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愛心存在于世界的任何角落，本文乞丐把麥當(dāng)勞留給孩子的行為讓人震撼。

The day was Thankful Thursday. Its a weekly__1__ that my two little girls and I began years ago. Thursday has become our day to go out and make a positive__2__.

My girls shouted “McDonalds, McDonalds” as we__3__ along a busy Houston road. Suddenly I__4__ that almost every crossing I passed through was__5__ by a panhandler（乞丐）. And then it hit me! All these panhandlers must be hungry, too. Perfect! After we ate, I ordered a(an)__6__ fifteen lunches and we set out to deliver them. We would pull__7__ a panhandler, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we hoped things got better. Then wed say, “Oh, __8__ ... heres lunch.”

We handed our final contribution to a small woman and then immediately__9__ back in the opposite direction for home. __10__, the light caught us again and we were stopped at the same crossing where this small woman stood. I was__ 11__ and didnt know quite how to behave.

She made her way to our car, “No one has ever done__ 12__ like this for me before,” she said with__ 13__. Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, “So,__ 14__ do you think youll eat your lunch?”

She just looked at me with her huge, tried brown eyes and said, “Oh honey, Im not going to eat this lunch.” I was__ 15__, but before I could say anything, she continued, “You see, I have a little girl and she__16__ loves McDonalds, but I dont have money. But you know what ... tonight she is going to have McDonalds!”

I dont know if the kids__ 17__ the tears in my eyes. So many times I had questioned whether our acts of kindness were too__18__ or insignificant to really effect change. __19__ in that moment, I recognized the__20__of Mother Teresas words: “We cannot do great things—only small things with great love.”

1. A. tradition B. ceremony

C. custom D. habit

2. A. decision B. choice

C. contribution D. plan

3. A. walked B. ran

C. wandered D. drove

4. A. reminded B. realized

C. understood D. thought

5. A. crowded B. occupied

C. discovered D. laid

6. A. additional B. expensive

C. cheap D. special

7. A. close B. together

C. alongside D. throughout

8. A. in fact B. to tell the truth

C. generally speaking D. by the way

9. A. faced B. headed

C. took D. looked

10. A. Unfortunately B. Luckily

C. Unexpectedly D. Hopefully

11. A. excited B. embarrassed

C. frightened D. annoyed

12. A. something B. everything

C. anything D. nothing

13. A. amazement B. fear

C. sorrow D. amusement

14. A. what B. how C. where D. when

15. A. shocked B. confused

C. pleased D. worried

16. A. really B. even C. just D. never

17. A. watched B. felt

C. noticed D. recognized

18. A. many B. small C. big D. simple

19. A. Therefore B. Although

C. Meanwhile D. Yet

20. A. promise B. oath C. truth D. spirit

B

人與人之間的矛盾，用友誼來化解，遠比用仇恨更有效得多。

Not too long ago, I went to see a movie with my two best friends on Saturday.__1__ we arrived at the theater, I__2__ a man standing by the door__3__ the way.__4__ I knew who it was. STEVE! The__5__ movie theatre ticket taker(檢票員)! I watched in disgust as he so__6__ took the__7__ from innocent hands. In fact, he was so evil that he tore the tickets and__8__ them back into the innocent hands. I had known this man, always in his ugly red suit and hat,__9__ I was four years old.

As soon as we__ 10__ the car, I realized that I FORGOT MY TICKET! Steve did__11__things to people who forgot their tickets, even though he still let them in. When we__ 12__ the door, the evil man gave me a smirk（得意的笑）. He could__ 13__ I had forgotten my ticket. “DROP AND GIVE ME TWO HUNDRED!” he ordered.

I did two hundred and one.

“Now jump__ 14__ a ring of fire!” and I did, but I hated it. I had to do it for hours, so I missed the movie. I was very__ 15__.

I went home and made hundreds of__16__to take him down until I found a good__17__. I realized I could make peace, but HOW? HOW? HOW?

