Question

【题目】Nine years ago, after Leo had died, people said to me. "I never knew he was your stepfather." You see, I never called him that. At first, he was no one special in my life. Then he became my friend. In time, I felt he was also my father.

Leo married my mother when I was eleven. Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban development, where we put down roots. At first our lawn was just a mud with wild grass, but Leo saw bright possibilities. "We'll plant trees there to give us shade as well as some flowers," he said. And just these little touches made our house different from all the others. More important, a real family was forming. Leo was becoming a full-time parent, and I was learning what it meant to have a father.

Weekday mornings when the weather was bad, Leo often drove me to school. Having a father drop you off may have been something my classmates took for granted, but I always thought it was wonderful. Saturday mornings, we went to the hardware shop, then stepped into the five-and-ten, buying a sports magazine or something else. Some people might think that doing shopping together is nothing special, but I, who had ever before spent my childhood watching other families do their everyday activities, experienced them now with extreme delight. Looking back, I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most—the experience of doing ordinary things together as a family.

Soon after we moved to the suburbs, one of our new neighbors introduced herself to me. She had already met my mother and Leo. "You know," she said, "you look just like your father." I knew she was just making conversation--but even so... "Thank you", I said. Why tell her anything different?

【1】The writer's purpose in writing this passage is _______.

A．to show his pride to have a good stepfather

B．to show how interesting a person Leo was

C．to remind us of our parents

D．to explain why they moved to the suburbs

【2】The phrase “put down roots”in the second paragraph means _______.

A．farmed B．planted C．settled D．worked

【3】In the writer's opinion, _______.

A．it is not easy to live with a stepfather

B．not all the stepfathers are as good as Leo

C．the husband and wife must think more about their children before they divorce

D．in stepfamilies the love and friendship are extremely precious

【4】The last sentence “Why tell her anything different?”means that _________.

A．he should have told the truth

B．he wouldn't tell her the truth

C．he wanted to tell her something that had nothing to do with Leo

D．he wanted to keep silence whenever he met the neighbors

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】D

【4】B

【解析】

试题分析：这是一篇包含深情的散文。作者讲述了从继父来了之后，家庭生活发生很大的变化。继父对作者的关爱让他找到了拥有父亲的快乐与幸福。

【1】A 推理判断题 通读全文可知，作者描述了与继父一起生活的美好和快乐，父子间的和谐融洽让外人认为他们是亲父子。他很自豪拥有这样一位继父。A项表述表明了作者的写作意图。故选A。

【2】C 猜测词义题。根据前面一句“Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban

development”可知，我们搬到郊区新开发的房子里，之后在那里定居下来。put down roots扎根，定居，和settle 意思相近，故选C。

【3】D 观点态度题。根据第一段的“Then he became my friend. In time, I felt he was also my father.”，第二段的最后一句“and I was learning what it meant to have a father.”，第三段的最后一句“I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most—the experience of doing ordinary things together as a family.”以及最后一段的内容可知，最初，继父在我生活中不占特殊地位，后来，他成为我的朋友。继父对我的关爱让我和他成为亲父子。因此，作者认为，再婚家庭中爱和友谊异常珍贵。故选D。

【4】B 推理判断题。根据前面的句子“I knew she was just making conversation--but even so...”可知，我知道她是在寻找交谈的话题，但即使是这样，我也不打算告诉她真相。A、C、D三项均不符合文意，故选B。