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【题目】Mr. Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living. When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak： to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once.

When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered， "I think we should try for 1,000 nights."

Mr. Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights? ！ "I thought, we'll never do it，" he recalled. "And then we got to 1,000, and we said, ‘How can we stop? ’"

For 3, 218 nights (and some mornings, if Mr. Brozina was coming home too late to read) ，The Streak went on. It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare，continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college.

In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls. When Kristen was still in elementary school，her father went to Washington. "The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr. Brozina recalled. "She said, ‘ Dad, we forgot The Streak！’ Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there."

This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan University. She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak，an English major with a 3. 94 average. She also won two national writing contests ，was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award.

【1】According to the passage, Mr. Brozina and his daughter read together for ______ .

A. 100 bedtimes

B. 1，000 nights

C. over nine years

D. nearly 3,000 nights and some mornings

【2】 In the passage, the underlined phrase "The Streak" in Paragraph 1 probably means ______ .

A. the period of time for reading together

B. the children's book

C. the special night

D. the school work

【3】 How has Kristen benefited from reading with her father?

A. She has grown closer to her father.

B. She has become a school librarian herself.

C. She has performed well at university.

D. She has won many reading awards.

【4】 This passage is about a father who ______ .

A. is very strict in his work

B. enjoys reading when travelling

C. makes his daughter love reading

D. has a hard time bringing up his daughter

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 C

【2】 A

【3】 C

【4】 C

【解析】【1】细节理解题。根据第四段第一句和第五段第一句，可知C项正确。

【2】词义猜测题。根据该词组所在的句子的后半部分read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once, 可知A正确。

【3】细节理解题。根据最后一段，可知Kristen是因为The Streak 在大学期间取得了很多成绩。

【4】主旨大意题。纵观全文，主要讲述的是Mr. Brozina 跟女儿Kristen一块读书的故事，使女儿爱上读书，从最初的100夜到1000夜,再到3218个夜晚。