Question

When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer(自动换币器) fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter(两角五分钱) out of his coin changer.

Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note --- “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery.”--- and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.

All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.

There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.

Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch(门廊). Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.

1.What was Mr. Basille?

2.How did Mr. Basille deliver milk to people’s doorsteps?

3.What else did Mr. Basille deliver besides milk?

4.What would the boy’s mother do if she wanted to add a bottle of buttermilk?

5.What can we learn from the fact that Mr. Basille had the key to the boy’s house?

6.Why did the writer bring back home an old milk box?

 

Answer 1

1.A milkman.

2.By truck.

3.Cheese, eggs and so on.

4.She would pen a note/write a note and place it in the box along with the empty bottles.

5.They had a close relationship./ The family trusted him very much. / Mr. Basille was trusted by the family.

6.Because he missed the good old days./ Because the box brought back his childhood memories.

【解析】

试题分析：在20世纪60年代，我出生在新泽西。有一个送奶员运送牛奶到我们家门口。他的名字叫Basille，他戴着白色的帽子，开着一辆白色的卡车。我们都非常信任他。时间过去了，现在一个旧的牛奶盒引起了作者对童年的回忆。那是人与人之间的友谊象征。

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4.用笔在纸条上写出我们需要的物品，将这纸条放在空瓶中。明确答案。故填She would pen a note/write a note and place it in the box along with the empty bottles.

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6.看到一个旧的牛奶盒，勾起了我对童年的回忆。故填Because he missed the good old days./ Because the box brought back his childhood memories.

考点：故事类短文阅读。