So after hours of__ 18__ my head on my desk, knocking stuff over, and blaming my sister, I__ 19__ a solution so complicated that I__ 20__ understood it. I was going to bake Steve a cake. I went to his house and left the cake with the words “Will you be my friend?” on the porch(門廊).

I met him in the park the next day and we became friends forever.

1. A. While B. Though

C. Because D. When

2. A. looked B. saw

C. watched D. glared

3. A. blocking B. to block

C. blocked D. to be blocking

4. A. At times B. After all

C. Right away D. By no means

5. A. evil B. good

C. handsome D. kind

6. A. gently B. carefully

C. honestly D. rudely

7. A. tickets B. money

C. bills D. changes

8. A. pulled B. held C. took D. pushed

9. A. since B. after C. before D. as

10. A. got into B. got out of

C. got on D. got off

11. A. friendly B. beneficial

C. horrible D. helpful

12. A. reached B. came out of

C. went toward D. left

13. A. touch B. smell C. sense D. taste

14. A. over B. through C. on D. under

15. A. angry B. happy C. tiring D. exited

16. A. tickets B. tricks C. means D. plans

17. A. it B. that C. the one D. one

18. A. hitting B. beating

C. throwing D. resting

19. A. came up with B. kept up with

C. came up D. kept up

20. A. nearly B. hardly C. simply D. only

答案及解析：

A

1. A。分析上下文，這個日子已成為“我”家的傳統(tǒng)。

2. C。make a contribution“作貢獻”。

3. D。根據(jù)第四段“She made her way to our car”可知是開車。

4. B。突然我“意識到”每個十字路口都被一個乞丐“占據(jù)”。

5. B。

6. A。額外訂購了15份食物分給乞丐吃。

7. C。把乞丐拉到一邊。

8. D。by the way“順便說一下”。

9. B。head for“朝……方向前進”。

10. A。分析上下文，“我”感到這種情景很不幸。

11. B?！拔摇备械胶軐擂?。

12. C。沒有人以前為我做任何這樣的事。前面有否定詞No one，所以用anything。

13. A。這個女乞丐感到驚訝。

14. D。根據(jù)下一段“Im not going to eat this lunch.”可知是問時間。

15. B。我很迷惑。

16. C。just“恰好”。

17. C。“我”不知道孩子們是否注意到我眼中的淚水。

18. B。由下文insignificant可知選B，善舉是否太小或不重要。

19. D。分析上下文，有意義上的轉(zhuǎn)折，故選D。

20. C。領(lǐng)會的特雷薩修女話語的真正含義。

B

1. D。當(dāng)我們到達電影院時。When“當(dāng)……時”，強調(diào)時間點。

2. B。此處表示看的結(jié)果，故選saw。

3. A。see sb. doing“看見某人在干什么”，此處blocking the way作賓語補足語。

4. C。分析上下文，可知“我”立即認出了Steve這個人。

5. A。分析下文，出現(xiàn)了evil，可知Steve很壞。

6. D。分析上下文，Steve很粗魯。

7. A。既然是檢票員，從觀眾手里奪的肯定是票。下文也有提示。

8. D。撕了票，又塞回觀眾的手里。

9. A。自從四歲以來一直認識Steve。

10. B。一出小車，“我”發(fā)現(xiàn)自己忘了帶電影票。Get out of指從小車或出租車等矮小的車出來，get off從高的汽車等下來。

11. C。Steve通常對沒有票的人做出可怕的事。

12. A。“我”顯然到達了檢票口。

13. C。sense“意識到”。

14. B。through“穿過”。

15. A。沒有看成電影，我肯定很生氣。

16. D。制定數(shù)百個計劃要Steve大失面子。

17. D。one指代前面計劃的一個。

18. A。在桌子上敲打著腦袋。

19. A。come up with“想出”，人作主語，如果是事物作主語用come up。

20. B。解決辦法太復(fù)雜以至于自己幾乎都不明白。