Mary’s dime(一毛钱)
It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel
1 when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.
What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly
2 the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light
3 her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.
How much I
4 that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so
5 — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.
I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the
6 in her old dirty dress, looking at the 7 that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt
8 and looked straight at me, just as if(似乎)nobody had spoken so
9 to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would
10 . I haven’t had anything to eat today.”
Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today,
11 this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your
12 . She needs it a great deal more than you do.”
I could not run away from that little girl’s sad,
13 look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How
14 the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime,
15 I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.
小题1: | A.disturbed | B.unhappy | C.satisfied | D.interested |
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小题2: | A.saw | B.remembered | C.forgot | D.described |
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小题3: | A.filling | B.protecting | C.attracting | D.touching |
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小题4: | A.hated | B.loved | C.missed | D.noticed |
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小题5: | A.valuable | B.meaningful | C.expensive | D.cheap |
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小题6: | A.market | B.library | C.store | D.bookshop |
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小题7: | A.dresses | B.magazines | C.books | D.candies |
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小题8: | A.surprised | B.excited | C.pleased | D.worried |
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小题9: | A.happily | B.kindly | C.angrily | D.sadly |
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小题10: | A.taste | B.sound | C.feel | D.smell |
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小题12: | A.apple | B.hamburger | C.dime | D.candy |
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小题13: | A.proud | B.angry | C.calm | D.hungry |
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小题14: | A.grateful | B.unlucky | C.lonely | D.friendly |
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小题15: | A.unless | B.if | C.though | D.because |
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