Question

In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who lived those years with us. In fact, we don't have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones closest to us and the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now! While your feeling of appreciation is alive and sincere, act on it. Saying thanks is such an easy way to add to the world's happiness.

Saying thanks not only brightens someone else's world, it brightens yours. If you're feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others. It may be just the medicine you need. Of course, there are times when you can't express gratitude immediately. In that case, don't let embarrassment sink you into silence and speak up the first time you have the chance.

Once a young minister, Mark Brian, was sent to a remote parish(教区)of Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia. The Indians, he had been told, did not have a word for thank you. But Brian soon found that these people had unusual generosity. Instead of saying thanks, it is their custom to return every favor with a favor of their own, and every kindness with an equal or superior kindness. They do their thanks. I wonder if we had no words in our vocabulary for thank you, would we do a better job of communicating our gratitude? Would we be more responsive, more sensitive, more caring?

Thankfulness sets in motion a chain reaction that transforms people all around us－including ourselves. For no one ever misunderstands the melody(旋律)of a grateful heart. Its message is universal; its poems transcend(超越)all earthly barriers; its music touches the heaven.

1.Who do we easily forget to express our thanks to according to the writer?

A．Friends not meeting for a long time.	B．Former teachers and friends.
C．People we want to get close to.	D．Our family members and good friends.

2. When we say something for what others do for us, it ______.

A．benefits the people who do something for us

B．is good for both us and people who help us

C．wastes our and our friends' time at the same time

D．does harm to both us and people who help us

3.What does the writer mean in the third paragraph?

A．The only way to thank others is to express by your own words.

B．The best way to thank others is to do something for them.

C．We can thank people who help us in various ways.

D．We can thank people who help us in two ways.

4.The way to make us feel happy is ______ when we think we ourselves are forgotten in the world.

A．to help and appreciate others	B．to ask others to help us
C．to remind others of our helping them	D．to ask someone to help others

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.C

4.A

【解析】试题分析：

1.D.细节题。从we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who lived those years with us可知是和我们多年在一起的人，也就是我们的家人和朋友。

2.B.细节题。从Saying thanks not only brightens someone else's world, it brightens yours可知表示感激对我们及帮助我们的人都有好处。另外，也可以观察题支，发现Ｂ和Ｄ是两个互为矛盾的选项，所以只需在Ｂ和Ｄ两选项中排除一个即可。

3.C细节题。第一二段说到我们可以用话语感激别人，第三段通过例子说明我们也可以用其它方式表示感激，比方说用同样的善举，恩惠回馈别人。Ｃ答案包括了AB两项内容。D答案错误在in two ways

4.A细节题从If you're feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others可得出答案

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