A couple of months ago,we were in a hurry to get somewhere,when our 6yearold daughter was just to slow things down.In response I became impatient and unkind.As I unloaded my apology,she said,“Mom,it's OK.You've never been a mom before.This is your first time.You're just trying.It's OK.”
Her response humbled(使……卑微)me.She had been able to give me what I had refused to give her just moments before—mercy,understanding and sympathy.And I needed it.We all do.Actually,there may be nothing more needed today in our nation and communities.
It's no wonder former Baptist Church member Megan has transformed her idea.Megan spent 20 years representing her church's beliefs with messages of hate towards gays,Jews and those who support abortion.When she finally started civil dialog with her“enemies”,she found“people on the other side were not the ones I had been led to believe...”Finally,she left the faith of her family.What surprised her most was the forgiveness and understanding she experienced from her former“enemies”.
Her lessons are what we all need.As she accurately describes about our cultural climate,“we have grown more and more divided and have broken the world into‘us’ and ‘them’”.But this will“not take us where we want to go”.Instead,she concludes“we have to talk and listen to people we disagree with”.
My experience with my daughter teaches me that the ability to engage with“the other”,to avoid tough judgments,and to show sympathy is learned first,and practiced best,at home.Researchers believe the key to developing those abilities in our children lies in how we respond to their feelings,especially the negative ones.
We will have made efforts to create a world where we are all better able to take the perspective of others,stay away from tough judgments and recognize and respect the humanity in the souls around us.This desire makes my own struggling to be better every day worth all the effort.
1. Why did the author feel humbled?A.Her daughter was unkind. |
B.Her daughter made no apology. |
C.What her daughter did was better. |
D.What her daughter said annoyed her. |
A.To inform. | B.To entertain. |
C.To prove. | D.To comment. |
A.To learn from others. |
B.To make friends with others. |
C.To turn to others for help. |
D.To put yourself in others' shoes. |
A.Hopeful. | B.Doubtful. |
C.Cautious. | D.Worried. |
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【推荐1】What is life’s greatest gift? It is choice. Choice is the ability to choose some actions from a set of things to achieve a goal.
Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It’s the creative power of life. Life is always changing and we have to make lots of choices.
Life is like a chess game.
A.Why is choice so great? |
B.The pleasure (快乐) is in the playing. |
C.In fact, we have to make choices every day. |
D.Choice is powerful and helpful. |
E.Because making right choices is more important than working hard. |
F.Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals. |
G.But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return(回报). |
【推荐2】As a kid, I often got nosebleeds. My parents blamed all the fruits I ate that gave me “excessive heat”— especially the mangoes, my favorite. It didn’t stop me from wolfing them down by the dozens.
As I’ve grown older, my fixation on exotic (奇异的) fruit has intensified — the weirder, the better. The disadvantage of being an armchair pomologist (果树栽培学家) in Canada is that most of our fresh fruit is imported. The silver lining is that almost everything in my local stores qualifies as exotic and interesting. Trying a new fruit expands my understanding of the world and enriches my experience within it. “What lasted is what the soul ate,” Jack Gilbert once wrote, “The way a child knows the world by putting part by part into his mouth.” I think of these lines when I prepare to eat a new fruit. Each tasting is a chance to be reunited with my inner child, to be wide-eyed and wordless as I get to know it.
Those tasked with naming these fruits appear to be equally under a spell, producing names as simplistic as they are charming. Cotton candy grapes. Ice cream bean. Dragonfruit.
Most fruits I try only a couple of times, but there’s one I keep returning to: the soursop. At ideal ripeness, the soursop tastes like the ideal tropical fruit. Wait just a day, though, and it smells more like feet than fruit. This rapid rot comforts me, incredibly. Watching a beloved fruit transform from unripe one to sticky flesh feels like witnessing an act of living. The plant sacrifices fruit in hopes of spreading its seed; life was always the point. An approaching expiration date is only encouragement to enjoy these accessible joys as they come. We, too, will soon find our bodies softened and bruised. Will we have let our sweetest days go to waste?
1. Why does the author like exotic fruit?A.She is a famous pomologist. | B.It helps broaden her horizons. |
C.It reminds her of her hometown. | D.She only likes strange-looking fruit. |
A.Funny. | B.Useful. | C.Appealing. | D.Powerful. |
A.Never judge a book by its cover. |
B.Time and tide wait for no man. |
C.An apple a day keeps the doctor away. |
D.Where there is a will, there is a way. |
A.Benefits of eating fresh fruit. |
B.Memories of the carefree childhood. |
C.Explorations of the natural world. |
D.Experiences of trying exotic fruit. |
There are two important teachers in this world. One is the nature. It was considered to be the best teacher in the old days, because man learned a lot from nature like lighting the fire and growing rice. It also provides man with many necessary things for life, such as water, food and so on.
Hu, 31, is a pioneer in nature education. He set up an organization five years ago. It offers nature-based programs to children under 12 years old, including many outdoor activities, such as planting trees and watching birds.
“Nature is friendly to us if we protect her. And don’t forget that we all are part of nature,” He said. The purpose of nature education is to teach people how to understand, respect (尊重) and get on well with nature.
Here comes the other important teacher — a book. The experiences people learned from nature were written down in the form of a book. This was a step forward because man could record their experiences and thoughts.
Books play an important role in our lives. Su Mingjuan, a girl from a poor family in a small village, has finished college and become a good bank clerk. She volunteers to encourage people to read more. She said, “Without reading books, I can’t have such a wonderful life.” Besides Su, millions of people learn from books and have better lives. Some people ever said, “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket (口袋).”
1. The passage mainly talks about2. According to Paragraph 1, nature teaches us some skills like
3. Hu works on nature education to help people
4. How did people record their experiences and thoughts in Paragraph 4? (10个词以内)
5. What can you learn from Su Mingjuan’s story? (20个词以内)