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things, floats on the surface of the water, and we share deeper connections than that. That is why she
fascinates me-why I spend my off-duty time sitting beside her.
Today is difficult. The ward (病房) is full of patients and I am kept busy emptying bed-pans, filling
out forms, changing dressings. Finally, late in the afternoon, I get a few moments to make coffee, to take
it over to the orange plastic chair beside her bed. I am thankful to be off my feet, glad to be in her
company once again.
"Hello, Jasmine," I say, as if greeting myself.
She does not reply. Jasmine never replies. She is down too deep.
She has been sea-damaged. I too am the daughter of a fisherman, so I choose my words like
fish-hooks, cast them into her ears, imagine them sinking down through cold, dark water. Down to
wherever she may be.
"I have little time today," I tell her, touching her hair.
With Jasmine, it is always difficult not to touch. She is that rare thing, a truly beautiful woman.
Because of this, people invent reasons to walk by. I catch them looking, drinking her in, feeding on her.
They are barracuda (梭鱼), all of them.
Great beauty is something Jasmine and I do not share. I am glad of it.
"Your father may be here soon," I say. "Last week he said he would come."
Jasmine says nothing. Her left eyelid flickers, perhaps.
It is two months since the incident on her father"s fishing boat, since she fell overboard, sank, became
entangled in the nets. It was some time before anyone noticed, then there was panic. Her father hauled
her back on board and sailed for home. When he finally arrived, he carried ashore what he thought was
his daughter"s body.
"Jasmine," I whisper. I want her to take our baited (用作诱醒的) name. I want her to swallow it.
Fortunately, there was a doctor in the village that morning, a young man visiting relatives. It was he
who brought this drowned woman back from the brink, he who told me her story. She opened her eyes,
he said, looked up at her father and spoke a single word-then sank again, this time into coma.
Barracuda. That is what Jasmine said.
When her father visits, he touches her hair, kisses her cheek, sits in the orange plastic chair at the
side of her bed and holds her hand. Like my own father, he has the big, brown, life-roughened hands
of a fisherman. He too smells of the sea, and pretends he is a good, simple man.
Jasmine. We share so much, we are almost one.
I remember early mornings, my hair touched to wake me, my father lifting me half-asleep from my
bed, carrying me, dropping me into his boat. His voice rough in my ear, his hands rough on my skin. I
never wanted to go, but I was just a child. He did as he wished.
I remember salt water, hot sun, my mother shrinking on the shore. I remember the rocking of the
boat, the screams of the seagulls.
"Jasmine, you have a life inside you. Can"t you hear it calling?"
Nothing.
The ward door bangs, and I see Jasmine"s father walking towards us, carrying flowers. He smiles
at me. Even in death, my own child had my father"s smile, and Jasmine"s will have this man"s. I know it.
He stops by her bed and touches her hair. Something stirs deep inside me. I watch Jasmine"s eyelids,
waiting for her to bite.
B. Jasmine looks very fascinating.
C. They have much in common.
D. Jasmine"s father is very pitiful.
B. is a good and simple man in the author"s eyes
C. took his daughter out to the sea against her will
D. thought his daughter dead when back to the shore
B. She is nearly dying.
C. She is completely deaf.
D. She is in a bad mood.
B. Jasmine was pulled out of water without delay
C. the author spends her duty time attending Jasmine
D. it was a young doctor who happened to save Jasmine
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试题【阅读理解。 The silent young woman in bed number six is called Jasmine. So am I, b】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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My wife called, "How long will you be with that 1 ? Will you come here and make your darling
daughter eat her food?" I threw the paper away and 2 to the place. My daughter, Sindu, sat there,
tears welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a big bowl of rice.
I 3 the bowl and persuaded: "Sindu, why not take a few mouthfuls of this rice?"
"Ok, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls, 4 the whole lot of this. But…" Sindu hesitated.
"Dad, if I eat this entire rice, will you give me 5 I ask for?"
"Promise." I 6 .
After eating the rice painfully, Sindu came to me, her eyes wide with 7 . Now I became a bit 8 .
"Dear, you shouldn"t insist on 9 a computer or any such 10 things. Dad does not have that kind of
money right now." 11 , "I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉), this Sunday!" was her demand
(要求), which was far 12 my belief.
