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istmas time each year,he personally hands money out to those on the street,and at year,he gave more than $50,000 away in Kansas City.( ) underlined word “engagement” in Paragraph 4 has the same meaning as ________.A.promise B.apologyC.explanation D.friend( ) may know from the passage that the owner of the diner was ________.A.an honest man who never told a lieB.a helpful man who didn39。t embarrass the youngC.a selfish man who never helped othersD.an impolite man who was always rude to others( ) did the $20 bill belong to?A.The young man.B.The diner owner.C.A customer in the diner.D.Secret Santa.【語篇解讀】本文是一篇記敘文。文章敘述的是一個年輕人在困難時受到別人無私的幫助,他后來在功成名就時,就以適當的方式來回報社會。但愿人人能付出一點愛。1.A 詞義猜測題。根據畫線單詞后面的 “I said,‘If ever I have a chance to help other people,I will do it.’”可以推測,這位年輕人是“許下了諾言”。2.B 推理判斷題。根據短文中對店主行為的描寫不難看出,這位店主是一位樂于助人的人。3.B 細節(jié)判斷題。根據第四段內容可以得知,$20 bill的鈔票應該是店主的。BThe Pharos,the great lighthouse of Alexandria,was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient stood on the island of Pharos,in the harbor(港口) of the city of 280 B.C.,PtolemyⅠSoter,the ruler of Egypt,ordered the building of the years later,it was finished—the first lighthouse in the world and the tallest building on Earth,besides the Great Pyramid of Egypt.The Pharos was designed by Sostrates,a Greek wanted to leave his name on the base of the Ptolemy refused,ordering that only his own name appeared on the Sostrates found a way to do the base of the Pharos,Sostrates left a message containing his own he covered it with plaster(建筑石膏) and left Ptolemy39。s name over many years,the plaster disappeared and people knew the true architect of the lighthouse.In 1302 and 1323,two strong earthquakes hit Alexandria,damaging the 1326,it finally fell into the of what we know about the lighthouse es from the writings of Arabs who once visited the Pharos.The Pharos was about 384 feet tall,the same height as a modern 40-story the top of the lighthouse stood a large statue of Poseidon,the