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on Saturdays he would ask me to go with him. Driving through the countryside was always an adventure:
There were animals to see, people to visit, and chocolate cookies if you knew where to stop, and Dad
did.
In the spring, Dad delivered boxes full of baby chickens, and when 1 was a boy it was such a fun to
stick y our finger "through one of the holes of the boxes and let the baby birds peck on your fingers.
On Dad" s final day of work, it took him well into the evening to complete his rounds because at least
one member from each family was waiting at their mailbox to thank him for his friendship and his years
of service. "Two hundred and nineteen mailboxes on my route." he used to say, "and a story at every
one. " One lady had no mailbox, so Dad took the mail in to her every day because she was nearly blind.
Once inside, he read her mail and helped her pay her bills.
Mailboxes were sometimes used for things other than mail. One note left in a mailbox read. "Nat, take
these eggs to Marian; she"s baking a cake and doesn"t have any eggs. " Mailboxes might be buried in the
snow, or broken, or lying on the groom:. bat the mail was always delivered On cold days Dad might find
one of his customers waiting for him with a cup of hot chocolate. A young wrote letters but had no
stamps, so she left a few button on the envelope in the mailbox; Dad paid for the stamps. One
businessman used to leave large amounts of cash in his mailbox for Dad to take to the bank. Once, the
amount came to 8 32,000.
A dozen years ago, when I traveled back to my hometown on the sad occasion of Dad"s death, the
mailboxes along the way reminded me of some of his stories. I thought I knew them all, but that wasn"t
the case.
As I drove home, I noticed two lamp poles, one on each side of the street. When my dad was
around, those poles supported wooden boxes about four feet off the ground. One box was painted green
and the other was red, and each had a long narrow hole at the top with white lettering: SANTA CLAUS, NORTH POLE. For years children had dropped letters to Santa through those holes.
I made a turn at the comer and drove past the post office and across the railroad tracks to our house. Mom and I were sitting at the kitchen table when I heard footsteps. There, at the door, stood Frank
Townsend, Dad"s postmaster and great friend for many years. So we all sat down at the table and began
to tell stories.
At one point Frank looked at me with tears in his eyes. " What are we going to do about the letters
this Christmas?" he asked.
"The letters?"
"I guess you never knew. "
"Knew what?"
" Remember, when you were a kid and you used to put your letters to Santa in those green and red
boxes on Main Street? It was your dad who answered all those letters every year. "
I just sat there with tears in my eyes. It wasn"t hard for me to imagine Dad sitting at the old table in
our basement reading those letters and answering each one. I have since spoken with several of the
people who received Christmas letters during their childhood, and they told me how amazed they were
that Santa had known so much about their homes and families.
For me, just knowing that story about my father was the gift of a lifetime.
B.happy occasions to play with baby chickens
C.exciting experience* with a lot of fun
D. good opportunities to enjoy chocolate cookies
B. Dad was an honest and reliable man
C. Dad had a strong sense of honor
D. Dad was a kind and generous man
B. Dad paid for the stamps for a young girl.
C. Dad delivered some eggs to Marian.
D. Dad answered children"s Christmas letters every year.
B. providing explanations
C. giving examples
D. making comparisons
B. Santa Claus answered all their letters every year.
C. Santa Claus had unique mailboxes for the children.
D. Santa Claus had so much information about their families.
B. Christmas Letters
C Special Mailboxes
D. Memorable Travels
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试题【阅读理解 As a young boy, I sometimes traveled the country roads with my dad. He 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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and we have a good time together. Last winter, Jim came to 2 . I usually wash the dishes after we"ve
finished our 3 , before sitting down and drinking tea with everyone else. One night, Jim asked if he
might do the dishes. I said, " 4 , but if you wash the dishes you must know the 5 to wash them."
Jim replied, "Come on, you think I don"t know how to wash the dishes?" I 6 , "There are two ways
to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes 7 the second is to
wash the dishes to wash the dishes." Jim was delighted and said, "I 8 the second way - to wash the
dishes to wash the dishes." From then on, Jim knew how to wash the dishes. I 9 the "responsibility"
to him for an entire week.
While washing dishes, 10 we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus 11 to get the
dishes out of the way as if they were a(n) 12 , then we are not "washing the dishes to wash the dishes."
What"s more, we are not 13 during the time we are washing the dishes. 14 , we are completely
incapable of 15 the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can"t wash the dishes, the chances
are we won"t be 16 to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of
other things, barely 17 of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the 18 and we are
incapable of actually 19 one minute of life.
Try to wash the dishes the next time you wash the dishes, when your mind is 20 but on the dishes.
