literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and peace.Economics was added in 1968, just sixty-seven years after the first award ceremony.

　　These Nobel Prizes became famous and because of them we still remember the name of Nobel.

24.People became famous because .

　　A.they founded Nobel Prize.

　　B.their names were important

　　C.they had something to do with important things

　　D.they had heard about important things

25.It was the founding of Nobel Prizes that .

　　A.made Alfred Nobel particularly famous

　　B.caused Alfred's brother death in an explosion in a factory.

　　C.made Alfred become an engineer and inventor.

　　D.made Alfred particularly interested in explosives.

26. Rich as he was, Alfred Nobel was never particularly happy because .

　　A. his dynamite was not safe enough.

　　B. his explosives were being used in wars.

　　C. his brother was killed by the explosives invented by him.

　　D.he had killed hundreds of thousands of people with explosives.

27. Those who had made outstanding contributions to peace, to science and to literature .

　　A. could get three million pounds. B. were given five prizes each year.

　　C. could see Alfred Nobel himself. D. could receive Nobel Prizes.

　　When I was about twelve, I headed to a restaurant for dinner with my family. It was winter, and on that night, the wind was really blowing hard．

　　As my mom and I headed to the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother came up to us. They asked if we had any spare change(零钱). My mom right away asked where they lived. They pointed to an old car in a parking lot across the street. The girl said there were six of them living in that car．

　　My mom said she had something to do after handing the people a few dollars. She sent me inside the restaurant with my dad and my three siblings (兄弟姐妹）．But she didn't come. Later. I found out she had gone home and put all the food in our cupboards(食橱)into a few bags. Then, she brought that food over to the car and handed the bags to the family. I wasn't there when that happened, but I can only imagine the joy it brought to those people．

　　A few days later，when I actually found out about what she had done, I asked her why she helped those people. She told me that they were not lucky. I remember the face of that girl who had asked us for change. She was the same age as me, yet we looked so different．

　　Here I stood, dressed in almost new clothes, headed to eat in a restaurant and then back home to the bedroom I shared with my younger sister. I remember thinking that the other girl didn't have any food to eat and she was heading back to a cold car shared with five other people．

　　After painting this picture in my mind, I understood why my mom had done what she did. I will never forget what she did that night, and how she taught me one of the best lessons I ever learned．

28. From the passage，we can know the writer's mother was ______.

A. humorous B. determined C. kind-hearted D. selfish