I never knew anyone who’d grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway, our librarian. She ran Jackson’s Carnegie Library absolutely by herself. SILENCE in big black letters was on signs hung everywhere. If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes. I was willing; I would do anything to read.
My mother was not afraid of Mrs. Calloway. She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself. She took me in to introduce me.“Eudora is nine years old and has my permission to read any book she wants from the shelves, children or adults,” Mother said.
Mrs. Calloway made her own rules about books. You could not take back a book to the library on the same day you’d taken it out; it made no difference to her that you’d read every word in it and needed another to start. You could take out two books at a time and two only. So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. I knew this was extreme happiness, knew it at the time.
My mother shared this feeling of mine. Now, I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else. I remember her reading a magazine while taking the part of the Wolf in a game of “Little Red Riding Hood” with my brother’s two daughters. She’d just look up at the right time, long enough to answer—in character—“The better to eat you with, my dear,” and go back to her place in the magazine article.
1. Which of the following best describes Mrs. Calloway?
A. Quiet. B. Strict. C. Humorous. D. Considerate.
2. What do the underlined words “this feeling” refer to in the last paragraph?
A. Desire to read. B. Love for Mrs. Calloway.
C. Interest in games. D. Fear of the library rules.
3. Where is the text probably from?
A. A guidebook. B. An autobiography.
C. A news report. D. A book review.
答案
[语篇解读] 本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者和作者母亲从图书馆借书以及在家中读书时所发生的一些事情。
1.B 推理判断题。根据第一段中的“without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway”以及“If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes.”可知,Mrs. Calloway为人应该比较严厉,故选B。
2.A 词意猜测题。根据第四段第一句“My mother shared this feeling of mine.”可知,“this feeling”指的是作者的feeling,所以只要找出作者的feeling即为正确答案。根据第三段中的“I read library books as fast as I could go”以及“From the minute I reached our house, I started to read.”可知,作者非常热爱读书。故选A。
3.B 主旨大意题。本题问的是这篇文章的来源,考查学生对文章主旨的把握。本文是一篇记叙文,主要描写了作者和母亲的一些往事,故应该是来自人物自传,故选B。
My mother was not afraid of Mrs. Calloway. She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself. She took me in to introduce me.“Eudora is nine years old and has my permission to read any book she wants from the shelves, children or adults,” Mother said.
Mrs. Calloway made her own rules about books. You could not take back a book to the library on the same day you’d taken it out; it made no difference to her that you’d read every word in it and needed another to start. You could take out two books at a time and two only. So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. I knew this was extreme happiness, knew it at the time.
My mother shared this feeling of mine. Now, I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else. I remember her reading a magazine while taking the part of the Wolf in a game of “Little Red Riding Hood” with my brother’s two daughters. She’d just look up at the right time, long enough to answer—in character—“The better to eat you with, my dear,” and go back to her place in the magazine article.
1. Which of the following best describes Mrs. Calloway?
A. Quiet. B. Strict. C. Humorous. D. Considerate.
2. What do the underlined words “this feeling” refer to in the last paragraph?
A. Desire to read. B. Love for Mrs. Calloway.
C. Interest in games. D. Fear of the library rules.
3. Where is the text probably from?
A. A guidebook. B. An autobiography.
C. A news report. D. A book review.
答案
[语篇解读] 本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者和作者母亲从图书馆借书以及在家中读书时所发生的一些事情。
1.B 推理判断题。根据第一段中的“without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway”以及“If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes.”可知,Mrs. Calloway为人应该比较严厉,故选B。
2.A 词意猜测题。根据第四段第一句“My mother shared this feeling of mine.”可知,“this feeling”指的是作者的feeling,所以只要找出作者的feeling即为正确答案。根据第三段中的“I read library books as fast as I could go”以及“From the minute I reached our house, I started to read.”可知,作者非常热爱读书。故选A。
3.B 主旨大意题。本题问的是这篇文章的来源,考查学生对文章主旨的把握。本文是一篇记叙文,主要描写了作者和母亲的一些往事,故应该是来自人物自传,故选B。
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