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1、I watched from a distance as the homeless man quarreled with those who did not leave money for him the majority.I walked up to him and right on queue he asked me for a quarter. “Ill give you a quarter if you tell me your story.” He laughed, “Youll give me a quarter for my story?” I lay the quarter i
2、n front of him and corrected myself “Nah, heres the quarter but it would be nice to hear your story.” I followed his eyes to the quarter and for a brief moment I saw a glimmer of reflection. I sat down next to him and waited. “I was in the army,” he said. “I was a sniper(狙击手)and was supposed to shoo
3、t down the enemy from the distance.” I listened carefully to his grizzly voice as he went deeper into the story. He wore dirty old torn clothes and smelled like a dead rat left in a mouse trap. He told me how he used to hunt with his family and was really good at it. He had his own way of respecting
4、 animals by not wasting what he killed for food and not killing more than he needed. When the army came knocking on his door, he felt pride and joined up. All those years of polishing his hunting skills could now serve a larger purposeto defend us from the bad guys. He set out to fight in Iraq. It w
5、asnt long before he realized his ideals and expectations were just a shadow of the truth. He became disillusioned with the killings, which he felt were of innocent people. “I was a sniper but I never really killed anyone,” he said. “One day I had to do it. They asked me to shoot this lady from the d
6、istance. I saw kids near that lady and my hands were on the trigger (扳机). Man, I was tearing up . I couldnt do it. She wasnt doing anything to anyone and she was with the kidsI couldnt see through my tears. It just didnt make any sense to me.”The story goes on as he describes eventually being put in
7、to prison for 180 days for refusing to follow orders. He told me how he was black listed so that he couldnt get a job. All the rights we take for granted were taken away from him. Why? Here was a man who was being punishedand for what? For refusing to kill the lady? For being a hero? “I have no regr
8、ets,” the homeless man said. “I may be homeless now, but I never killed that lady. I never killed anyone in the army. It didnt feel right. I didnt go there to do that. I went there to save people.” He continued, “I can live with being homelessthats okay. But I wouldnt be able to live with killing in
9、nocent people.”On that lonely Friday night, I met a hero. It just never occurred to me that a hero could be a smelly old man left on streets.1. It can be learned from the passage that the homeless man_. （ ）A. never killed animals B. had a strong respect for lifeC. deserved the punishment he received
10、D. felt guilty about disobeying the order2. The underlined word “disillusioned” (Paragraph 4) is closest in meaning to _.（ ） A. disappointedB. frightened C. delighted D. admired 3. The most disappointing for the man was probably that _. （ ）A. he couldnt get a job to support himselfB. he couldnt go b
11、ack to fight for his countryC. he received orders to kill an innocent personD. he got little money from the people in the street4. How did the man feel when he was reduced to a beggar? （ ） A. hopeless B. regretless C. greedy D. sympathetic5. What does the passage mainly talk about? （ ）A. A beggar wh
12、o often came into conflict with othersB. A poor man who earned money by telling storiesC. A true hero who begged for a living on streetsD. A homeless man who helped the poor men答案及剖析：语篇解读：本文介绍了一位曾经在伊拉克服役的狙击手的故事。狙击手在伊拉克因为拒绝执行枪杀一位带着孩子的妇女的命令，被判处180天监禁，出狱后被列入黑名单，找不到工作，被剥夺了一切权利，沦为街头乞丐。但是他却一直不后悔自己的行为。他是一位
13、真正的英雄。1.B 推理判断题。根据文章内容可知，狙击手在做猎人时从不滥杀动物，在伊拉克战场上又拒绝执行枪杀平民妇女，这些行为都说明他尊重生命。2.A 词义猜测题。根据第三段第一句It wasnt long before he realized his ideals and expectations were just a shadow of the truth.以及which he felt were of innocent people.一句可知，战场上的事实与理想相去甚远，是“令人失望的”，故选A。3.C 推理判断题。根据文章内容可知，他对自己的流落街头行乞毫不后悔，可知A、B、D三项均
14、与这相悖，所以令他感到最失望事情应该是他收到命令枪杀无辜。4.B 细节理解题。根据第四段“I have no regrets,” the homeless man said.一句可知，他对自己沦为乞丐毫不后悔。故选B。5.C主旨大意题。本文主要讲述一个在伊拉克战场上因拒绝执行命，枪杀无辜平民妇女而先被判监禁，后流落街头的狙击手的故事。他因尊重生命而遭受不公正的对待，所以他才是真正的英雄。Until last summer I had a very comfortable life: winter vacations skiing and summer cruises. My parents s
15、pent a lot of money on a private school, so they could get me into a competitive middle school. Everything was about tomorrow, next year, my graduation. We never had to worry about today.Before last summer I never thought much about the people in the world who live day to day, every day, whose lives
16、 are controlled by poverty and hunger. Then I enrolled in a two-week intensive program. We lived in a “Tribal Village,” in a hot, dry open grassland in Arkansas, a state of the south-central United States. I am a tribal member in Mozambique, a country of southeast Africa. Every meal, I make the fire for
