文章大意:本文主要讲述了一对孪生兄弟因为误会而心生怨恨,从而把原来一起经营的商店建起一道墙一分为二,20年后当事人回来道歉,所以真相大白,误会解除,他们心中的怨恨之墙也轰然倒塌。
A story tells of a businessman in a small town who had twin sons. The boys worked for their father in the store he owned, and when he died, they took over the store.
Everything went well until the day a dollar bill disappeared. One of the brothers had left the bill on the cash register and walked outside with a customer. When he returned, the money was gone. He asked his brother, “Did you see that dollar bill on the cash register?” His brother replied that he hadn’t. But the young man kept questioning. “Dollar bills just don’t get up and walk away! Surely you must have seen it!”
There was a little of anger in his voice. Resentment (怨恨) set in and it divided the young men. They finally decided they could no longer work together and a dividing wall was built down the center of the store. For twenty years anger grew, spreading to their families.
Then one day a man in a car stopped in front of the store. He walked in and asked the clerk, “How long have you been here?” The clerk replied that he’d been there all his life. The customer said, “I must share something with you. Twenty years ago I came into this town. I hadn’t eaten for three days. I came into this store from the back door and saw a dollar bill on the cash register. I put it in my pocket and walked out. All these years I haven’t been able to forget that. I know it wasn’t much money, but I had to come back and ask your forgiveness.”
The stranger was amazed to see tears well up in the eyes of this middle-aged man. “Would you please go next door and tell that same story to the man in the store?” he said. Then the man was even more amazed to see two middle-aged men, who looked very much alike, embracing each other and weeping together in the front of the store.
After twenty years, the wall of resentment that divided them came down.
42. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A.I didn’t see the customer off with the dollar bill |
B.there is no possibility that the money disappears itself |
C.it is a pity that money can’t move like human |
D.I don’t walk away with dollar bills |
43. After 20 years, the man came back to the store in order to ________.
A.pay back the money he owed |
B.thank the owner for having lent him money |
C.apologize to the owner for stealing money |
D.help the twins become united again |
44. From the passage we can infer that ________.
A.it is so often the little things that finally divide people |
B.once twins are divided, they may never come together again |
C.twins can easily be hurt by words spoken in a hurry |
D.a word of apology can break down a dividing wall |
45. The best title of the passage may be ________.
A.Loving Each Other Is a Virtue | B.Forgiving Others Is Not Correct |
C.Misunderstanding Leads to Anger | D.Letting Go of Hate |