Very often, newly-born babies are not beautiful. They are wrinkled(多皱的) or hairless, or they have an angry look on their face. They seem to say, “Get away! I hate everybody.” But to a parent, that hairless, wrinkled, angry-faced baby is the most beautiful and perfect child in the world. When that proud father or mother asks you, “Well, what do you think…isn’t she beautiful?” What are you going to say? Is this the time for the truth? Of course not!
You look at that proud father or mother in the eye and say, “Yes, she is! She is really a beauty. She’s one in a million. She’s going to be a movie star! I can tell! She’s as beautiful as a picture.”
In English, this is a white lie. White lies don’t hurt people. They are not cruel or angry words. People use them to make a difficult thing a little easier. When people don’t want to meet someone, or eat something new that they really don’t like at a friend’s house, they tell a white lie. They are trying to be kind. They feel that being kind is sometimes more important than telling the truth.
Parents are usually ____ when their new babies are born.

A．angry

B．proud

C．sad

D．surprised

When a parent asks what you think of their new baby, they want you to ___.

A．tell the truth	B．say what you like
C．tell lies	D．say good words

The underlined word “white” in this passage means “ ______”.

A．kind or harmless	B．unkind
C．the white colour	D．angry

From the passage we can know that ______.

A．a newly-born baby hates everyone around her

B．a newly-born baby is the most beautiful one

C．people who tell white lies are not kind

D．people who tell white lies want to be kind

Which of the following is a white lie?

A．You broke the window but you say you didn’t.

B．You know Jack was late but you say you don’t.

C．Your friend’s bag isn’t beautiful but you say it is.

D．you tell a parent that the newly-born baby isn’t beautiful.

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