Question

Hold your head up high

I was 15 months old, a happy carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. From then on, so my injured sightless, cloudy gray eye lived on with me. Sometimes people asked me embarrassing questions. When kids played games, I was  always the “monster”. I grew up imagining that everyone looked down on me.

Yet Mom would say to me, “Hold your head up high and face the world.” I began to rely on that saying. As a child, I thought mum meant, “Be careful or you will fall down or bump into something because you are not looking.”

As a teenager, I usually looked down to hide my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.

In high school I even became the class president, but on the inside I still felt like a monster.

All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mom and

she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the  beauty that is inside instead of your appearance.”

My mom’s love was the spark that gave me confidence. I had faced hardships, and learned not only to appreciate myself but to have deep compassion (同情) for others.

“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I say it to my children. The gift my

Mom gave me lives on.

1.The word carefree in the first line probably means “__________” in Chinese.

A. 无忧无虑的    B. 无拘无束的    C. 小心翼翼的    D. 与众不同的

2.Why did the writer imagine that everyone looked down on her?

A. She felt bad about her appearance.

B. She found it hard to act as a monster.

C. Kids refused to play games with her.

D. People always asked her embarrassing questions.

3.Why did the writer’s mum say “Hold your head up high” to her?

A. To tell her to be careful.    B. To help her hide the shame.

C. To stop her from getting hurt.    D. To make her more confident.

4.From the story, we can know that__________.

A. the writer understood the saying very well as a child.

B. the writer felt like everyone else in high school.

C. the writer is living with a warm and brave heart now.

D. the writer has deep compassion for other all her life.

5.The passage is mainly about__________.

A. what the writer experienced when she was 15.

B. what the writer did to show thanks for mum’s gift.

C. how the writer changed herself with mum’s love.

D. the writer has become confident with her great efforts.

Answer

1.A

2.A

3.D

4.C

5.C

【解析】试题分析：这篇短文讲述的是作者因为小时候的一次意外使自己的眼睛受到了伤害，而且外貌变得丑陋。作者一度心情非常低落，对自己的生活失去了信心。但是在妈妈的鼓励下，作者开始变得自信起来，也知道如何去同情他人。

1.

虑的小女孩。故选择A。

2.

难堪的）questions. Whenever kids played games, I was the ".I was always imagining that everyone

that everyone looked down on（瞧不起）me.“手术之后，一些人经常问我一些使人难堪的问题，当孩子们一起玩耍时，我是怪物，所以我觉得每个人都看不起我。故选择A。

3.

faced hard times, and learned not only to be confident（自信的） but also to have deep compassion（同情for

others.我母亲的爱使我变的阳光起来，我开始面对困难并且变得自信。故选择D。

4.

faced hardtimes, and learned not only to be confident（自信的） but also to have deep compassion（同情）

for others.我母亲的爱使我变的阳光起来，我开始面对困难并且变得自信，并对其它的处于困境的人表示同情。可见如今的作者有一颗健康的温暖的勇敢的心。故选择C。

5.

外貌变得丑陋。作者一度心情非常低落，对自己的生活失去了信心。但是在妈妈的鼓励下，作者开始

变得自信起来，也知道如何去同情他人。故选择C。

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