题目内容
When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note—“Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”—and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically(魔术般)appear.
All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn't freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete (竞争). Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practiced to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son's friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
【小题1】Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer .
A.to show his magical power | B.to pay for the delivery |
C.to satisfy his curiosity | D.to please his mother |
A.He wanted to have tea there. | B.He was a respectable person. |
C.He was treated as a family member. | D.He was fully trusted by the family. |
A.Nobody wants to be a milkman now. | B.It has been driven out of the market. |
C.Its service is getting poor. | D.It is forbidden by law. |
A.He missed the good old days. | B.He wanted to tell interesting stories. |
C.He needed it for his milk bottles. | D.He planted flowers in it. |
【小题1】C
【小题2】D
【小题3】B
【小题4】A
解析试题分析:本文是一篇人物故事。作者介绍自己对于儿时送奶工的美好回忆。
【小题1】细节理解题。A项表示“为了展示自己的魔力”, D项表示“为了取悦于小孩的母亲”,原文中皆没有提及与这两项相关的信息,可排除;B项表示“为了付送奶的钱”,与原文意思相悖,故排除。依据第一自然段最后两句As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer可知:对于一个五岁的孩子来说,眼睛老是看着系在送奶工腰带上的自动换币器,那一定是好奇了。所以当送奶工在一天送奶时无意中看到这一情景时,为了满足小孩的好奇心就从里边取出一枚二十五分的硬币给了他。因此选C。
【小题2】推理判断题。依据第三自然段末句意思可知“喝茶”送奶工有时进屋后的一个细节,而不是他拥有钥匙的理由,故排除A项;文中并未提及与respectable“可敬的;高尚的;体面的”相关意义的内容,所以排除B项;第三段第三句提到送奶工有外屋的钥匙是因为有时候天气很冷,为了不使奶冻了,“我们”就把放奶的箱子搁在屋内,据此可以排除C项。而该段第二句说家家户户和他们的送奶工都有亲密的关系,且末段末句定语从句提到送奶工在送奶的同时也带来了友谊,由此可以推断,作者一家是因为非常信任送奶工才给他钥匙的。选D.
【小题3】细节理解题。依据第四段内容可知,后来形势发生了变化,牛奶的价格便宜了,销售更普及了,送奶的工作就变得不实际了,因此这一行被市场淘汰了。选择B项。其余A、C、D三项所涉内容文中并未提及,故排除。选B。
【小题4】细节理解题。依据第四段首句内容及末段内容可知,作者对如今没有了过去那种送奶到家的服务深感遗憾,后来在乡下发现一个送牛奶的箱子,就把它带回了家,并放在了后门的门廊里,这引起了孩子们的好奇,于是他就经常给孩子们讲述过去的故事和美好记忆,借此而怀念过去。故选A项“他想念过去的美好岁月”。其余三项在文中找不到任何依据,皆排除。
考点:考查故事类短文
点评:题目主要考查了细节题,只要带着题目到文中找到关键的句子,就可以得到答案,同时要注重综合语言能力的运用,结合语境,做出准确的判断。
完形(15%)
Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once __41 __, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.
Several years ago, I spoke at a school about how we were surrounded by “___42___ ” if we could only recognize them. A man stopped by to see me, and I remembered him as somebody who had suffered through a(n) ___43___ divorce (离婚) and was examining what was most important to him. He took a small ___44___ out of his pocket. Here is what he said to me that day.
“I ___45___ on this stone when I was leaving church last Sunday. You had spoken about ___46___ opportunities—diamonds. I put the stone in my ___47___ to remind me to look for those “diamonds” that I need. I have been trying to sell my business . On Monday morning, a man who seemed interested in ___48___ some of my stock (股票) stopped by. I thought, ‘Here’s my diamond—don’t let it ___49___!’ I sold the entire stock to him by noon. Now my next diamond is to find a new ___50___ !”
Not long afterward, he did find a new and better job. From then on, he decided to keep his stone with him all the time as a ___51___ to look for “diamonds” as he dug through the ___52___ of life.
Richard DeVos is right when he points out. “This is an exciting world. It is filled with opportunities. Great moments wait around every corner.” Those moments are diamonds that, ___53___ left unrecognized, will be forever lost.
Are you looking for “diamonds” every day? If not, you may ___54___ pass them by! Perhaps there is a diamond of opportunity hidden in the difficulty you’re ___55___ now.
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请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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