A
My elder brother Steve gave me important lessons in values that helped me grow into an adult after our father died when I was six.
For instance，Steve taught me to face the results of my behaviour.Once when I returned in tears from a Saturday baseball game，Steve took time to ask me what had happened.When I explained that my baseball had broken Mrs Holt's basement window，Steve encouraged me to confess to it.After all，I should have been playing in the park and not in the path between buildings.Although my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs Holt，I offered to pay for the window if she would return my ball.I also learned from Steve that personal property is a sacred thing.After I found a shiny silver pen in my fifthgrade classroom，I wanted to keep it，but Steve explained that it might be important to someone else.I returned the pen to my teacher，Mrs Davids，and she praised me.
Yet of all the instructions Steve gave me，his respect for life is the most vivid in my mind.When I was twelve，I killed an old brown sparrow in the yard with a BB gun.Excited with my accuracy，I screamed to Steve to come from the house to take a look.I shall never forget the way he stood for a long moment and stared at the bird on the ground.Then in a dead，quiet voice，he asked，“Did it hurt you first，Mark？”I didn't know what to answer.He continued with his eyes firm，“The only time you should even think of hurting a living thing is whether it hurts you first.And then you think a long，long time.”I really felt terrible then，but that moment stands out as the most important lesson my brother taught me.
【语篇解读】 本文主要记叙了作者在哥哥的陪伴下成长的经历：哥哥鼓励作者勇于承担打碎窗户的责任，把捡到的钢笔交给老师，哥哥还教育作者尊重生命。
1．What does the underlined word “confess” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．Cover. B．Admit.
C．Deny. D．Agree.
解析：词义猜测题。根据第二段中的“When I explained that my baseball had broken Mrs Holt's basement window，Steve encouraged me to...I offered to pay for the window if she would return my ball.”可推断，作者在打棒球时打碎了霍尔特夫人地下室的窗户，哥哥鼓励作者向霍尔特夫人承认错误，故画线词意为“承认”。
答案：B
2．How did the author feel when he faced Mrs Holt?
A．He was unwilling. B．He felt frightened.
C．He appeared challenging. D．He was lighthearted.
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段“Although my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs Holt，I offered to pay for the window if she would return my ball.”可知，作者在向霍尔特夫人解释情况时双腿打颤，这表明作者当时很害怕。
答案：B
3．Which was the most important lesson the author learned from his brother?
A．Care for the property of others.
B．The value of honesty.
C．Responsibility for one's actions.
D．Respect for living things.
解析：细节理解题。根据最后一段“Yet of all the instructions Steve gave me，his respect for life is the most vivid in my mind.”可知，在所有的教育中，最令作者难忘的是哥哥对生命的尊重。
答案：D
