Mom and I were putting the finishing touches on dinner, and my little niece Jessica came in to set the table. Instead of going to the dish cabinet, she went into the pantry where there was a stack of old, mismatched dinner plates on the bottom shelf.
When she had set all six places, she stood back and sighed, “Oh, Grandma, your plates are so beautiful. Ours are all alike!” We had a good laugh at her innocent remark, but as I think back to all those years ago, I believe she was right. Those plates were beautiful.
Mom worked for the local council on aging as a housekeeper. She did many of the little things that allowed elderly people to stay in their own homes. Most of her clients got Meals on Wheels, a service in the 1970s. They received a hot lunch and a cold snack to have later in the evening. This is really not very much food. Every evening Mom would make to-go meals on these mismatched plates covered with aluminum foil, and then deliver them to the people who she knew didn’t get enough to eat.
This was about ten years before microwave ovens became common so it was important that the food be on a plate that could be reheated in a regular oven. Instead of a cold sandwich and macaroni salad, Mom’s clients dined on Beef Manhattans, pan-fried chicken or meatloaf, along with veggies and a piece of pie or cake. Mom and Dad did this even after Mom left her job, and Mom continued after Dad’s death until all her former clients had either passed away or moved out.
When I was cleaning our Mom’s house after her death, I kept one as a souvenir（纪念品）. That plate is a sweet reminder of the lessons of generosity and caring for one’s neighbor that were modeled for me by my parents.
1. Why did the author think those plates beautiful?| A．They were not all alike. |
| B．They were little Jessica’s pride. |
| C．They were collected from different places. |
| D．They were symbols of the parents’ kindness. |
| A．Be a housewife. | B．Run Meals on Wheels. |
| C．Deliver food to houses. | D．Do housework for the old. |
| A．It was her job. |
| B．She was good at cooking. |
| C．She wanted to help beyond her duty. |
| D．Her family didn’t have enough to eat. |
| A．Plates of Sympathy | B．A Precious Souvenir |
| C．Services for the Senior | D．A Kind-hearted Mother |
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【推荐1】As I went down the wooden snowy steps, I held the rough railing (栏杆) with one hand, held my crying daughter Kelly with the other and made my way into the yard. I knew everything would be okay if I located my mother.
Instead of a smile, she greeted me with concern. I knew she had read my face as I’d approached. “What’s wrong?” she asked.
I held the baby out. “I can’t take care of this baby,” I said simply. My mother didn’t take her from my arms as I expected. She smiled slightly, and then replied firmly, “You have to take care of that baby.” This was not the response I wanted. Couldn’t she hear the baby crying? I wanted her to fix this problem. Instead, she took off her gloves and asked me in for some coffee.
Mom held Kelly while I held the coffee cup. At that moment the baby finally stopped crying. I glanced over at Kelly, content in my mother’s arms. Her tiny blue eyes were fixed on me, as if to ask, “What’s the problem here, Mama?” Her sweet, familiar breath eased the stress in the air. I looked at my mother, feeling foolish but relieved. She stood and placed an arm around my shoulders. “By the time you came along, things were quite the opposite for me. But with my first child, you can bet that I often felt helpless.”
The baby showed no signs of our afternoon struggle, while my own hair remained damp and messy from sweat and worry. “Crying is the only way babies have to communicate. Try to listen to her cries and hear them as language. She’s not crying to annoy you; she’s trying to convey a message with the only voice she has.”
Once again, her gentle guidance had supported me through a storm and back into clear skies. As I headed back to my own home, Mom reminded me, “It won’t always be so hard. Children grow fast. Before you know it, you’ll have an empty nest and you’ll miss her.”
1. Why did the author visit her mother in the rough weather?| A．She was concerned about her mother’s safety. |
| B．She was helpless and needed her mother’s help. |
| C．She wanted everything to be OK with her family. |
| D．She wanted to learn to care for babies from her. |
| A．Experienced and confident. |
| B．Inexperienced but patient. |
| C．Thoughtless and unconcerned. |
| D．Considerate but impatient. |
| A．It’s babies9 way of expressing discomfort or hunger. |
| B．It’s babies9 main way to exercise and grow healthy. |
| C．It’s babies, only way of communication with people. |
| D．It’s babies’ fight for love and care from the world. |
| A．She likes to raise small children and give advice. |
| B．She lives a lonely life without her children. |
| C．She used to sail out to the sea with the author. |
| D．She often gives advice to the author in trouble. |
“Examine the extended family, and you’ll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every generation. It’s a common inheritable trait ” says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain control when they sense their parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other.
