One night I was sitting in my room half-listening as my 15-year-old brother Tommy fought with my 12-year-old brother Kevin. I didn’t pay attention when Kevin rushed up the stairs with the hurt on his face.
About 20 minutes later, as I was walking upstairs I heard Kevin crying inside the bathroom. I knocked on the door and asked, “Hey Kevin, do you want to talk?”
No answer.
I tried again, “Why don’t you come out of there?”
Again, no answer.
So, joking around, I grabbed a stack of （一摞）cards and a pencil and wrote, “If you don’t want to talk, we can write notes to each other.”
An hour later I was still sitting on the floor outside the bathroom with two stacks of cards in front of me. One was blank and one was cards from Kevin on which he had translated all his yucky feelings into words for me. As I read one of Kevin’s notes, tears came to my eyes. It said, “Nobody in this family cares about me. I’m not the youngest, and I’m not the oldest. Tommy thinks I’m silly and Dad wishes he had the other Kevin as a kid because he’s better at basketball. And you’re never around to even notice me.”
Tears came to my eyes as I wrote back to him. “You know Kevin, I really do love you and I’m sorry I don’t always show it. I am here for you and you are loved in this family.”
There was no answer for a while, but then I heard a tearing sound coming from inside the bathroom. Kevin, who had run out of cards wrote on a torn paper cup. “Thanks.”
I wrote back “For what?” it returned to me with “Loving me” on it.
Since then, I try my best to never only half-notice my family members any more. Kevin and I have a closer relationship now. And sometimes when one of us notices that the other is upset, we’ll smile and say “Write it on a paper cup.”
【小题1】The underlined word “yucky” most probably means ____.

先阅读短文，然后从短文后每小题的A、B、C、D中选出最佳答案。

    Do you need money? Write a 1etter to Mr．Percy Ross． 1   he will give you some money.

Mr．Ross is a   2  man，and he likes to give people money.   3   does he give people money? People write letters to Mr. Ross. In their letters, they tell him why they need money. Mr. Ross gets 12,000 letters a week. He and his 12 assistants  4   all of the letters．Then Mr．Ross sends money to  5  of the people., Who can get money from Mr．Ross sends usually money to old people．sick people and poor children．A mother wrote  Mr．Ross，“I have two daughters，ages one  6  eight．I give the baby one bottle of milk every day．I want to give her two bottle  milk every day．  7  I don，t have enough money．I also want to give my  8  daughter ice cream sometimes．Can you help me?”Mr．Ross sent the 9  a check.“This check will buy much more than milk and ice cream。”he wrote．

Who  10  get money from Mr．Ross? Mr．Ross usually doesn’t send money to  young，healthy people．A 16一year—old boy wrote，“I need$900 to buy a good used  car．I really need it because I 1ike a girl．She doesn't like me 11  I don，t have a car．”Mr．Ross wrote the boy，“You don't 12  a car．You need a different girlfriend．’’   13  does Percy Ross give people money?  When Mr．ROSS was a boy。he was  very  14  ．He worked hard，and now he is a successful businessman．He wants to  15  poor people．And Mr．Ross is getting older．He wants to give all of his money  away before he dies．He says。“Who will get my money? I want to decide．”

1．A．And       B．Maybe     C．For sure        D．So

2．A．rich       B．poor       C．young          D．hardworking

3．A．When     B．Why       C．Where          D．How

4．A．read       B．write      C．return           D．1ooked at

5．A．all        B．none       C．some           D．one

6．A．and       B．or         C．to              D．in

7．A．because    B．but        C．so             D．since

8．A．younger    B．youngest   C．oldest          D．older

9．A．man       B．woman    C．daughter        D．baby

10．A．will      B．mustn't    C．can't           D．so

11．A．because   B．before    C．unless          D．so

12．A．have     B．buy      C．afford           D．need

13．A．Why     B．When    C．How            D．Where

14．A．small    B．rich      C．poor            D．strong

15．A．save     B．raise     C．become         D．help

Once a baby cries, the parents will go to see what happened as soon as possible. According to a new study, a baby's cry can make adults react(反应) very quickly, even if they are not related.
Oxford University researchers used the classic game whack-a-mole for the study.  Whack-a-mole(打鼹鼠游戏) requires people to hit one of nine buttons (按钮). The players must react as quickly as they can to whichever of the buttons lights up at random(随机). It is a game that requires speed and accuracy (准确度 ).
The study included 40 men and women volunteers aged 19 to 59. Some of them had sons or daughters but none had a baby at the time. They played whack-a-mole after listening to different sounds, including babies crying, the crying of adults in trouble and birdsong played at a similar pitch to the babies' cries.
The volunteers' scores were higher after listening to the sound of crying babies. Men and women had similar scores overall. The results showed that a crying baby gets special attention.
"Few sounds make people react quite like the cry of a baby," said Morten Kringelbach of Oxford's psychiatry（精神病学） department, who led the study. "For example, it's almost impossible to ignore(忽视，不理) crying babies on planes. This is true even though there are so many other noises around." 
He added that a baby's cry can increase adults' heart rate and blood pressure. This is understandable, because in the course of human evolution (进化), taking care of babies has always been an important job for adults. When a baby is hungry or feeling bored or unwell, it will cry. As a result, human brains and bodies develop a special reaction to a baby's cry.
【小题1】According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?