高考英语的阅读训练

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高考英语的阅读训练

高考英语的阅读训练

that it had little value. He reminded me of how much I’d hate to lose to someone else the small dog my father carved from a piece of cheap wood. I

My elder brother Steve, in the absence of my father who died when I was

returned the pen to my teacher, Mrs. Davids, and still remembered the smell

six, gave me important lessons in values that helped me grow into an adult.

of her perfume as she patted me on my shoulder. Yet of all the instructions

For instance, Steve taught me to face the results of my behavior.

Steve gave me, his respect for life is the most vivid in my mind. When I

Once when I returned in tears from a Saturday baseball game, it was Steve

was twelve I killed and old brown sparrow in the yard with a BB gun.

who took the time to ask me what happened. When I explained that my baseball

Excited with my accuracy, I screamed to Steve to come from the house

had soared through Mrs. Holt’s basement window, breaking the glass with a

to take a look. I shall never forget the way he stood for a long moment and

crash, Steve encouraged me to confess to her. After all, I should have been

stared at the bird on the ground. Then in a dead, quiet voice, he asked,

playing in the park down Fifth Street and not in the path between buildings.

“Did it hurt you first, Mark?” I didn’t know what to answer. He continued

Although my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs. Holt, I offered to pay for

with his eyes firm, “The only time you should even think of hurting a living

the window from my pocket money if she would return my ball. I also learned

thing is if it hurts you first. And then you think a long, long time. “ I

from Steve that personal property is a sacred thing. After I found a shiny

really felt terrible then, but that moment stands out as the most impo

silver pen in my fifth-grade classroom, I wanted to keep it, but Steve explained that it might be important to someone else in spite of the fact



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