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阅读理解 ：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项
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It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work. On arrival, he parked his bike outside the back door as he usually does. After putting in 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone.
The bike, a black Kona 18 speed, was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, putting in 60-hour weeks to support his young family. And the bike was also used to get groceries(食品杂货)，saving us from having to walk long distances from where we live.
I was so sad that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, then called my husband to pick it up. Once again my husband had a way to get to and from his job. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before. People say that a smile can be passed from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it strengthened our faith in humanity(人性) as a whole. And it has influenced us to be more mindful of ways we, too, can share with others. No matter how big or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares. And the results can be everlasting. 1. Why was the bike so important to the couple?
A. The man’s job was bike racing. B. It was their only possession. C. It was a nice Kona 18 speed. D. They used it for work and daily life. 2. We can infer from the text that _______
A. the couple worked 60 hours a week. B. people were busy before Christmas
C. the stranger brought over the bike D. life was hard for the young family. 3. How did people get to know the couple’s problem?
A. From radio broadcasts. B. From a newspaper. C. From TV news. D. From a stranger. 4. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The author’s husband often parked the bike beside the back door. B. The author used to get to work by bike.
C. Several strangers offered bikes to them, but they only accepted one of them. D. Somebody had stolen their bike before, but soon returned it to the author. 5. What do the couple learn from their experience?
A. Strangers are usually of little help. B. One should take care of their bike. C. News reports make people famous. D. An act of kindness can mean a lot.
B
I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a “complicated idea” until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)
There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the “hundred most important
books of Western Civilization.” “More than anything else in my life,” the professor told the reporter with finality , “these books have made me all that I am.” That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list
6. On heating the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought _______.
A. one must read as many books as possible B. a student should not have a complicated idea C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read 7. While at high school, the writer _______.
A. had plans for reading
B. learned to educate himself D. read only one book several times
C. only read books over 100 pages
8. The underlined phrase “with finality” probably means _______.
A. firmly
B. clearly
C. proudly D. pleasantly
9. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _______.
A. explain why it was included in the list B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list
C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word 10. The writer provides two book lists to _______.
A. show how he developed his point of view
B. tell his reading experience at high school C. introduce the two persons' reading methods D. explain that he read many books at high school
C
A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high rains, smelly and dirty.
Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?” she asked. I said I was, “No charge.” She said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage(抵押贷款) on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We’d began to accept that we’d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for state, the online magazine and wanted to give us (“no conditions attached”) a new house across the lake from New Orleans. It sounded a good to her return, but I replied, thinking him for his exceptional generosity, then we to go back. Then the University of Florida offered to let him house to me. While he want to England on his one year, paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kemdedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.
Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It’s almost worth losing you wordy possessions to be reminded that people really when given had a channel.
11. The garage employee’s attitude toward the author was that of .
A. unconcern
B. sympathy C. doubt D. tolerance
12. What do we know about James Kemnedy?
A. He was a written of an online magazine B. He was a poet at the University of Florida C. He offered the author a new house free of charge. D. He learned about the author’s sufferings. 13. It can be inferred from the text that .
A. the author’s family was in financial difficulty
B. rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster C. houses were difficult to find in the hurricane stricken area D. the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank 14. The author learned from his experience that .
A. wordy possessions can be given up when necessary B. generosity should be encouraged in some cases C. people benefit from their sad stories D. human beings are kind after all. 15. Which would be the best title for the text?
A. Terrible Hurricane Katrina.
B. Hurricane Is Heartless While Strangers Are Kind. C. Study in Florida.
D. The Importance of Helping Others. 答案及解析
圣诞节前一天，作者丈夫下班时发现丢失了家里唯一的代步工具——自行车，这给这个年轻而并不富裕的家庭带来诸多不便。作者将此情况反映给一家报社后，得到了许多素不相识的人们的帮助，作者认为人与人之间的这种相互帮助，具有深远的社会意义，值得永久怀念 1. D 推理判断题。从文章的第二段可以看出这辆自行车对作者全家人的重要性。
高考英语阅读理解专题训练五
