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One Sunday, a particular picture especially touched me. A young woman stood in front of an entirely
shattered mobile home, a depressed expression twisting her features. A young boy, seven or eight years
old, stood at her side, eyes downcast. Clutching (紧握) at her skirt was a tiny girl who stared into the
camera, eyes wide with confusion and fear.
The article that went with the picture gave the clothing sizes of each family member. With growing
interest, I noticed that their sizes closely matched ours. This would be a good opportunity to teach my
children to help those less fortunate than themselves. I taped the picture of the young family to our
refrigerator, explaining their difficulty to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and to three- year-old Meghan.
" We have so much. And these poor people now have nothing," I said."We"ll share what we have with
them."
I brought three large boxes down from the room upstairs and placed them on the living room floor.
Meghan watched seriously, as the boys and I filled one of the boxes with canned goods and foods.
While I sorted through our clothes, I encouraged the boys to go through their toys and donate some of
their less favorite things. Meghan watched quietly as the boys piled up discarded toys and games.
"I"ll help you find something for the little girl when I"m done with this," I said.
The boys placed the toys they had chosen to donate into one of the boxes while I filled the third box
with clothes. Meghan walked up with Lucy, her worn, faded, much-loved rag doll hugged tightly to her
chest. She paused in front of the box that held the toys, pressed her round little face into Lucy"s flat, painted-on-face, gave her a final kiss, then laid her gently on top of the other toys.
"Oh, Honey," I said."You don"t have to give Lucy. You love her so much."
Meghan nodded seriously, eyes glistening with held-back tears. ""Lucy makes me happy, Mommy.
Maybe she"ll make that other little girl happy, too．"
Swallowing hard, I stared at Meghan for a long moment, wondering how I could teach the boys the
lesson she had just taught me. For I suddenly realized that anyone can give their cast-offs away. True
generosity is giving that which you value most.
Honest benevolence (善行) is a three-year-old offering a valuable, though shabby, doll to a little girl
she doesn"t know with the hope that it will bring this child as much pleasure as it brought her. I, who had
wanted to teach, had been taught.
The boys had watched, open-mouthed, as their baby sister placed her favorite doll in the box. Without a word, Brad rose and went to his room. He came back carrying one of his favorite action figures. He
hesitated briefly, clutching the toy, then looked over at Meghan and placed it in the box next to Lucy.
A slow smile spread across Brett"s face. Then he jumped up, eyes twinkling as he ran to fetch some
of his prized Matchbox cars.
Astonished, I realized that the boys had also recognized what little Meghan"s gesture meant.
Swallowing back tears, I pulled all three of them into my arms.
Taking the cue from my little one, I removed my old jacket from the box of clothes. I replaced it with the
new hunter green jacket that I had found on sale last week. I hoped the young woman in the picture would love it as much as I did.
It"s easy to give that which we don"t want any more, but harder to let go of things we cherish, isn"t it?
However, the true spirit of giving is to give with your heart..
B. To appeal to unconcerned people to donate for the poor families.
C. To show the helplessness and hopelessness of the family mentioned in the paper.
D. To stress what touched her and made her decide to help the hopeless family.
B. Meghan"s decision inspired them to donate their favorite things.
C. They also wanted to show generosity by giving away their valuable things.
D. Meghan"s gesture reminded them to replace their favorite things with new ones.
B. she had trouble persuading Meghan not to give away Lucy
C. she was greatly moved by Meghan"s unexpected decision
D. she was uncertain what consequences Meghan"s action would bring about
B. true giving means giving others what you treasure most
C. true generosity means helping others at the cost of your own benefit
D. honest benevolence means devoting yourself to the career of donation
B. A Beautiful Heart
C. True Generosity
D. A Precious Gift
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few worldly goods, but plenty of love and attention. I was 2 and energetic. I understood that no matter
how poor a person was, they could 3 afford a dream.
My dream was to be a 4 . When I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball. I was also 5 : my high - school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who 6 me the difference between having a dream and showing strong belief. One particular 7 with him changed my life forever.
