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As a young woman, my mother had worked in the kitchen of a large Victorian farmhouse owned by Fannie Cratty. During those years my mother helped Aunt Fannie make the best blueberry jam ever tasted by anyone in Glenfield. Aunt Fannie was well known for her jam and for never sharing the recipe with another living soul. Even though my mother knew the recipe by heart, as long as Aunt Fannie was alive (and she lived to be ninety-six!), she never made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and preserve the secret.
Each August, when blueberry season would roll around, my mother would prepare me for Aunt Fannie’s visit. It was vital that I should be on my best behavior. After all, the woman was old, wealthy, very strict with children. Whenever she was at the house, I didn’t need to be reminded to guard my thoughts and watch my tongue.
One year, after I had been particularly helpful with the jam process, Aunt Fannie gave me a quarter(25分硬币) and then made me promise that I would never spend it. “Hold onto this quarter,” she said, “and someday you will be rich. I still have my very first quarter, given to me by my grandfather.” It had obviously worked for her. So, I kept the 1938-quarter into a small box, put it in my dresser drawer, and waited to become rich.
I now have the blueberry jam recipe and the quarter from Aunt Fannie. In people’s eye Aunt Fannie’s success was due to that secret recipe. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Neither has significantly contributed to my wealth, but I keep them as reminders to hold onto the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the memories of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a fortune that anyone can build.
小题1:Paragraph 2 implies that my mother .
A.used to forget the secret blueberry jam recipe |
B.wanted to show off her excellent cooking skills |
C.was unable to make the jam without Aunt Fannie’s direction |
D.tried to convince Aunt Fannie that she would keep the secret |
A.she had kept her first quarter |
B.she had never wasted money |
C.she had worked very hard |
D.she had kept her promise |
A.share our wealth with others |
B.have good fortune and money |
C.know the secret of a jam recipe |
D.own lasting love and friendship |
A.An old quarter | B.Valuable Things |
C.Blueberry Jam Recipe | D.Memories of old time |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:C
解析
试题分析:
Fannie Cratty有一秘不示人的果酱配方。大家都认为Fannie因该配方而富有。后来该配方到了作者手中,但是作者并未因此而致富。作者将配方看作是一种纪念,时刻提醒自己生活中真正的财富是与家人和朋友之间的关系以及与他们一起度过的时光。
小题1:从第二段Even though my mother knew the recipe by heart, as long as Aunt Fannie was alive, she never made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and preserve the secret.一句可知,虽然作者母亲对配方烂熟于心,但是Fnnie不在场指导,她绝不做果酱,也不向外人泄露该配方。作者母亲这么做的目的就是为了让Fnnie相信她不会泄密。故选择D项。
小题2:由第四段It had obviously worked for her 一句可知,作者相信Fannie爷爷给她的硬币确实管用,并且作者还虔诚地保存好Fannie送给她的硬币。故选择A项。
小题3:由最后一段but it is the relationships and the memories of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy 一句可知,作者认为与家人及朋友之间的关系以及一起相处的美好时光才真正让你富有。故选择D项。
小题4:配方贯穿全文,是全文的主线。故选择C项。
核心考点
试题【Fannie Cratty wasn’t really my aunt. I only referred to her as “My Aunt Fannie” 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
During the period, Robinson devoted herself to writing nonfiction. Her essays and book reviews appeared in Harper’s and The New York Times Book Review, and in 1989 she published Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution, criticizing severely the environmental and public health dangers caused by the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in England—and the political and moral corruption(腐败). In 1998, Robinson published a collection of her critical and theological writings, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, which featured reassessments of such figures as Charles Darwin, John Calvin, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Aside from a single short story—“Connie Bronson,” published in The Paris Review in 1986—it wasn’t until 2004 that she returned to fiction with the novel Gilead, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, Home, came out this fall.
