Mary’s dime（一毛錢）
It was Sunday afternoon. I decided to clean up the room nicely so that my parents would feel
1 when they returned from a long ride! Then, I sat in the room, having nothing to do.
What else could I do? Then, with no reason, I suddenly
2 the pale face of that little beggar(乞丐) girl. I could see the glad light
3 her eyes when I put the dime in her little dirty hand.
How much I
4 that dime, too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs, but those sugar apples looked so attractive, and were so
5 — only a dime a piece — that I wanted to have one.
I could imagine the little girl stood there in front of the
6 in her old dirty dress, looking at the 7 that were put all in a row in the window. I wonder what I should say, “Little girl, what do you want?” I gently asked. She felt
8 and looked straight at me, just as if（似乎）nobody had spoken so
9 to her before. She realized what I had meant, so she said seriously and sadly. “I was thinking how good one of those delicious hamburgers would
10 . I haven’t had anything to eat today.”
Now I thought to myself, “Mary Williams, you have had a good breakfast and a good lunch today,
11 this poor girl has not had a mouthful yet. You can give her your
12 . She needs it a great deal more than you do.”
I could not run away from that little girl’s sad,
13 look — so I dropped the dime right into her hand. How
14 the girl was! I am so glad I gave her the dime,
15 I had to go without the apple lying there in the window.
| 小題1: | | A．disturbed | B．unhappy | C．satisfied | D．interested |
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| 小題2: | | A．saw | B．remembered | C．forgot | D．described |
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| 小題3: | | A．filling | B．protecting | C．attracting | D．touching |
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| 小題4: | | A．hated | B．loved | C．missed | D．noticed |
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| 小題5: | | A．valuable | B．meaningful | C．expensive | D．cheap |
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| 小題6: | | A．market | B．library | C．store | D．bookshop |
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| 小題7: | | A．dresses | B．magazines | C．books | D．candies |
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| 小題8: | | A．surprised | B．excited | C．pleased | D．worried |
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| 小題9: | | A．happily | B．kindly | C．angrily | D．sadly |
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| 小題10: | | A．taste | B．sound | C．feel | D．smell |
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| 小題12: | | A．apple | B．hamburger | C．dime | D．candy |
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| 小題13: | | A．proud | B．angry | C．calm | D．hungry |
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| 小題14: | | A．grateful | B．unlucky | C．lonely | D．friendly |
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| 小題15: | | A．unless | B．if | C．though | D．because |
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Apple’s logo is one of the most familiar icons(圖標) around the world. But what’s the story about the Apple logo? The image of the apple is obvious, because that’s the name of the company. What about the bite? The famous story is that the logo shows respect and honour for Alan Turing. He was the father of computer science. He researched artificial intelligence(人工智能) and unlocked German wartime codes(密碼). However，after the war, he was put into prison，because of his beliefs. He could not stand the looking down and chose to bite a poisoned apple to end his life in the prison.