One morning, a blind boy sat on
the steps of a building with a hat by his feet .He held a sign which said,“I am blind. Please help
me.”
There were only a few coins（硬幣） in the hat. A man was
walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the
hat .He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He
put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A
lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who
had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his
footsteps and ask,“Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you
write?”
The man said,“I only wrote the truth. I
said what you said, but in a different way.”
What he had written was,“Today is a beautiful day,
but I can’t see it.”
Do you think the first sign and
the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people
the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting
some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy
the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the
boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they
were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we
can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Treasure(珍惜)what you have. Someone
else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second is: Be creative. Think
differently. There is always a better way.
1. From the passage we know
that______.
A. the boy is the man’s
son. B.
the man is one of his neighbors.
C. the boy is blind and needs
help. D. the boy works for the man.
2. On the sign what the man wrote
was,“_______.”
A. Treasure what we have already
had.
B. Today is a beautiful day, but
I can’t see it.
C. We are so lucky that we are
not blind.
D. Try your best to help those
who need your help.
3.According to the passage, which
of the following is TRUE?
A .The hat began to fill up after
the man wrote some words on the sign.
B. The man took away all the few
coins from the hat.
C. The boy wanted to get enough
money to go to school.
D. Nobody wanted to give any
coins to the blind boy.
4.The word“recognized”here in Chinese means______.
A.承認(rèn)
B.接受
C.表?yè)P(yáng)
D.認(rèn)出
5.“____”is the best
title for this story.
A. Be
careful.
B. Be creative. There is always a
better way!
C. Be kind to the
blind!
D.
Do not always get, but offer!
