【推荐1】Ronny’s Book
Ronny looked like every other kid in the first-grade classroom where I volunteered as the Reading Mom. However, Ronny was different from his classmates in other ways. He had a speech problem so he couldn’t
_______ like other kids in his grade.
I worked with all the students in Ronny’s class one by one to improve their reading skills. On the days when it was Ronny’s
_______, I’d give him a silent smile, and he’d fly out of his chair. He sat very close to me and opened the book as if he was opening a treasure nobody had ever seen.
I watched his
_______move slowly under each letter as he struggled (努力) to read out. Every time he
_______ to read a word with a strange pronunciation, the biggest smile would spread across his face and his eyes would shine with
_______. It broke my heart each and every time.
A few weeks
_______ the school year ended, I held an awards ceremony (颁奖典礼). I
_______ Ronny with a book — one of those Little Golden Books that only cost $5. Tears ran down his face as he held the book close to him and went
_______ to his seat. I stayed with the class for the rest of the day. Ronny never let go of (放开) the
_______, not once. It never left his hands.
A few days later, I returned to the school to visit. I
________ Ronny on a chair near the playground, the book open in his lap. His teacher said, “He hasn’t put that book down since you gave it to him. Do you know that’s his
________ book he’s ever actually owned?”
Keeping back my tears, I walked towards Ronny, placed my hand on his shoulder and asked, “Will you read me your book, Ronny?” And then, for the next few minutes, he read to me more
________ than I’d ever thought possible from him. The pages were already dog-eared (卷角的), like the book had been read thousands of
________ already. When he finished reading, Ronny closed his book and said with great satisfaction(满意), “
________ book!”
What a powerful contribution the writer of that Little Golden Book had made in the life of a disadvantaged child. At that moment, I knew I would become
________ about my own writing and do what that writer had done, and probably still does — care enough to write a story that changes a child’s life, care enough to make a difference.
1. | A．read | B．copy | C．write | D．listen |
2. 3. | A．fingers | B．arms | C．legs | D．ears |
4. | A．forgot | B．decided | C．refused | D．managed |
5. | A．fear | B．pride | C．promise | D．silence |
6. | A．after | B．before | C．since | D．when |
7. | A．covered | B．shared | C．presented | D．compared |
8. 9. | A．hand | B．class | C．book | D．chair |
10. | A．followed | B．noticed | C．heard | D．realized |
11. | A．first | B．second | C．third | D．fourth |
12. | A．coldly | B．slowly | C．clearly | D．quietly |
13. | A．mistakes | B．sales | C．chances | D．times |
14. 15. | A．serious | B．nervous | C．worried | D．surprised |
