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  • 1.                                                                                  Mary's dime(一毛钱)
           It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel  1  when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.
       What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly  2  the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light 3  her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.
        How much I  4 that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so   5  — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.
        I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the  6  in her old dirty dress, looking at the  7  that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt 8and looked straight at me, just as if(似乎)nobody had spoken so  9  to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would  10 . I haven't had anything to eat today.”
       Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today,   11  this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your 12. She needs it a great deal more than you do.”
       I could not run away from that little girl's sad,  13 look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How  14  the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime,  15  I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.

    (1)
    A . disturbed B . unhappy C . satisfied D . interested
    (2)
    A . saw B . remembered C . forgot D . described
    (3)
    A . filling B . protecting C . attracting D . touching
    (4)
    A . hated B . loved C . missed D . noticed
    (5)
    A . valuable B . meaningful C . expensive D . cheap
    (6)
    A . market B . library C . store D . bookshop
    (7)
    A . dresses B . magazines C . books D . candies
    (8)
    A . surprised B . excited C . pleased D . worried
    (9)
    A . happily B . kindly C . angrily D . sadly
    (10)
    A . taste B . sound C . feel D . smell
    (11)
    A . since B . so C . and D . but
    (12)
    A . apple B . hamburger C . dime D . candy
    (13)
    A . proud B . angry C . calm D . hungry
    (14)
    A . grateful B . unlucky C . lonely D . friendly
    (15)
    A . unless B . if C . though D . because

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