第十四组(建议用时:25分钟)阅读理解A
John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose.
His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin.The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner抯 name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and
effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her tto correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War Ⅱ.
During the next year and one month the two grew to know each other through the mail.Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like.
When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting—7:00 p.m. at the Grand Central Station in New York. “You’ll recognize me“by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel.” So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. Her blonde hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears; her eyes were blue as flowers. Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like springtime come alive. I started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose. As I moved, a small, attractive smile curved her lips.揋oing my way, sailor !” she murmured.the girl. A woman well past 40, she had graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump, her thickankled feet thrust into low環eeled shoes.The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away. I felt as though I was split in two, so keen was emy desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own.
And there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible, her gray eyes had a
warm and kindly twinkle. I did not hesitate. My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was to identify me to her.
This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even better
than love, a friendship for which I had been and must ever be grateful. I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the woman,even though while I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment. “I’m Lieutenant(中尉) John Blanchard, could meet me; may I take you to dinner?”she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that
she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”ue nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive, “Tell me whom you love,” Houssaye wrote,“and
I will tell you who you are.”
1.How did John Blanchard get to know Miss Hollis Maynell?
A.They lived in the same city.
B.They were both interested in literature.
C.John came across Hollis in a Florida library.
D.John knew Hollis’s name from a library book.
2.Hollis refused to send Blanchard a photo because
________.
A.she thought true love is beyond appearance
B.she wasn’t confident about her appearance
C.she was only a middleaged woman
D.she had never taken any photo before they knew
3.How could Blanchard recognize Hollis?
A.She would be holding a book in her hand.
B.She would be wearing a rose on her coat.
C.She would be standing behind a young girl.
D.She would be wearing a scarf around her neck.
4.What was the real Miss Hollis Maynell like?
A.She was a plump woman with graying hair.
B.She was a slightly fat girl, with blonde hair.
C.She was a young, pretty girl wearing a green suit.
D.She was a middleaged woman in her forties.
5.When Blanchard went over to greet the woman, he was ________.disappointed but wellbehaved
B.satisfied and confident
C.annoyed and badmannered
D.shocked but inspired
6.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A.Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
B.The Symbol of Rose
C.Love Is Blind
D.A Test of Love
B
It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for 揝ix days shall you labor and do all your
work?was taken seriously back then.Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick nt ext door were busy chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning.
Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for more string(线). It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today. window. “Come on, girls! Let’s take string to the boys and watch them fly the kites a minute.”
On the way we met Mrs. Patrick, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong,together with her girls.
There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the boys’ kites and they went up higher and higher. We could hardly distinguish the orangecolored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.
Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we_were_all_beside_ourselves.Parents forgot their duty and their dignity;children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies(嫉妒).“Perhaps it’s like this in the kingdom of heavensome sort of supper. I suppose there must have been surface tidyingup, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough.The strange thing was, we didn抰 mention that day afterward.I felt a little embarrassed. Surely none of the others had been ase excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep “the things that cannot be and yet they are”. while my threeyearold
girl insistently cried her desire to “go park, see duck”.
“I can’t go!” I said. “I have this and this to do, eas she was shelling. “It’s a wonderful day,”she offered,“really warm, yet there’s a fine breeze.Do you remember that day we flew kites?”“Come on,” I told my little girl, “You’re right, it’s too good a day to miss.”
Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath(余波) of a great war. All evening we had been asking our returned soldier, ences as a prisoner of war.He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent. What was he thinking of—what dark and horrible things?
“Say!” A smile slipped out from his lips. “Do you remember—no,
make the impression on you as it did on me.”
I hardly dared speak.“Remember what?”(战俘营), ?”ick was laughing guiltily when she was with her girls on the way?
A.She felt she was too old to fly kites with the girls.
B.She was afraid her husband would make fun of her.
C.She thought she should have been doing housework then.
D.She was worried she couldn’t fly kites as well as her children.
8.By “we were all beside ourselves”, the writer meant that ________.D.couldn’t control themselves________.s
D.her parents shouldn’t have gone with them
10.The writer finally agreed to take her little girl out for a sightseeing due to the fact that ________.y young
B.she thought it was not right for a mother to be too hard on her child
C.it would be a pity not to let her little girl out on such a great day
D.she was reminded of the day when they flew kites happily
11.The writer mentioned their returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy to show that ________.er sweet memories
D.the experience in POW camp had changed him a lot
阅读理解
A
1.解析:选D。细节理解题。根据第二段中的“In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner’s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and
effort he located her address.”可知,他是通过留在书上的名字认识Hollis Maynell小姐的。故选D。
2.解析:选A。细节理解题。根据第三段最后两句“Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like.”可知,她认为真爱不在乎外貌,所以不给Blanchard寄照片。故选A。
3.解析:选B。细节理解题。根据第四段中的“‘You’ll recognize me,’she wrote,‘by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel.’”可知,为了让Blanchard认出自己,Hollis会在衣服上别一枝玫瑰。故选B。
4.解析:选C。细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中的“but the young lady in the green suit who just went by, she begged me to wear this
rose on my coat.”可知,Miss Hollis Maynell就是他刚才所看见的那位美丽的穿绿色衣服的女子。故选C。
5.解析:选A。推理判断题。根据倒数第三段中的“I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the woman, even though while I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment.”可知,他挺胸站立,敬了个礼,说明他很有礼貌;但在他开口说话的时候,失望的痛苦几乎使他哽咽,由此可推知,他有点失望。故选A。
6.解析:选D。标题概括题。本文是一篇记叙文。文章通过这个故事告诉我们,真爱能够经得起任何考验。由此可推知,本文最好的标题是D项,能够体现文章的主题。故选D。
B
7.解析:选C。推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句“...Mother and Mrs. Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning.”,并结合第四段“...Mrs. Patrick,laughing
guiltily as if she were doing something wrong,together with her girls.”可知,当时Mrs.Patrick本应该在家打扫卫生、做家务,而她却出来和孩子们放风筝,因此C项符合题意。故选C。
8.解析:选B。句意理解题。根据第六段第一、二句“Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls.”,并结合画线部分之后的内容可知,孩子们和父母们都参与到放风筝活动中,他们乐在其中,异常兴奋,因此B项符合题意。故选B。
9.解析:选A。推理判断题。根据第七段最后四句“The strange thing was,we didn’t mention that day afterward...I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me...”可知,奇怪的是,之后大家都没有提过他们一起放风筝这件事,所以作者只好把当时放风筝的美好时刻珍藏在记忆深处,由此可推知,在她看来,其他人一定忘记了那一天。故选A。
10.解析:选D。推理判断题。根据第十段最后一句“Do you remember that day we flew kites?”,并结合第十一段第二句“The locked door flew open and with it
a rush of memories.”可知,作者一开始拒绝了孩子出去玩的请求,后来在母亲的提醒下,作者又回忆起那天放风筝的快乐日子,她才欣然答应带女儿外出。故选D。
11.解析:选C。推理判断题。根据最后一段最后一句“Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”,并结合上文内容可知,从战俘营归来的男孩询问作者是否还记得一起放风筝的日子,由此可推知,除了作者以外还有别人在珍藏着那段甜蜜的记忆。故选C。
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