第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2，满分40分)
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When he thought of the past,my grandfather
would sometimes show us photographs of himself at school. They were brown and
faded,and it was hard to believe that the blurred figure of the little boy in
the short trousers and socks could ever have been Grandfather. Besides,he wore
a cap---andthe boys in the photographs wore caps pulled so far forward that
half of their faces were obscured. When Grandfather asked us to pick him out
from the group,we would surely point to the wrong boy.
On one such occasion my younger sister,aged
six,burst into tears when Grandfather proudly guided her finger to the right
boy. "How could that boy be you?"she cried. "He should have a
beard.” We were,of course,all convinced that grandfathers should have beards
,preferably white and bushy,like our owngrandfather's.
"I wasa good scholar ,”Grandfather
would say,wagging his beard over the photographs."I should have been top
of the c1ass if I hadn't had to get up at six every morning to milk the cows
and chop the wood,and again when I came home from school.”
"But Saturdays?What did you do on
Saturdays?"
"Saturdays,if it was fine, I’d be out
all day in the fields with the men,"replied Grandfather."And if it
was wet,I’d be helping my mother with odd jobs round the house.There wasn't
much time for studying."
We all tried hard to imagine what it would
have been like to have been Grandfather getting up at crack of dawn and
never,obviously,having amoment for himself.It seemed we had learnt something
from what Grandfather had said about his childhood.
56.In the first paragraph of this
passage,what theauthor really tells us is that_______.
A.his grandfather used to wear short
trousers,socks and a cap as well
B.it was difficult to tell which of the
boys inthe photographs was Grandfather
C.he didn't believe Grandfather wore a cap
pulled forward when he was at school
D.it was fun to watch boys in the
photographs wearing caps pulled forward
57. The author's sister burst into tears
because________.
A.she did not get a chance to pick
outGrandfather in the photographs
B.she was told which was the right
boybefore she herself could pick him out
C.other children did not agree with her
thatGrandfather should have had a beard
D.she found Grandfather in the
photographsdid not have a beard
58.When Grandfather said,"I should
have been topof the class….",he meant________.
A if he had had more time for
studying,hewould have been the best in his class
B.he should have spent more time
studyingrather than playing ballgames
C.his school days should not have been so
hard and miserable
D.he could have never been the best
studenteven if he had studied still harder
59. In the last paragraph the author
said,"We all tried hard to imagine…"because________.
A. the figures of the boys in the
photographswere small and blurred
B. the children had never experiencedlife
like that of Grandfather
C.the photographs Grandfather showed them
were brown and faded
D.Grandfather failed to tell them about his
childhood in detail
