小练(12) Unit 3 阅读完形提分练3-【赢在微点】轻松课堂2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册（外研版）

小练(十二)　阅读完形提分练3 阅读理解　A　体裁:记叙文　主题语境:个人经历　难度:★★★☆☆ 　　I am the aunt, granddaughter, daughter, and sister of Baptist ministers. Service was as essential a part of my upbringing as eating and sleeping and going to school. The church was a center of Black children􀆳s social existence, and caring Black adults were buffers (缓冲) against the segregated (种族隔离的) outside world that told us we weren􀆳t important. But our parents said it wasn􀆳t so. We couldn􀆳t play in public playgrounds or sit at drugstore lunch counters and order a Coke, so Daddy built a playground and canteen behind the church. There were no Black homes for the aged in Bennettsville, so he began one across the street for which he and Mama and we children cooked and served. And we children learnt that it was our responsibility to take care of elderly family members and neighbors. We learnt early what our parents and extended community “parents” valued. Children were taught—not by teaching, but by personal example—that no kindness, however small, was ever wasted. I remember a debate my parents had when I was eight or nine as to whether I was too young to go to help clean the bed of a very sick, poor woman. I went and learnt just how much the smallest helping hands could mean to a person in need. The adults in our community made children feel valued and important. They struggled to find ways to keep us busy. And while life was often hard and resources scarce, we always knew who we were and that the measure of our worth was inside our heads and hearts. We were told that the world had a lot of problems, that Black people had an extra lot of problems, but that we ought to and were able to struggle and change them, that being poor was no excuse for not achieving, and that we had the responsibility of sharing with the less fortunate. 　　【语篇解读】　本文是一篇记叙文。虽然大环境还是有种族歧视,但是作者作为黑人的孩子,从小接受的教育是不可以妄自菲薄,而是应当尽己所能帮助他人,承担社会责任。 1.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. Service was very important. B. Church