题目内容
A friend’s told me about a ________ restaurant near here.Shall we go there for lunch?
- A.little nice fish
- B.fish little nice
- C.nice little fish
- D.little fish nice
We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang. Mommy would introduce them to the guests, and then they would take the guests’ coats upstairs and put them on the bed in the second bedroom.
The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of them. The adults were nice and kind and said how lucky we were to have such good kids.
Each of the guests liked Kelly more, the younger one, enjoying her dress, her hair and her smile. They said she was a unusual girl to be carrying coats upstairs at her age.
I thought to myself that we adults usually make a big “to do” over the younger one because she’s the one who seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intentions.
But we seldom think of how it might affect(影响) the other child. I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she was being paid no attention. I was about to serve dinner when I realized that she had been missing for twenty minutes. I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom, crying. I said, “What are you doing here, my dear?”
She turned to me with a sad expression and said,” Mommy, why don’t people like me the way they like my sister? Is it because I’m not pretty? Why don’t they say nice things about me as much?”
I tried to explain to her, kissing and hugging(拥抱) her to make her feel better.
Now whenever I visit a friend’s home. I make it a point to speak to the elder child first.
【小题1】The underlined expression “make a big ‘to do’ over” (paragraph 4) means_______.
| A.show much concern about | B.have a special effect on |
| C.list jobs to be done for | D.do good things for |
| A.parents should pay more attention to the elder children |
| B.the younger children are usually more easily hurt |
| C.people usually like the younger children more |
| D.adults should treat children equally |
| A.the guests gave her more coats to carry |
| B.she didn't look as pretty as Kelly |
| C.the guests enjoyed her sister more than her |
| D.her mother didn’t introduce her the guests |
Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was struck by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops, huge and round, yellow through the dust and smoke of the city. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking what a pity it was that most city livers---myself included---usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon.
Today our lives are connected with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We eat and breathe things our bodies were not designed to process. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters, air-conditioners, cars and computers. White noise and pollution is in the air. Radio waves and strange lights are constantly disturbing our minds and bodies.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I saw the moon and remembered these things. And I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains and perhaps write. I may grow old there. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
【小题1】What was the author’s pity in this passage?
| A.Most people living in the city failed to see the beautiful moon. |
| B.There was too much pollution in the city. |
| C.There were too many modern inventions. |
| D.There was too much traffic on the road. |
| A.The mountainous jungle of India. | B.The fullest moon. |
| C.The high mountains in India. | D.All kinds of modern inventions. |
| A.Camping outside at night | B.Returning to the nature |
| C.Writing books | D.Watching the moon |
| A.Disadvantage of Living in Cities |
| B.The Pleasure of Being out at Night |
| C.Touched by the Moon |
| D.Pollution Caused by Modern Technology |