辽宁省葫芦岛市第一高级中学2015-2016学年高二下学期英语课外拓展（16.3.30）试题

葫芦岛市第一高级中学课外拓展训练 高二年级英语 命题人：王鹏 阅读理解 A Teary Joe was a boy with a special ability：he could make himself cry in less than a second. If he disliked something，or things became difficult，Teary Joe would not hesitate to put on a pitiful face and set great big tears running down his cheeks. In this way he managed to get practically everything he wanted，because no one could resist the pity inspired by his tearful little face. But one day，Teary Joe met Pipo. Pipo was asking people in the street for some change，in return for him helping them in any way he could. Pipo was very poor；he had no home and no family，so he made a living however he could. Even so，Pipo always had the biggest smiles on his face. Joe took to Pipo，so he decided to help him out in making some money. He went over next to Pipo，took off his hat，put it face­up on the ground，and started crying with the most pitiful of expressions. In a few minutes，Joe’s hat was full of coins and sweets，but when Joe offered all this to Pipo，Pipo declined.“I prefer deserving what I receive，” answered Pipo with his usual smile，“It’s much more fun making an effort to get things. Maybe I haven’t gotten everything I’ve wanted，but I’ve done a lot of interesting things.” Teary Joe didn’t answer；he just walked sadly away. Joe had got everything he wanted，but he’d done practically nothing of interest the whole day. That evening，having returned home，Joe requested a delicious cake for his supper. When his mother said no，Joe tried to cry but，remembering Pipo and how joyful he was，he tried to get the cake in some other way. Joe spent the whole evening helping his mother to water the plants and organize the library books. In the end there was no cake. But that wasn’t so bad，because Joe discovered it had been much more fun doing all those things that evening rather than just sitting crying to get a piece of cake that，in the end，wouldn’t have been worth it. 1．According to the passage，Teary Joe . A．relied on others’ sympathy before