There is such a thing as a free lunch, as a New Mexico schoolboy and his mom can proudly say.
Josette Duran was _____ when her son Dylan, 14, asked her to pack him a (n) _____ snack in his school lunch. When she asked him why, his _____ was truly touching.
“I asked, ‘Why? Are you not getting full? What’s going on?’ And he says, ‘No. I want to _____ one for my friend,’” Duran recalled.
It turned out that Dylan had a classmate whose family _____ needed help. The boy’s single mother had recently lost her job and could no longer afford her son’s _____. After learning this, Duran was even more eager to _____.
“I was homeless a few years ago. I know how _____ it is to ask for help. You get ashamed and feel embarrassed,” said Duran.
When the young boy’s mother learned of Duran’s generosity, she called her up and _____ to pay her back for everything, but Duran couldn’t ______ it. “I don’t think I did anything ______,” Duran said. “I just think I did what a human being is ______ to do.”
The kindness doesn’t ______ there. Duran is the coach of the girls’ volleyball team of the local school. Her ______ raised $400 to cover the cost of all the extra lunches Duran had made out of her own ______. But Duran refused to keep the cash, and ______, she donated it to the cafeteria at her son’s school. “Now everyone can ______,” Duran said, “What makes me particularly ______ is that it all started with my son. Being kind doesn’t have to come in the form of ______. Just know that if you’re having a good day — someone else is having a bad day and you should ______ that.”
【小题1】A.amazed | B.puzzled | C.ashamed | D.delighted |
【小题2】A.delicious | B.extra | C.simple | D.healthy |
【小题3】A.comment | B.report | C.desire | D.response |
【小题4】A.make | B.buy | C.take | D.choose |
【小题5】A.really | B.hardly | C.finally | D.merely |
【小题6】A.books | B.toys | C.lunches | D.volleyballs |
【小题7】A.call back | B.reach out | C.give in | D.slow down |
【小题8】A.lucky | B.dangerous | C.silly | D.hard |
【小题9】A.refused | B.managed | C.regretted | D.offered |
【小题10】A.share | B.accept | C.imagine | D.forget |
【小题11】A.special | B.necessary | C.interesting | D.impossible |
【小题12】A.allowed | B.reminded | C.supposed | D.pleased |
【小题13】A.happen | B.succeed | C.stop | D.change |
【小题14】A.team | B.company | C.family | D.university |
【小题15】A.computer | B.mouth | C.pocket | D.room |
【小题16】A.instead | B.besides | C.anyway | D.however |
【小题17】【小题18】A.hopeful | B.proud | C.thankful | D.surprised |
【小题19】A.advice | B.exercise | C.battle | D.money |
【小题20】A.fix | B.discover | C.remember | D.doubt |