Question

  Narrator(解说) ：(Scene shows an old woman, washing her supper dishes. ) For several years，a widow (寡妇) has lived in her own pleasant two-room and kitchenette apartment in a re?built brownstone near East River. Her late husband, Mr. H. T. Miller, had left a fair amount of insurance money before he passed away. Mrs. Miller is,in fact,not an average sixty-one-year-old woman;she has little interest outside her apartment, has no friends to speak of,and she only ventures out as far as a nearby grocery store. No one who lives near her has taken note of her existence，with her old-fashioned dress and old-fashioned hairstyle，and she never uses any cosmetics(化妆品) .Her daily activities are monotonous，smoking an occasional cigarette, preparing her own meals,feeding her canary (a kind of bird) named "Tommy"，and keeping her two-room apartment as clean as possible. (Mrs. Miller sits down on her couch, reading through the afternoon newspaper.)

  Narrator： (Camera changes scene to Rod Serling, a glowing cigarette held in her hand.) One would think that her life would be as normal as anyone else's. She doesn't mind the wall of isolation(隔离) she has created around herself all these years. But all of this is going to change. Mrs. Miller is going to meet a person, a small child, who,like her,has no friends, goes through life unnoticed, and ventures only as far as Mrs. Miller. Would it be a dream of happi?ness come true? Or perhaps the worst nightmare(垂梦) Mrs. Miller has ever experienced ...In the Twilight Zone！

   Title shows： " Miriam"

   Act I：At the Theater

(Scene 1，at Mrs. Miller's apartment) 

(   ) 1. Where is the passage from?

   A. It is from a science book.   B. It is from a TV show script.

   C.  It is from a news report.   D. It is from a textbook of history.

(   ) 2. What does the underlined word "monotonous" probably mean in the passage?

   A. various   B. not changing   C. special   D. interesting

(   ) 3. Which of the following statements about Mrs. Miller is true?

   A.She lives a happy and calm life although she is lack of money.

   B.She is not a sixty-one-year-old woman.

   C.She spends most of her time doing her own things at home.

   D.She is not fashionable but likes to decorate her own house.

(   ) 4. Which of the following things is the thing that Mrs. Miller would NOT do?

   A.She doesn't want to disturb her neighbours.

   B.She always tries to keep her house clean.

   C.She is not interested in fashion show.

   D.She cares more about her neighbour's opinions.

Answer 1

1 ~4 BBCD 

A篇选自一部电视剧的脚本，是情节正式开始前的旁白，讲述的是一位深居简出的老太太遇到一个和她性格一模一样的女孩前与外界格格不入的单调生活的故事。

1.B常识考査题。从全文的格式及内容可知，是电视剧脚本的一部分。

2.B词义推断题。从文中smoking an occa?sional cigarette, preparing her own meals, feeding her canary (a kind of bird ) named "Tommy" , and keeping her two-room apart?ment as clean as possible等描述可推断出她的业余生活很单调。

3.C逻辑推理题。从第一段的she has little in?terest outside her apartment可推断她通常在自家,很少外出的特点。

4.D事实判断题。从她平时的生活的方式，可推断出她只过自己的生活，不可能在乎别人的言语。