Whether it’s inborn nature or developed character at work, too much control in the hands at the young isn’t healthy for children or the family, Fear is at the root of a lot of bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book From Defiance to Cooperation, “have secret feelings of weakness” and “a desire to feel safe.” It’s the parents’ role to provide that protection.
When a “boss child” doesn’t learn limits at home, the stage is set for a host of troubles outside the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble obeying teachers or coaches, for example, or trouble keeping friends. It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.
“I see more and more parents giving up their power,” says Barkley, who has studied bossy behavior for more than 30 years.“They bend too far because they don’t want to be as strict as their own parents were. But they also feel less confident about their parenting skills. Their kids, in turn, feel more anxious.”
1. Bossy children like Stephen Jackson _____.
| A．make good decisions |
| B．show self-centeredness |
| C．lack care from others |
| D．have little sense of fear |
| A．inborn nature | B．accepted theory |
| C．developed character | D．particular environment |
| A．should not set limits for their children |
| B．should give more power to their children |
| C．should be strict with their children properly |
| D．should let children find sense of safety by themselves |
| A．relaxed and confident | B．hesitant and weak |
| C．lonely and anxious | D．willful and unbending |
Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Father's Day cards. They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you. Yet as I selected and read, it occurred to me that not a single card said what I really want to say to you.
You'll soon be 84 years old, Dad, and you and I will have had 55 Father's Days together. I haven't always been with you on Father's Day but I've always been with you in my heart.
You know, Dad, there was a time when we were separated by the generation gap. You stood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other.
The Father-Daughter Duel shifted into high gear ( 档位) when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the Chevy whether you liked it or not. The police officer who sent me home, after you reported the Chevy stolen, didn't have much tolerance for a stubborn 16 year old, while you were so tolerant about it, Dad, and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life.
Our relationship greatly improved when I married a man you liked, and things really turned around when we began making babies right and left. Somewhere along the line, the generation gap disappeared. I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together, rather like a fine wine.
But the strangest thing happened last week. I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car. It didn't immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and fragile behind the wheel of that huge car. It was rather like a slap in the face delivered from out of nowhere. Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day.
I guess what I'm trying to say, Dad, is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today. Honoring a father on Father's Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking. It's about loving someone more than words can say, and it's wishing that never had to end.
I love you, Dad.
Love,
Jenny
1. How did Jenny probably feel on the night she was sent home by the police?| A．Disappointed. | B．Nervous. | C．Frightened. | D．Guilty. |
| A．kept in touch by writing each other | B．are separated due to the generation gap |
| C．had a hard time understanding each other | D．have been getting along very well |
| A．She had never realized his being old and weak. |
| B．She seldom saw him driving that huge car. |
| C．She didn't expect to meet with him there. |
| D．She had never seen him driving so slowly before. |
| A．tell him about their conflicts | B．say sorry for her being stubborn |
| C．remind him of the early incident | D．express her gratitude to him |
Until last January. I was very much a prose(散文)writer. I loved to write short stories but couldn’t stand poetry because it seemed like a lazy version. But then I entered a local poetry competition and won a prize. I read my poem at the award ceremony, and received a positive reaction from the audience. It was then that I realized poetry was much more interesting and diverse than I had previously thought, and that maybe I wasn’t too bad at writing it.
Since February. I have been trying to write poetry as often as possible, and it proves that somehow I like it now. Poetry isn’t a lazier version of prose, but it can be an easier one. This is because there are fewer rules in poetry and it is far more personal. What makes it so interesting is that it is told through the poet’s style.
This is what makes writing poetry such a good method of calming yourself down Writing about worries, stresses and insecurities can really help you to make sense of how you feel about them, and to create something-valuable from a bad situation. It also helps poems to catch on quickly. People love to hear personal stories about troubles they also struggle with.
Not only is poetry a fantastic form of therapy (治疗), but it can also earn you respect and sometimes even a career. As more and more poetry competitions for young people are set up, it is easier than ever to get recognized. As well as competitions, there are events such as poetry salons where you can share poems with others. Social media can also be a good platform for poetry.