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What separates me from everyone else? The difference is not what clothes I wear or the music I listen too, but what I feel inside. Ever since I was young, I have loved professional wrestling. I woke up every Saturday to watch my favorite "Superstars." As I grew older, I got a lot of flak for watching this "fake" sport. My peers would laugh at me for following what was called a "man"s soap opera." So, I put my love for wrestling on the shelf. Like everyone else, I wanted to be associated with the cool clique. I yearned to be invited to the parties of the in-crowd and hang out with the popular kids. I became pretty successful. Although my Friday evenings were busy with parties, I would still wake up early Saturdays to watch wrestling. It wasn"t until freshman year that I realized I wasn"t being myself. That year, I tried many new things and activities and made new friends. In my town, football was the sport, so I decided to play football, thinking it might give me a head start in popularity. The team started with 48 athletes. At the end, there were 14 of us left. I stuck it out not because I liked it, but because I am not a quitter. That long season taught me a lesson: I wasn"t a football player. More importantly, it taught me to be myself. After that season, I went back to being a wrestling fan. I watched it religiously, no matter what insults were thrown my way. I came across a quote: "Don"t Dream It, Be It." When I read this, my friend Dan had the same idea I had. "What if we build a wrestling ring?" we asked. We acquired the necessary wood and equipment for its construction. The following weekend, we met at his house. We saw our dream in a pile in his backyard. We worked from dawn to dusk to build our great establishment. By Sunday night, our mission was complete. Our hard work (combined with a little creativity) had paid off. We had a real ring. We decided to hold an "event." We practiced for hours, trying to improve every aspect of our wrestling ability. The date was May 24th. Our show had a start time of 9: 00 p.m. To our surprise, about one hundred family, friends and fans showed up to support us. It was the most important night of my life and a complete success. Since that time, we have held five shows with as many as two hundred and fifty people turning out. We continue to live this dream. We accomplished what we set out to do. We are now well known throughout school. When I walk down the halls, I am respected by my peers. Some are the same peers who ridiculed me for watching wrestling when I was younger. When they approach me, they often say, "Good match, Chris." I humbly say, "Thank you," knowing I did something I believed in. As my senior year winds down, I"ll remember all of my high school memories. But what will stick out most is the memory that I did something I loved, despite what everyone said or thought. I accomplished my goal ... I lived my dream. | |||||||||||||||||
1. What makes the writer different from the others is __________. | |||||||||||||||||
A. the different sports he loves B. the different clothes he wears and the different music he listens to C. that he is younger than the others. D. the different ideas he has | |||||||||||||||||
2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph mean? | |||||||||||||||||
A. I practiced wrestling secretly in my spare time. B. I put the clothes for wrestling on the shelf. C. I decided to quit practicing wrestling. D. I began not to watch wrestling on TV. | |||||||||||||||||
3. When the writer was a freshman, he ___________. | |||||||||||||||||
A. knew he couldn"t be a football player. B. realized he was being himself. C. became very sociable. D. built a wrestling ring. | |||||||||||||||||
4. The writer built the wrestling ring in order to ________. | |||||||||||||||||
A. play football there B. make his dream realized C. be a professional player D. have parties there. | |||||||||||||||||
5. What is the writer"s attitude towards his experience in high school? | |||||||||||||||||
A. Optimistic B. Pessimistic C. Doubtful D. Surprised | |||||||||||||||||
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One day when my little boy was less than two years old, I had to see the doctor, so I left him to the babysitter. On my way to the hospital, I 1 that the babysitter was driving around the town. 2 who was taking care of my son, I went to her house to find a stranger there. 3 with the situation, I grabbed my child and left without a word. When I went to put my son in his car seat, I was 4 to find him taped(用胶带粘住)around his whole body at the elbows and around his ankles. I couldn"t 5 the nightmare. Was it really true? Later I also found my baby wearing three or four diapers(尿布), so there would be no 6 to change him through the day. We soon 7 the police and with the help of several people, the 8 showed she had done this every day over the course of five months. The babysitter was found guilty in the 9 and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Over the first several months, my husband and I had a hard time 10 our anger. We eventually started taking it out on one another. 11 , at last we managed to let go of our anger. About a year later, we 12 a parole(假释)hearing, but not for the reasons everyone there 13 . Of course, others thought we wanted her to stay 14 . Imagine everyone"s surprise when we rose to say that we forgave her and wanted her to be 15 . She had a 12-year-old daughter at home in need of her mother. When we 16 our forgiveness, you could see the weight of the world lift from her. She broke down in tears and looked us in the eye with 17 . Many people today are still shocked by our 18 . But I have to say it was the most 19 experience of my life. I quickly realized that forgiveness is not so much for the receiver, 20 the giver is so richly enriched in the process. | |||||||||||||||||
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