At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer(拖車) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced.
We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house – something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.
On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, "What do you want for your new room?" Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were surprised when Josh responded, "I just want a bed."
The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.
When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.
That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway.
As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, "What is that?"
"A pillow," she replied.
"What do you do with it?" Eric continued to ask.
"When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” I answered softly. Tears came to our eyes as she handed Eric the pillow.
"Oh . . . that's soft," he said, hugging it tightly.
Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my Dad gently asks, "Do you have a pillow?"
We know exactly what he means.
【小題1】The writer’s first volunteer project was .
A.working on a poor trailer |
B.helping a poor family |
C.donating beds and bedding |
D.dealing with a housing problem |
A.the family lived in a trailer |
B.he expected to get some toys |
C.he didn’t know what a bed was |
D.the boys had no bed to sleep in |
A.a(chǎn) trailer | B.a(chǎn) truck | C.a(chǎn) pillow | D.a(chǎn) house |
A.what they want to get may be unnecessary |
B.they should not waste money on small things |
C.they should do more volunteer work for the poor |
D.what he will buy is not what they want but a pillow |
【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】C
【小題4】A
解析試題分析:本文講述了作者第一次和父親去志愿幫助一個窮人家庭的事情。
【小題1】細節(jié)題。從we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer(拖車) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced. 可知作者的第一次志愿活動是幫助一個貧困的家庭,故選B
【小題2】細節(jié)題。從The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. 可知作者之所以驚訝是因為孩子們沒有床可以睡,故選D
【小題3】細節(jié)題。從As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, "What is that?"
和Eric 的問題中可知Eric 從沒有見過枕頭,故選C
【小題4】推斷題。從父親的話中可以知道他們所想要得到的可能并非是我們認為必須的東西,故選A
考點:日常生活類記敘文
點評:記敘文是高考必考題型,此類題型比較好解答,在答題過程中注意結(jié)合題目在文章中找到答案的位置,注意理解作者所要表達感情色彩和中心思想。 同時,如果第一遍不能理解,結(jié)合題目來進行理解全文,也不失為一個好的方法。
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40.A.dots B.signs C.signals D.symbols
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B.Bolt thinks the world Championships is more important. |
C.Bolt made a big difference in the London Grand Prix. |
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