“I once hoped to afford a wonderful telescope, but now I wish my father would be back.” Lucy Lawrence’s letter to Father Christmas written after his father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched every heart. Lucy went on to say that without his father he couldn’t see the stars in the sky. When those whom we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.

But Lucy, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone ,you will see them again . And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father is there too, in your mind and in your heart . I find that my parents , long dead now , still occur in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive . I still live to please them and I’m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor , I was so proud , or rather so pleased with myself , that I couldn’t wait to write to my parents . The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all Mother said was “I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children! ” I haven’t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.

It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors, and to lay down my life for those in my care ? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It’s a serious thought, one to give me pause.

I pray silently , sometimes , in the dead of night ,that ancient cry of a poet “Deliver my soul from the sword(劍), and my darling from the power of the evil .” Yet I know the death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live forever, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I’m sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.

1. According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph .

A. shows the author’s pity on the kid

B. acts as an introduction to the discussion

C. puts forward the subject of the text

D. makes a clear statement of the author’s opinions

2. In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us .

A. why his parents often appear in his dream

B. how much he misses his parents now

C. when Lucy will get over all his sadness

D. how proud he was when he succeeded in life

3.What feeling did the author’s mother express in her reply?

A. Proud. B. Excited.

C. Uninterested. D. Uneasy.

4.What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem?

A. Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns.

B. Advise parents stay with their children safely at home.

C. Try to keep violence and murder far away from society.

D. Spend every day meaningfully in memory of the death.

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.C

【解析】lucy的父親在她校門口被刺身亡這一事件讓lucy十分難過仿佛看不見星星,但是總有一天,lucy會(huì)擦干眼淚,重新仰望因難過看不到的星星。

1.

2. values of my parents still live on.直譯我父母的價(jià)值觀依舊活著。引申來想,作者是想說,父母依舊活在他心中,向他傳達(dá)這他們的想法。這就是作者父母出現(xiàn)在他夢中的理由。故選A

3. hope this means that now you will have more time for the children! 我希望這意味著現(xiàn)在你將會(huì)有更多的時(shí)間奉獻(xiàn)給孩子們。面對孩子升職,母親并沒有表達(dá)出多欣喜和認(rèn)同,而是強(qiáng)調(diào)工作。故選D

4. more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.如果更多家長能將這點(diǎn)記在心里,那么我們的街道將會(huì)有更少的刀(這里引申為兇殺案)故選C

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