完形填空。
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural disasters.
When I was only fourteen years old,I was filled with
1 in spite of the terrible surroundings.The families
living here,who tried to make their living fromthe land,
2 great losses.
I felt sorry especially for the
3 , but I
4 to be hopeless.I decided that where I was,I could do
5 to help them. I began knocking on every door and saying to each person who
6 my knock,"I
know that you are
7 and give the birds that come to your yard a little
8 . Please consider me your
bird. Give me only a handful of rice each week when I come to your
9 . I will take it to the temple where
it can be given to the
10 children. "
No one seemed to
11 giving me a handful of rice, even
12 they had little themselves. On Sunday,
I would go to the
13 and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to
14 to the children.
One day,I came to a house that had
15 to give.I told my story and asked if I could be their bird.
The woman called her daughters, and
16 gave me fifty cents,as well as the handful of rice! I began to
ask for
17 and rice from the other "bird feeders" ,and they gave them to me. Everyone was happy to
be helping
those who were suffering,even
18 only this small way. The temple was soon able to help everyone who
came to them for food and clothing.
"Consider me your bird. " My
19 idea had not stopped the war,but anyway, it was
20 some
peace.
( )1. A. sorrow ( )2. A. suffered ( )3. A. peasants ( )4. A. wanted ( )5. A. something ( )6. A. said ( )7. A. glad ( )8. A. water ( )9. A. temple ( )10. A. brave ( )11. A. mind ( )12. A. where ( )13. A. village ( )14. A. give in ( )15. A. much ( )16. A. every ( )17. A. help ( )18. A. by ( )19. A. foolish ( )20. A. creating |
B. hope B. survived B. citizens B. failed B. everything B. replied B. kind B. money B. room B. hungry B. escape B. that B. hometown B. give up B. little B. each B. clothing B. with B. childish B. mending |
C. comfort C. covered C. villagers C. refused C. anything C. answered C. rich C. nest C. door C. promising C. practice C. so C. temple C. give away C. many C. neither C. food C. on C. clever C. developing |
D. happiness D. made D. children D. stopped D. nothing D. spoke D. friendly D. rice D. garden D. nervous D. enjoy D. when D. house D. give out D. few D. none D. change D. in D. useful D. managing |