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Mr. Ballou fell into the last category, and he always had a reason why. On one day, he had no change for a fifty, on another he was flat out of checks, and on another, he was simply out when I knocked on his door. Still, except for the money, he was a nice enough guy, always waving or tipping his hat when he’d seen me from a distance. I figured it was a thin retirement check, or maybe a work-related injury that kept him from doing his own yard work. Surely, I kept record of the total, but I didn’t worry about the amount too much. Grass was grass, and Mr. Ballou’s property didn’t take long to trim (修剪).
Then, one late afternoon in mid-July, the hottest time of the year, I was walking by his house and he opened the door, mentioned me to come inside. The hall was cool, shaded, and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim light.
“I owe you,” Mr. Ballou, “but…”
I thought I’d save him the trouble of thinking of a new excuse. “No problem. Don’t worry about it.”
“The bank made a mistake in my account,” he continued, ignoring my words. “It will be cleared up in a day or two. But in the meantime I thought perhaps you could choose one or two volumes for a down payment (首期付款).
He gestured toward the walls and I saw that books were stacked (堆放) everywhere. It was like a library, except with no order to the arrangement.
“Take your time,” Mr. Ballou encouraged. “Read, borrow, keep. Find something you like. What do you read?”
“I don’t know.” And I didn’t. I generally read what was in front of me, what I could get from the paperback stacked at the drugstore, what I found at the library, magazines, the back of cereal boxes, comics. The idea of consciously seeking out a special title was new to me, but, I realized, not without appeal-- so I started to look through the piles of books.
“You actually read all of these?”
“This isn’t much,” Mr. Ballou said. “This is nothing, just what I’ve kept, the ones worth looking at a second time.”
“Pick for me, then.”
He raised his eyebrows, cocked his head, and regarded me as though measuring me for a suit. After a moment, he nodded, searched through a stack, and handed me a dark red hardbound (精装本) book, fairly thick.
“The Last of the Just,” I read. “By Andre Schwarz-Bart. What’s it about?”
“You tell me,” he said. “Next week.”
I started after supper, sitting outdoors on an uncomfortable kitchen chair. Within a few pages, the yard, the summer, disappeared, and I was thrown into the aching tragedy of the Holocaust, the extraordinary clash of good, represented by one decent man, and evil. Translated from French, the language was elegant, simple, impossible to resist. When the evening light finally failed I moved inside, reading all through the night.
To this day, thirty years later, I vividly remember the experience. It was my first voluntary encounter (接触、遇到) with world literature, and I was stunned (震惊) by the concentrated power a novel could contain. I lacked the vocabulary, however, to translate my feelings into words. So the next week when Mr. Ballou asked, “Well?” I only replied, “It was good.”
“Keep it, then,” he said. “Shall I suggest another?”
I nodded, and was presented with the paperback (平装本) edition of Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa ( a very important book on the study of the social and cultural development of peoples-- anthropology (人类学)).
To make two long stories short, Mr. Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught anthropology at Dartmouth College. Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had assumed it to be, not a light-hearted, instantly forgettable escape in a hammock (吊床) (though I have since enjoyed many of those, too). A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the course of all that follows.
小题1:The author found the first book Mr. Ballou gave him _________.
A.light-hearted and enjoyable |
B.dull but well written |
C.impossible to put down |
D.difficult to understand |
A.read all books twice |
B.did not do much reading |
C.read more books than he kept |
D.preferred to read hardbound books |
A.started studying anthropology at college |
B.continued to cut Mr. Ballou’s lawn |
C.spent most of his time lazing away in a hammock |
D.had forgotten what he had read the summer before |
A.summer jobs are really good for young people |
B.you should insist on being paid before you do a job |
C.a good book can change the direction of your life |
D.a book is like a garden carried in the pocket |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:C
解析
试题分析:我14岁的时候,为邻居们修剪草坪来生活。我学会了如何修理草地,以及如何对付各式各样的房主人。巴卢先生,却是一个独特的存在。那年他的银行账户出了问题,于是没有付我报酬,但是让我读了他的许多书。这是我第一次走进文学的殿堂,也让我从此了解了更多。
小题1:细节理解题。由“When the evening light finally failed I moved inside, reading all through the night.”可知这本书非常精彩以至于我看得入迷,根本停不下来。故选C。
小题2:细节理解题。由““This isn’t much,” Mr. Ballou said. “This is nothing, just what I’ve kept, the ones worth looking at a second time.””可知巴卢先生保存的书仅仅是他认为值得再读一遍的书,因此他看过的书可不仅仅只有这些。故选C。
小题3:推理判断题。由“To make two long stories short, Mr. Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught anthropology at Dartmouth College. ”可知第二年巴卢先生也没有付我酬劳,所以推断我第二年还在给他修剪草坪。故选B最佳。
小题4:主旨大意题。由“A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the course of all that follows.”可知,作者小时候因为巴卢先生的缘故体验到了读书的乐趣,并因此觉得读书对于生活来讲是一件具有幸运成分的事情,生活因为阅读而变得丰富和难以预料。故选C。
核心考点
试题【When I was fourteen, I earned money in the summer by cutting lawns (草坪), and wit】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Mitchell bought himself a home in Colorado,a plane and a bar.Later he teamed upwith two friends and co-founded a wood burning stove company that grew to be the second largest private employer in his state.Six months later he was piloting the plane.Then four years after the motorcycle accident,the plane Mitchell was piloting crashed back onto the runway during takeoff, permanently paralyzing(使…瘫痪)him from the waist down.
