We bought a second-hand house, and that afternoon I was in the workshop of the gqrage,I noticed a part of a carpet sticking out of the ceiling of an attic(閣樓)that was strange, I found a ladder and headed up.
I climbed into the attic, As my eyes adjusted to the dark , I saw a metal container, I opened the lid and was shocked by  what I saw: several rolls of money tied up in orange string , I’ve found , like $800, Awesome!
But there was more than one box of money , I found another seven boxes full to the top, plus two big black bags full of cash, I won’t lie , My first thought was that this was a bleesing from God –the means to fix up this old house; or just to uxe to make life easier for our rwo young sons , who sere seven and four ,But I knew that the right thing was to return the money to the previous owners . So I called them and asked them to come.
They were shocked, of course, not only about the money but that I was returning it , They had recently got the house from their dad and said it must have been their dad who, had hidden the money, What made him do it? I thought about the hundreds of times he had bone to his shop, cut off a length of orange string ,and bound up a roll of money , I like to think he did it for his chileren .
There were balls of that ouange stuing still hanging on the wall of the workshop when we moved in ,I used them to tie up Christmas presents last year, for my kids , I hope it reminded them of the gift greater than money that my wife and I gave them by returning the money ,We did the right thing ,and our children will never forget that.
小題1:The story took place after         
A.the author got the house from his dad
B.the author bought the house
C.the previous owners hid the money
D.the author’s dad sold the house
小題2:How many boxes of cash did the author discover in the attic?
A.One boxB.Two boxesC.Seven boxesD.Eight boxes
小題3:What do we know about the money that the author found?
A.It would be used to fix the old house
B.It had been hidden in the house by thieves
C.No one was sure why it was lift in the house
D.It made the previous owners think of their mother
小題4:What did the author put on the outside of his children’s Christmas gifts?
A.A roll of moneyB.Balls
C.Tie-up orange stringD.Metal containers
小題5:The text is mainly about a story of         
A.honestyB.bravery
C.wisdomD.love

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:C
小題5:A

試題分析:本文主要講了我買了一個二手房,卻在屋子中意外的發(fā)現(xiàn)了幾袋現(xiàn)金,我們把錢歸還了原來的房主。
小題1:根據(jù)We bought a second-hand house, and that afternoon I was in the workshop of the gqrage,I noticed a part of a carpet sticking out of the ceiling of an attic(閣樓)that was strange, I found a ladder and headed up,故選B。
小題2:根據(jù)But there was more than one box of money , I found another seven boxes full to the top, plus two big black bags full of cash.故選D。
小題3:根據(jù)They had recently got the house from their dad and said it must have been their dad who, had hidden the money, What made him do it? I thought about the hundreds of times he had bone to his shop, cut off a length of orange string ,and bound up a roll of money , I like to think he did it for his children .故選C。
小題4:根據(jù)There were balls of that orange string still hanging on the wall of the workshop when we moved in ,I used them to tie up Christmas presents last year, for my kids故選C。
小題5:這篇文章主要講了我們拾金不昧,把發(fā)現(xiàn)的現(xiàn)金歸還了失主,這體現(xiàn)了誠實的品質,故選A。
點評:這篇文章非常簡單,先看問題,再帶著問題仔細閱讀短文,理解了全文內容,很容易選出正確答案。閱讀注意事項:1、關注連詞,分析文章邏輯結構。2、聚焦代詞,明辨指代關系。3、抓住關鍵詞語,利用平行結構、上下文(包括定義、釋義、舉例、對比、標點)進行判斷與推理。4、了解一些構詞法,從詞根的特殊含義入手。
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