Question

A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to   1   , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

 “Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t   2  , as I knew, but all the time   3   his foot against mine.

My   4   raced back more than thirty years to the   5   days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The   6   was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

   7   wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   8   each other very well. Frank West   9   me because he wasn’t   10  , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had   11   of a mind than a baby has. His “  12  ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and   13   more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank   14   on her entirely. He needed all the   15   of a baby.

One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She   16   nearly everything she owned.

When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the   17   ones. So before we   18   that morning, I stood beside Frank and   19   my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his   20   to me was always the same.

(   )1. A. work           B. stay    C. live     D. expect

(   )2. A. answer   B. speak  C. smile         D. laugh

(   )3. A. covering       B. moving      C. fighting      D. pressing

(   )4. A. minds    B. memories   C. thoughts     D. brains

(   )5. A. better    B. dark    C. younger            D. old

(   )6. A. cave            B. place   C. sight          D. scene

(   )7. A. Discussing           B. Solving      C. Sharing            D. Suffering

(   )8. A. learn from           B. talk to C. help          D. know

(   )9. A. needed         B. recognized  C. interested          D. encouraged

(   )10. A. normal       B. common     C. unusual     D. quick

(   )11. A. more          B. worse  C. fewer         D. less

(   )12. A. word          B. speech C. sentence           D. language

(   )13. A. not            B. no      C. something         D. nothing

(   )14. A. fed            B. kept    C. lived          D. depended

(   )15. A. attention    B. control       C. treatment          D. management

(   )16. A. lost            B. needed       C. destroyed          D. left

(   )17. A. troublesome  B. unlucky    C. angry         D. unpopular

(   )18. A. separated           B. went   C. reunited            D. returned

(   )19. A. pushed       B. tried   C. showed      D. measured

(   )20. A. nodding            B. greeting     C. meeting            D. acting

Answer 1

1—5  CADBB  6—10 DCDCA  11—15 DBBDA  16—20 ABADB

解析:

1. C  上文的“incurables"表明這位老人是不治之癥患者，存活的時間不會太長。

2. A  我叫他名字, 他不會回答。

3. D  由下文暗示可知，37歲的Frank不如一個嬰兒的智力。他不能用語言回答別人的問話，但內心有一定的反應，因此一見到我便將右腳靠著我的右腳以示問候。

4. B  Frank的這一舉動使我的記憶一下子回到了30年前。

5. B  下文交待30年前作者的生活，二戰(zhàn)期間他只能住在防空洞中，生活很苦，只能用“dark”來形容當年的歲月。

6. D  作者回憶30年前的生活，頭腦中出現了防空洞的情景。

7. C

8. D  在戰(zhàn)爭問題上由于擁有共同的話題，我們這些防空洞居住者逐漸了解了對方。

9. C

10.  A  一個37歲的人智力卻不正常，這一現象逐漸吸引了我的注意。

11. D  盡管Frank已經37歲，但智力還不如一個嬰兒。

12. B

13. B  他的講話僅體現了內心的快樂和憤怒，沒有更多實在的內容。

14. D

15. A  West夫人不得不強壯而又有能力，因為Frank完全依靠于她，他需要嬰兒似的全部照料。

16.  A  她幾乎失去了一切。

17.  B  West夫人遭受這么大的損失，大家盡力幫助這不幸的一家人。

18.  A 

19.  D

20.  B  那天早上臨走前，我站在Frank身邊，將我的右腳靠著Frank 的右腳以便量出他腳的大小，目的是為他買一雙鞋子。Frank將我的這一動作看成是問候的表現，從此他就用這一動作來問候我，這就有了本文開頭的那種情景。