So why not give it a try？Write about whatever is in your mind, and don’t worry about following any rules. Let yourself be inspired and inspire someone else.
1. How did the author feel about poetry in the past? （no more than 10 words）2. What’s the turning point for the author’s starting writing poems? （no more than 10 words）
3. In the author’s opinion, what is the difference between poetry and prose?（no more than 10 words）
4. How do you understand the underlined part in Paragraph 3? （no more than 10 words）
5. What can you learn from the author’s experience? （no more than 20 words）
【推荐2】Joe Bagley, a 20-year-old “jungle boy”, has turned his one-bedroom apartment in Lough borough, UK, into an indoor jungle with over 1,400 potted plants.
You can find all sorts of plants growing in Joe Bagley’s home. They are everywhere, on the dining table, on bookshelves, even in the bathroom, pretty much wherever there is any spare space that hasn’t been occupied by something else. There isn’t that much space available —1,400 potted plants into it have made it look like a sort of indoor urban jungle.
“Every room is packed,” the houseplant enthusiast said. “I’m always thinking of new places to put more. I have some plants in here and I don’t know where they came from. I can’t remember buying them. It’s like I have an addiction.”
Joe’s love for houseplants started when he was 13, after his grandmother, who lives right across the street, gifted him a cutting of her spider plant. As the South African plant grew and blossomed (开花), so did his love for houseplants.
These days he works in a garden center, spends his free time either caring for his plants or reading articles and studies about them, and claims (声称) to have developed a kind of “sixth sense” when it comes to taking care of them. “I have a sixth sense for knowing when something needs watering. I can just be walking past a plant and I know,” he said.
Through the last seven years, Joe Bagley has accumulated a wealth of plant knowledge, and he recently created his own website, where he publishes all sorts of helpful information for fellow plant enthusiasts and he also answers their questions about plant care. His dream is to one day open his own plant-filled “jungle café”, which he describes as his ideal business.
1. What can we know about Joe Bagley’s apartment?| A．It is messy and dirty. | B．It is lying in a jungle. |
| C．It is filled with plants. | D．It is a tourist attraction. |
| A．Why Joe Bagley’s grandmother loved plants. |
| B．How Joe Bagley fell in love with houseplants. |
| C．When Joe Bagley’s gift for gardening showed. |
| D．What Joe Bagley loved best about houseplants. |
| A．Creative and determined. | B．Hardworking but careless. |
| C．Optimistic but inactive. | D．Enthusiastic and professional. |
| A．To advertise his “jungle cafe”. | B．To raise money from others. |
| C．To share his plant knowledge. | D．To do business with gardeners. |
【推荐3】Video producer and musician Justin Scholar enjoyed his fantastic moment weeks ago when he spotted his latest work playing on a huge electronic screen at New York’s Times Square.
“It’s sort of the American dream to see your name up in lights,” says the 25-year-old New Jersey native.“I’d never really cared about my name being that big, but going to New York and seeing the big screens, you always wonder if your work is going to make it up there.”
The video that helps Scholar fulfill his “American dream” was shot and produced in China, where Scholar is living and working as a media company owner. Scholar took his first Chinese class in high school seven years ago and made his first trip to Shanghai in 2015 through a study-abroad program when he was a student in New York University. The film and TV major changed his focus from technical art to traditional arts during his study in Shanghai, spending most of the time learning ink-and-wash painting, calligraphy and the guzheng, a traditional Chinese musical instrument. He also fell in love with the city, where he ate a lot of authentic xiaolongbao, or steamed meat buns, and felt safe walking on the streets at 3 am.
Shanghai impresses Scholar as an efficient, modern city calling for greater business prosperity with foreign participation, so he returned two years later, when his career at home was already booming after making commercials for big names such as Coca-Cola and Jaguar.
Thanks to a combination of luck and talent, he achieved the goal soon with a Chinese friend as his business partner, and the company has already produced some 15 videos for pop icons, fashionistas, and art museums in merely six months. The video that plays at Times Square, a tourism promotional film for southwest China’s Chongqing city, is the company’s first project contracted(签合同) by a local government in China.
