题目内容
A 1 thing happened 2 me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day 3 I drove to go for a look in the country.
On the way back home, my 4 stopped. It was out of gas on a 5 road far from a town! I decided to walk 6 I found someone who could sell some gas. I had walked almost a mile 7 I finally found a house near the 8__ . I was glad to see it because it was getting dark.
I knocked at the door and a little old lady with long white hair __9_ She said, “I’ve been ___10__ for you here for a long time. Come in. 11 is almost ready.”
“But I only came for some gas,” I answered. I couldn’t 12 what she was talking about.
“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You 13 tea,” said she.
I quickly 14 that my car was out of 15 , but she didn’t seem to listen to me. She just kept 16 me Alfred and talking about how long it had been 17 she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was 18 to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I could.
Fortunately, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my _19 , he said, “Oh, that’s Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s strange, but she wouldn’t 20 anybody. She is still waiting for the man she was going to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding he left home and never came back because of the war.”
1. A. happy B. strange C. common D. bad
2. A. on B. in C. upon D. to
3. A. and B. so C. but D. that
4. A. car B. bus C. bike D. truck
5. A. narrow B. lonely C. crowded D. busy
6. A. when B. so that C. until D. because
7. A. before B. after C. while D. as
8. A. street B. path C. way D. road
9. A. came B. answered C. opened D. appeared
10. A. asking B. looking C. calling D. waiting
11. A. Gas B. Coffee C. Tea D. Lunch
12. A. consider B. understand C. accept D. think
13. A. like B. liked C. used to like D. liking
14. A. answered B. explained C. refused D. promised
15. A. gas B. tea C. strength D. energy
16. A. calling B. call C. to call D. called
17. A. until B. before C. since D. when
18. A. anxious B. interested C. glad D. ready
19. A. accident B. incident C. experience D. surprise
20. A. wound B. injury C. hurt D. frighten
1—20 BDDAB CADBD CBCBA ACACC
It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in an ugly multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’ hoofs(马蹄) from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d lie on Mom’s bed and stare for hours at the TV screen.
But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses where she cleaned books. So she came home one day, switched off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”
We moaned(不满,发牢骚) and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”
So pretty soon there were these two peevish(坏脾气的)boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly(不情愿) among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers(河狸). For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this virtue visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip(快速翻动)of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this quiet sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery(儿童神经外科)at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began the day Mom switched off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.
【小题1】We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ___________.
A.the author and his brother had done well in school |
B.the author had been very concerned about his school work |
C.the author had spent much time watching TV after school |
D.the author had realized how important schooling was |
A.He came from a middle-class family. |
B.He came from a single-parent family. |
C.His mother worked as a cleaner. |
D.His mother had received little education. |
A.They were afraid | B.They were reluctant. |
C.They were impatient. | D.They were eager to go. |
A.he began to see something in his mind |
B.he could visualize what he read in his mind |
C.he could go back to read the books again |
D.he realized that books offered him new experience |