Question

I was born and raised in the shadow of the Capitol(美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)大廈), in Washington, D.C., as were my parents and my mother’s parents.
Our row house was on a tree-lined street just blocks from the building that was the heart of the federal legislative branch. When I was a child, in the 1940s, friends and I would pack a lunch or ride a streetcar to the Capitol. If we roller-skated, we hid the skates in the bushes in the park across the street before entering the building.
I knew every corner of the Capitol. We’d play hide-and-seek and pretend we saw ghosts in the halls and stairways. I don’t know how we got away with it. I remember the beautiful ladies’ rooms, with their marble floors and sinks. I pretended that I was a fine lady in them.
In those days, you could walk around the Capitol dome(圓頂屋), which was a little scary for me. I loved the wonderful paintings and statues and the subway rides to the Senate Office Building. It was like an amusement ride. I even used to sit in the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives—until I became bored with all the talk and went on another adventure.
Whenever I ran up the steps to the huge bronze doors of the Rotunda, I would look back to the world below like a hero. As soon as the doors were opened, the sense of history surrounded me, and I knew it was someplace special.
Those were lucky days, when an American citizen could wander in the Capitol and be a part of history.
Once war was declared, some things changed in the nation’s capital. Because of concerns that Washington might be attacked, as London had been, everyone prepared. Kids at my elementary school wore dog tags, and each of us was fingerprinted.
My father, a pipe worker, became a civil defense warden(民防隊(duì)員). During an air-raid(空襲), his job was to turn off any leaking gas. Since he always had a cigarette in his mouth, maybe that was not a good choice, but he had a gas mask and flashlight hanging in the rafters of our basement. The mask looked like a monster in the ceiling. My 15-year-old brother was a junior civil defense warden. During air-raid drills, he knocked on doors and asked people to put out their lights. I remember huge searchlights that crisscrossed the skies during the drills, looking for enemy planes.
小題1:What can we infer from the passage?
A. The writer attended the meeting in House of Representative.
B. The writer’s family lived in Washington D.C. for generations.
C. American citizen, except children, could never enter the Capitol.
D. The writer’s father had a gas mask to prevent him from smoking.
小題2:When the writer said “I was born and raised in the shadow of the Capitol” (1st paragraph),    she most probably meant that ________.

A．she spent her childhood in an area near the Capitol

B．she grew up under the pressure of the Capitol

C．the Capitol had some bad influence on my childhood

D．she was born and brought up secretly in the Capitol

小題3:By telling the childhood experience, the passage suggests that ________.

A．London was attacked during the war, as well as Washington

B．the writer is a daughter of a member of Representatives

C．the writer’s father and brother joined the army during the war

D．the Capitol used to be open to the public in history

小題4: What is the writer’s attitude towards the things that changed in the nation’s capital?

A．neutral

B．positive

C．negative

D．ironic

Answer 1

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:C

小題1:本文開頭說作者生長(zhǎng)在華盛頓的國(guó)會(huì)大廈的影子下，她的父母和媽媽的父母也是生長(zhǎng)在這里。
小題2:從語(yǔ)境和全文看，作者這句話說她的生長(zhǎng)環(huán)境中有國(guó)會(huì)大廈的影子，其含義顯然是A。
小題3:從文章的敘述可知，美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)大廈原來是對(duì)公眾開放的，后來由于戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)爆發(fā)，情況發(fā)生了改變。
小題4:從本文后面部分內(nèi)容看，原本無憂無慮的生活從此蒙上了一層陰影，顯然他是不贊成這個(gè)變化的。