Question

“Dad,” I say one day …..take a trip. Why don’t you fly and meet me?”

My father had just reired……….. His job filled his day, his thought, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

My father sees me drfting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.

He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.

“ What is our first stop?” asks my father.

“What time is it?”

“Still don’t have a watch?”

Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of little boy.

“Unbelievable,” he says, “How was this done?”

A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.

We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything?

No directions, …… I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.

The next day we’re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.

“Did you ever travel with your dad? I ask.

“Only once,” he says. “ I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other---but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”>

The kast sebtebce----it’s probably the same thing I’s say about my father. And what I’d want my child to say about me.

In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I’ve never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world, I can keep traveling, I realize--- and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.

Weeks after our trip, I call my father.

“The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he says.” We have got to take another trip like that sometime.

I tell him I’ve learn decided to settle down, and I’m wearing a watch.

1.We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father _________.

A. followed the fashion

B. got bored with his job

C. was unhappy with……

D. liked the author’s collection of stamps

2. What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore?

A. His father is interested in sculpture

B. His father is as innocent as a little boy

C. He should learn sculpture in the future

D. He should pursue a specific aim in life.

3.From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author________.

A. wants his children to learn from their grandfather

B. comes to understand what parental love means

C. learns how to communicate with his father

D. hopes to give whatever he can to his father

4.What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?

A. The call solves their disagreements

B. The Swiss watch has drawn them closer

C. They decide to learn photography together.

D. They begin to change their attitudes to life

5.What could be the best title for the passage?

A. Love Nature, Love Life

B. A Son Lost in Adventure

C. A Journey with Dad

D.The Art of Travel

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.D

5.C

【解析】

【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。叙述了作者的父亲在退休前一直忙于工作，没有时间走出去旅行，而儿子平时整天我所事事。在儿子的请求下，父子两个进行了一次旅行，通过这次旅行两人都改变了对人生的观点。

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2.—and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.可以推知作者意识到自己应该有自己的人生目标了，故选D。

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考点：故事类阅读。