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When I spent the summer with my grandmother, she always sent me to a store with a long shopping list. How could I hope to find all these things? In the store, there was a tall lady with black glasses on her nose. There wasn’t a smile on her face.

“Excuse me,” I said. She looked down and said, “I’m Miss Bee.”

“I need to get these.” I said, holding up my list. “So? Go to get them. ” Miss Bee pointed to some shelves. “There’s no one here, only you and me, so get yourself a basket and get all these things yourself.”

That summer I visited Miss Bee twice a week. Sometimes she gave me wrong change. One afternoon I corrected her, “That bag of beans is only twenty-nine cents!”She just looked at me over her glasses and changed the price. Going to the store was more like going into battle. I got into the store just like General Patton getting into North Africa.

Soon I learned how to find the product on the shelf… At the end of the summer, the shopping trip only took me 15 minutes. Before I left, I stopped in the store to get some candy.

“All right, little girl,” she said. “What did you learn this summer?” Before I could answer. Miss Bee laughed and said, “I know what you think of me. Well, I don’t care! My job is to teach every child some life lessons. When you get older you’ll be glad you ever met Miss Bee. Haha!...”

I didn’t think of her words. Years passed, one day my daughter came to me with her homework. “It’s too hard,” she said. “Could you finish my math problems for me?”

“If I do it for you, how will you ever learn to do it yourself?” I said. Suddenly, I was back at that store and I knew what I learned from the old lady that summer.

1.What did the writer’s grandmother always ask her to do during her summer vacation? ____

A. Make lists for her shopping. B. Buy something in a store.

C. Send lists to the lady in a store. D. Go to see the lady in a store.

2.How did the writer first shop in the store? _________

A. She got all the things herself. B. Miss Bee helped her a lot.

C. She asked someone for help. D. She shopped with her grandmother.

3.By telling the writer to shop herself, Miss Bee wanted her to know_________.

A. helping others is helping herself B. there’s no free lunch in the world

C. she can ask for help when she needs D. she can’t always get help from others

4.What do you think of Miss Bee? Why?

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1.B 2.A 3.D 4.Miss Bee is a strict but nice woman. When the writer first went shopping in her store, she asked her to find out all the things on the shelves by herself, and she didn’t offer a...

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