I shook hands with my father in the truck, and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn't say a word. But I knew he was going to say a little to me. "I can't tell anything," he finally said. "I never went to college, and none of your brothers went to college. I can't say don't do this and do that, because everything is different and I don't know what is going to come up. I can't help much with money either, but I think things will work out. "

     He gave me a new check-book (支票簿) . "If things get pushing, write a small check. But when you write one, send me a letter and let me know how much. There are some things we can always sell." In four years all the checks I wrote were less than a thousand dollars. My part-time jobs such as reading to the blind student and sitting with the teachers' kids filled in the financial gaps.

     "You know what you want to be, and they'll tell you what to take," my father went on. "When you get a jobbe sure it’s honest(诚实的)and work hard”I knew that soon I would be alone in the big townand l would be missing the cool winds and a life where your thinking was done for you

    Then my dad reached down beside his seat and brought the oldbroken Bible that he had read so oftenthe one he used when he wanted to look something up in a friendly quarrel with one of the neighborsI knew he would miss itI knewthoughthat I must take it

    He didn’t say read this every morningHe just said“This can help you if you will let it

    Did it help? I got through college without being a burden(负担)on the familyI have been able to make money since

1What is the writer’s main purpose(目的)in writing this passage?

      ATo tell the readers his life story

      BTo tell people what kind of person his father was

      CTo let people know how poor he was

      DTo tell the readers what present he got from his father

2Why did the father not ask his son not to do this and do that?

      ABecause he felt quite confident of him

      BBecause he was born from a poor family

      CBecause he was a man of few words

      DBecause tie didn’t want to be much too strict with him

3What would someone learn from this passage?

AHow to live by oneself   

BHow to stand on one’s own feet

CWhat a good father should do

DWhat the self-important is like

4What may be the proper Chinese for the underlined part in the passage?

      A.闲暇时光.    B.学费.    C.经济不足.    D.精神空虚.

5What kind of book did the Bible seem to be to the writer’s father?

      AIt was a book which told you how you should get on well with others

      BThere were many good examples for you to copy in it.

      CIt was a book that told you how to get a good job and a good future.

      DIt was a good book that could help you when you were in trouble

根据短文内容回答下列问题。

In a classroom in any countrythe teacher teaches more than art or history or languageHe or she teaches what is known as the “hidden course”-- the culture(文化)of that country

   In a society such as the United Statespeople with different history, culture and language join together and think highly of individualism(个人主义)Their education as a part of the society(社会)also think of this greatlyTeachers try to make each student specialStudents do not have to remember a lot of informationinsteadthey work alone and find answers by themselvesThere is often a discussion in the classroomAt an early age students learn to have their own ideasTheir education encourages personal thoughtThe importance is put on how to arrive at an answer and not simply to get the correct answer

   In most Asian countriesthe people have the same languageshistory, and culturePerhaps for this reasonthe education there shows society’s ideas in group goals rather than individualismChildren in China and Japan often work together and help each other on homeworkIn the classroomthe teacher often teaches in a public wayHe saysand the students listenThere is not much discussionInsteadthe students repeat rules or information that they have been taught in order to keep them in mind

   In many ways these differences come from different educational psychology(教育心理学)In Western countries teachers make it easier for the students to learn for themselvesIn the Easternhowever, teachers often feel that their job is to pass knowledge to studentsor the students can’t learn anything

1What is the “hidden course” according to the passage?

2What do American teachers do in class?

3What do Asian teachers do in class?

4What’s the main difference in education between the East and the West?

5What do you think the proper title for the passage is?

用括号内所给的动词适当形式填空,必要时可加助动词或情态动词

  I  1  (1ove)my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough  2  (see)above the top of it as Mother sat doing lettersStanding by her chair, looking at the ink bottlepensand white paper, I decided that the act of   3  (write)must be the most wonderful thing in the world

   Years later, during her final illnessMother    4  (keep)different things for my sister and brother“But the desk”she said“is for Elizabeth”

   I never saw her angry , never saw her    5   (cry)I knew she loved meshe showed it in actionBut as a young girl1 wanted heart—to—heart talks between mother and daughter

  They never happenedAnd a gulf opened between us1 was “too emotional”(感情易激动的)But she lived “on the surface(表面)”

  As years passed I had my own familyI loved my mother and thanked her for our happy familyI wrote to her in careful words and asked her  6  (1et)me know in any way she chose that she did forgive(原谅)me

  I posted the letter and waited for her answerNone came

  My hope turned to disappointment(失望)then little interestfinally, peace—it seemed that nothing happenedI couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to MotherI only knew that I   7 (write)itand I could stop    8    (try)to make her into someone she was not

    Now the present of her desk told meas she’d never been able tothat she was pleased that writing was my chosen workI cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside a photo of my father and a one—page letter, folded and refolded many times

Give me an answer, my letter asksin any way you chooseMother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words

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