1. What did Scholar study in Shanghai?| A．TV media. |
| B．Technical art. |
| C．Traditional arts. |
| D．The Chinese language. |
| A．To change to a new topic for writing. |
| B．To make a conclusion of the first 2 paragraphs. |
| C．To dive deeper into the previous topic. |
| D．To add the background information of the video. |
| A．It was shot at Times Square. |
| B．It showed attractions of Chongqing. |
| C．It was shot in the year 2015. |
| D．it showed his college life in Shanghai. |
| A．China opens up new routes to international tourists. |
| B．Shanghai attracts an increasing number of foreigners. |
| C．An American dream unexpectedly comes true with the great video. |
| D．A young American brings Chinese tourist video to Times Square. |
【推荐1】After failing an important exam in my life and missing the opportunity to be an exchange student in a university of my dreams, I kept trying to avoid Facebook so I wouldn't have to see the information about it. It was after this that I slowly quit using Facebook.
Facebook made me feel uneasy, sad and like a failure. When I went online, it seemed that everyone was in Australia or Thailand. And if they weren't travelling, they were getting married or landing great jobs. I felt like everyone was living the dream and I was still at home with my parents, with my student loan hanging over me.
I also felt that if I wasn't eating at restaurants or posting photos from nights out, people would think I wasn't living. I remember that a friend said to me once, "Yeah, but you're still going out having fun, and I've seen on Facebook." I tried to present myself as always having a great time. If what I posted on social media didn't get more than five likes, I'd delete it.
My life has changed for the better since I stopped using social media. I now enjoy catching up with my friends. When they tell me new plans, my response isn't just, "Yeah, I saw it on Facebook." It makes me realize who my real friends are and how social media takes the joy out of sharing news with people. I also feel less uneasy and less of a failure.
I'm planning to visit a friend in Australia next month. My mom and a couple of other friends want me to go back on Facebook to share my pictures. I'd really prefer not to though.
1. What does the underlined word "this" in Paragraph I refer to?| A．Trying not to use Facebook. |
| B．Attending an important exam. |
| C．Being refused by a good university. |
| D．Completely stopping using Facebook. |
| A．she was living the dream |
| B．her parents seemed uneasy |
| C．people seemed to live a perfect life |
| D．it was necessary to go travelling regularly |
| A．She wouldn't go to Australia. |
| B．She wouldn't listen to people around her. |
| C．She wouldn't take any pictures in Australia. |
| D．She wouldn't share photos of her trip on Facebook. |
【推荐2】One day, a college student was taking a walk with a professor. As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes. They supposed the shoes belonged to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day’s word.
The student turned to the professor, saying, “ Let us play the man a trick: we will hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his confusion when he cannot find them”.
“My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor. But you are rich, and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by tricking on the poor man. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the discovery affects him.”
The student did so, and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes. After he slipped his foot into one of his shoes, he felt something hard. He bent down to feel w hat it was, and found the coin. Astonishment and wonder were seen on his face.
He fixed his eyes on the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and again. He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and continued to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin. His feelings overcame him. He fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and cried a sincere thanksgiving, in which he spoke of his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread, Whom the timely help, from some unknown hand, would save from dying．
The student stood there, deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears．“Now,”said the professor,“are you not much better pleased than if you had played your intended trick？” The youth replied,“You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget．
1. The student wanted to play the poor man a trick to _________________．| A．find the truth | B．show his wisdom |
| C．amuse himself | D．teach him a lesson |
| A．helpless | B．interested |
| C．peaceful | D．Thankful |
| A．wise | B．rich |
| C．humorous | D．Serious |
| A．A small act of kindness brings great joy． |
| B．God helps those who help themselves． |
| C．Where there is a will, there is a way． |
| D．Actions speak louder than words． |
【推荐3】You might associate bees with their cute, fuzzy shape and seemingly aimless interest in flowers. But beneath the yellow-and-black (mostly) stripes lies an incredible mind. To efficiently find and collect food to bring back to the hive, bees have to quickly learn to recognize (and then memorize) the most effective foraging routes.
A new study collected evidence from 23 studies of bees and concluded that levels of pesticides (杀虫剂) currently considered safe to use may still have a big effect on bee colony (蜂群) survival.
