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5、Dear Carrie,     

Your brother sounds like a very selfish person. But I want to know what causes him to act this way. Since he seems to be doing this on purpose, maybe the only way to do with the problem is to try to find the cause.

I think your brother is probably hurting in some way. Perhaps he feels unsafe because he is not a full part of the family. He could be jealous (嫉妒) of your mother's love for the rest of you over him.

It is wrong to fight anger with anger though you think it is a need to help your mother. I suggest you try to help your brother by treating him with more care and love. It must be hard for him to grow up in a family where his sisters had their real mother but he didn't. Try to let him know that you care about him. Over time he may come to know how lucky he is and start to treat you all with the same kindness that you give him.

1. From the passage we may know that ____.

A. there are two mothers in the family

B. the mother is the brother's stepmother (继母)

C. the family is not a full family

D. the brother has three sisters in the family

2. The writer suggests that Carrie ____.

A. treat her brother with more love and care

B. find her mother with more fights

C. find the cause for her brother's habit

D. fight against her brother with anger

3. The writer thinks Carrie's brother ____.

A. should know Carrie treats him with kindness

B. should be treated more kindly

C. is very lucky to live in such a family

D. is a bad young man

4. In Carrie's letter she must have said that ____.

A. she often punished her brother

B. she often gave her brother love

C. she often felt sad and angry in the family

D. her mother wasn't a good mother