Question

A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house,

reduced to waist-high ruins, smelly and dirty.

Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up

the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?” she asked. I said I was,

“No charge.” She said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I

went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.

As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage（抵押贷款）on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We’d began to accept that we’d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kennedy in California. He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for Slate, the online magazine and wanted to give us (“no conditions attached”) a new house across the lake from New Orleans.

It sounded too good to be true, but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional generosity, that we had no plan go back. Then a poet at the University of Florida offered to let his house to me. While he want to England on his one-year paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kennedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.

Throughout this painful experience , the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity .It’s almost worth losing you worldly possessions to be reminded that people really when given half a chance.

56.The garage employee’s attitude toward the author was that of _______.

A.unconcern                              B.sympathy                        C.doubt                      D.tolerance

57.What do we know about James Kennedy?

A.He was a writer of an online magazine.                 B.He was a poet at the University of Florida

C.He offered the author a new house free of charge.  

D.He learned about the author’s sufferings via e-mail.

58.It can be inferred from the text that _______.

A.the author’s family was in financial difficulty

B.rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster

C.houses were difficult to find in the hurricane-stricken area

D.the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank

59.The author learned from his experience that _______.

A.worldly possessions can be given up when necessary

B.generosity should be encouraged some cases           C.people benefit from their sad stories

D.human beings are kind after all.

Answer 1

56--59   BCAD     

解析:

56. B

解析:这是一道推断题。根据第二段“I said I was,‘No Charge.’ She said,and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet.”可知修车店的员工听说作者从新奥尔良来,不收作者的钱,是同情作者。(新奥尔良刚遭受台风袭击)

57. C

解析:这是一道推断题。根据第三段“He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for slate,the online magazine and wanted to give us (‘no conditions attached’) a new house across the lake from New Orleans.”可知他想向作者免费提供一所新房子。

58. A

解析:这是一道推理题。根据第三段“we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage on our ruined house.”可知作者要租房子又要还贷款,经济状况不好。

59. D

解析:这是一道推理题。根据最后一段“Throughout this painful experience,the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity.”可知虽然作者经历了自然灾难,但是陌生的好心人让作者又对人的慈善又重新树立了信心,说明作者认为人还是善良的。