Question

Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood.

When he was 12, his parents . He was alone and didn’t get on well with others. People always laughed him. No one showed kindness (友善) to him. His only friend was a dog named Tige.

One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped , she dropped other bags. He came to help her.“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!”She said kindly, smiling.

A special feeling came to him. These were kind words he had ever heard. He watched her she went far away, and he whistled（吹口哨）to his dog and went directly to the river nearby.

“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!”he repeated the woman’s words. Then in a low

he said to his dog,“You are a nice little dog!”Tige raised ears as if（似乎）it understood.

“Uh! Even a dog likes it!”he said,“Well, Tige, I won’t say unkind words to you any more.”Tige waved its tail happily.

The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw but a dirty boy. He washed his face . Again he looked. He saw a clean nice boy. He was amazed (震驚). From then on, he had a new life.

After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said,“Ladies and gentlemen, this is the very place where that kind woman planted in me the first seed (種子) of kindness. All of us should learn about kindness. a great power it has!” If you show kindness to others, you will be an able man.

1.A.dead B.dying C.died D.die

2.A.at B.to C./ D.of

3.A.picking it up B.picking up itC.to pick up it D.to pick it up

4.A.the first B.firstC.the last D.the first time

5.A.until B.beforeC.when D.while

6.A.sound B.noiseC.noisy D.voice

7.A.it B.it’s C.one’s D.its

8.A.something B.nothing C.anything D.somebody

9.A.carefully B.careful C.careless D.carelessly

10.A.What B.How C.It D.It seemed

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.A

5.A

6.D

7.D

8.B

9.A

10.A

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文講述的是一個小男孩Jim在父母都去世后一個人生活，周圍的人都嘲笑他。一次Jim幫助了一個女士，那位女士對Jim說了一句很友好的話，這樣Jim感到非常的開心，從此開始了新的生活。

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3.那位女士的包掉了，所以她停下來去撿，故排除A和B；pick up是一個固定的短語，當它的后面跟代詞做賓語時，代詞只能放在他們中間。故選D。

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5.那位女士走遠。故選A。

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10.連詞及語境的理解。句意：我們大家都應該學會善良，它有著多么大的力量啊！這里考查的是一個感嘆句，what的句型是what a/an +形容詞+名詞；而how的用法應該是how +形容詞+a/an +名詞；D選項的意思是好像……，不符合句意。故選A。

考點：故事類短文。