Still determined,Mitchell worked day and night to regain as much independence as possible.He was elected Mayor of Crested Butte,Colorado, to save the town from mineral mining that would ruin its beauty and environment.
Despite his shocking looks and physical challenges, Mitchell began white water rafting(漂流),fell in love and married, earned a master’s degree in public administration and continued flying,environmental activism and public speaking.
Mitchell’s unshakable positive mental attitude has earned him appearances on the “Today Show’’and “Good Moming America” as well as feature articles in Parade, Time, The New York Times and other publications.
Mitchell has done all these things and more afar two horrible accidents left his face beyond recognition,his hands flngerless and his legs thin:and motionless(不动)in a wheelchair.Then what can"t we healthy guys achieve?
小题1:What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A.Mitchell couldn’t face the fact that he was defeated. |
B.The operations Mitchell received made him hopeless. |
C.Mitchell was optimistic about what happened to him. |
D.Mitchell was in his spaceship when the accident occurred. |
A.He learned to pilot a plane. |
B.He was employed by a company. |
C.He began to drive a spaceship. |
D.He made another two new friends. |
A.His body under the waistcouldn’t move. |
B.He was elected mayor of Crested Butte. |
C.He became the hero of many publications. |
D.More than half of his body was burned. |
A.stopped flying,environmental protection and public speaking. |
B.co-founded a wood burning stove company with his friends. |
C.stopped to open mineral mining in Crested Butte. |
D.earned a master’s degree in public administration. |
A.His shocking looks. | B.His strong determination. |
C.His physical challenges. | D.His outstanding speaking talent. |
Dad’s also always been very . At 15, I started a magazine. It was a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a :stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.
I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision, any good father would. When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad me to go into law. And I’ve __regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist, _ I didn’t pursue my .You know what you want. Go fulfill it.”
As turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national for young people in the U.K.My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad me.
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Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Mary horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Mary’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue taken from unburned areas of Mary’s body, doctors performed complex skin transplants to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Mary underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.
When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”
Today, aged 17, Mary can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.
She is a member of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Mary will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridgeshire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Mary loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”
小题1:What did other children do when Mary first went to school?
A.They were friendly to her. |
B.They showed sympathy to her. |
C.They looked down upon her. |
D.They were afraid of her. |
A.Courageous | B.sensitive | C.Confident | D.Outgoing |
A.A seriously burned angel of Hope |
B.Ways to Get Rid of Unkind Stares |
C.Permanent Scars And Pain For a Girl |
D.A Seriously Burned Girl Survives |
Lenny had always thought of himself as a person. He got worried before examinations. He worried about his job and health. All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy. , on January 15th, 2002, a plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington. Lenny went to the river to see what was happening. He saw a woman in the water. Lenny did not feel afraid. He kept very and did a very dangerous thing. He jumped into the river, to the woman, and kept her head the water. Seventy-eight people died that day. Thanks to Lenny, it was not .
When you are in a very situation and feel afraid, the body automatically produces a chemical in the blood. The chemical is called adrenalin (肾上腺素). adrenalin in the blood system, you actually feel stronger and stronger and are to fight or run away. However, when you are absolutely terrified (or completely afraid), the body can produce too much adrenalin. When this , the muscles become very hard and you find you go at all. You are then paralyzed (使无能为力) with fear. This is when we are very frightened, we sometimes say we’re “petrified”. This word comes from the Greek word “petros”, which means “stone”. We are frightened that we become stonelike.
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As they sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything and she felt uncomfortable. Suddenly, he asked the waiter, “Could you please give me some salt? I"d like to put it in my coffee."
They stared at him. He turned red, but when the salt came, he put it in his coffee and drank. Curious, she asked, "Why salt with coffee?" He explained, "When I was a little boy, I lived near the sea. I liked playing on the sea.I could feel it salty, like salty coffee. Now every time I drink it, I think of my childhood and my hometown. I miss it and my parents, who are still there."
She was deeply moved. A man who can admit that he"s homesick must love his home and care about his family. He must be responsible. She talked too, about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was the start to their love story.
They continued to date. She found that he met all her requirements. He was tolerant, kind, warm and careful. And to think she would have missed the catch if not for the salty coffee! So they married and lived happily together. And every time she made coffee for him, she put in some salt, the way he liked it.
After 40 years, he passed away and left her a letter which said:
My dearest, please forgive my life-long lie. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous that I asked for salt instead of sugar. It was hard for me to ask for a change, so I just went ahead. I never thought that we would hit it off. Many times, I tried to tell you the truth, but I was afraid that it would ruin everything.
Sweetheart, I don"t exactly like salty coffee. But as it mattered so much to you, I"ve learnt to enjoy it. Having you with me was my greatest happiness. If I could live a second time, I hope we can be together again, even if it means that I have to drink salty coffee for the rest of my life.
小题1:Why the man asked for some salt?
A.Because he missed his hometown and his family. |
B.Because he want to catch the attention of the lady. |
C.Because he was nervous. |
D.Because he liked the taste of salty coffee. |
A.The man liked to drink a cup of salty coffee. |
B.The man was good at making a lie. |
C.The man missed his family very much. |
D.The man loved the lady very much. |
A.a life-long lie | B.salty coffee |
C.a mistake for love | D.a homesick man |
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