Question

 One Saturday morning after breakfast, I returned to my dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful butterflies, hundreds of which lived in the bushes around the orphanage. I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and stuck straight pins through their head and wings,pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.

  How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. When the house parent went inside to answer the phone, I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the butterfly that he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about, so I reached down and touched it on the wing,causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around, trying to get away but it was still pinned by one wing with another straight pin. Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground, still trembling. I tried to let it fly away before the house parent came back. But I failed.

  When the house parent came back,he was angry with me though I didn't admit doing any?thing. He picked up the cardboard paper and started hitting me on the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in the garbage can inside the back room of the dormitory and then he left. I sat there in the dirt for the longest time trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do. So I prayed for them and put them in an old torn-up shoebox and I buried them in the ground near the blackberry bushes.

  Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me,I would try and shoo them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.

(   ) 1. Why didn't the butterfly that the writer wanted to set free fly away?

   A.Because it was pinned to the paper.

   B.Because it refused to fly away.

   C.Because its wing broke off.

   D.Because the house parent killed it.

(   ) 2. What can be inferred from the 3rd paragraph of the passage?

   A.The house parent doubted the writer.

   B.The writer admitted trying to set the butterfly free.

   C.All the butterflies flew away thanks to the writer's help.

   D.The writer put all the dead butterflies in the garbage can.

(   ) 3. The writer tried his best to fit all the butterfly pieces back together in order to

    A. save them   B. make the house parent angry

   C. be proud of himself   D. bury the butterflies whole

(   ) 4. What does the underlined phrase "shoo them away" in the last paragraph mean?

    A. Drive them away.   B. Play with them.

   C. Bury them.   D. Catch them one after another.

Answer 1

1一4 CADA 

A人与动物和谐相处才能确保生态平衡。滥杀动物是不道德的，更何况是人见人爱美丽的蝴蝶。

1.C细节理解题。从第二段的最后可知：作者放飞蝴蝶的想法没有实现的原因是Finally its wing broke off。

2.A推理判断题。从第二、三段的描述可以看出：作者没能放飞蝴蝶，没有承认自己的作为，也没有把死蝴蝶放人垃圾箱，而是埋在了树丛边。所以B、C、D三项均不正确。从the house parent生气的表现，可以看出他对作者的怀疑。

_3.D细节理解题。文章第三段明确地表明，作者把蝴蝶碎片拼在一块的目的就是could bury them whole₀

4.A推理判断题。作者不愿意蝴蝶生活在孤儿院，更不愿意蝴蝶在那里被捕杀。所以，出于时蝴蝶的爱，作者所能做的就是把它们赶走。