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When David steps out of the front door he is blinded for a moment by the white, strong sunlight and reaches for his dad’s hand automatically. It’s the first really warm day of the year, an unexpected heat that bridges the gap between spring and summer. Father and son are on their way to the barbershop, something they have always done together.
Always, the routine is the same. “It’s about time we got that mop of yours cut,” David’s dad will say, pointing at him with two fingers, a cigarette caught between them. “Perhaps I should do it. Where are those scissors, Janet?” Sometimes his dad runs after him round the living room, pretending to cut off his ears. When he was young, David used to get too excited and start crying, scared that maybe he really would lose his ears, but he has long since grown out of that.
Mr Samuels’ barbershop is in a long room above the chip shop, reached by a steep and worn flight of stairs. David follows his father. He loves the barbershop — it’s like nowhere else he goes. It smells of cigarettes and men and hair oil. Sometimes the smell of chips will climb the stairs along with a customer and when the door opens the waiting men lift their noses together. Black and white photographs of men with various out-of-fashion hairstyles hang above a picture rail at the end of the room, where two barber’s chairs are fixed to the floor. They are heavy, old-fashioned chairs with foot pumps that screams as Mr Samuels adjusts the height of the seat. In front of the chairs are deep sinks with a showerhead and long metal pipe attached to the taps, not that anyone seems to use them. Behind the sinks are mirrors and on either side of these, shelves overflowing with all types of plastic combs, shaving mugs, scissors, cut throat razors, hair brushes and, 10 bright red bottles of Brylcreem(男士发油), piled neatly in a pyramid. At the back of the room sit the customers, silent for most of the time, except when Mr Samuels breaks off from cutting and smoke his cigarette, sending a stream of grey-blue smoke like the tail of kite twisting into the air.
When it is David’s turn for a cut, Mr Samuels places a wooden board covered with a piece of red leather across the arms of the chair, so that the barber doesn’t have to bend to cut the boy’s hair. David scrambles up onto the bench.
“Hey, young man, you’re shooting up, you won’t need this soon, you’ll be able to sit in the chair,” the barber says.
“Wow,” says David, turning round to look at his dad, forgetting that he can see him through the mirror. “Dad, Mr Samuels said I could be sitting in the chair soon, not just on the board!”
“So I hear,” his father replies, not looking up from the paper. “I expect Mr Samuels will start charging me more for your hair then.”
“At least double the price,” said Mr Samuels, winking at David.
Finally David’s dad looks up from his newspaper and glances into the mirror, seeing his son looking back at him. He smiles.
“Wasn’t so long ago when I had to lift you onto that board because you couldn’t climb up there yourself,” he says.
“They don’t stay young for long do they, kids”, Mr Samuels declares. All the men in the shop nod in agreement. David nods too.
In the mirror he sees a little head sticking out of a long nylon cape. Occasionally he steals glances at the barber as he works. He smells a mixture of smelly sweat and aftershave as the barber moves around him, combing and cutting, combing and cutting.
David feels like he is in another world, noiseless except for the sound of the barber’s shoes rubbing on the plastic carpet and the click of his scissors. In the reflection from the window he could see through the window, a few small clouds moved slowly through the frame, moving to the sound of the scissors’ click.
Sleepily, his eyes dropping to the front of the cape where his hair falls softly as snow and he imagines sitting in the chair just like the men and older boys, the special bench left leaning against the wall in the corner. He thinks about the picture book of Bible stories his aunt gave him for Christmas, the one of Samson having his hair cut by Delilah. David wonders if his strength will go like Samson’s.
When Mr Samuels has finished, David hops down from the seat, rubbing the itchy hair from his face. Looking down he sees his own thick, blonde hair mixed among the browns, greys and blacks of the men who have sat in the chair before him. For a moment he wants to reach down and gather up the broken blonde hair, to separate them from the others, but he does not have time.
They reach the pavement outside the shop. “I tell you what, boy, let’s get some fish and chips to take home, save your mum from cooking tea,” says David’s dad and turns up the street.
The youngster is excited and catches his dad’s hand. The thick-skinned fingers close gently around his and David is surprised to find, warming in his father’s palm, a handful of his own hair.
小题1:How old is David most probably age according to the context?
