1 . It was Thanksgiving morning. I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together on the top step.
“Any old papers, lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals （凉鞋）, wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I saved them cocoa and bread to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started cooking.
The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich?”
“Am I rich? Pity, no!”
I looked at my worn-out slipcovers （椅套）. The girl put her cup back in its saucer （茶碟）carefully and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” They left after that, holding their papers against the wind. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.
Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a regular job, these matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy marks of little sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am.
1. The writer let the two children come in and served them well because ______.
2. The writer left the muddy marks of little sandals on the floor for a while to _______.
3. It can be inferred from the text that whether you are rich depends on _______.
“Any old papers, lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals （凉鞋）, wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I saved them cocoa and bread to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started cooking.
The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich?”
“Am I rich? Pity, no!”
I looked at my worn-out slipcovers （椅套）. The girl put her cup back in its saucer （茶碟）carefully and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” They left after that, holding their papers against the wind. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.
Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a regular job, these matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy marks of little sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am.
1. The writer let the two children come in and served them well because ______.
| A．she wanted to sell old papers to them |
| B．she wanted to give them some presents |
| C．she showed great pity and care on them |
| D．she wanted to show her thanks to them |
| A．show that she was a kind-hearted lady |
| B．remind her she shouldn’t forget how rich she was |
| C．leave room for readers to think about what being rich is |
| D．call up her memories of the good old days |
| A．how much money you have made |
| B．what attitude you have had toward life |
| C．the way you help others |
| D．your social relationship |
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2 . I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice. As we ____ our coffee, a man came in and sat at a(n) ____ table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his ____ saying, “Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall”. We ____ this order with rather interest and observed that he was ____ with one cup of coffee but he paid for two. As soon as he left, the waiter ____ a piece of paper on the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee”.
While we were still there, two other men____ and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee but ____ for three and left. This time also, the ____ did the same; he put up a piece of paper on the wall saying, “A cup of coffee.” It seemed that this gesture was a ____ at this place. ____ , it was something unique and puzzling for us. Since we had ____ to do with the matter, we ____ our coffee, paid the bill and left.
After a few days, we again had a(n)____ to go to this coffee shop. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man walked in. The way this man was dressed did not ____ the standard nor the atmosphere of this coffee shop. Poverty was ____ from the looks on his face. ____ he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, “One cup of coffee from the ____ .” The waiter served coffee to this man with ____ and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying. We were amazed to watch all this when the waiter ____ a piece of paper from the wall and threw it into the dustbin.1.
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| A．enjoyed | B．prepared | C．practiced | D．bought |
| A．crowded | B．open | C．empty | D．beautiful |
| A．food | B．goods | C．table | D．order |
| A．heard | B．found | C．glared | D．watched |
| A．satisfied | B．served | C．treated | D．awarded |
| A．stuck out | B．hid away | C．put up | D．took out |
| A．dashed | B．moved | C．fled | D．entered |
| A．paid | B．looked | C．waited | D．asked |
| A．customer | B．waiter | C．stranger | D．passenger |
| A．demand | B．signal | C．custom | D．duty |
| A．Instead | B．Therefore | C．Moreover | D．However |
| A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
| A．wasted | B．finished | C．missed | D．donated |
| A．invitation | B．time | C．reward | D．chance |
| A．equal | B．change | C．match | D．reach |
| A．obvious | B．slight | C．serious | D．strong |
| A．So | B．As | C．Unless | D．Since |
| A．window | B．floor | C．wall | D．door |
| A．carelessness | B．wisdom | C．interest | D．respect |
| A．brought down | B．took off | C．kept away | D．cut off |
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