Something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tattat of gunfire. "Father!" Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced out of the living room.

  "Father!What's that sound?" Hassan screamed,his hands outstretched toward Ali. Ali wrapped his arms around us. A white light flashed and lit the sky in silver. It flashed again and was followed by rapid sharp sounds of gunfire.

  "They're hunting ducks, ”Ali said in a hoarse voice. "They hunt ducks at night,you know. Don't be afraid."

  A siren (警報(bào)聲) went off in the distance. Somewhere glass broke and someone shouted. I heard people on the street,awakened from sleep. Hassan was crying. Ali pulled him close and held him with tenderness.

  We stayed huddled (蜷縮) that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour,but they had frightened us badly,because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generations of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of the bombs and gunfire were not yet born. Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise,none of us had any idea that a way of life had ended. The end came when Russian tanks were rolling into the very same streets where Hassan and I played,bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting.

  Just before the sunrise,Baba's car pulled into the driveway. His door slammed shut and his running footsteps pounded the stairs. Then he appeared in the doorway and I saw something on his face. Something I didn't recognize right away because I'd never seen it before：fear. "Amir!Hassan！" He cried as he ran to us,opening his arms wide. "They blocked all the roads and the telephone didn't work. I was so worried！"

  We let him wrap us in his arms and,for a brief moment,I was glad about whatever had happened that night.

(   ) 1. Who is the author of this passage?

   A. Hassan. B. Ali. C. Baba. D. Amir.

(   ) 2. By saying "They're hunting ducks"，Ali         .

   A. told the children the truth   B. tried to calm the children

   C. played a joke on the children   D. cheered the children up

(   ) 3. We can infer from the passage that         .

   A. there were thunderstorms that night

   B. Afghan children were used to the war

   C. that night was the end of people's peaceful life

   D. people on the street shouted and broke the windows

(   ) 4. From the last sentence of the passage,we know         .

   A. the author was glad to see his father come home safe

   B. there was a chance that a world in peace was to come

   C. what happened that night seemed nothing to the author

   D. Baba's arms gave the author temporary comfort and joy 

本文描繪的是俄軍侵人阿富汗前夜的一幕：到處槍炮聲，人們恐慌的心情。

1. D該題為細(xì)節(jié)題，由原文"'Father!What's that sound?' Hassan screamed,his hands outstretched toward Ali."和"'Amir!Hassan！' He cried as he ran to us"可排除A、B、C三項(xiàng)，得出答案為D.

2. B該題為邏輯推理題。該篇文章講的是戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，Ali卻說(shuō)是在打鴨子，其實(shí)是為了讓孩子不那么害怕。

3. C該題同樣為邏輯推理題。根據(jù)原文"because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets."可推出。第四段"Somewhere glass broke and someone shouted"指的是炮火震碎了玻璃，不是人們打碎玻璃，不可選D項(xiàng)。

4. D該題同樣為邏輯推理題。由"for a brief moment…"意即：If it had not happened that day,Baba wouldn't have wrapped us in his arms.可推出選   D.

語(yǔ)篇導(dǎo)讀:一份新研究表明，交流技術(shù)在傳遞事實(shí)時(shí)差別很大，人們?cè)陔娫?huà)中說(shuō)謊的可能性是在電子郵件中的兩倍。

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