I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, “Son, remember: Be slow and steady, and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”
Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”
I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”
“He must wish that already,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”
“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare didn’t happen to fall asleep, the tortoise would never win the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never win the race. That’s for sure.”
I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless.
小題1:The writer argued with his son because ______________.
A．he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B．they disagreed about whether the tortoise was foolish
C．he tried to teach his son a lesson but the son had totally different opinion
D．he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t.
小題2:Sonny believed that the tortoise ______________.
A．won the race by his own hard working
B．took a risk by agreeing to run a race
C．was not given a fair chance in the race
D．in fact did win the race luckily
小題3:Billy, Tony and Sandy must be_______________.
A．boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father
B．boys who Sonny has run races with before
C．boys who Sonny has never raced with before
D．boys who Sonny did not hope to race with again
小題4:According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson? ______________.
A．The tortoiseB．Sonny
C．The hareD．Sonny’s father

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題2:B
小題4:D

試題分析：短文大意：父親本想通過龜兔賽跑的故事教育兒子，但是最終卻沒能說服自己的兒子，因為兒子說的也很有道理。
小題1:主旨大意題。閱讀短文可知本文中的父親和兒子對于龜兔賽跑的故事各有不同的認(rèn)識，故選C。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“He won it because he was lucky.描述，可知烏龜贏得比賽完全是出于幸運。故選D。
小題2:推理判斷題。根據(jù)“Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”描述，可知索尼以前肯定和這三個人進(jìn)行過賽跑比賽。故選B。
小題4:推理判斷題。閱讀短文可知，父親本想通過龜兔賽跑的故事教育兒子，但是最終卻沒能說服自己的兒子，因為兒子說的也很有道理。故選D。
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