题目内容
I try my best to volunteer my time ________ others who need help.
A. to help B. help C. helping
A
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 ____.
| A.upset | B.exciting | C.terrible | D.amazing |
| A.Kevin is not as clever as his brother. |
| B.He is neither the youngest nor the oldest. |
| C.Kevin doesn’t like to make friends with others. |
| D.Kevin is not good at playing basketball. |
| A.She has two children in her family. |
| B.She didn’t pay enough attention to Kevin before. |
| C.She used to show her love to Kevin. |
| D.She has a closer relationship with Tommy after that. |
| A.Everyone should show how they love their family members. |
| B.It’s hard to get on well with family members. |
| C.It’s important to keep peace in the family. |
| D.We should try our best to stop our children from fighting. |
“Everything happens for the best.” Whenever I faced disappointment(失望),my mother would say this to me.
After I left college in 1932, I decided to find a job in radio as a sports announcer(广播员). I went to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But unluckily, I was refused every time.
At one station, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn’t hire(雇佣)a person without any experience and suggested that I try my luck at smaller stations. Following her advice, I went back to Dixon, where I had grown up. There were no such jobs in Dixon, and my father said a newly-opened store wanted a local athlete(运动员)to work for it . I wanted this job, but I was refused again.
“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt so frustrated(沮丧). “How can I become a sports announcer if I can’t get a job in a radio station?” I asked aloud.
While I was waiting for the lift, I heard someone calling. It was MacArthur. “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to have a try. He was pleased with my performance, and he offered me a chance to work there.
On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if without the failure before.”
【小题1】Why couldn’t the writer find a job at big radio stations?
| A.Because he never graduated from college. |
| B.Because he didn’t work hard in college. |
| C.Because he didn’t have much experience. |
| D.Because he didn’t know about sports. |
a. The writer got a job as a sports announcer at a radio station.
b. The writer was refused when he wanted jobs in Chicago.
c. The writer graduated from college.
d. The writer went back to his hometown to look for a job.
| A.cbda | B.cbad | C.bcda | D.bcad |
| A.The writer’s parents didn’ t want him to be a sports announcer. |
| B.There were no radio announcer jobs in the writer’s hometown. |
| C.The writer became uninterested in being a sports announcer. |
| D.The writer got a job as a sports announcer in Dixon at last. |
| A.He shouldn’t be a sports announcer. |
| B.Disappointment leads to failure. |
| C.He should be proud of himself. |
| D.Everything will be OK if he keeps trying. |
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 ____.
| A.upset | B.exciting | C.terrible | D.amazing |
| A.Kevin is not as clever as his brother. |
| B.He is neither the youngest nor the oldest. |
| C.Kevin doesn’t like to make friends with others. |
| D.Kevin is not good at playing basketball. |
| A.She has two children in her family. |
| B.She didn’t pay enough attention to Kevin before. |
| C.She used to show her love to Kevin. |
| D.She has a closer relationship with Tommy after that. |
| A.Everyone should show how they love their family members. |
| B.It’s hard to get on well with family members. |
| C.It’s important to keep peace in the family. |
| D.We should try our best to stop our children from fighting. |