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As I walked along the city streets, I passed a young man who was searching through a small block of land that contained a mix of leaves and rubbish. I was somewhat puzzled why someone like him would be searching through rubbish. Finding this a little odd,_I asked him, “What are you searching for？” He replied very simply that he was looking for bills of money.
After talking with him for a little longer, I found out that he had become homeless just three months ago after getting laid off from his job. Since then, he had been working parttime jobs in a doctor's office and in a food bank to earn some money. But he made so little that he lost heart. The man seemed fairly talented, although a little dirty.
I offered him a freshly baked peanut cake that I had baked that day. His eyes lit up, and he eagerly jumped at my offer. He immediately took the cake with his dirty hands and quickly began eating the treat on the spot.
I told him that our thought created our reality, and suggested that he not give up and think in a positive way. I also said that he was young and everything was possible. As he chewed the cake, what I said seemed to have an effect on him, and he told me that he would cheer up and try to find a good job.
My sense told me that he might begin to see things a little differently from then on. While walking away, I was thinking of a man eating a cake packed with potential (潛能) of raising his confidence. And so it was!
語篇解讀 本文作者用自己的方式鼓勵(lì)一個(gè)無家可歸的人鼓起生活的勇氣。
1．What does the underlined word “odd” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Important. B. Strange.
C. Interesting. D. Pleasant.
答案與解析 B 詞義猜測題。這樣一個(gè)年輕人竟然在垃圾中搜尋東西，自然會(huì)讓人感到有點(diǎn)兒“奇怪”，于是作者加以詢問，故B項(xiàng)符合邏輯。
2．From Paragraph 2 we know that the man ________.
A. did his job very well
B. had no friends or family
C. wasn't living a good life
D. was not welleducated
答案與解析 C 推理判斷題。通過第二段對這個(gè)人的描述可推知，他當(dāng)時(shí)生活得很不好，故選擇C項(xiàng)。
3．The writer's description in Paragraph 3 shows that ________.
A. the man was extremely hungry
B. the man had never eaten a peanut cake before
C. the writer often helped homeless people
D. the writer felt happy to have helped the man
答案與解析 A 推理判斷題。由作者提供食物后那個(gè)年輕人一系列的反應(yīng)可推知這個(gè)人餓壞了。
4．The writer hoped that ________.
A. there would be no homeless people
B. the man would pass on the kindness
C. he would be much richer to help others
D. the man would have a positive attitude toward life
答案與解析 D 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。通過第四段前兩句話可知，作者希望他對生活持積極的態(tài)度。
