阅读下面文章，完成小题。（13分）
用善良做底色
松 韵
天气冷得出奇，寒风咆哮着卷起雪花，升腾起呛人的白烟。
温暖的红砖房里，母亲在厨房里忙碌着，柴火在灶坑里噼啪作响，锅上冒着润白的蒸气。我和弟弟早就饿了，正眼巴巴地等待着第一锅酸菜肉蒸饺出笼。
这时，有人叫门。父亲出去片刻，带回一个衣着单薄的外乡人来。看上去是个20多岁的农民，但是很年轻，嘴唇都发青了，显然在风雪中冻了很久。
“这丝棉很好的，你看看。”他说着，卸下肩上的旧麻袋，就要往外掏丝棉。
“别拿了，我不买丝棉。”父亲止住了他，“外面太冷，请你进屋暖和暖和！”“哦，不买？不买啊？这丝棉好，真的很好。”他有些失望，坐在暖和的火墙旁，一时却也并不想挪动。
这时，母亲端上了两大盘热腾腾的酸菜肉蒸饺。“你一定饿了，吃几个饺子挡挡寒吧！”母亲看着仍有些哆嗦的他，把筷子递过去。　　
那人的确是饿了，推辞了一下，便接过筷子狼吞虎咽起来。当他意识到我们一家人还没吃饭时，两盘蒸饺只剩下了小半盘。他尴尬地抬起来，窘迫不安地嗫嚅道：“这……我……我……你们，你们还没吃吧？”
母亲笑道：“还有呢，你要吃饱了啊！”
蒸饺的确还有，可那一笼是纯素馅儿的，一丁点儿肉都没放。
弟弟捏了捏我的衣角，嘟起嘴来。
一盘半的蒸饺，对他来说可能也就六分饱，但无论如何他也不肯再吃了。
接下来的聊天中，我们知道他是安徽的农民，跟父亲弟弟一起到北方贩丝棉，没想到折了本，近年关了，打算把剩下的丝棉低价处理了，好歹挣回返乡的路费。　　“我兄弟的脚冻坏了，他跟我父亲在车站蹲着呢。今儿天太冷，没让他们出来，我寻思把最后一包丝棉卖了，今晚就跟他们坐火车回去。”他说。
母亲听了，感叹道：“唉，你们做点小生意，也挺不容易啊！”
父亲跟母亲轻声说了点什么，母亲便去仓房找了三双半新的棉鞋，还有半面袋的冻豆包回来，递给这个年轻人说：“我们也不是有钱人家，要不然，就把你这丝棉买下了。这双棉鞋你换上，另两双拿去给你父亲和弟弟穿，北方不比南方，脚冻伤了可了不得！冻豆包我们今年蒸得多，你带几个让你的父亲和弟弟尝尝吧！”
年轻人站了起来，拘谨地搓着手，一遍遍地说：“这可咋好呢？这可咋好呢？我这是遇上好人家了！”　　
我们把他送出门时，年轻人一眼瞥见院子里一堆锯好的圆木。他突然放下肩上的包，三步两步抢过去，“我干点儿活再走！”说着便抡起大斧，劈起柴来。母亲正要劝阻，父亲说： “让他干吧！”
寒风中，雪花飘飞，年轻人已经走了，我家院子里，整整齐齐地码着一垛劈得粗细均匀的柴火。
弟弟吃了剩下的半盘有肉的蒸饺，玩去了。我跟父母吃着第二笼纯素馅儿的蒸饺，觉得温暖而香甜。
我一直认为，在这个世界上，最赏心悦目的，是纤尘未染的青山绿水；最温暖人心的，是人与人之间纯洁真挚的感情。 暮年回首时，最有价值的财富，应是一颗恬淡宁静的心，和一份丰富无悔的回忆。而所有这一切的拥有，都需要用一颗善良单纯的心做底色。
【小题1】文章开头第一段的环境描写有何作用？（3分）
【小题2】“我”和父母吃着纯素馅蒸饺时，为什么会觉得“温暖而香甜”？（3分）
【小题3】年轻人在作出为“我”家劈柴的决定时，心理活动是怎样的？请联系上下文，
用文字写出来。（2分）
【小题4】年轻人在为“我”家劈柴时，母亲要阻止，而父亲却说“让他干吧”， 父亲这样做
的原因是什么呢？（2分）
【小题5】读下面的材料，然后结合本文，说说你的感受。（3分）
联合国秘书长安南卸任后，在得克萨斯州的一个庄园里举行了一场慈善晚宴，旨在为非洲贫困儿童募捐，应邀参加晚宴的都是富商和社会名流。当天慈善晚宴的主角不是倡议者的安南，不是捐出300万美元的巴菲特，而是仅仅捐出30美元零25美分的小露西。她说了这样一句话：“慈善的不是钱，是心。”让全场的人感动不已。

阅读理解

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

　　Computer programmer David Jones makes $35,000 a year designing (设计) new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a credit card (信用卡). Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

　　The 16-year-old boy works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm (公司) puts two new games on the home market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money. In spite of his salary (薪水), made by inventing new programs within quite a short period of time, with bonus payments (奖金) and profit-sharing (分红), he cannot drive a car, get some money from a bank to buy a house, or get credit cards.

　　He lives with his parents in their house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His firm has to pay $150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive. David got his job with the firm a year after leaving school with six 0-levels and working for a time in a computer shop.“I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs,”he said.

　　“I suppose (认为) $35,000 sounds a lot but actually (实际上) that's not good enough. I hope it will come to more than that this year.”He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother $20 a week. But most of his spare time is spent on working.

　　“Unfortunately (不幸的是), computing was not part of our studies at school,”he said.“But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway.”

　　David added, “I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement (退休) is a possibility (可能性). You never know when the market will disappear.”

1．Why is David different from other young people of his age?

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A．He earns a very high salary.

B．He has no job.

C．He does not go out much.

D．He lives at home with his parents.

2．David's greatest problem is ________.

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A．making the banks treat him as a grown-up

B．inventing computer games

C．spending his salary

D．learning to drive

3．He was hired by the firm because ________.

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A．he had worked in a computer shop

B．he had written some computer programs

C．he works very hard

D．he had learnt to use computers at school

4．He left school after taking six 0-levels because ________.

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A．he did not enjoy school

B．he wanted to work with computers and staying at school did not help him

C．he was afraid of getting too old to use a computer

D．he wanted to earn a lot money

5．Why does David think he might retire early?

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A．Because one has to be young to write computer programs.

B．Because a million dollars is enough for him to live a happy life.

C．Because he thinks computer games might not always sell so well.

D．Because he thinks his firm might go bad.