Tom and his cousin took a boat trip. When they got on the boat, every passenger(乘客)should answer the keeper a question. If the passenger answered “yes”, he or she got one gift; if the passenger answered “no”, he or she got two gifts. Tom and his cousin saw all about this. Now it was their turn. The keeper came up to them and asked, “Are you a good sailor?” Tom wanted to get two gifts, so he answered “no” loudly, at the same time he said, “I have never been a sailor, how could I be a good sailor?” The keeper gave him two gifts. His cousin gave the same answer, so he got two gifts, too.

The boat started off. The passengers began to open their gifts. Tom and his cousin did the same. They found that one of the two gifts was a small bottle of drinking water, the other was a seasick tablet(晕船药). Tom had a look at a “yes”-passenger’s gift. His was a nice chocolate. Tom shouted at the keeper, “We are never seasick. Why do you give us seasick tablets?”

1. Tom and his cousin ________.

A. went to eat chocolates

B. went on a trip by boat

C. worked for the keeper

D. needed a bottle of drinking water

2.When did the keeper ask the passengers questions?

A. Before the trip. B. After the trip.

C. During the trip. D. Never.

3.Why did Tom and his cousin answer “no”?

A. Because they felt sick on the boat.

B. Because they were good sailors.

C. Because they both wanted to get two gifts.

D. Because they wanted to have chocolates.

4.The underlined(下划线)part “a good sailor” means ________.

A. 晕船 B. 不晕船

C. 好销售员 D. 好水手

5.Which of the following statements is true?

A. The keeper cheated(欺骗)Tom and his cousin.

B. Tom and his cousin didn’t want the seasick tablets.

C. All the other passengers answered “yes”.

D. The keeper didn’t want to give Tom and his cousin chocolates.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary “My own happiness in the past often got such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial(财政的) security(安全,保障). Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.

However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda had an effect on his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol(酒精). Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.

1.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?

a. He became addicted to drinking.

b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.

c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.

d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.

e. He failed to reorder his life.

f. He joined the army and met Zelda.

A. f-c-e-a-b-d B. b-e-a-f-c-d

C. f-d-e-c-b-a D. b-f-c-d-e-a

2.We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald_______.

A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama

B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army

C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

3.The passage is probably followed by a concluding(总结的) paragraph about_____.

A. Zelda’s personal life

B. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world

C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham

D. Zelda’s illness and treatment

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