Mary’s dime（一毛钱）
It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel
1 when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.
What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly
2 the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light
3 her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.
How much I
4 that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so
5 — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.
I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the
6 in her old dirty dress, looking at the 7 that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt
8 and looked straight at me, just as if（似乎）nobody had spoken so
9 to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would
10 . I haven’t had anything to eat today.”
Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today,
11 this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your
12 . She needs it a great deal more than you do.”
I could not run away from that little girl’s sad,
13 look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How
14 the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime,
15 I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.
| 小题1: | | A．disturbed | B．unhappy | C．satisfied | D．interested |
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| 小题2: | | A．saw | B．remembered | C．forgot | D．described |
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| 小题3: | | A．filling | B．protecting | C．attracting | D．touching |
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| 小题4: | | A．hated | B．loved | C．missed | D．noticed |
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| 小题5: | | A．valuable | B．meaningful | C．expensive | D．cheap |
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| 小题6: | | A．market | B．library | C．store | D．bookshop |
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| 小题7: | | A．dresses | B．magazines | C．books | D．candies |
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| 小题8: | | A．surprised | B．excited | C．pleased | D．worried |
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| 小题9: | | A．happily | B．kindly | C．angrily | D．sadly |
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| 小题10: | | A．taste | B．sound | C．feel | D．smell |
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| 小题12: | | A．apple | B．hamburger | C．dime | D．candy |
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| 小题13: | | A．proud | B．angry | C．calm | D．hungry |
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| 小题14: | | A．grateful | B．unlucky | C．lonely | D．friendly |
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| 小题15: | | A．unless | B．if | C．though | D．because |
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