My dad was never the kind to offer many words of love or encouragement. But we knew he loved us. He just had his own way of showing it.

When I was a teen, we were seasonal campers(野營(yíng)者)at a family campground almost an hour outside the city where we lived. Each family had their own campsite with water and electric, and you basically parked your camper there from May to October. Most “seasonals” visited them every weekend during those months, with the occasional week-long stay. There were plenty of other kids who camped seasonally each weekend, and they came to be some of my closest friends. Of course, many of them were boys.

We kids paired up(結(jié)對(duì))with our little boyfriends or girlfriends, and we’d hold hands as we walked around the campground. We’d play ping-pong, have some snacks, and sing songs. Most weekends were pretty similar, but the couples would change. You’d see so-and-so with a different so-and-so than they were with the weekend before. You know how it is when you’re a teen—a three-week relationship is a really long time.

So, needless to say, my teen years were spent with quite a few different boys. But every single one of them had something in common. They’d all received the Evil Eye.

The Evil Eye was a magical sort of thing. One simple look from my dad, and the boy immediately knew not to mess with me. It was as if he could send his warnings through invisible laser(激光)beams that shot directly from his eyes to the boys’ brains.

“You will not put your hands on my daughter. You will not kiss my daughter. You will not even whisper sweet things into my daughter’s ear. ”

I remember one night in particular walking with a boy around the campground after dark. We came from one direction, and my dad from the other. The boy and my dad locked eyes for a brief second, then the boy dropped my hand like a hot potato and turned away, giving me a quick “See you later. ”

Yes, that’s the Evil Eye: best way ever to keep wandering teen boys’ hands away from your daughter.

1.The Evil Eye in the passage implies that　　　.

A. Dad gets angry easily

B. Dad’s eyes are evil

C. Dad’s eyes are ugly-looking

D. Dad’s eyes are protective to his daughter

2. The underlined words “mess with” in Paragraph 5 most probably mean“　　　”.

A. cause trouble for　　　B. make untidy

C. get married toD. talk to

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. As teenagers, we went camping every weekend.

B. We made lots of friends during the seasonal camping.

C. We had regular boyfriends or girlfriends and enjoyed ourselves.

D. The boy dropped my hand and turned away because he loved the Evil Eye.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that the author　　　.

A. is a teenage girl who loves her father

B. is a teenage boy who hates his father

C. is now an adult who has come to understand her father’s love

D. used to be a naughty boy who changed girlfriends now and then

 

1.D

2.A

3.B

4.C

【解析】深沉的父愛(ài)不必用言語(yǔ)表達(dá), 那令人望而生畏的眼神詮釋著父親對(duì)女兒的摯愛(ài)。

1.選D。推理判斷題。結(jié)合文章最后三段的內(nèi)容可推知, 父親的眼神對(duì)女兒有保護(hù)作用。

2.2】選A。詞義猜測(cè)題。下一句提到作者父親的目光是在警告男孩, 由此可推測(cè)其含義是“給……招惹麻煩”。

3.3】選B。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段最后兩句的內(nèi)容可知他們當(dāng)時(shí)結(jié)交了很多朋友, 故B項(xiàng)正確。由第二段第三句可知他們并不是每周末都去野營(yíng), 故A項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤; 由第三段第三、四句話可知他們經(jīng)常更換朋友, 故C項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤; 由倒數(shù)第二段中的“dropped my hand like a hot potato”可知那個(gè)男孩兒害怕the Evil Eye, 故D項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。

4.4】選C。推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段開(kāi)頭部分的時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)When I was a teen可知本文是作者對(duì)過(guò)去的回憶, 再結(jié)合最后一段推知作者現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)是成年人, 已經(jīng)開(kāi)始理解父親的愛(ài)。再由第六段的內(nèi)容可知作者當(dāng)時(shí)是一個(gè)小女孩, 故選C項(xiàng)。

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