《2026年水木金卷高考模拟试卷精编英语》

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“If you could have any three things, what would you want?”
Eleven-year-old Ruby Kate Chitsey loves asking that question at nursing homes in Harrison, Arkansas, but it’s not a game. She has set out to realize the wishes.
Ruby Kate has long been close to older folks. Her mother, Amanda Chitsey, works at nursing homes in northwest Arkansas, and Ruby Kate often goes with her in summer. “I’ve never found them scary at all, so I’m able to just go up to them and ask if they need anything,” she says.
Last May, Ruby Kate noticed a resident named Pearl staring out a window. She seemed sad. “What are you looking at?” Ruby Kate asked. Pearl said she was watching her dog being led away by his new owner after a visit. Pearl didn’t know when she would see her dog again.
Ruby Kate and Amanda asked around and discovered that the nursing home didn’t allow residents to have dogs and Pearl couldn’t afford to pay anyone to look after hers. The Chitseys also learned that many nursing home residents are unable to afford even the smallest luxuries. So Ruby Kate decided to do something about it.
She started by asking residents what three things they wanted most in the world. “That’s a lot simpler than going, ‘Hey, what do you want?’” she explains. “They can understand you better.” Amanda worried that people would ask for cars and other things an 11-year-old wouldn’t be able to provide. Instead, they asked for chocolate bars, McDonald’s fries, pants that fit properly, and even just a prayer.
“It broke me as a human,” Amanda says. “We left the nursing home that day and went straight to a store and bought as many items as we could.” Using their own money, the Chitseys granted the wishes of about 100 people in three months.
Then they started asking for donations, set up a GoFundMe page, Three Wishes for Ruby’s Residents, and raised more than 250,000 in five months. One of their new goals is to set up a communal laptop in one nursing home in each state. Ruby Kate doesn’t plan to stop there. “I consider kindness to be my hobby,” she says, “and I’m very good at it.”
56. What makes Ruby Kate have a close relationship with older people? (no more than 10 words)

57. Why was Pearl’s dog taken away from her? (no more than 15 words)

58. What are Paragraphs 5 and 6 mainly about? (no more than 10 words)

59. How do you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)

60. What do you think of Ruby Kate? Give your reason(s). (no more than 20 words)

答案： 56. That she often visits them with her mother.
57. Because the nursing home forbade dogs and Pearl couldn’t afford to have hers looked after. Or:Because the nursing home banned dogs and Pearl had no money to have hers raised. Or:Because the nursing home didn’t allow dogs and Pearl couldn’t pay to have hers raised.
58. How Ruby Kate(the Chitseys)helped the nursing home residents.
59. She will continue to do more work to offer help.
60. Ruby Kate is kind, bright and helpful because she has devoted herself to helping people in a smart way.