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8."Let's have a journey.Why not fly out and meet me,Dad?"I say one day.
My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM.His job filled his day,his thoughts,and his life.While he woke up and took a warm shower,I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru.While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch,I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.
My father sees me drifting aimlessly,nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps.He wants me to settle down,but now I want him to find an adventure.
He agrees to travel with me through the national parks.We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.
"What's our first stop?"asks my father.
"What time is it?"
"Still don't have a watch?"
Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore.As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(花岗岩),his mouth and eyes open slowly,like those of a little boy.
"Unbelievable,"he says."How was this done?"
A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.
We stare up and I ask myself,"Would I ever devote my life to anything?"
No directions,no goals.I always used to hear those words in my father's voice.Now I hear them in my own.
The next day we're at Yellowstone National Park,where we have a picnic.
"Did you ever travel with your dad?"I ask.
"Only once,"he says."I never spoke much with my father.We loved each other-but never said it.Whatever he could give me,he gave."
That last sentence-it's probably the same thing I'd say about my father.And what I'd want my child to say about me.
In Glacier National Park,my father says,"I've never seen water so blue."I have,in several places of the world.I can keep traveling,I realize-and maybe a regular job won't be as dull as I feared.
Weeks after our trip,I call my father.
"The photos from the trip are wonderful,"he says."We've got to take another trip like that sometime."
I tell him I've decided to settle down,and I'm wearing a watch.

32.We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the fatherD.
A.was a very fashionable manager           
B.liked the author's collection of stamps
C.got bored with his job so he retired         
D.was unhappy with the author's lifestyle
33.What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore?B
A.His father is interested in sculpture.
B.He should pursue a specific aim in life.
C.His father is as innocent as a little boy.
D.He should learn sculpture in the future.
34.From the underlined paragraph,we can see that the authorC.
A.hopes to give whatever he can to his father
B.learns how to communicate with his father
C.comes to understand what parental love means
D.wants his children to learn from their grandfather
35.What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?D
A.The call solves their disagreements.
B.The Swiss watch has drawn them closer.
C.They decide to learn photography together.
D.They begin to change their attitudes to life.

分析 本文讲述了一直工作稳定的父亲在退休之后跟着四处旅游的我一起出去游玩,在这次旅游里,我对自己之前的生活方式产生了怀疑,决定定居下来,为一个目标而努力.而父亲在这次旅游里认识到外面的世界很精彩,也改变了他自己的态度.

解答 32-35 DBCD
32.D 推理题.根据文章第三段第一句My father sees me drifting aimlessly,nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps.可知父亲认为我的生活是没有目标的额,除了一个贴满很多邮票的护照以外没有说明可以展示的.说明父亲对我的生活方式很不满意.故D正确.
33.B 推理题.根据We loved each other---but never said it.Whatever he could give me,he gave.可知我的爷爷很爱父亲,但是他不善于表达.The kast sebtebce----it's probably the same thing I's say about my father.And what I'd want my child to say about me.
我在想我也想让自己的孩子这样认为自己:Whatever he could give me,he gave.也就是说我从父亲的话里慢慢理解了父母之爱的意义.故B正确.
34.C 推理题.根据文章最后2行he says."We have got to take another trip like that sometime.和I tell him I've learn decided to settle down,and I'm wearing a watch.可知父亲询问我什么时候开始另外一次旅行,说明父亲的生活方式发生了改变.而我说我想定居下来,说明我不想再和以前一样没有目标地生活.说明我的想法也发生了变化.故C正确.
35.D 推理题.根据文章最后2行he says."We have got to take another trip like that sometime.和I tell him I've learn decided to settle down,and I'm wearing a watch.可知父亲询问我什么时候开始另外一次旅行,说明父亲的生活方式发生了改变.而我说我想定居下来,说明我不想再和以前一样没有目标地生活.说明我的想法也发生了变化.故D正确.

点评 解答细节理解题时,一个常用的方法就是运用定位法,即根据题干和选项中的关键词从原文中找到相关的句子,与选项进行比较从而确定答案;推理判断题既要求学生透过文章表面文字信息推测文章隐含意思,又要求学生对作者的态度、意图及文章细节的发展作正确的推理判断,力求从作者的角度去考虑,不要固守自己的看法或观点

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