Question

Most of us have ever imagined the life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise(天堂) where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you are free to sit around without any work. This is really a beautiful picture, isn’t it? However, the other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is awful. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never comes.

Perhaps there is some truth in both these pictures, but few us have had the chance to find out. We can only experience it in the story like the following.

Many years ago, two men spent five days on a coral island and they wished that they could stay there longer. They were driving a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink(下沉). They quickly put food, matches, and cans of beer into a rubber dinghy(救生筏) and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.

There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not seem to be a problem. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and they thought they lived just like a king. Five days later, a tank passed by and saved them. However, they felt sorry that they had to leave.

1.What kind of life on the island was Not mentioned according to Paragraph 1?

A. A simple and good life. B. A sort of paradise life.

C. A terrible life. D. A common life.

2.What did the two men put into the small rubber dinghy?

A. Food, medicine and cans. B. Food, matches and medicine.

C. Food, beer and matches. D. Food, fish and cans.

3.In what order did the following events take place?

a.They collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.

b.They put necessary things into a small rubber dinghy.

c.They arrived at a tiny coral island.

d.Their boat began to sink.

e.They were saved by a tank.

A. d-b-a-c-e B. d-b-c-a-e C. c-a-d-b-e D. c-d-b-a-e

4.The underlined word “it” in the third paragraph means “ ”.

A. the boat B. the journey C. the picture D. the rubber dinghy

5.What can we know from the passage?

A. The two men were sacred because of no water.

B. The two men became the king on the island.

C. The two men would stay on the coral island forever.

D. The two men didn’t want to leave the coral island.

Answer 1