As a first –year teacher at a Christian school ,I was expecting my fifth grade students to be prefect , perfect in behavior , in attitude , and I even expected the home-life of each student to be nearly perfect . I found , of course , that these students were not different from the children I taught in public school .These kids had behavior problems , bad attitudes ,and some even had strikingly difficult family lives .
One of my students in particular stands out in my mind .I’ll call him Timothy for safety’s sake. During the first day of class , I noticed that Timothy was different .Not only in physical appearance , but he also spoke strangely , as though a 35-year-old man were trapped inside his tiny , weak body .On many occasions , I heard Timothy speak of hate, how he hated his family .
I observed Timohy for several months and read up on his background and searched for any clue that would lead me closer to understanding this child’s strange behavior .Finally I was directed to Timothy’s older brother’s cheating in an exam and had taken his anger out on Timothy at home .Timothy’s parents , in turn , had contacted the school, blaming them for Timothy’s problems.
I had written a letter to the administration asking that Timothy see a counselor(咨詢師). The school was in the process of contacting a counselor when Timothy was transferred to another school. His father hurried around my room collecting Timothy’s things and left. That is the last we have seen or heard from Timothy. I was left with an empty desk and a broken heart. I cried for days afterwards. I felt as though I had done Timothy a disservice …I did not help him when he needed me. I still think about Timothy every day, and pray for him every morning.
【小題1】 What was wrong with Timothy?
A.He seemed to have deep emotional problems. |
B.He seemed not to be getting along well with his classmates. |
C.He mainly had behavior problems at school. |
D.He wanted to transfer to another school. |
A.He looked old in appearance but lively in spirit. |
B.He looked common but talked strangely. |
C.He spoke strangely and looked weak in body. |
D.He acted as if he were as experienced as a 35-year-old man. |
A.his father treated him differently from his brother. |
B.his family didn’t care about what he was doing at school. |
C.his father blamed the teachers for his problems. |
D.his brother treated him in an unreasonable way. |
A.something meaningless | B.something harmful |
C.something secret | D.something funny. |
A.Timothy’s father blamed the author for reading his son’s file. |
B.The school didn’t approve Timothy’s seeing a counselor. |
C.The author felt guilty for not helping Timothy in time. |
D.Students at the Christian school don’t have family problems except Timothy. |
【小題1】A
【小題2】C
【小題3】D
【小題4】B
【小題5】C
解析試題分析: 本文是一篇故事類短文,在文中作者講述了自己當老師的時候接觸到的一個孩子Timohy。Timohy是一個缺少關(guān)愛的孩子,在家里哥哥討厭他,父母對他不關(guān)心,孩子出了問題怪罪于學(xué)校。雖然作者希望通過學(xué)校去幫助他,但是最后落了滿身遺憾。
【小題1】A細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段中On many occasions , I heard Timothy speak of hate, how he hated his family 已以及第三段中. I found a suicide note written by Timothy a year earlier .可知Timothy討厭家庭,甚至想過自殺,由此可知他存在情感問題,選A。
【小題2】C 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段I noticed that Timothy was different .Not only in physical appearance , but he also spoke strangely , as though a 35-year-old man were trapped inside his tiny , weak body .可知選C。
【小題3】D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段Apparently , his brother was accused of cheating in an exam and had taken his anger out on Timothy at home .可知他哥哥把自己的問題歸咎于弟弟的存在,由此判斷Timothy在家缺少關(guān)愛,這是他討厭家庭的原因之一,故答案選D。
【小題4】B詞意猜測題。根據(jù)文章末段I was left with an empty desk and a broken heart. I cried for days afterwards.可知當Timothy轉(zhuǎn)學(xué)后作者感到非常難過,因為自己沒能幫助認為是自己的罪過,由此推測disservice意思是“有害的事情”。此外根據(jù)構(gòu)詞法dis-也可以判斷是名詞service的否定意思,故答案選B。
【小題5】C細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章末段I was left with an empty desk and a broken heart. I cried for days afterwards.可知當Timothy轉(zhuǎn)學(xué)后作者感到非常難過,感到很愧疚,選C。
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A.He was a disabled man. |
B.He worked in a convenience store. |
C.He often helped people who were in trouble. |
D.He usually drove too fast. |
A.used to be a completely healthy person |
B.was not allowed to do some fierce sports |
C.was unwilling to communicate with a stranger |
D.usually felt sad about life due to her disability |
A.The motorbike. | B.The wheelchair. |
C.The ride. | D.The blessing. |
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D.Strict, sensitive and supportive. |
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a longhandled brush. He stopped by the fence in front of the house where he lived with his aunt Polly. He looked at it, and all joy left him. The fence was long and high. He put the brush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated the operation. He felt he could not continue and sat down.
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At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he picked up the brush and started again to whitewash.
While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared. Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. As he walked along it, he was making noises like the sound of a riverboat. First he shouted loudly, like a boat captain. Then he said “Ding---Dong---Dong”, “Ding---Dong---Dong” again and again, like the bell of a riverboat. And he made other strange noises. When he came close to Tom, he stopped.
Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hello! I'm going swimming, but you can't go, can you?”
No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully along the fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Tom's mouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working.
Ben said, “Hello, old fellow, you've got to work, hey?”
Tom turned suddenly and said, “Why, it's you, Ben! I wasn't noticing.”
“Say --- I'm going swimming. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd rather work --- wouldn't you? Of course you would.”
Tom looked at the boy a bit, and said “What do you call work?”
“Why, isn't that work?”
Tom went back to his whitewashing, and answered carelessly.
“Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer.”
“Oh come, now, you don't mean to say that you like it?”
The brush continued to move.
“Like it? Well, I don't see why I shouldn't like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said,“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
Tom thought for a moment, and was about to agree, but he changed his mind.
“No---no---it won't do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I don't think there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough.”
“No---is that so? Oh come, now —let me just try. Only just a little.”
“Ben, I'd like to, but if it isn't done right, I'm afraid Aunt Polly … ”
“Oh, I'll be careful. Now let me try. Say —I'll give you the core of my apple.”
“Well, here --- No, Ben, now don't. I'm afraid …”
“I'll give you all of it.”
Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness on his face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun, Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. There were enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was tired, Tom sold the next chance to Billy for a kite; and when Billy was tired, Johnny bought it for a dead rat —and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures.
And he had not worked. He had had a nice idle time all the time, with plenty of company, and the fence had been whitewashed three times. If he hadn't run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belonging to his friends.
He had discovered a great law of human action, namely, that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to get.
【小題1】How many characters are mentioned in this story?
A.4. | B.5. |
C.6. | D.7 |
A.Because he was tired and wanted to play with his toys. |
B.Because he wanted to throw his toys away. |
C.Because he wanted to give his toys to his friends. |
D.Because he wanted to know if he could buy help with his toys. |
A.Tom wanted to do the whitewashing by himself |
B.Tom planned to make Ben give up his apple first |
C.Tom was unwilling to let Ben do the whitewashing |
D.Tom was afraid Ben would do the whitewashing better |
A.Tom was interested in whitewashing the fence |
B.Tom had a lot of friends who are ready to help others |
C.Tom was unwilling to whitewash the fence, but he managed to let other boys do it for him |
D.Tom was good at whitewashing the fence, so he looked at the result of his work with the eye of an artist |
A.His warm heart and kindness to friends. |
B.Tom's threat. |
C.His curiosity about Tom's brushing job. |
D.Aunt Polly's idea. |
A.The Happy Whitewasher |
B.Tom And His Fellows |
C.Whitewashing A Fence |
D.Make The Things Difficult To Get |
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