Her novels could be described as celebrations of the human—the characters in them are unforgettable creations. Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her sister Lucille, who are cared for by their eccentric(古怪的)Aunt Sylvie after their mother commits suicide. Robinson writes a lot about how each of the three is changed by their new life together. Gilead is an even more close exploration of personality: the book centres on John Ames, a seventy-seven-year-old pastor(牧师) who is writing an account of his life and his family history to leave to his young son after he dies. Home borrows characters from Gilead but centers on Ames’s friend Reverend Robert Boughton and his troubled son Jack. Robinson returned to the same territory as Gilead because, she said, “after I write a novel or a story, I miss the characters—I feel like losing some close friends.”
小题1:Robinson’s second novel came out ____.
A.in 1980 | B.in 1986 | C.in 1998 | D.in 2004 |
A.Robinson’s achievements in fiction. |
B.Robinson’s achievements in nonfiction. |
C.Robinson’s influence on the literary world. |
D.Robinson’s contributions to the environment. |
A.He is Robinson’s close friend. |
B.He is a character in Gilead. |
C.He is a figure in The Death of Adam. |
D.He is a historian writing family stories. |
A.Career. | B.Lifestyle. | C.Music. | D.Culture. |
In 1991,I had spent five months in Viger(尼日尔),a hot African country. There were many things I found about this place—the climate and beggars who shouted “Cadeau! Cadeau!” It means gift.
One was a lot worse.One day,a friend and I headed for neighboring Burkina Faso to work in a health clinic.However,a motorbike with two men slowly.Without warning,one of the men my backpack as the motorbike swept close by.The bag had my passport,money,an airline ticket and other things precious to me.I was in deep .In the weeks that followed I looked at all with suspicion.
All I wanted was to leave this place.One day,I was stopped by an old woman “Cadeau!” she cried. I’d had enough! I was sick and tired of the country.I told her firmly,“A thief stole all my money and now I can’t get off your country.” The beggar woman listened carefully and my words.
“Then I will give you a cadeau,” she announced.Kindly,she placed an old brown coin in my palm. I looked at it .Living in poverty,she gave me something priceless! I saw then the beauty of the people of Burkina Faso and deeply the quiet dignity of the small coin;she turned my perceptions upside down.
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“We love each other,”said Schwartz who turned 70 on Saturday. “she’ll come up to me and she’ll kiss me right on the lips,1ike a man kisses a woman’’
For four days last week,Schwartz’ life turned as rocky as the rough logging road that connected her life to the outside world. Conservation officers had arrived with orders to 1oose Bimbo. Schwartz was to1d she wasn’t allowed to touch Bimbo any more It seemed somebody had complained,said Environment Minister Terry Lake earlier in the week, noting it’s illegal to keep wild animals as pets.
During those tense days,sleepless nights were made even more restless by nightmares,said Schwartz. There were news stories and Facebook pages which supported Schwartz and by Friday,the government had changed its mind. Schwartz could keep her pet with the help of a veterinarian and conservation officers.
“It makes me feel good,”said Schwartz of the announcement.“She is my life.and I’ve had her since the day she’s been born.”
The relationship began when a friend found the orphaned fawn (幼鹿) along a nearby logging road,more than a kilometer away from her current home,said Schwartz. The friend brought the fawn over because she knew Schwartz had raised a deer before.
Schwartz named the fawn Bimbo,based on a Gene Autry song that was playing inside her home at the time,and began feeding the animal goat’s milk.
Days turned into months and years, and now Bimbo’s a part of the family.
小题1:According to Paragraph 1 , Janet Schwartz’s life is returning to normal because______.
A.no one disturbs her life again |
B.she can continue to keep the deer |
C.she has married again |
D.Bimbo has returned to the forest |
A.It was the only companion in her house |
B.She wanted to study the lifestyle of the deer. |
C.The deer had become part of her life. |
D.She had a veterinarian to help her. |
A.the deer was not properly taken care of |
B.the deer brought harm to the neighborhood |
C.it was against the law to keep the deer as a pet |
D.the deer made too much noise |
A.Schwartz’s love for the deer. |
B.The threat to the deer in the wild. |
C.The change of the law. |
D.The influence from the press and the Web. |
A.Bimbo will continue to stay with Schwartz. |
B.Bimbo will be loosed to the wild. |
C.A professional worker will take over Bimbo. |
D.Bimbo will stay m a nearby Zoo. |
One day I was in a taxi and we headed the airport. We were driving in the lane when suddenly a black car drove out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his ,slide sideways,and at the very last moment our car stopped and the other car by just inches!The driver of the other car looked around and started at us.
