A young girl is smiling at me from a picture frame on my desk as I write this. She is my child I _______ sponsored from the Philippines. Even though I have never met her in person, she has found a _______ place in my heart. It doesn’t _______ me much to help her, about a dollar a day._______, millions of people in this world live on less. The _______ that helping her gives me, however, is beyond _______. It connects me to her, to life,_______ to love.
I can still _______ the first time that I decided to help a child overseas. It was many years ago. I was only a teenager myself and had a little extra _______ each month. I didn’t feel like ________ anything, though. We had ________ everything we had in a house fire a few years before.________ that had taught me a lot. I had learned that I didn’t need a lot of “stuff” to be ________. I had also read a lot about the ________ of children in poor countries around the world. It seemed like a far better thing then to give what I could to help them. With my Mom’s love and ________, I soon found a few organizations like Children International that were ________ others around the world. It felt so good being able to reach out and help another ________. It felt so good being able to make even one life better. I could feel the compassion and ________ growing within me and beginning to change me.
Empathy (同情) does change us. It helps us to ________, to be kind, and to make this world a ________ place.
21. A.even | B.once | C.still | D.seldom |
22. A.special | B.proper | C.necessary | D.possible |
23. A.matter | B.waste | C.cost | D.save |
24. A.Therefore | B.Besides | C.Otherwise | D.However |
25. A.wealth | B.anxiety | C.challenge | D.joy |
26. A.imagination | B.complaint | C.price | D.reach |
27. 28. A.remember | B.doubt | C.admit | D.realize |
29. A.money | B.time | C.energy | D.labor |
30. A.doing | B.buying | C.facing | D.missing |
31. A.stored | B.found | C.lost | D.searched |
32. A.Putting aside | B.Taking on | C.Paying for | D.Going through |
33. A.happy | B.relaxed | C.energetic | D.positive |
34. A.education | B.suffering | C.tale | D.anger |
35. A.courage | B.belief | C.support | D.faith |
36. A.treating | B.praising | C.honoring | D.serving |
37. A.in need | B.in peace | C.in fear | D.in silence |
38. A.relief | B.empathy | C.ease | D.guilty |
39. A.donate | B.think | C.love | D.sponsor |
40. A.bigger | B.safer | C.smaller | D.better |