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15.When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines,Iowa,he told me about the only time he had been there.It was in the 1930s,when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University(SMU) in Dallas,Texas.He also worked as a professor at SMU,and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease.She couldn't afford the operation because her family was poor.Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston,a seaside town near Houston,Texas.She was cleaning out the attic(阁楼) one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿).On its top page were the words,"By O.Henry."It was a nice story,and she sent it to her daughter at SMU,who showed it to my father.My father had never read the story before,but it sounded like O.Henry,and he knew that O.Henry had once lived in Houston.So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse,and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident.My father visited an O.Henry expert at Columbia University in New York,who authenticated the story as O.Henry's.
My father then set out to sell it.Eventfully,he found himself in Des Moines,meeting with Gardner Cowles,a top editor at the Des Moines Register.Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot.My father took the money to the girl.It was just enough for her to have the operation she so badly needed.
My father never told me what the O.Henry story was about.But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
24.Who found the O.Henry's manuscript?A
A.The girl's mother.
B.The author's father.
C.The girl.
D.The author.
25.Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?B
A.O.Henry once worked in Houston.
B.O.Henry once stayed in Galveston.
C.O.Henry once moved to Des Moines.
D.O.Henry once taught at SMU.
26.The underlined word"authenticated"in Paragraph 2probably means"C".
A.named
B.treated
C.proved
D.described
27.According to the text,why did the author's father go to Des Moines?A
A.To sell the O.Henry story.
B.To meet the author himself.
C.To talk with the O.Henry expert.
D.To give money to the girl.
分析 这是一位处于贫困中的母亲在发现O.Henry书稿时没有私藏,而是转交给作者的父亲,作者的父亲让专家鉴定后将书稿卖的钱如数给小女孩的母亲,生病的孩子得救了.
解答 24.A.细节理解题.根据文章第二段中的"She was cleaning out the attic(阁楼) one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿)"可判断出,是那位生病女孩的母亲在打扫阁楼时发现的这本手稿,她把手稿送给她的女儿,然后她的女儿又给我的父亲看.故可知,是那个女孩的母亲发现的手稿.故答案为A.
25.B.推理判断题.根据文章中的"…stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse"可判断出,我的父亲知道O.Henry曾经去过Houston,在Galveston住过,所以这就可能解释他的手稿出现在阁楼的事实.故答案为B.
26.C.词义猜测题.根据前后的语境,我的父亲去拜访了一位研究O.Henry的专家,从下文的"My father then set out to sell it"以及后面的事实可判断出,那位专家证明这本手稿是真正的O.Henry的作品.authenticate意思是"证明(某物)为真".故答案为C.
27.A.细节理解题.根据文章第三段中的"My father then set out to sell it"以及"he found himself in Des Moines"可知,我的父亲是去这个地方出售O.Henry的手稿的.故答案为A.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.
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42.A.vacation | B.celebration | C.preparation | D.schedule |
43.A.praised | B.watched | C.met | D.visited |
44.A.warm | B.white | C.simple | D.different |
45.A.helping | B.playing | C.dealing | D.covering |
46.A.occasion | B.journey | C.process | D.memory |
47.A.field | B.forest | C.market | D.garden |
48.A.special | B.interesting | C.straightest | D.tallest |
49.A.festival | B.experiment | C.travel | D.search |
50.A.explain | B.agree | C.understand | D.promise |
51.A.when | B.until | C.before | D.after |
52.A.pass | B.give | C.apply | D.attac |
53.A.reveal | B.make | C.keep | D.know |
54.A.cut | B.buy | C.dig | D.plant |
55.A.possible | B.accessible | C.ready | D.normal |
56.A.big | B.magical | C.perfect | D.strange |
57.A.via | B.without | C.by | D.with |
58.A.realized | B.confirmed | C.admitted | D.enforced |
59.A.exhaustion | B.anxiety | C.excitement | D.surprise |
60.A.funny | B.practical | C.expensive | D.secret. |
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