In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who lived those years with us. In fact, we don't have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones closest to us and the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now! While your feeling of appreciation is alive and sincere, act on it. Saying thanks is such an easy way to add to the world's happiness.
Saying thanks not only brightens someone else's world, it brightens yours. If you're feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others. It may be just the medicine you need. Of course, there are times when you can't express gratitude immediately. In that case, don't let embarrassment sink you into silence and speak up the first time you have the chance.
Once a young minister, Mark Brian, was sent to a remote parish(教區(qū))of Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia. The Indians, he had been told, did not have a word for thank you. But Brian soon found that these people had unusual generosity. Instead of saying thanks, it is their custom to return every favor with a favor of their own, and every kindness with an equal or superior kindness. They do their thanks. I wonder if we had no words in our vocabulary for thank you, would we do a better job of communicating our gratitude? Would we be more responsive, more sensitive, more caring?
Thankfulness sets in motion a chain reaction that transforms people all around us－including ourselves. For no one ever misunderstands the melody(旋律)of a grateful heart. Its message is universal; its poems transcend(超越)all earthly barriers; its music touches the heaven.
小題1:Who do we easily forget to express our thanks to according to the writer?
A．Friends not meeting for a long time.B．Former teachers and friends.
C．People we want to get close to.D．Our family members and good friends.
小題2: When we say something for what others do for us, it ______.
A．benefits the people who do something for us
B．is good for both us and people who help us
C．wastes our and our friends' time at the same time
D．does harm to both us and people who help us
小題3:What does the writer mean in the third paragraph?
A．The only way to thank others is to express by your own words.
B．The best way to thank others is to do something for them.
C．We can thank people who help us in various ways.
D．We can thank people who help us in two ways.
小題4:The way to make us feel happy is ______ when we think we ourselves are forgotten in the world.
A．to help and appreciate othersB．to ask others to help us
C．to remind others of our helping themD．to ask someone to help others

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A
試題分析：
小題1:D.細(xì)節(jié)題。從we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who lived those years with us可知是和我們多年在一起的人，也就是我們的家人和朋友。
小題2:B.細(xì)節(jié)題。從Saying thanks not only brightens someone else's world, it brightens yours可知表示感激對(duì)我們及幫助我們的人都有好處。另外，也可以觀察題支，發(fā)現(xiàn)Ｂ和Ｄ是兩個(gè)互為矛盾的選項(xiàng)，所以只需在Ｂ和Ｄ兩選項(xiàng)中排除一個(gè)即可。
小題3:C細(xì)節(jié)題。第一二段說(shuō)到我們可以用話語(yǔ)感激別人，第三段通過(guò)例子說(shuō)明我們也可以用其它方式表示感激，比方說(shuō)用同樣的善舉，恩惠回饋別人。Ｃ答案包括了AB兩項(xiàng)內(nèi)容。D答案錯(cuò)誤在in two ways
小題4:A細(xì)節(jié)題從If you're feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others可得出答案
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本篇文章說(shuō)明我們要勇于向我們的家人和朋友表達(dá)我們的感激之情，當(dāng)然我們也同樣可以用我們的善舉，恩惠回饋別人。                               
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