Question

Policemen do cry. Movies and television show that policemen are tough and hard. But policemen do cry.

Ken Knapcik had been a policeman in Chicago for 20 years when one of his fellow policeman was shot during a drug arrest, and died. Shortly after, he returned home after work to find a note from his 15-year-old daughter on the dining table.

Dad

This poem came directly from heart. I love you so much. It scares me that you go out every day and risk everything to provide us with all that we have. I am also very proud of you. I wrote this to express how much I love you and how lost I’d be without you.

Laura

P.S. Hey, be careful out there.

Laura’s poem was called “The Best Policeman.” It was dedicated (獻給) “To all the policeman in the world who have daughters who love them with all their hearts, especially to my father had been shot. Part of the poem reads: “ Daddy, my Daddy, can you hear me? Oh, God, I need my Daddy. Please don’t let him die!”

Knapcik stood alone as he read the poem. “It took me several minutes.” he said. “ I’d got through part of it and have to stop before I could go on. I was weeping（哭泣）. She had never told me she was scared.” He took the poem to work the next day and showed it to his fellow officers. “I ‘ve never seen so many grown men cry. Some couldn’t even finishing reading it.”

Knapcik keeps Laura’s poem in the pocket of his police jacket. He takes it with him every time he leaves the house to go to work. “I don’t want to be out there without it,” he said. “I’ll probably carry it with me forever.”

1.According to the writer, the policemen in the movies and television __________.

A. seldom cry

B. pretended to cry

C. do cry when things are rough and hard

D. do cry but no tears in their eyes

2.What made Ken Knapcik’s daughter scared?

A. Her father’s coming home late

B. The news about a policeman being shot

C. Her father being a policeman for 20 years

D. The policeman’s hard life and work

3.Ken Knapcik brought the poem to work the next day because______.

A. he likes the poems so much

B. it would protect him from being harmed at work

C. he wanted the other policemen to share the love

D. the poem was written by his 15-year-old daughter

4.Ken Knapcik takes the poem with him to work in order that___________.

A. he won’t lose it at any time or any place

B. it can bring him good luck at work

C. he can show it to anyone he meets

D. it can remind him of the daughter’s love and care

5.The best title for the passage can be______.

A. The Best Policeman

B. Laura and her father

C. Poem for a Policeman

D. Policemen do Cry

Answer 1