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    　　I'll never forget Easter 1946．I was fourteen, my little sister, Ocy, was twelve and my older sister, Darlene, was sixteen．We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without dad．My dad had died five years before, leaving Mom with no money and seven school-aged kids to raise．

    　　By 1946, my older sisters were married and my brothers had left home．A month before Easter, the pastor of our church announced that a special holiday offering would be taken to help a poor family．He asked everyone to save and give sacrificially．

    　　When we got home, we talked about what we could do．We decided to buy fifty pounds of potatoes and live on them for a month．This would allow us to save twenty dollars of our grocery money for the offering．Then we thought that if we kept our electric lights turned out as much as possible and didn't listen to the radio, we'd save money on that month's electric bill．

    　　The night before Easter, we were so excited we could hardly sleep．We didn't care that we wouldn't have new clothes for Easter; we had seventy dollars for the sacrificial offering．We could hardly wait to get to church!

    　　Finally we sat in church proudly．When the sacrificial offering was taken, we were sitting in the second row from the front．Mom put in the ten-dollar bill, and each of us kids put in a twenty-dollar bill．

    　　We sang all the way home from church．At lunch, Mom had a surprise for us．She had bought a dozen eggs, and we had boiled Easter eggs with our fried potatoes! Later that afternoon, the minister drove up in his car．Mom went to the door, talked with him for a moment, and then came back with an envelope in her hand．We asked what it was, but she didn't say a word．She opened the envelope and out fell a bunch of money．There were three crisp twenty-dollar bills, one ten-dollar bill and seventeen one-dollar bills．

    (1)

    The main idea of the first paragraph probably is that ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    the writer's family lived a very hard life

    B．

    the writer had many brothers and sisters

    C．

    the writer's father died early

    D．

    the writer's mother was very hard-working

    (2)

    What did the church raise the money for?

    [　　]

    A．

    To help a poor family to spend a holiday

    B．

    To see which family donated most．

    C．

    To support a family in financial trouble．

    D．

    To help the writer's family．

    (3)

    The writer's family took all the following measures to save money EXCEPT ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    only eating potatoes for month

    B．

    using electric light as little as possible

    C．

    stopping listening to the radio

    D．

    doing part-time jobs

    (4)

    How much did the writer's home receive from the church?

    [　　]

    A．

    ＄87．

    B．

    ＄70．

    C．

    ＄80．

    D．

    ＄60．

    答案：1．A;2．C;3．D;4．A;
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