12.               A．action          B．advice         C．opinion   D．wish

13.               A．right           B．normal         C．unnecessary    D．useful

14.               A．always         B．only           C．especially  D．even

15.               A．excuses        B．news          C．questions  D．words

One Sunday morning in June 1959 my mother walked into my room. “Surprise!” she said, proudly holding up a yellow dress. “I made it just for you. What do you think?”

       I bit my tongue. How could I tell Mom it was the ugliest dress I had ever seen?

       “It’s perfect for church,” my mother continued delightedly.“I wish someone had made a dress like this for me.”

       Too bad you can’t wear it, I thought. But I knew Mom had spent a lot of time on the dress. No one should refuse.

       Unwillingly I put it on.

       All through church I prayed（祈祷）,Lord, let me get out of here without anyone seeing me. Especially Dennis Pearce, the boy I had a crush on, one of the coolest boys at Neptune High School. Although we were in some of the same classes, Dennis had never taken any notice of me. Every time I got near him, I became tongue-tied.

       At the end of the service I rushed for the door. But I had to wait on the steps while my parents chatted with their friends. Just a little while longer…Then out of the corner of my eye I saw the Pearces coming near. Before I could escape, Dennis was right beside me.

       I started talking, hoping if I kept it up he wouldn’t notice my ugly dress. “I’m going to college in September,” I said.

       “That’s great,” Dennis replied “I got accepted to police academy（学院）.”

       “Wow!” I said. Somehow I kept the conversation going. The next thing I knew Dennis had asked me out on a date!

       We courted（恋爱）through college, and eventually got married. Months after our wedding I asked Dennis if he remembered the day he had first asked me out.

“Certainly I do,” he said.“You were always quiet in school. I didn’t think you’d be much fun. But you were so lively when we talked on the church steps, I wanted to get to know you better.” Maybe that yellow dress wasn’t what I would have chosen, but that day it was the perfect dress for me.

Why did she accept such a dress?

       A．She was fond of its new pattern.

       B．Her Mom just brought it for her.

       C．It was proper to go to church in it．

       D．She understood her Mom’s love．

The author tried to carry the dialog on，hoping        .

      A．she would catch other boys’ attention

      B．Dennis would get her out for a date

      C．Dennis wouldn’t take notice of her dress

      D．she could be noticed by Dennis’s parents

The underlined part“had a crush on’’ in Paragraph 6 probably means：“      ”.

      A．10ved deeply   B．met by chance        C．100ked down on     D．worried about

What would be the best title for the text?

       A．An Ugly Dress      B．A Perfect Dress

    C．A Dress for the Church   D．A Dress for the Date

One day, Mr. Arnold was teaching a lesson, and things were going as normally as ever. He was explaining the story of mankind to his pupils. He told them that, in the beginning, men were nomads; they never stayed in the same place for very long. Instead, they would travel about, here and there, in search of food, wherever it was to be found. And when the food ran out, they would move off somewhere else.
He taught them about the invention of farming and keeping animals. This was an important discovery, because by learning to cultivate(耕作)the land, and care for animals, mankind would always have food steadily available. It also meant that people could remain living in one place, and this made it easier to set about tasks that would take a long while to complete, like building towns, cities, and all that were in them. All the children were listening attracted by this story, until Lucy jumped up:
“And if that was so important and improved everything so much, why are we nomads all over again, Mr. Arnold?”
Mr. Arnold didn’t know what to say. Lucy was a very intelligent girl. He knew that she lived with her parents in a house, so she must know that her family were not nomads; so what did she mean?
“We have all become nomads again,” continued Lucy, “The other day, outside the city, they were cutting the forest down. A while ago a fisherman told me how they fish. It’s the same with everyone: when there’s no more forest left the foresters go elsewhere, and when the fish run out the fishermen move on. That’s what the nomads did, isn’t it ?
The teacher nodded, thoughtfully. Really, Lucy was right Mankind had turned into nomads. Instead of looking after the land in a way that we could be sure it would keep supplying our needs, we kept developing it until the land was bare. And then off we would go to the next place! The class spent the rest of the afternoon talking about what they could do to show how to be more civilized.
The next day everyone attended class wearing a green T-shirt, with a message that said “I am not a nomad!”
And , from then on, they set about showing that indeed they were not. Every time they knew they needed something, they made sure that they would get it using care and control. If they needed wood or paper, they would make sure that they got the recycled kind. They ordered their fish from fish farms, making sure that the fish they received were not too young and too small. They only used animals that were well cared for, and brought up on farms.
And so, from their little town, those children managed to give up being nomads again, just as prehistoric men had done, so many thousands of years ago.
【小题1】From Paragraph 2, we can know that______ .