Question

     I have recently completed my college degree. The last project was called “Smile”. The class was asked to go out to smile at three people and document their reactions（反应）. I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello anyway. So, I thought this would be a piece of cake.

    My husband, the youngest son and I went out to McDonald. We were standing in line when all of a sudden everyone around us began to back away. As I turned around I smelled a horrible body odour（气味） and saw two poor homeless men standing behind me. As I looked at the short blue-eyed gentleman closest to me, he was “smiling”. The second man fumbled（摸索）with his hands as he stood behind his friend.

    The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted. He said, “Coffee is all, Miss, ” because that was all they could afford.

    Then I really felt it—I almost embraced（拥抱）the little man with the blue eyes. That is when I noticed all eyes in the restaurant were set on me, judging my every action. I smiled and asked the lady for two more breakfast meals and gave them to the men.

    The blue-eyed gentleman looked up at me, with tears in his eyes, and said, “Thank you. ”

    I turned in my project. My teacher said, “Can I share this? ” I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class. She began to read and that is when I knew that we as human beings share this need to heal people and to be healed.

    In my own way I had touched the people at McDonald’s and every soul that heard the story in the classroom. But, I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn.

55. The underlined part “a piece of cake” in Paragraph 1 means_______.

A. easy           B. embarrassing

C. moving         D. comfortable

56. Why did people around the author in the McDonald step back?

A. Because they were very polite to the two men.

B. Because they were moved by the two men.

C. Because the two men smelt terrible.

D. Because the two men seemed unfriendly.

57. Why did the two men only buy coffee?

A. Because they didn’t have enough money.

B. Because they didn’t feel hungry.

C. Because they knew others would help them.

D. Because they were looked down upon.

58. How did the teacher think of the author’s project?

A. Hard to believe.         B. Interesting to read.

C. Very puzzling.          D. Very satisfying.

Answer 1

 作者在大学毕业前，接到老师布置的作业；向三个人微笑然后记下他们的反应。作者在麦当劳时决定帮助两个穷人，不仅仅感动了这两个穷人，同时也使在场的每个人以及作者的老师和同学感动和高兴。

55. 【解析】选A。词义猜测题。此画线部分前面一句提到作者对别人很友好，总是微笑，因此可知作者认为这个任务非常简单。

56. 【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据文章第二段第三句可知人们后退的原因是这两个人身上的气味很难闻。

57. 【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据文章第三段第二句的because that was all they could afford. 可知。

58. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段可知老师看了作者的project后，把它读给全班学生听，因此可知老师对作者的作业感到很满意。