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 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 looked up the word “hero” in the dictionary to see exactly what it meant. It read “a person who does something brave” and also “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. And I remembered what happened to me years ago.
After my marriage of twenty years ended, I was in such a condition. I was within hours trying to get up enough courage to end the pain and misery. When I returned home, someone had sent me a card in the mail which told me how much they would appreciate me as a friend. That wonderful card probably saved my life. That person, without even knowing it, saved a life and became a hero.
The many stories I kept writing in the following years saved the life of a teenage boy. In turn that makes the person who sent me the card a double hero. I suppose that is why I fight so hard to help the children now living in orphanages (孤兒院). Most children come out of these institutions with a very hard and bitter attitude against the world. The gifts we send them let them know that they have not been forgotten. Hopefully, most of them will never hurt anyone because of the kindness shown to them by those of us who cared. If it works, we will also become "heroes".
小題1:The main idea of the passage is _______________.
A．why the writer should be a hero B．that everyone is a hero
C．whether the writer is a hero D．what a hero exactly is
小題2:Why did the woman call the writer a hero at the end of the call?
A．Because he asked her son not to kill himself.
B．Because he saved a family from a burning car.
C．Because his story saved her son’s life.
D．Because he was cute and kind to everybody.
小題3:What does the underlined word “it” in the last sentence of Paragraph 5 refer to?
A．The fact that the sender helped the writer.
B．The action of sending the card.
C．The wonderful card the writer received.
D．The fact that the sender was a friend of the writer.
小題4:According to the writer, who can be considered as a hero?
A．A person who is brave.
B．A person who helps someone in trouble.
C．A person who can hold a door for others.
D．A person who writes wonderful stories.

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:B

試題分析：這篇文章講述了作者寫的故事挽救了一位女士兒子的生命，因此被稱為英雄，由此，作者在查找“英雄”到底是什么？最終，作者認為任何人只要幫助他們擺脫了困境，都可以被稱作英雄。
小題1:主旨題。作者通過兩個事例，引出了英雄的準確意思是什么。故選D
小題2:細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章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.可知，作者的故事挽救了她兒子的生命，所以她稱作者“英雄”。故選C
小題3:推斷題。根據(jù)文章That wonderful card probably saved my life. That person, without even knowing it, saved a life and became a hero.可知，那個美好的卡片挽救作者的生命，那個人，甚至不知道這個事情，它挽救了一個生病，變成了一個英雄。it指代的是這個寄送卡片的人幫助了作者的這件事情。故選A
小題4:主旨題。根據(jù)文章可知，作者認為，不管任何人，只要幫助他人從困境中擺脫出來，他就是一名英雄。故選B
點評：總體來說文章的題目設置不難，圍繞著對英雄一詞的闡述來展開講述。解答此類文章需要將自己設身處地的融入情節(jié)中，對于第一遍做不出的題目不要急于作答，將后續(xù)題目答完后再仔細作答。
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