题目内容
-Some boy students in my class are not a little restless.
-Oh? Boys ________ be boys.
should
can
may
will
Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes,accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales (童话)
The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained ?10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschtveiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous (匿名)envelopes, each containing ?10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.
The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least ?190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of ?500 inside , with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.
"I was driving when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy’s mother, told DerSpiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless. ”
The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible .and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.
“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing," Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.
Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said: “Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know. ” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.
【小题1】The Braunschweiger Zeitung is the name of .
| A.a church | B.a bank | C.a newspaper | D.a magazine |
| A. The donation amounted to ?190,000. |
| B.The donation was sent directly to his house. |
| C.The money will be used for his education. |
| D. His mother felt astonished at the donation. |
| A. the donator is a rich old man |
| B.the donation will continue to come |
| C. the donation comes from the newspaper |
| D. the donator will soon be found out |
| A. Money Is Raised by the Newspaper |
| B. Newspaper Distributes Money to |
| C. Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes |
| D. Robin Hood Returns to the City |
Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our
teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new
experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to exp
lore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.
【小题1】 The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.
| A.African children are very poor. | B.some children are unlucky. |
| C.there are many kinds of education. | D.schools are of great importance. |
| A.we have to learn from the people around us. | B.the school is not important at all. |
| C.only people who care for us can teach us. | D.education takes place everywhere. |
| A.what people encourage him/ her to do. | B.the teachings of those he / she meets. |
| C.thinking about it when growing up. | D.trying and practising things. |
| A.everyone gets education from the day he or she was born. |
| B.different classes of people receive different kinds of education. |
| C.the school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world. |
| D.everyone will find out what he or she is good at. |
| A.the school is not so important as our living places. |
| B.the school |
| C.the school teaches us things which are useless at home. |
| D.the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives. |
There is a boy called Bill in my gym class who has unbearably yellow teeth that almost make everyone feel unpleasant. Recently another boy told Bill that he should “go Ajax” his teeth. Bill was crushed. If the other boy had been thinking, he would have realized that there is a better way to handle such a situation. He could have dealt with it with tact. He could have showed this hurtful truth in a more careful, sensitive way—that’s “tact”.
If a person isn’t sensitive to another’s feelings, there is no way he or she can be tactful. Yesterday, my 5-year-old brother proudly announced that he had cleaned the screen on our television set. Unfortunately, he used furniture polish, which produced an oily film on the television screen. My mother smiled arid thanked him for his efforts—and then showed how to clean the screen properly. Her sensitivity enables my brother to keep his self-respect. Yet, sensitivity alone does not make tact.
“Tactfulness” also requires “truthfulness”. Doctors, for example must be truthful. If a patient has just been disabled in an accident, a tactful doctor will tell the truth—but express it with sensitivity. The doctor may try to give the patient hope by telling them curing techniques under study or about advanced equipment now available. Doctors must use tact with patients’ relatives as well. Instead of bluntly saying, “Your husband is disabled,” a doctor might say, “I’m sorry, but your husband has lost feeling in his legs and. . .”
Tact should not be confused with trickery. Trickery occurs when a nurse is
about to give a patient an injection(注射) and says, “This won’t hurt a bit. ” Instead of trickery, the nurse might guarantee the patient that the discomfort of the injection is a small thing compared to the benefits of it. It would also be thoughtful for the nurse to tell the patients about some of these benefits.
Tact is a wonderful skill to have, and tactful people are usually admired and respected. Without tact our society would become an intole
rable place to live in.
【小题1】.
The underlined word “crushed” in the first paragraph probably means .
| A.surprised | B.cheated | C.regretful | D.painful |
According to the author, his mother’s praise for the brother is .
| A.sensitive and tactful | B.sensitive but not tactful enough |
| C.truthful but not tactful enough | D.sensitive but trickish |
Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
| A. | B. | C. | D. (The numbers stand for the paragraphs) |