“I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my dad back.” Lucien L

“I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my dad back.” Lucien Lawrence’s letter to Father Christmas, written after his father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched everyone’s heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn’t see the stars in the sky. When those we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.
But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, you will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father there too, either in your mind or heart. I find that my parents, who died years ago, still linger (留连) in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live to please them and I’m still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself that I couldn’t wait to cable my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all my mother said was “I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!” I haven’t forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.
It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence has been to face the aggressors(入侵者), and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It’s a serious thought, which gives me pause.
I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet “Deliver my soul from the sword and my darling from the power of the God.” Yet I know death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live together, but lives as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I’m sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.
【小题1】According to the whole text , we can see that the first paragraph .A．puts forward the subject of the textB．shows the author’s pity on the kidC．serves as an introduction to the discussionD．makes a clear statement of the author’s views【小题2】In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us .A．how much he misses his parents nowB．why his parents often appear in his dreamC．when Lucien will get over all his sadnessD．how proud he was when he succeeded in life【小题3】In the author’s opinion, the value of a person’s life is .A．to leave a precious memory to the people relatedB．to have a high sense of duty to the whole societyC．to care what others will remember and treasureD．to share happiness and sadness with his family【小题4】What does the writer mean by the sentence taken from an old poem?A．Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns.B．Advise parents to stay with their children safely at home.C．Spend every day meaningfully in memory of death.D．Try to keep violence and murder far away from society.C

(答案→)C 解析：本文介绍了作者对于人的价值观的看法，人生的价值体现在给与我们有关的、我们所爱的人留下最美好，最珍贵的回忆。【小题1】写作手法题：通读第一段可知，该段的作用是引起下文，把读者带入到作者想要讨论的话题中。.选C【小题2】细节题：根据第二段最后一句The values of my parents still live on可知，作者之所以会梦到父母是因为体会到了父母的价值，这也是作者讲述自己经常梦到父母的主要原因。选B。【小题3】推理题：根据最后一段的live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I’m sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure可知，人生的价值体现在给与我们有关的、我们所爱的人留下最美好，最珍贵的回忆。选A。【小题4】句意理解题：根据诗句的内容和第一段内容可知，作者是想让第一段所发生的悲剧时间不在发生，让暴力和谋杀远离社会。选D

就是这个解释