A．Short answer questions．Read the passage and answer the questions or complete the statements with no more than ten words．
No one who comes into Sharing and Caring Hands knows more about deprivation and loneliness than Mary Jo Copeland．Born in Rochester，Minn．，in 1942，she spent the first six years of her life in the Minneapolis home of her affluent grandparents，who cherished and pampered her．
Mary Jo was only vaguely aware of her parents，who visited occasionally but never showed any affection for her．She later learned that her father was unable to support his family and had left her with his parents．When Mary Jo's mother had a baby boy，the grandparents thought it was time to bring the family together． Mary Jo moved in with her parents．
Often her father awoke in a rage cursing his wife for her abominable cooking and housekeeping．In the evenings he might beat her．“Mother would scream and plead with him，”Mary Jo remembers，“and I'd sit outside for hours，praying that my mother wouldn't die．”
Yet she was so overwrought that she frequently seemed incapable of dealing with the things that enraged him．“The house was never clean，”Mary Jo recalls．“Beds went unmade， rooms undusted；dishes rarely got washed．The tub was filthy，and I couldn't take baths．”
In parochial school，Mary Jo remained aloof and alone．She had awful body odor．Other children would shout，“Uh-oh，there's Mary Jo，” and hold their noses．“I was in such emotional turmoil that I couldn't concentrate on schoolwork．My poor report cards enraged my father， and he would insist I was stupid and worthless．”
The one thing that did fire her interest in school was religion class．“I learned was enthralled with the idea that God loves us all equally and unconditionally，”she says．“I my catechism and said the rosary all the time．Soon I realized that there were lots of children in the world like me—some even worse off．I began to know that God had some special task in mind forme．”
Mary Jo's father required her to pay a good share of her Catholic high school's tuition．She stayed after school each day and scrubbed floors and blackboards．One evening during her sophomore year，she went alone to a dance． Spotting an attractive lad，she approached him on the pretext that she was looking for someone．
“Are you Tom Kelly？”she asked，making up the name．He said he was not，and she started to walk away．“Wait a minute，”he said，“would you like to dance？”His name was Dick Copeland，and they danced all evening．He saw her home and asked if he could call her for a date．Soon they were together constantly，though it was a year before Mary Jo told him about her home life，which was becoming increasingly unbearable．
1．What kind of life did Mary Jo have during her childhood？
2．Why was her mother beaten？
3．In the eyes of Mary Jo，her mother was a（n） mother．
4．What is the meaning of“good”in paragraph 7？
5．Mary Jo approached an attractive lad in order to ．
B．Translate the following sentences from the above passage into Chinese．
1．Mary Jo was only vaguely aware of her parents，who visited occasionally but never showed any affection for her．
2．She later learned that her father was unable to support his family and had left her with his parents．
3．Often her father awoke in a rage cursing his wife for her abominable cooking and house-keeping．
4．Soon I realized that there were lots of children in the world like me—some even worse off．
C．Error Correction
“No two-old-year Ali Spizman never seemed fearful of anything—until the day she attended her cousin's birthday party．There stood the loudest，scariest grownups she'd ever seen：a clown with a big red
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nose and a luminous orange wig．“Ali grabbed me around the neck and held on for dear life，” recalls her mother，Robyn Spizman．
When the next birthday party came around， Ali refused to go．“No clown，Mommy，”Ali cried，her eyes were wide with panic．Ali had
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been frightened by something that overwhelmed her．By the age of ten months，a child has learned to distinguish the familiar and the
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unfamiliar．If the unfamiliar is especial big，
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bright or loud，it will seem scary．
To parents，such a fear may seem nonsen- sical．But dismiss it
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will only make a toddler wonder if something is wrong with him．
“The idea is to get your child understand that it's okay to be
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afraid，that we all have fears，”says a psycholo- gist Stephen Garber，
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director of the Behavioral Institute of Atlanta．
The important thing is to work through them．
Ali's mother helped her overcame her fear of clowns gradually．
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First they dressed stuffed animals in party hats and visited a costume shop and examine clown clothes and noses．Finally，Ali
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watched as a volunteer clown put on his makeup．By then she knew that clowns are really or- dinary people wear costumes ．They might
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be loud，but they're also harmless．
D．Paragraph writing
Write a paragraph beginning with“Some people think we should read selectively．”Your should write at least 50 words not including the sentence given．
key:
A．1．Both joyful and miserable．
2．For poor cooking and housekeeping．
3．unqualified
4．Large in amount．
5．have a talk with him
B．1．玛丽·乔对父母只有模模糊糊的意识，因为他们只是偶尔地来看她，从未给她任何关爱。
2．她后来知道，父亲不能够养家糊口，才把她放到了爷爷奶奶家。
3．她父亲经常从睡梦中醒来，一阵狂怒，对妻子破口大骂，说她做的饭难以入口，说她不料理家务，屋里一片狼籍。
4．不久，我认识到世界上有许多许多像我一样的孩子，有些孩子的情况甚至比我更加糟糕。
C．1．grownups改为grown up 2．去掉 were 3．and改为from 4．especial改为especially 5．dismiss改为dismissing 6．child和understand中间加to 7．去掉says a psychologist中的a 8．overcame改为overcome 9． and改为to 10．wear改为wearing
D．Some people think we should read selectively．They argue that with the development of modern science and technology，more and more books are published every day．It is impossible for us to read all the books．What's more，there are many bad books that are poisonous to our mind，and we shouldn't read them．Since we can't read all the books，and we shouldn't read bad books，we must read selectively．
