When I reached inside the floorboard, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was
英语试题 07-27
When I reached inside the floorboard, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was an old and small book: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. I wondered whom the quotations (引语) were supposed to be familiar to. What I did know, thanks to Ms. Rattray, my seventh-grade teacher, was the correct way to use quotation marks. I decided to see what was inside this little book.
On the top corners of each page was a word or phrase, I opened it to “comfort and despair” and then “doubt” and “light”. I’d never thought about “light” any other way except as a lamp or daylight. It turned out that Mr Bartlett didn’t feel all these emotions himself. He had gathered up quotations from thousands of other people.
I was relieved to discover that those people were not afraid to express what they thought, including the fears and that they had so many thoughts about things that troubled me. Before this, I was lonely and I didn’t know whom talk to about the world and my role in it.
In ninth grade, I worked as an assistant at our local library. I often hid in the comer, where no one would see me, and I would read. It was at this library that I realized how some of those emotions I’d felt while reading Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations came to life in the characters I had started discovering in novels.
I have bought a few of the newer editions, but the original one is the one that helped me explore my inner self and see more than young mind and heart were able to understand.
21. How might the author feel when he found the book by chance?
A. Curious. B. Familiar. C. Thankful. D. Puzzled
22. What does Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations mainly include?
A. Bartlett’s real personal feelings.
B. Thoughts of thousands of people.
C. Emotional stories of other people.
D. A representative word collection.
23. What do we know about the author in ninth grade?
A. He found time to read Bartlett’s books again.
B. He volunteered to work as a school librarian.
C. He vividly understood the characters’ feelings.
D. He learned to analyze Bartlett’s life in depth.
【答案】
On the top corners of each page was a word or phrase, I opened it to “comfort and despair” and then “doubt” and “light”. I’d never thought about “light” any other way except as a lamp or daylight. It turned out that Mr Bartlett didn’t feel all these emotions himself. He had gathered up quotations from thousands of other people.
I was relieved to discover that those people were not afraid to express what they thought, including the fears and that they had so many thoughts about things that troubled me. Before this, I was lonely and I didn’t know whom talk to about the world and my role in it.
In ninth grade, I worked as an assistant at our local library. I often hid in the comer, where no one would see me, and I would read. It was at this library that I realized how some of those emotions I’d felt while reading Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations came to life in the characters I had started discovering in novels.
I have bought a few of the newer editions, but the original one is the one that helped me explore my inner self and see more than young mind and heart were able to understand.
21. How might the author feel when he found the book by chance?
A. Curious. B. Familiar. C. Thankful. D. Puzzled
22. What does Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations mainly include?
A. Bartlett’s real personal feelings.
B. Thoughts of thousands of people.
C. Emotional stories of other people.
D. A representative word collection.
23. What do we know about the author in ninth grade?
A. He found time to read Bartlett’s books again.
B. He volunteered to work as a school librarian.
C. He vividly understood the characters’ feelings.
D. He learned to analyze Bartlett’s life in depth.
【答案】
苏19057182-3号