文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者让学生们给无法享用美味晚餐的人购买感恩节晚餐所需的食物,她在孩子们的强烈要求下买了一盆紫色的菊花,送给了一位老太太。老太太收到花后非常惊喜,孩子们的善意和鲜花改变了老太太的心情和生活。
In October, I told the eight-year-olds in the class I teach in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, about my plan. “Since all of you have done extra jobs around the house to earn some money,” I said, “then we’ll buy food for a Thanksgiving dinner for someone who might not have a nice dinner otherwise.”
I watched them while they walked up and down the supermarket. “Flowers!” Kristine cried. The group rushed towards the holiday plants.
“You can’t eat flowers.”— It was wiser to use any extra money to buy something that could be turned into meals.
“But Mrs Sherlock,” came the begging voice, “we want flowers.”
Defeated finally, I put a pot of “funny” purple mums in the cart full of foods. “She’ll like this one,” the children agreed.
An organisation had given us the name and address of a needy grandmother who had lived alone for many years. We finally pulled up in front of a small house. A slightly-built woman with a weary face came to the door to welcome us.
My little group ran to get the foods. As each box was carried in, the old woman kept on saying “Thanks.”— much to her visitors’ pleasure. When Amy put the mums on the counter, the woman seemed surprised. She was wishing it was a bag of rice, I thought.
We returned to the car. As we fastened our seat belts, we could see the kitchen window. The woman inside waved goodbye, then turned and walked across the room, past the turkey, past the goods, straight to the mums. She put her face in them. When she raised her head, there was a smile on her face. She was transformed (转变) before our eyes.
The children were quiet. At that moment, they had seen for themselves the power they have to make another person’s life better. The children had sensed that sometimes a person needs a pot of funny purple flowers on a dark November day.
4. What does the story mainly tell us?
A.Everyone has the power to change the world. |
B.Acts of kindness can change someone’s life. |
C.The poor people may need flowers as well. |
D.Children have different thoughts from adults. |
5. What does the underlined word “mums” in Paragraph 5 refer to in the passage?
A.Mothers. |
B.Teachers. |
C.Flowers. |
D.Gifts. |
6. Why did the author consider the mums “funny”?
A.She thought they were too ugly. |
B.She thought they were for children. |
C.She thought they were too expensive. |
D.She thought they couldn’t help people in need. |
7. What can we know from the passage?
A.The old woman preferred food to flowers. |
B.Flowers are more important than food to the poor. |
C.The old woman’s dark day was brightened by the children. |
D.All the money the children earned was transformed into food. |