A.2 | B.4 | C.10 | D.17 |
A.Because David is not familiar with this place and tries to remember it. |
B.Because David develops great friendfish with the shop owner. |
C.Because the barbershop is a place that attracts him greatly. |
D.Because the barbershop is very traditional and David can see one nowhere else. |
A.showing his proudness of his son’s growth |
B.complaining about the price of the haircut |
C.expressing his thanks to the shopowner’s kindness |
D.counting his expense on his son’s haircut |
A.looks down upon those old, grey-haired men |
B.feels extremely excited about becoming a bigger boy |
C.thinks blond hair is much more precious than other color |
D.is quite curious about his broken blonde hair |
A.Dad runs after his son round the living room. |
B.Dad buys his son some fish and chips. |
C.Dad sees his son through the mirror. |
D.Dad holds some of his son’s hair in his palm. |
A.serious | B.light-hearted | C.critical | D.persuasive |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:D
小题6:B
解析
试题分析:作者写的这篇故事是说了男孩和父亲去剪头发的故事,表达了人与人间的美好关系和成长的喜悦,整篇的基调积极明快。
小题1:C 推理题“由Dad, Mr Samuels said I could be sitting in the chair soon, not just on the board!可以得知男孩的年龄较小,但已接近少年时期,所以是10岁左右。选择C
小题2:C 推断题。文章第三段着重描写了男孩眼中的理发店,给出一些有趣而吸引人的细节。从这段描写的语调来看,男孩自己也认为理发店十分有趣,他被理发店吸引着。所以选C
小题3:A 推断题。首先B和D被排除,因为父亲应该是在表达积极的感情。而父亲的话里没有提到对于理发师的感谢,kindness也没有在文中体现出来,所以选A。
小题4:B 推断题。根据but he does not have time可以知道这句话表达的不是字面意思,而是从男孩激动的反应体现出他内心对于成长的喜悦。所以选B
小题5:D 推理题:比较各选项的内容,ABC都是十分外在的感情表现,而将头发放在手里更能体现深层的爱,所以选D
小题6:B 大意题。作者写的这篇故事是说了男孩和父亲去剪头发的故事,表达了人与人间的美好关系和成长的喜悦,整篇的基调积极明快,所以作者的语调是light-hearted,选D
核心考点
试题【David’s HaircutWhen David steps out of the front door he is blinded for a moment】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
With his heart full of , the man ran to the crossroads only to three rather uninteresting shops. One shop was selling pieces of metal, another sold , and thin wires were for sale in the third. Nothing and no one there seemed to much to do with the revelation of truth.
Depressed and , the seeker returned to the well to demand an , but he was told only: “You will discover in the future.” With years by, the memory of his experience at the well gradually until one night. While he was walking, the sound of sitar (西塔琴) music his attention. It was wonderful and it wasplayed with great skill and .
and moved deeply, the truth seeker felt drawn towards the . He looked at the fingers dancing over the strings. And then suddenly he let out a cry of joyful : the sitar was made out of wires and pieces of metal and wood just like he had once seen in the three stores.
Eventually he understood the of the well: we have already been given everything we need; our is to gather and use them in the proper way. Nothing is so long as we recognize only fragments (碎片). But as soon as the pieces are put together, something new appears, whose nature we could not have by considering the fragments alone.
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For the next week, every time I was in the ____, I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept _____. Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and ____ 12 frozen peas hidden underneath.
At the time I found those few remaining ____, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful ____ I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded ____ those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my ____ had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble___ his new surroundings and the ____ of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.
When life gets you ____, when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never ____, remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be ___, and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas ___, including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them ___, you’ll start to feel whole again.
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to ____, and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, __will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?
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I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I’m so sorry!” was my . Then he said, “Excuse me too ... I didn’t even you.” We were very , the stranger and I. Then we went on our ways after saying .
But at home, a different is told. How we treat our ones, the young and the old. Later, in the kitchen, as I cooked our supper, my entered, very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked her down. “Get out of the way!” I at her. She left, with her little heart broken. I didn’t how hard I’d spoken.
That , as I lay awake in bed, God’s quiet voice to me and said, “While with strangers, you are polite, with those you love, you didn’t do it properly. Go and look right now on the floor, you’ll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she __ for you. She picked them herself—pink, yellow and blue.”
By this time, I felt and small and now my own fell. I quietly went to her bed, “ up, my dear daughter.” I said. “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “I found them on the tree. I knew you’d like them, the blue.” I said, “I’m so __ that I missed them today ... And I shouldn’t have shouted at you that way.” She whispered(低声说), “Mommy, that’s okay. I still you anyway.” I hugged her and said, “I love you too and love your flowers, especially the blue.”
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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 approached 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 Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quickly brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected 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. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
小题1:How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?
A.5 | B.6 | C.7 | D.8 |
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 |
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 |
A.Zelda’s personal life |
B.Zelda’s illness and treatment |
C.Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham |
D.Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world |
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are , one by one. "There is my grandmother"s house," I say, across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯) memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children, from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of , and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors for 200 years.
We soon by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the where I was once so gloriously a child. It still a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk the rooms in memory. Here, my mother in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I ; where I belong. "
She has her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the of "I". We must all go home again—in reality or memory.
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