题目内容
The door doesn’t lock ________ and remains ________ all the time.
- A.easy, unlocking
- B.easy, unlocked
- C.easily, unlocking
- D.easily, unlocked
Last week, I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth Hospital. In one of the rooms a patient, an old man, got up from his bed and moved slowly towards me. I could see that he hadn’t long to live, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in surprise. He couldn’t answer, as I knew, but he tried to smile, all the time keeping his foot close to mine.
My thoughts raced back more than thirty years - to the dark days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The scene was an air-raid shelter (防空洞), in which I and about a hundred other people slept every night. Among them were Mrs West and her son Frank, who lived nearby. Sharing wartime problems, we got to know each other very well. Frank interested me because he was not normal. He had never been normal, ever since he was born. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had less of a mind than a baby has. Mrs West, then about 75, was a strong, able woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank depended on her completely. He needed all the attention of a baby.
One night a policeman came into our shelter and told Mrs West that her house had been all destroyed. That wasn’t quite true, because the Wests went on living there for quite some time. But they certainly lost nearly everything they owned.
When that kind of thing happened, the rest of us helped the unlucky ones. So before we separated that morning, I stood beside Frank and measured my right foot against his.
They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a spare pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. As soon as he saw me, he came running - and paced his right foot against mine. After that, he always greeted me in the same way.
【小题1】 How did the writer know that the patient was Frank?
A.He was told that Frank was in the hospital. | B.He was invited to study Frank’s illness. |
C.Frank’s name was written on the door. | D.Frank greeted him in a special way. |
A.In Mrs West’s house in 1941. |
B.In an air-raid shelter during the war. |
C.At the Ruth Hospital about ten years ago. |
D.In London after he Wests’ house was destroyed. |
A.those who suffered from illness | B.those who slept in the air-raid shelter |
C.those who were killed during the war | D.those whose homes were destroyed in air-raids |
A.to be friendly towards Frank |
B.to see if Frank’s feet were normal |
C.to find out if Frank could put on his shoes |
D.to teach Frank to greet people in a special way |
Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really made a conscious(自觉的)effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.
Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.
Memory “trick” work the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber(理发师)shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office.
We always seem to find something funny and amusing(有趣的)in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when “trick” of our memory can cause us great trouble.
【小题1】If you want to have a good memory, .
A.you should force yourself to remember things |
B.you should make a conscious effort of practice and exercise |
C.you should never stop learning |
D.you should try hard to remember tings |
A.One night the writer forgot to lock the front door. |
B.One night the writer forgot having locked the front door. |
C.The writer remembered to lock the door. |
D.the writer remembered unlocking the front door. |
A.forgetting things is serious and dangerous |
B.always forgetting things is understandable |
C.forgetting things at times is natural |
D.the way to protect yourself from memory “tricks” |
A.How to Get a Good Memory |
B.“Tricks” Of Memory |
C.Forgetfulness and Absent-mindedness is Dangerous |
D.Get Rid of Absent-mindedness |