Question

It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house. Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out of the window at my father moving around mysteriously on the front lawn. My parents lived nearby, and Dad had visited us several times already. “What are you doing out there?” I called to him.
He looked up, smiling. “I’m making you a surprise.” Knowing my father, I thought it could be just about anything. A self-employed jobber, he was always building things out of odds and ends. When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us.
Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught ups in the busyness of our new life, I eventually forgot about his surprise.
Until one gloomy day the following March when I glanced out of the window. Any yet… I saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses (番紅花), throughout the front lawn. Lavender, blue, yellow and my favorite pink --- little faces moved up and down in the cold wind.
Dad! I smiled, remembering the things he had secretly planted last autumn. He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down. What could have been more perfectly timely to my needs?
My father’s crocuses bloomed each spring for the next four or five seasons, bringing the same assurance every time they arrived: hard times was almost over. Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon.
Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms. The next spring there were none. I missed the crocuses. I would ask Dad to come over and plant new bulbs. But I never did.
He died suddenly one October day. My family was in deep sorrow, leaning on our faith. I missed him terribly.
Four years passed, and on a dismal spring afternoon I was driving back when I found myself feeling depressed. “You’ve got the winter depression again and you get them every year.” I told myself.
It was Dad’s birthday, and I found myself thinking about him. This was not unusual --- my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived his faith. Once I saw him give his coat to a homeless man.
Suddenly I slowed as I turned into our driveway. I stopped and stared at the lawn. And there on the muddy grass and small gray piles of melting snow, bravely waving in the wind, was one pink crocus.
How could a flower bloom from a bulb more than 18 years old, one that had not blossomed in over a decade? But there was the crocus. Tears filled my eyes as I realized its significance.
Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon. The pink crocus bloomed for only a day. But it built my faith for a lifetime.
【小題1】According to the first three paragraphs, we learn that _________.

A．the writer was unpacking when her father was making the surprise

B．the writer knew what the surprise was because she knew her father

C．it was not the first time that the writer’s father had made a surprise

D．it kept bothering the writer not knowing what the surprise was

【小題2】Which of the following would most probably be the worst time of the year as seen by the writer?

A．Spring.

B．Summer.

C．Autumn.

D．Winter.

【小題3】The writer’s father should be best described as_________.

A．a(chǎn) full-time gardener with skillful hands

B．a(chǎn) part-time jobber who loved flowers

C．a(chǎn) kind-hearted man who lived with faith

D．a(chǎn)n ordinary man with doubts in his life

【小題4】At the end of the passage, crocus was viewed as the symbol of _________ by the writer.

A．faith

B．family

C．love

D．friendship

Answer 1

      
【小題1】C
【小題2】D
【小題3】C
【小題4】A

解析試題解析：本文從自己搬進(jìn)新家父親再次給自己帶來驚喜寫起，到父親過世后對父親的思念和父親一生堅持自己的信念而給作者帶來的影響。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。A項錯在是孩子們在unpacking打開包裹而不是作者。B錯是因為作者了解他的父親會給他驚喜，但具體是什么還不知道。D錯是這三段根本沒有提及這句話，C正確是根據(jù)第二段最后一句話：When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us.，所以C正確。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段第二句話：He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down.他知道黑暗和沉悶的冬天總是讓我失望，所以D正確
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第四段第一句話：It was Dad’s birthday, and I found myself thinking about him. This was not unusual --- my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived his faith.這是爸爸的生日，我又想起了他，這是不尋常的，我的家人經(jīng)常談起他，回憶起他在生活中實踐自己的信念，所以C正確。
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段：Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon. The pink crocus bloomed for only a day. But it built my faith for a lifetime.為，繼續(xù)前進(jìn)，光明即將來臨。粉紅的番紅花只開了一天。但卻為我的一生樹立了信念，所以A正確。
考點：考查生活情感類短文閱讀。