They found that pesticides had significant negative effects on learning and memory. That was true both when bees were suddenly exposed to a lot of pesticides, and when they got a little bit over a long time. It was also true regardless of whether the bees were exposed to neonicotinoids (新烟碱类杀虫剂), or other pesticides.
Current pesticide regulations are geared (便适应) toward making sure they aren’t used at levels that kill bees. But these currently legal amounts apparently make the bees dumber, which could have effects for species survival.
The other question these findings implicitly (含蓄地) raise is how these pesticides affect less-studied types of bees. Bees don’t all live collectively. Many wild bees do not live in colonies, and if their learning or memory are affected, there are no other bees to help out.
Ohio State University entomologist Reed Johnson told Popular Science in an email interview, the question is: “Can pesticides ever be used safely around bees?” This study, which in one sense has the strength of 23 studies’ worth of evidence,” suggests that the answer is NO,” he wrote.
The follow-up question goes deep into one of our most fundamental needs-food. Pesticides are an essential part of large-scale industrial agriculture, and some amount of honeybee exposure is inevitable. The question, then-which hasn’t been answered by regulation to date, Johnson says-is how much harm to bees is acceptable.
As ever, more research is needed. But this study is worth paying attention to, University of Ottawa bee conservationist Jeremy Kerr told Popular Science. Its conclusions are based on evidence from over 100 individual experiments included in the 23 studies, he says, lending their findings weight.” The lesson that emerges is that honeybees begin to lose their ability to learn and to remember when they are exposed to neonicotinoids,”he writes.
“With restrictions on neonicotinoids increasing globally, many will be looking on alternative chemicals for crop protection.” It’s important to think about what those chemicals might be doing to the bees.
1. Pesticides have a negative effect on bees in that_____.| A．wild bees fail to live in colonies |
| B．pesticides destroy food of bees |
| C．bees’ learning and memory will be harmed |
| D．even a low level of pesticides kills bees |
| A．they are exposed to a lot of pesticides |
| B．they take in some pesticides for long |
| C．they are in contact with neonicotinoids |
| D．they are living in the pure wilderness |
| A．how these pesticides affect wild bees’ survival |
| B．whether pesticides can be used safely around bees. |
| C．how much harm from pesticides bees can bear |
| D．whether bee exposure to pesticides can be avoided |
| A．limit the use of all pesticides |
| B．do more experiments on bees |
| C．reduce the amount of chemicals in farming |
| D．find some other chemicals to protect crops |
【推荐1】The United States has more tornadoes (龙卷风) than any other country in the world. In a normal year there are 800 to 1,000 tornadoes. Most happen in the middle part of the country. Tornadoes form when warm and cool air meet. In the Midwest, the warm air from the Gulf of Mexico often meets the cold air from Canada.
The usual tornado season is March through May. Tornadoes form most often in the afternoon and early evening. There is often no warning of a tornado. People who live in the Midwest know the signs (征兆) of tornado activity. The sky becomes dark, often a greenish color. Dark clouds appear in the sky and there is often large hail (冰雹). Suddenly, there is a loud sound, like a train or a jet plane. Sometimes, two, three, five, ten or more tornadoes can form over a large area.
This type of tornado activity hit Oklahoma and Kansas in May 1999. The day was stormy, with heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon. As the storms continued, tornadoes began to form. Dozens of tornadoes hit towns and neighborhoods in Oklahoma, then in Kansas. Some stayed on the ground for several hours, destroying everything they touched. The tornadoes killed 43 people and injured 600 others. They destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. In some areas, not one home stood. In other areas, the tornadoes destroyed every home on the left side of the street, but didn't touch any homes on the right side. The tornadoes lifted people and cars into the air and then threw them back down to earth. So it is important to know where to hide and how to protect yourself in the face of a tornado.
1. What can we learn about tornadoes in America?| A．There are more tornadoes in the Eastern States. |
| B．They usually happen in the summer. |
| C．They may appear in groups. |
| D．There are more than 1,000 tornadoes every year. |
| A．took place at the same time |
| B．brought death and serious damage |
| C．came and went quickly |
| D．were the biggest in history |
| A．Tornado dangers and warning signs. |
| B．How a tornado forms. |
| C．Different kinds of tornadoes. |
| D．How to stay safe during a tornado. |
【推荐2】The number of snow geese arriving in the Arctic each spring to breed has risen over the past few decades. At first, wildlife biologists saw this as an environmental crisis, pointing to marshes（沼泽地）where plants were eaten by the hungry birds, and the federal government responded by loosening restrictions on snow goose hunting across the country. But how do the Inuit（因纽特人），in whose backyard this is taking place, and for whom fresh goose eggs and meat are among the pleasure of an Arctic spring, view the situation? A recent study is bringing Inuit wildlife experts and scientists together to look for common ground on managing the species.
