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【題目】 The Khao San Road woke early. At five, car horns began sounding off in the street outside. Then the water pipes under the floor started to rattle as the guest-house staff took their showers. I even could hear their conversations.

Lying on my bed, listening to the morning noises, the tension of the previous night became unreal and distant. Although I couldn't understand what the staff were saying to each other, their occasional laughter conveyed a sense of normality: they were doing what they did every morning, their thoughts connected only to routine. I imagined they might be discussing who would go for kitchen supplies in the market that day or who would be sweeping the halls.

Around five-thirty a few bedroom-door bolts clicked open as the early-bird travellers emerged and the die-hard party goers from Patpong returned. I realised that the dreamless snatches of sleep I’d managed were finished, so I decided to get up and have breakfast.

There were already a few travellers at the tables, drinking glasses of black coffee. I began studying the menu, a once white sheet of A4 paper with such an excessive list of dishes I felt making a choice was beyond my ability. Then I was distracted by a delicious smell. A kitchen boy had wandered over with a tray of fruit pancakes. He distributed them to a group of Americans, cutting off a good-natured argument about train times to Ciang Mai.

One of them noticed me eyeing their food and he pointed at his plate. ‘Banana pancakes,’ he said. ‘The business.’

I nodded. They smell pretty good.，

‘Taste better. English?’

‘Uh，huh.，

‘Been here long?’

'Since yesterday evening. You?”

“A week’, he replied, and popped a piece of pancake in his mouth, looking away as he did so. I guessed that signaled the end of the exchange.

The kitchen boy came over to my table and stood there, gazing at me expectantly through sleepy eyes.

"One banana pancake, please,' I said, obliged into making a quick decision.

‘You wan’ order one banan’ pancake?’

‘Please.’

‘You wan’ order drink?’

‘Uh, a Coke. No, a Sprite’

‘You wan’ one banan’ pancake, one Spri.’

“Please.”

He walked back towards the kitchen, and a sudden feeling of happiness washed over me.

【1】The writer described the morning noises in order to__________.

A.imply that he didn’t sleep well

B.predict the morning would be different

C.compare the city's morning and night

D.show what a terrible dream he had

【2】According to the writer, what were the staff talking about?

A.Their daily work.B.Their strange guests.

C.Their normal supplies.D.Their night experience.

【3】The American let the writer know that he wouldn’t like to go on with the conversation by__________

A.asking the writer about the pancakeB.telling the writer what he liked

C.stopping looking at the writerD.commenting on the pancake

【4】By the end of the passage, the writer felt he had recovered from __________.

A.the depressionB.the nervousness

C.the injuryD.the tiredness

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】A

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

這是一篇記敘文。文章講述了作者住在賓館早晨時的經(jīng)歷以及心理情緒的變化。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段I realised that the dreamless snatches of sleep I’d managed were finished, so I decided to get up and have breakfast.可知作者描述早晨的噪音是為了暗示他沒有睡好，故選A。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段Although I couldn't understand what the staff were saying to each other, their occasional laughter conveyed a sense of normality: they were doing what they did every morning, their thoughts connected only to routine. I imagined they might be discussing who would go for kitchen supplies in the market that day or who would be sweeping the halls.（雖然我聽不懂員工們在說些什么，但他們偶爾的笑聲傳達(dá)出一種正常的感覺:他們在做他們每天早上做的事情，他們的想法只是例行公事。我猜想他們可能在討論那天誰去市場上買廚房用品，誰去打掃大廳。）由此可知，根據(jù)作者所說，工作人員在談?wù)撍麄兊娜粘９ぷ鳎�故選A。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù) “A week’, he replied, and popped a piece of pancake in his mouth, looking away as he did so. I guessed that signaled the end of the exchange.可知美國人通過停止看作者來讓作者知道他不想繼續(xù)談話，故選C。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段He walked back towards the kitchen, and a sudden feeling of happiness washed over me.（他朝廚房走去，我突然感到一陣幸福。）可知到文章結(jié)束時，作者感到他已經(jīng)從緊張中恢復(fù)過來了，故選B。

細(xì)節(jié)理解題大多是根據(jù)文章中的具體信息如事實(shí)、例證、原因、過程、論述等進(jìn)行提問的。抓住文段中的事實(shí)和細(xì)節(jié)是做好該題型的關(guān)鍵，也是做好其它類型問題的基礎(chǔ)。該題型幾乎都可以在文章中直接找到與答案有關(guān)的信息，或是其變體。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都屬于這類圍繞主體展開的細(xì)節(jié)。做這類題一般采用尋讀法，即先讀題，然后帶著問題快速閱讀短文，找出與問題和選項(xiàng)有關(guān)的詞語或句子，再對相關(guān)部分進(jìn)行分析對比，找出答案。正確選項(xiàng)雖然一般不是原文照搬，但是一般是原文的改寫，意思不變。如換一個同義詞，把否定改為肯定，把肯定改為否定等。如第2小題，根據(jù)第二段Although I couldn't understand what the staff were saying to each other, their occasional laughter conveyed a sense of normality: they were doing what they did every morning, their thoughts connected only to routine. I imagined they might be discussing who would go for kitchen supplies in the market that day or who would be sweeping the halls.（雖然我聽不懂員工們在說些什么，但他們偶爾的笑聲傳達(dá)出一種正常的感覺:他們在做他們每天早上做的事情，他們的想法只是例行公事。我猜想他們可能在討論那天誰去市場上買廚房用品，誰去打掃大廳。）由此可知，根據(jù)作者所說，工作人員在談?wù)撍麄兊娜粘９ぷ鳎�故選A。