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Thefuturebelongstothosewhobelieveinthebeautyoftheirdreams.
-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 from the 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 |