The snow goose study asked experts in Coral Harbour and Arviat, on the north and west coast of Hudson Bay, to share their generations of knowledge about snow geese and their views on what should be done. “ The community had concerns about controlling the population," says Ron Ningeongan, a community officer for the Kivalliq Inuit Association in Coral Harbour, "and Inuit snow goose knowledge had never been recorded. People wanted to pass on what they knew. "
The Inuit experts rejected the idea of a cull(选择性宰杀），considering it wasteful of the geese and unnecessary for the environment in general, but felt that hunting more geese in an organized way—for instance, paying local hunters a minimum amount of money and distributing the birds to disadvantaged families or operating a limited commercial hunt that would employ local people—would be appropriate.
The Inuit say that while there may be too many snow geese in some areas, it's not a crisis. Biologists now generally agree that there seem to be plenty of undamaged marshes available and newer research shows that some damaged areas can recover.
Conservation planners for the three migratory bird reserves in the area will use the study's recommendations, which is an excellent example of how indigenous （土著的） knowledge can strengthen wildlife management Johnson says.
“Now that we have recorded and documented Inuit knowledge of snow geese," says Ningeongan. "when facing the crisis again, other people will be able to use the information to help manage the species, which is fundamental to dealing with it effectively. ”
1. Why did the federal government looben restrictions on snow goose hunting?| A．To create more marshes. | B．To protect ecosystem. |
| C．To make more profits. | D．To wipe out the hungry birds. |
| A．Regarding too many snow geese as a crisis. |
| B．Never organizing large-scale commercial hunts. |
| C．Employing poor families to hunt more snow geese. |
| D．Using snow goose hunting to man's best advantage. |
| A．It's unpredictable. | B．It’s hard to get better. |
| C．It's too discouraging. | D．lt's a bit promising. |
| A．The crisis. | B．The species. |
| C．Inuit knowledge. | D．Inuit research. |
【推荐3】I have a story about raising free-range (自由放养) kids. This past Columbus Day, my husband and I went fishing with some friends on their boat while our10 and 8-year-old kids were in school. We left the house all at the same time, about 7 a. m. My children walked to and from school every day and we knew they would be OK for a couple hours by themselves anyway. We told them to go home after school and we would be home around 4 p. m.
We live on the Gulf Coast, and since it was a beautiful day, all of the adults decided to go fishing off-shore. At around 2 p. m. after a good harvest from the sea, we started back to the shore and unfortunately after some time, we ran out of gas. We were out of cellphone service, and what was even worse was that 911 wasn’t working. We didn’t have a radio either. Therefore, we were stuck waiting for someone to pass by. We were out there until 10 p. m. All the while my children were at home, expecting us to return shortly after they got home. At about 7 p. m. , when it was getting dark, my 10-year-old daughter thought something might be wrong so she walked to each house on the street until someone answered the door and asked the person what they should do. This was how we were finally found by the game warden (管理员) on the coast and “rescued”.
Talking with that neighbor the next day, I was never so proud of my children. This neighbour explained to me, “What calmness both of your children showed when explaining the situation and how impressed I was with your children seeking help, even though they didn’t know me.” I never doubted him for a minute, though next time we go fishing we’ll monitor the gas more carefully.
1. What did the author probably feel at the very start of returning to the shore?| A．Anxious. | B．Frightened. |
| C．Pleased. | D．Disappointed. |
| A．They didn’t carry a radio. | B．Their boat was out of gas. |
| C．They believed in their children. | D．There was no phone signal there. |
| A．He thanked his neighbor. | B．He was not surprised. |
| C．He didn’t agree with his neighbor. | D．He needed to think for himself. |
| A．Stuck on the Sea | B．A Brave Girl |
| C．A Thrilling Experience | D．Lost at Sea |
