Question

Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you lack money.

This is how I experimented with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper. One discovery I made about giving-away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back, though the return often comes in all unexpected form.

One Sunday morning, the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home, though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to leave, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. He had overheard(无意中听到)our conversation. "Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said yes. "Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complaints."

1.From the passage, we understand that _____.

A. the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties

B. the author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers

C. the author received the same education as most people during his childhood

D. the author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting

2.According to the author, _____.

A. giving means you will lack money

B. the excitement of giving can bring you money

C. you don’t have to be rich in order to give

D. when you give away money, you will be rich

3.The author would make the suggestion to the storekeeper _____.

A. in writing B. in person

C. in the window display D. about the neighborhood

4.When the author needed a post-office box, _____.

A. he had put his name on a waiting list

B. he wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation

C. many people had applied for post-office boxes before him

D. he asked the postmaster to make one for him

Answer 1

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述的是直到三十多岁作者才明白给予对生活的重大意义，活着并不是一味的索取，而给予也并不取决于是否有钱。作者以两个事例向我们阐述这个道理。

1.】主旨大意题。从第一段中第二句”It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so much more exciting.”可知作者直到自己30多岁才开始懂得给予使生活更加有意义性。故选A。

2.细节理解题。从文章第一段的最后一句. “You need not worry if you lack money.”如果你缺钱你也不必担心，可知作者认为给予与金钱无关。A、B、D均不符题意，选C。

3.推理判断题。第二段第二句“If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper.”这是作者假设的一种情况，如果我突然发现邻居的窗橱摆设需要改善，我会走进去然后跟老板提出建议，即亲自去，故选 B。

4.理解题。第三段第四句“I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list”.当作者需要一个邮箱的时候，他发现已经没有了，而且我前面早就有很多人登记着名字等待，故选C。

考点：人生感悟类阅读