I was careful not to notice the people sitting at the tables, choosing to leave before feeling the guilt of my “having”, in the midest of so many who have nothing.
But it was not to be.
“Not yet,” I heard a woman’s voice say, “Not till we pray.”
I was behind them when the mother bowed her head and began one of the most heartfelt prayers I have ever heard, and I stopped where I was to look over at the table, A young mother was there with her two young boys, one about three years old on her left; the other, about five, on her right. Both were waiting , heads bowed, eyes closed.
My heart broke as I watched and listened. She was in a leg cast, and scars covered her arms, her face and head.
One of the younger ladies working at the Mission had come to stand beside me, and she whispered, “She’s a single mom; her husband just took off one day and didn’t come back. She came here when their apartment caught fire. She was burned getting her kids out.”
She started to say something else but stopped.
We were silent…and the words this young mother said in our silence will always follow me, “…and thanks for the fruit on the ground, when I just can’t reach the tree.”
56.What did the author go to the local Cith Mission to do?
A.To send some things there.
B.To donate some food to the poor.
C.To take care of the homeless.
D.To find a job there as a volunteer.
57. By saying“Not yet”, the woman probably wanted to _____________.
A.thank the author for sending the food
B.ask her children to pray before eating
C.blame those who have too much
D.pray for the happiness of her children
58.Why did the woman come to the City Mission?
A.Because her husband left her and her children.
B.Because she suffered from a serious disease.
C.Because her house caught fire suddenly.
D.Because she was out of work.
59.From the last paragraph, we can infer that the woman was________.
A.happy to find the fallen fruit on the ground.
B.regretful for not climbing the tree for the fruit.
C.satisfied to pick up the fruit for her children.
D.grateful for the help she received.
B
The people who built Stonehenge in Southern England
thousands of years ago had wild parties, eating barbecued
pigs and breaking pottery. This is according to recent work
by archaeologists--history experts who investigate how human
beings lived in the past.
Archaeologists digging near Stonehenge last year
discovered the remains of a large prehistoric village where they
think the builders of the mysterious stone circle used to live. The village is about 4,600 years old, the same age as Stonehenge and as old as the Pyramids in Egypt. It is less than two miles from the famous ancient landmark and lies inside a massive man-made circular dirt wall, or "henge", known as the Durrington Walls.
Remains found at the site included jewellry, stone arrowheads, tools made of deer antlers, wooden spears and huge amounts of animal bones and broken pottery'. "These finds suggest Stone Age people went to the village at special times of the year to feast and party", says Mike Parker-Pearson from Sheffield University in England.
He said many of the pig bones they found had been thrown away half-eaten. He also said the partygoers appeared to have shot some of the farm pigs with arrows, possibly as a kind of sport before barbecuing them.
An ancient road which led from the village to the River Avon was also found. Here, the experts think, people came 'after their parties to throw dead relatives in the water so the bodies would be washed downstream to Stonehenge.
Parker-Pearson believes Stonehenge was like a cemetery where ancient Britons buried the dead and remembered their ancestors. "The theory is that Stonehenge is a kind of spirit home to the ancestors."
The recent discovery of the village within the Durrington Walls shows that Stonehenge didn't stand alone but was part of a much bigger religious site, according to Parker-Pearson.
People still come to worship and celebrate at Stonehenge today. They meet there when the sun sets on the shortest day of winter and when it rises on the longest day of summer. But the days of' barbecuing whole pigs there and throwing family members into the river are a thing of the past.
60.What was Stonehenge according to the text?
A.A village where hundreds of people once lived.
B.A place that regularly hosted large parties.
C.A church where local villagers would get married.
D.A site where dead people were placed or remembered.
61.From the text we can infer that the people who came to the village .
A.liked to drink wine B.knew how to hunt
C.were from Egypt D.lived by the River Avon
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