On Monday morning, I 13 Sindu at her school and watched her walking towards her classroom.
She turned around and 14 . I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy, who just got out of a car,
shouted, "Sindu, please wait for me!" What 15 me was the hairless head of that boy.
"Sir, your daughter is 16 indeed!" Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, "That boy is my son, who lost all his 17 because of a disease. He 18 to come back to school
fearing the unintentional(无意的)but 19 teasing(取笑)of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week,
and promised him that she would take care of the teasing issue. But, I 20 imagined she would sacrifice
her lovely hair for my son!"
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| Robby was 11 when his mother dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I prefer students to begin at an earlier age. Robby said that it had always been his mother"s dream to hear him play the piano, so I took him on as a student. Robby tried and tried while I listened and encouraged him and gave him more instructions. But he just did not have any inborn ability. I only saw his mother from a distance. She always waved and smiled but never came in. Then one day Robby stopped coming to our lessons. I thought about calling him but I guessed he had decided to try something else. I was also glad that he stopped coming for the sake of my career. However, several weeks before the recital (演奏会) of my students, Robby came,telling me that he never stopped practicing and begged me to allow him to take part in it. I agreed, but I made him perform last in the program, so I could save his poor performance through my "curtain closer". I was surprised when he announced that he had chosen one piece of Mozart"s. However, never had I heard a piece of Mozart"s played so well by someone at his age. I ran up and put my arms around Robby in joy. "I"ve never heard you play like that, Robby! How could you do it?" "Well, Miss Hondorf. Do you remember I told you my mom was sick? Actually she died this morning. She was born deaf, so tonight was the first time she could hear me play. I wanted to make it special. I knew I could." | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Why might Robby have stopped coming to piano lessons suddenly? | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. He lost heart and believed that he would never make it. B. His mother might have been seriously ill. C. He thought that his teacher disliked him. D. His mother died and he didn"t need to play any longer. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2. We can know from the passage that _________. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. the writer thought students shouldn"t begin playing the piano too early B. the writer thought that Robby had given up his piano lessons C. only by practicing at home did Robby learn to play well D. no one else could play the piece of Mozart"s as well as Robby | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3. From the underlined sentence, we can infer that _________. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. the writer looked down upon Robby and disliked him B. the writer thought Robby was a bad advertisement for her teaching C. with Robby in the recital, the other children couldn"t play well D. the writer couldn"t teach so many students at a time | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4. The writer made Robby perform last because _________. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. the one who performs last always performs very well B. Robby asked the writer to do so C. she wanted to do something to save a poor performance D. Robby thought his mother would come at last | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Mama"s voice floated through the apartment as she sang a Mexican folk song that I had heard all my life. "Hola," she greeted me when she came out of the bedroom. "Please speak to me in 1 ," I interrupted. She paid no attention and 2 speaking in Spanish. The words _3_ me of my grandparents and birthday parties in Mexico, but I knew my mother"s life would be 4 if she learned to speak English. We had lived in the United States for three years, and she still had difficulty 5 to store owners and my teachers. I was determined that she should try. "Why won"t you speak English?" I 6 . "Don"t you want to be 7 to talk to people here?" "Isabel," she whispered. Mama always whispered when she was upset with me. "What?" I was not 8 with her, either. She 9 for the English words. "Come with me to the, uh - how do you say it? Meeting." "What kind of meeting? Where is it?" I 10 her, but now she refused to answer. In 11 , we drove across town to the college, where she pulled into a brightly lit parking lot. I was 12 . I had expected a meeting at someone"s 13 - a garden club or a parents" group. Then I 14 a sign on a door. My mother was 15 night classes to learn English! "I don"t understand. 16 you"re learning English, why won"t you speak English at home?" I asked. "You"ll learn faster if you 17 with me." "I speak English here," she said in her thick accent. She hesitated, putting the words together, and then went on, "I speak Spanish at home 18 you." I 19 understood - she spoke Spanish at home so that I wouldn"t forget the words, songs, and 20 of Mexico. I said, "O. K., Mama, estabien." | ||||||||||||||||||
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