Occasionally, my father came back drunk. Late at night, he beat on the door, pleading to my mother to open it .He was on his way home from drinking, gambling, or some combination thereof, misspending money that we could have used and wasting time that we desperately needed.
It was the late-1970s. My parents were separated. My mother was now raising a group of boys on her own. My father spouted off about what he planned to do for us, buy for us. In fact, he had no intention of doing anything. As a father who was supposed to love us, in fact, he lacked the understanding of what it truly meant to love a child—or to hurt one. To him, this was a harmless game that kept us excited and begging. In fact, it was a cruel, corrosive lie. I lost faith in his words and in him. I wanted to stop caring, but I couldn’t.
Maybe it was his own complicated relationship to his father and his father’s family that caused him cold. Maybe it was the pain and guilt associated with a life of misfortune. Who knows. Whatever it was, it stole him from us, and particularly from me.
While my brothers talked about breaking and fixing things, I spent many of my evenings reading and wondering. My favorite books were a set of encyclopedias(百科全書(shū)) given by my uncle. They allowed me to explore the world beyond my world, to travel without leaving, to dream dreams greater than my life would otherwise have supported. But losing myself in my own mind also meant that I was completely lost to my father. Not understanding me, he simply ignored me—not just emotionally, but physically as well. Never once did he hug me, never once a pat on the back or a hand on the shoulder or a tousling of the hair.
My best memories of him were from his episodic attempts at engagement with us. During the longest of these episodes(插曲), once every month or two, he would come pick us up and drive us down the interstate to Trucker’s Paradise, a seedy, smoke-filled, truck stop with gas pumps, a convenience store, a small dining area and a game room through a door in the back. My dad gave each of us a handful of quarters, and we played until they were gone. He sat up front in the dining area, drinking coffee and being particular about the restaurant’s measly offerings.
I loved these days. To me, Trucker’s Paradise was paradise. The quarters and the games were fun but easily forgotten. It was the presence of my father that was most treasured. But, of course, these trips were short-lived.
It wasn’t until I was much older that I would find something that I would be able to cling to as evidence of my father’s love.
When the Commodore 64 personal computer debuted, I convinced myself that I had to have it even though its price was out of my mother’s range. So I decided to earn the money myself. I mowed every yard I could find that summer for a few dollars each, yet it still wasn’t enough. So my dad agreed to help me raise the rest of the money by driving me to one of the watermelon farms south of town, loading up his truck with wholesale melons and driving me around to sell them. He came for me before daybreak. We made small talk, but it didn’t matter. The fact that he was talking to me was all that mattered. I was a teenager by then, but this was the first time that I had ever spent time alone with him. He laughed and repeatedly introduced me as “my boy,” a phrase he relayed with a sense of pride. It was one of the best days of my life.
Although he had never told me that he loved me, I would cling to that day as the greatest evidence of that fact. He had never intended me any wrong. He just didn’t know how to love me right. He wasn’t a mean man. So I took these random episodes and clung to them like a thing most precious, storing them in my mind for the long stretches of coldness when a warm memory would prove most useful.
It just goes to show that no matter how friendless the father, no matter how deep the damage, no matter how shattered the bond, there is still time, still space, still a need for even the smallest bit of evidence of a father’s love.
“My boy.”
1.From the passage, the father was_____ in the writer’s memory.
A. selfish and cruel B. proud and cold
C. imperfect but loving D. shy but thoughtful
2.The writer used not to feel Father’s true love because______ .
A.father showed his love but had no good way to express himself to his children
B.he just lost himself in his own mind without getting close to his father
C.father was too busy so unable to communicate with his children enough
D. he had a prejudice(偏見(jiàn)) and was too stubborn to feel it
3.The underlined phrase “cling to” can be replaced by __________.
A.catch hold of B. depend on
C. stick to D. keep
4.From the last parts (para7-11), we can infer that ______ .
A.father liked to show off his family before others
B.I couldn't understand Father’s love unless he expressed to me
C.father intended to show a loving father he was but failed.
D.I would definitely treasure all the small love from father
5.What’s the right order of the episodes?
1. His dad agreed to help him.
2. The Commodore 64 personal computer was just on sale.
3. The writer decided to buy it and earn the money himself.
4 His dad drove the writer to one of the watermelon farms south of town, loaded up his truck with wholesale melons and drove the writer around to sell them.
5. The writer didn’t have enough money.
A. 23541 B. 23514 C.32541 D. 32514
6.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Remembrances of my father B. Father and son
C. My boy D. The past days
1.C
2.A
3.D
4.D
5.B
6.A
【解析】
試題解析:本文通過(guò)對(duì)爸爸不完美的形象描述和年長(zhǎng)后作者對(duì)父愛(ài)的理解,來(lái)表示對(duì)父親的懷念。
1.小題1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段描述爸爸總是喝多,亂花家里的錢(qián)。表現(xiàn)爸爸形象的不完美一面。從第七段“我”年齡大一點(diǎn)后才明白爸爸的愛(ài)。說(shuō)明爸爸很愛(ài)孩子們。選C。
2.小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段Although he had never told me that he loved me, I would cling to that day as the greatest evidence of that fact. He had never intended me any wrong. He just didn’t know how to love me right.得知爸爸很愛(ài)孩子們,但是他以前不知道如何向孩子們來(lái)表達(dá)自己。選A。
3.小題3】詞義猜測(cè)題。A. catch hold of 緊握不放, B. depend on依賴, C. stick to堅(jiān)持,D. keep保持;保存;keep…as”把什么當(dāng)作”!拔摇睍(huì)把那天當(dāng)做爸爸不想帶給我任何傷害的最有說(shuō)服力的證據(jù)。選D。
4.小題4】推理判斷題。從第七段到第十一段得知作者“我”年齡大一點(diǎn)后才明白爸爸的愛(ài),“我”會(huì)把那天當(dāng)做爸爸不想帶給我任何傷害的最有說(shuō)服力的證據(jù),一直珍惜爸爸給予我們的細(xì)微的愛(ài)。選D。
5.小題5】排序推斷題。根據(jù)第八段得知先是the Commodore 64家用電腦發(fā)售,我為了攢錢(qián)買(mǎi)它自己掙錢(qián)。但掙得的錢(qián)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠,爸爸決定幫助我,開(kāi)車帶我去西瓜地進(jìn)一些西瓜賣來(lái)籌錢(qián)。選B。
6.小題6】最佳標(biāo)題。本文通過(guò)對(duì)爸爸不完美的形象描述和年長(zhǎng)后作者對(duì)父愛(ài)的理解,來(lái)表示對(duì)父親的懷念。因此對(duì)父親回憶最切合本文標(biāo)題。選A。
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