Sharing Beauty
It was in October. I was aimlessly wandering down the street, heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share that beauty, but it seemed everyone was in a hurry.
I took the next-best action. Quickly I ducked into a department store and asked the lady behind the counter if she could come outside for just a minute. She looked at me as though I were from some other planet. She hesitated, and then seemingly against her better judgment, she moved toward the door.
When she got outside I said to her, “Just look at that sunset! Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone.”
For a few seconds we just looked. Then I said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.” I thanked her for coming out to see it; she went back inside and I left. It felt good to share the beauty.
Four years later my situation changed greatly. I came to the end of a twenty-year marriage. I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life. I lived in a trailer park which, at the time, I considered a real come-down, and I had to do my wash in the community laundry room.
One day, while my clothes were going around, I picked up a magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances. She had come to the end of a marriage, moved to a strange community, and the only job she could find was one she disliked: clothing sales in a department store.
Then something that happened to her changed everything. She said a woman came into her department store and asked her to step outside to look at a sunset. The stranger had said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world,” and she had realized the truth in that statement. From that moment on, she turned her life around.
1.The author asked the woman to go outside to ______.
A. admire the sunset B. cheer her up
C. offer some help D. have a chat
2.Four years later, the author______.
A. found her dream job B. put an end to her marriage
C. worked in a laundry room D. lived in the same community
3.After reading the article in the magazine, the author was probably______.
A. disappointed B. puzzled
C. inspired D. overjoyed
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It was a hot, sticky (闷热的)summer day in Texas and I was surrounded by laundry, loads of baby clothes all over the floor.I folded a towel, tears streaming down my face.My newborn Dillon, just a few weeks old, was sleeping peacefully beside me.My 4?year?old Tanner was watching “Ninja Turtles”,laughing at the TV screen.
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The word “this is the most important job in the world” spread and I nearly dropped the towel I was folding.I looked around, but saw nobody there.Later I realized the voice must have come from the TV.I calmed down.I'd never thought a house?woman's job was the most important job in the world.I put the laundry aside, carried Tanner up in my arms and hugged him tight.From that day on, I was willing to do my housework and I made motherhood my top priority (优先考虑的事)even when I returned to the workforce as a journalist and photographer.
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A. It was too hot and sticky that day.
B. Her children always made trouble.
C. Too much housework made her very exhausted.
D. She lost hope because of the boring housework.
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A. while she dreamed
B. overhearing from TV
C. when she opened a book
D. as she was watching TV
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A. The company of her children.
B. Physical exercise.
C. Her children's appreciation.
D. Great joy to see her children's growth.
4.We can learn from this passage that ________.
A. Tanner is four years older than his brother Noah
B. the writer was once a journalist
C. the writer's three children are all college students
D. the writer once hated her children because of unhappiness
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删除:把多余的词用斜线(/)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线(____),并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词;
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删除:把多余的词用斜线(╲)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
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