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Question

That Easter day ( 复活节    ) I found out we were so poor . The minister brought us the money for the poor family so we must be poor I thought . I didn’t like being poor . Everyone there probably already knew we were poor ! I thought about school . I was in the ninth grade and at the top of my class over 100 students . I wondered if the kids at school knew that we were poor .

We sat in silence for a long time . Then it got dark and we went to bed . All that week we girls went to school and came home and no one talked much . Finally on Saturday Mom asked us what we wanted to do with the money . What did poor people do with the money ? We didn’t know . We didn’t want to go to the church on Sunday but mom said we had to . Although it was a sunny day we didn’t talk on the way . Mom started to sing but no one joined in .

At church we had a speaker . He talked about how churches in Africa built schools and houses for the poor people but they needed more money to buy foods . The speaker said “ Can’t we all give away some money to help those poor people ?” We looked at each other and smiled for the first time in a week .

Mom reached into her purse and pulled out the envelope . She passed it to Darlene Darlene gave it to me and I put it into the offering .

When the offering was counted the minister announced that it was a little over 500 dollars . The speaker was excited . He hadn’t expected such a large offering from our small church . He said ＂ You must have some rich people in this church .” Suddenly it struck us ! We had given 420dollars of that “  little over 500 dollars  .“

We were the rich family in the church ! Hadn’t the speaker said so ? From that day on I’ve never been poor again .

1.When the writer’s family was given the money for the poor she probably felt ____________ .

A．thankful   B．surprised

C．fair       D．embarrassed (  难堪的   )

2.  The mother decided to go to the church to ________________

A．hang out with her kids

B．donate ( 捐赠 ) the money to poor people

C．cheer her kids up

D．show other people they were not poor

3.What does the underlined word “announced” mean ?

A. Spoke loudly in public

B. Made a hard  decision

C. Host a good program

D. Discovered an exciting result

4. Which of the statements is true ?

A.The writer was born in an African country

B. The writer didn’t like going to school

C. The mother was helpful to others

D. he mother didn’t want the money given by others

5.What can we learn from the article ?

A. It’s not good to receive other’s money

B. Being poor you still can help

C. Churches are good places to learn

D. We should regard difficulties as challenges

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.C

5.B