Question

Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a seemingly ancient woman waited beside the door with her hand outstretched. Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met. She never failed to return my smile, my grasp, and my greeting.

    On the last day of our visit, I found myself alone on a busy corner across the street from our hotel. Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me. As I hesitated on the sidewalk, I felt a hand on my elbow and looked down to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me. She nodded her head toward the street, indicating that she would take me across. Together, we moved slowly into the chaos.

    Then we moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then left, still smiling and waving back to me.

Traveling in poorer nations, I have witnessed a variety of ways to deal with beggars. The most common response of tourists faced with the poverty-stricken is to ignore them and focus their eyes elsewhere. I have seen people push away an outstretched hand in angry annoyance. A few may drop a few coins into the hand in a hurry, hoping that other ragged pursuers won’t immediately appear on the scene.

For many reasons, giving money is not the best response to an outstretched hand. Many world travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect. Everyone needs recognition, to be seen as worthy of being known, to feel appreciated and loved. And I believe that everyone is worthy and worth knowing.

1.The woman beggars helped the author go across the busy street because __________.

A．the author gave her material assistance

B．the author treated her kindly and friendly

C．the author would help her as a reward

D．the author was a foreigner

2.From the story, what position of the beggars in the author’s mind might be?

    A．equal                B．superior      C．lower          D．valuable

3.In common cases, people will do the following things to the beggars EXCEPT for ________.

    A．pretending to see nothing

B．handing out some money

    C．refusing them angrily

D．greeting them normally

4.According to the author, the most important things beggars really need are _________.

    A．mercy and pity 　B．money and food

C．smile and greeting  D．a(chǎn)ttention and respect

5.The purpose of the passage is to _________.

    A．show how poor the beggars are in Vietnam

    B．offer some advice on dealing with begging

    C．express what we should offer the beggars

    D．describe an experience with a beggar       

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.D

5.C

【解析】

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合文章中的Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met（。每天，當(dāng)我和她目光交匯時(shí)，我都會(huì)把我的手放在她的手里。）和Many world travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect…（他們所能給予的最好禮物是他們的時(shí)間與友情。每個(gè)人都需要認(rèn)同，需要關(guān)注，需要感激和關(guān)愛(ài)。）可知作者并沒(méi)有給woman beggars錢或其它東西，而是認(rèn)同和關(guān)愛(ài)。

2.推理判斷題。結(jié)合文章最后一句I believe that everyone is worthy and worth knowing（我堅(jiān)信每個(gè)人都是有價(jià)值的――值得你去了解）可知在作者心目中所有的人都是平等的。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合The most common response of tourists faced with the poverty-stricken is to ignore them and focus their eyes elsewhere. I have seen people push away an outstretched hand in angry annoyance. A few may drop a few coins into the hand in a hurry（面對(duì)窮人最常見(jiàn)的回應(yīng)是不理睬，還有轉(zhuǎn)移注意力。我曾看見(jiàn)有人非常惱火地把他們的伸出來(lái)的手推開(kāi)。還有一些人急匆匆地把幾個(gè)硬幣丟在他們乞求的手掌里）可知D項(xiàng)不合題意。

4.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合Many world travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect可知答案。

5.寫作目的題。作者結(jié)合自己的一次經(jīng)歷告訴人們：對(duì)于乞丐來(lái)說(shuō)，給他們錢并不是最好的回應(yīng)。他們也需要認(rèn)同，需要關(guān)注，需要感激和關(guān)愛(ài)。