题目内容
Don't always depend on your parents.The underlined part means“________”.
- A.rely on
- B.turn on
- C.go on
- D.put on
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. |
One morning, a blind boy sat beside a building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, “I am blind. Please help me.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognizedhis footsteps and asked, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”
What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beautiful day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
【小题1】From the article we know that________.
| A.the boy always has a hat on his head |
| B.the man is one of his neighbors |
| C.the boy is blind and needs help |
| D.the boy works for the man |
| A.Treasure what we have already had |
| B.Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it |
| C.We are so lucky that we are not blind |
| D.Try your best to help those who need your help. |
| A.The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign. |
| B.The man took away all the few coins from the hat. |
| C.The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school. |
| D.Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy. |
| A.承认 | B.接受 | C.表扬 | D.认出 |
| A.Be careful not to be blind. |
| B.Be creative. There is always a better way! |
| C.Be kind to the blind! |
| D.Don’t always get, but offer! |