My taxi driver just and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really . So I asked,"Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call “The Law of the Garbage Truck”. He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of , full of frustration,full of anger,and full of disappointment. As their garbage up,they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on .Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave,wish them well,and move on.
Believe me. You’ll be .Don’t take their garbage and it to other people at work,at home,or on the streets. Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with .The mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what’s in your life. Roy Baumeister,a psychology researcher from Florida State University,found in his extensive research that you bad things more often than good things in your life. You store the bad memories more easily, and you them more frequently.
So…Love the people who treat you right. Ignore the ones who don’t. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you it!
When you follow “The Law of the Garbage Truck”,you take back control of your life. You make room for the good by go of the bad. Have a Garbage-Free Day!Have a marvelous,garbage-free day!The seeds you plant today the harvest you reap tomorrow.
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“Isn’t your doll just beautiful?” my mother asked. I looked at the doll, with fair hair in a pink dress----I’ll have to call her “she” because I never gave her a name. I folded my lips and raised my eyebrows, not really knowing how to let my mother down easily.
“This doll is different.” My mother explained, trying to talk me into playing with it.
Thinking the doll needed love, I hugged her tightly for a long time. Useless, I said to myself. Finally, I decided to play with the doll’s house. But since rearranging the tiny furniture seemed to be the only active possible, I lost interest. I caught sight again of the third of my gifts The Arabian Nights, and I began to read it. From that moment, the book was my constant companion.
Every day I climbed our garden tree, nestled among its branches, I read the stories in The Arabian Nights to my heart’s content. My mother became concerned as she noticed I wasn’t playing with either the doll or the little house. She insisted that I take the doll up the tree with me.
Trying to read on a branch 15 feet off the ground while holding on to the silly doll was not easy. After nearly falling off twice, I tied one end of a long vine around the doll’s neck and the opposite one around the branch, letting the doll hang in mid air while I read. I always looked out for my mother, though. I sensed that my playing with the doll was of great importance to her. So every time I heard her coming, I lifted the doll up and hugged her. The smile in my mother’s eyes told me my plan worked.
The inevitable(不可避免的) happened one afternoon. Totally absorbed in the reading, I didn’t hear my mother calling me. When I looked down, I saw my mother staring at the hanging doll. Fearing the worst of scolding, I climbed down in a flash, reaching the ground just as my mother was untying the doll. To my surprise, she didn’t scold. She kept on staring at the doll.
The next day, my father came home early and suggested he and I play with the doll’s house. Soon I was bored, but my father seemed to be having so much fun, I didn’t have the heart to tell him. Quietly I slipped out, picking up my book on my way to the yard. So absorbed was he in arranging and rearranging the tiny furniture that he didn’t notice my quick exit.
Almost 20 years passed before I found out why the hanging-doll incident had been so significant for my parents. By then I was a parent myself. After recalling the incident, my mother said all those years she had been afraid whether I would turn out to be a most loving and understanding mother to my son.
My mother often thanks God aloud for making me a good parent, pointing out that with education I might have been a rich dentist instead of a poor poet. I look back on that same childhood incident, recalling my third gift, the book in red-paper, and I take advantage of the experiences that have made me who and what I am. Sometimes I pause to wonder at life’s wonderful ironies (讽刺).
小题1:Why didn’t the author give the doll a name?
A.Because the gift was given by her parents. |
B.Because the girl didn’t care much for the doll. |
C.Because her parents would give the doll a name. |
D.Because the doll had little in common with her. |
A.hoped to shape their children’s future |
B.were unconcerned about their behavior |
C.ruined their children’s dreams completely |
D.might withdraw their love at any moment |
A.The mother is now satisfied with her daughter’s career. |
B.The daughter now regrets what she did when she was a girl. |
C.The mother thinks the daughter’s achievements are unsatisfactory. |
D.The daughter wishes that she had been allowed more freedom as a child. |
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