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Two children stood outside the door with old coats. “Any old papers, Lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say no, but I saw that their shoes were broken and wet. “Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot tea.” They came in, saying nothing. Their shoes left snow on the floor.
I gave them tea and bread to protect them against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started my housework again.
The silence in the front room surprised me. I looked in.
The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked me in a low voice, “Lady…are you rich?”
Am I rich? Oh, no! I looked at my old things in my room.
The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟) carefully. “Your cups match your saucers.”
They left then, holding their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said thank you. They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. The blue cups and saucers were simple. But they said that they matched. The potatoes and meat before me, a roof over our hands, my husband with a job—these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The prints of their small shoes were still wet on my floor. I let them be. I wanted them there to remind me how rich I was.
1.The writer let the two children in _________.
A. to offer them some warm clothes
B. to serve them tea and food
C. to sell them some old papers
D. to show them how rich she was.
2.We can learn from the passage that_______.
A. the writer was in fact not very rich
B. the children took away many old papers
C. the writer’s husband was out of work
D. the two children were looking for a job
3.It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that _______.
A. it was snowing outside when the story happened
B. the two children thanked the writer and then left
C. the two children were not polite to the writer
D. the writer had a set of new furniture in her house
4.The underlined sentence “I let them be” means “_________”.
A. I dislike them B. I didn’t want to see them
C. I cleaned the them D. I left them there
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Any Old Papers?
B. Matching Cups and Saucers
C. Are You Rich?
D. Two Poor Children
阅读快车系列答案请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容从下面方框内的七个选项中，选择五个还原到文中，使短文意思通顺，结构完整。Twenty-seven runners from around the world recently ran a marathon on one of the most remote and icy places on the earth---the North Pole.
On April 8, 2011, competitors from around the world met at the North Pole. 1.
Runners flew to Norway from countries around the world. 2. The marathon was supposed to be held on April 7th, but it was put off by one day because of a problem with the airport runway. 3.The North Pole Marathon was organized by a man from Ireland named Richard Donvan. 4.
Since then, seven marathons have taken place and 188 people from 33 different countries around the world have taken part. He has also organized a marathon on the South Pole called the Antarctic Ice Marathon.
Canada had a runner in the North Pole Marathon. His name is Glenn Harkness. He is the director of the Boys and Girls of Hamilton. 5. Glenn Harkness called his raising campaign “On Top of the World”.
Harkness came the 11th place, taking six hours and 18 minutes to run the whole 42 kilometers. The winner of the race was Istvan Toth from Hungary, who ran it in four hours and 54 minutes.
A. Donvan organized the first North Pole Marathon in 2002. B. He ran the race to raise money for the organization. C. A girl’s father ran for her at the North Pole. D. They ran on the frozen ice for six hours, facing temperatures as low as minus 32○C. E. They had a trip in Norway. F. Several one-meter-wide cracks had opened up on the plane’s runway due to the cold weather. G. Then they all flew together from Norway to the North Pole. |