Question

If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, “ Hey, Butterfly Man,” his face would break into a smile. The title suits him. And he loves it.

Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly, once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming back — thanks to him. But years ago if you’d told him this was what he’d be doing someday, he would have laughed, “ You’re crazy.” As a boy, he used to be “ a little tough guy on the streets”. At age thirteen, he was caught by police stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.

“ I knew it had hurt my mom,” Bonner said after he got out of prison. “So I told myself I would not put my mom through that pain again.”

One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to rebuild the habitat for an endangered butterfly called El Segundo blue.

“I saw the sign ‘Butterfly Habitat’ and asked, ‘How can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?’” Bonner recalls. “Dr. Mattoni laughed and handed me a magnifying glass(放大鏡) , ‘Look at the leaves.’ I could see all these caterpillars(蝴蝶的幼蟲) on the plant. Dr Mattoni explained, ‘Without the plant, there are no butterflies.’”

Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he’s been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat.

The butterfly’s population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around

For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of prison. While he’s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too.

11. When he was young, Arthur Bonner _______.

  A. broke the law and ended up in prison

  B. was fond of shooting and hurt his mom

  C. often laughed at people on the streets

  D. often caught butterflies and took them home

12. Bonner came to know the Palos Verdes blue after he _______.

  A. found the butterfly had died out        

B. won many prizes from his professor

  C. met Dr. Mattoni, a professor of biology  

D. collected butterflies and put them into a lab

13. From the last sentence of the text, we learn that raising butterflies has ________.

  A. made Bonner famous        B. changed Bonner’s life

  C. brought Bonner wealth       D. enriched Bonner’s knowledge

14. What does the underlined phrase “put through” mean in the 3rd paragraph?

A. hurt                         B. recall                C. remember                 D. experience

15. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

  A. A Promise to Mom               B. A Man Saved by Butterflies

  C. A Story of Butterflies               D. A Job Offered by Dr. Mattoni

Answer 1

11-15  ACBDB

解析:

本文主要講述了一個叫阿瑟的人通過養(yǎng)蝴蝶既拯救了蝴蝶，又拯救了自己的故事。

11.  細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段陳述的阿瑟曾因傷人，偷竊等原因入獄。

12.  細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第六段的第一、二句話得知，幾周后阿瑟收到了教授的電話，告訴他有一種蝴蝶需要他的幫助，那就是他怎樣遇到這種蝴蝶的。

13.  細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后一段可知阿瑟自此遵守了諾言再也沒有入獄，因此說蝴蝶改變了他，故選B。

14.  詞義猜測題。根據(jù)上下文語境得知

15.  主旨大意題。文章整體上講述的是阿瑟從沒有養(yǎng)蝴蝶時的糟糕生活到養(yǎng)蝴蝶后的轉(zhuǎn)變。