It was a summer and a friend recommended me for a summer 8 . This meant a chance for my first
income - cash for a new bike and new clothes, and the 9 of savings for a house for my mother. The
opportunity was attracting, and I wanted to 10 at it.
Then I realized I would have to 11 summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I
would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn"t be playing. I was 12 about this.
When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as 13 as I expected him to be. "You have your whole life to work," he said. "Your 14 days are limited. You can"t afford to waste them."
I stood before him with my head 15 , trying to think of how to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth 16 his disappointment in me.
"How much are you going to make at this job?" he demanded.
"$ 3.25 an hour," I replied.
"Well, is $ 3.25 an hour the price of a 17 ?" he asked.
That 18 laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I
devoted myself to 19 that summer, and within the year I was offered a $ 20,000 contract. I signed with
the Denver Broncos in 1984 for $ 1.7 million, and bought my mother the 20 of my dreams.
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| Thanks a Million, Dad I was born disabled. A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck.By my first birthday, I couldn"t stand or walk. When I was three, the doctor told dad I had cerebral palsy (脑瘫).A loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body. But no son of my dad" s was going to be disabled. Every morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg. The muscles were shrunk and twisted together. Back and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape. But my dad" s exercise of passion didn"t stop there. For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party. When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, it was a-set of boxing gloves. We put them on. My dad kept on beating me mercilessly. Each time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jaw. I "begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world. That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasn"t picked for Little League. Two weeks later. Dad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid played. Dad coached us and made me a pitcher (棒球投手). The power of my dad" s love guaranteed I walked and more. In high school, I became a football star. In 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didn"t t have cerebral palsy after all. He explained how and where the doctor" s forceps (镊子) at birth had damaged my brain. My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years ago. But all that counts is the bottom line. After all his madness, on this Father" s Day, like every Father" s Day, I" m no longer disabled. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1.What caused the author" s disability? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. A failed operation. B. The doctor"s forceps. C. An accident in a game. D. Shrunken and twisted muscles. | |||||||||||||||||
| 2. What do we learn from the passage? | |||||||||||||||||
| A. The author has a talent for boxing. B. The author achieved a lot thanks to his father" s love. C. The author became a baseball star with the help of his father. D. The author doesn"t think his father should be so strict with him. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3. Paragraph 3 suggests that the author" s father____. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. wouldn"t give up hope easily B. believed his son was a normal child C. blamed the doctors for his son" s disability D. couldn"t accept the truth that his son was disabled | |||||||||||||||||
| 4. The author wrote the passage to ____. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. remember his father B. encourage disabled children C. show the difficulty the disabled face D. give advice to the parents of disabled children | |||||||||||||||||
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| Don"t Let the Candle Off A man had a little daughter-an only and much-loved child. He lived for her-she was his whole 1 . He was so happy to hear his girl"s voice that he hardly 2 what he would do 3 her. But unfortunately one day, his daughter became seriously ill. He was very 4 . He tried all he could to 5 her. At last, his 6 proved useless and the child passed away. The father became a bitter recluse (隐士) after that, 7 himself away from his friends and refusing every activity that might 8 him back to his normal self. But one night he had a dream. He was in heaven, seeing a group of little child angels. They were dressed in white and 9 in a line passing by the Great White Throne. Every angel 10 a candle. He noticed that all the candles were bright except one. Then he found that the child with the 11 candle was his own little daughter. 12 to her, he held her in his 13 , hugged her gently, and then asked, "Why is it, darling, that your candle 14 is unlighted?" His daughter said, "Daddy, they often relight it, but your 15 always put it out." Just then he 16 . The lesson was very clear, and its 17 were immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse, but socialized (交际)freely and 18 with his former friends and colleagues. No longer would his darling"s candle be put out by his 19 tears. We can"t avoid having a sad 20 during lifetime, but we should remember not to let our beloved person"s candle off. | |||||||||||||||||
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