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  I may not be the wisest person on this planet,but I will tell you a little secret of happiness：help others,and live life. It is that sim?ple. Just help a friend study for a test,or volunteer at a nursing home. I learned this after a long,hard search.

I was feeling really down because my longtime friend had died. Then I started a sixweek volunteering at a nursing home all day every Saturday. My routine was to serve the meal and clean up. After that,I would wait for the head nurse to tell me what to do.

  One day I was told to go to Room 117 to make sure the patient was all right. In the room I found a boy of eight sitting in his bed watching a movie. I was shocked to see a child in this seemingly forgotten nursing home for the old. He was so small and weak that you had to look closely to find him. He motioned for me to sit down. I grabbed his medical chart from which later I found out he had a terminal illness.

We started to talk,and I found out that his family rarely visited,and all he did every day was watch TV. I wanted to cry for him,and for my lost friend. As we talked,he had a smile on his face,and I asked him why.

  "In the entire two hours I've been here you've never lost that smile. With this horrible disease,how do you still manage to stay happy?"

  He thought for a moment,and then said that too many people are dead even before they die. They walk around feeling that God has cursed (诅咒) them and that they have nothing to live for. The boy said that he would not be like that. He wakes every morning thankful to see another sunrise. He keeps his window open so that he can smell the flowers and feel the heat of the sun. He also said that he has hope.

  "Too many people haven't seen much of that around here," he said. "Life is full of hope and we need to live life before it is gone."

  I don't know what happened to him. I assume he passed away,but his lesson lives on. I now wake up and live each day to the fullest. The key to life is not mon?ey or fame,but the lessons we learn from it.

1. The nursing home in the passage is mainly for       .

   A. the elderly   B. the homeless

   C. the disabled   D. the abandoned

2. The boy stayed happy mainly due to       .

   A. wonderful TV programmes

   B. his positive attitude

   C. good medical condition

   D. others' encouragement

3. The writer participated in the volunteering job in order to       .

   A. find out the secret   B. search for help

   C. enrich experiences   D. get out of sadness

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

   A. A lesson in hope

   B. The life of a sick boy

   C. A voluntary job

   D. The meaning of life

Answer 1

[文章大意]作者在朋友去世后，心情悲痛，于是去疗养院做义工。期间他遇到了一个身患重病的小男孩，是这个小男孩的快乐和感恩让作者学会了如何对待生活。

1. A细节理解题。根据文章第=段的":I was shocked to see a child in this seemingly forgotten nursing home for the old."可知，这家疗养院是为老人开办的，选A项。

2. B推理判断题。根据文章倒数第二段和第三段的内容可知，这个男孩对生活充满了希望，而且充满了感恩之心，这是他快乐的根源，由此判断选B项。

3. D推理判断题。从文章第二段的"I was feeling really down because my longtime friend had died. Then I started a sixweek volunteering at a nursing home all day every Saturday." 可知，作者在朋友去世后来到疗养院做义工是为了走出悲痛，选D项。

4. A主旨大意题。文章首段作者介绍快乐的秘诀就是帮助别人，好好生活。作者提到自己学到这一点是通过自身的一段经历，而且在下文中介绍了这段经历，由此可知A项可以概括中心，故A。