I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare (兔子) and the tortoise (烏龜). At the end I said, “ Son, remember: Be slow and steady (鎮(zhèn)定的), 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 have wished that,” 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 perseverance (堅忍不拔的), by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won 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 (辯論)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 moral (品德) 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 (冒險) 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 expect to race with again
小題4:The writer thinks that his generation (一代人) ______________.
A．a(chǎn)re cleverer than Sonny’s generation
B．have the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation
C．a(chǎn)re more hopeful than Sonny’s generation
D．have different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation
小題5: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3:B
小題4:D
小題5:D

試題分析：本文是一位父親和兒子關(guān)于龜兔賽跑的辨論，兒子的觀點和父親是完全不一樣了，說明兩代人的思想上有了代溝。
小題1:C 推理題。根據(jù)5,6段“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance (堅忍不拔的), by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race.說明我是想通過這個故事告訴兒子毅力的重要性，但是兒子有完全不同的觀點，認為這個故事的假的。說明現(xiàn)在的孩子和以前的不一樣了。故C正確。
小題2:D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段第2行“He won it because he was lucky.說明他認為烏龜贏得比賽是幸運，是運氣好，故D項正確。
小題3:B 推理題。根據(jù)第二段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?”說明這幾個孩子一定是以前和他一起跑步的孩子，故B正確。
小題4:D 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless.說明作者已經(jīng)認識到現(xiàn)在的孩子和以前的孩子已經(jīng)不一樣了，故D正確。
小題5:D 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段說明是Sonny的父親從這次談話中得出教訓(xùn)，就是現(xiàn)在的孩子和以前不一樣了。故D正確、
點評：本文通過一個辯論說明代溝的存在�？疾榈念}目以推理題為主，推斷題測試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系，對未說明的趨勢或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點理論，對文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋�？忌紫纫屑氶喿x短文，完整了解信息，準確把握作者觀點。
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