2014届高考英语一轮复习单元阶段通关训练4_高考复习指南

2014届高考英语一轮复习单元阶段通关训练4

　　71．What might be the best title of the passage?

　　A．Never judge a book by its cover

　　B．Give others a hand

　　C．Be the architect of life

　　D．Accept good and bad with gratitude

　　解析：选D。主旨大意题。文章最后一段中“...what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude.”点明了主旨。故选D项。

　　Once many years ago，I pulled a family out of a burning car somewhere in Wyoming.Last week I received a telephone call from a woman who could not stop crying as she told me that one of my stories had saved her son from committing suicide.In closing she called me a hero.

　　That got me thinking about what a hero really is.Was I a hero because I pulled a family from a burning car？If so，how could I be a hero just because I wrote a story that saved someone’s life?

　　Today I decided to look up the word “hero” in the dictionary to see exactly what it meant.It read “a person who does something brave”．As I read on，it also said “a person who is good and noble”．

　　That statement impressed me more than the part about being brave.So I thought about something very important.Say I was walking into the local Wal-Mart Store and I happened to open and hold the door for someone as a courtesy.As they passed me by，I said，“How are you today？” Most of the time that would be no big deal，but this time let’s say it was for someone who was deeply depressed and near the end of the rope.That may have very well been the only kindness or courtesy shown to them in a very long time.