He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.

“What's the matter, Schatz?”

“I've got a headache.”

“You better go back to bed.”

“No. I'm all right.”

“You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed.”

But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

“You go up to bed,” I said, “You're sick.”

“I'm all right,” he said.

When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.

“What's is it?” I asked him.

“One hundred and two.”

Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative(瀉藥), the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza(流感)can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic(傳染病;傳染性的) of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia(肺炎).

Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.

“Do you want me to read to you?”

“All right. If you want to, “ said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached(超然的;冷漠的)from what was going on.

I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates(海盜);but I could see he was not following what I was reading.

“How do you feel, Schatz?” I asked him.

“Just the same, so far,” he said.

I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.

“Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine.”

“I'd rather stay awake.”

After a while he said to me, “You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”

“It doesn't bother me.”

“No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you.”

I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out with my gun and the young hunting dog….I killed two quail(鵪鶉), and missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey of quail close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.

At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.

“You can't come in,” he said. “You mustn't get what I have.”

I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed(發(fā)紅)by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.

I took his temperature.

“What is it?”

“Something like a hundred,” I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths.

“It was a hundred and two,” he said.

“Who said so?”

“The doctor.”

“Your temperature is all right,” I said. “It's nothing to worry about.”

“I don't worry,” he said, “but I can't keep from thinking.”

“Don't think,” I said. “Just take it easy.”

“I'm taking it easy,” he said and looked straight ahead, He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.

“Take this with water.”

“Do you think it will do any good?”

“Of course it will.”

I sat down and opened the Pirate book and began to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.

“About what time do you think I'm going to die?” he asked.

“What?”

“About how long will it be before I die?”

“You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you? “

“Oh, yes, I am, I heard him say a hundred and two.”

“People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk.”

“I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two.”

He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.

“You poor Schatz,” I said. “Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight.”

“Are you sure?”

“Absolutely,” I said, “It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?”

“Oh,” he said.

But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack(松馳的) and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.

1.The author writes about the doctor’s visit in order to _____.

A.show the doctor’s knowledge about influenza and its treatment

B.show the boy’s illness was quite serious

C.create a situation of misunderstanding around which to build a story

D.show the father was very much concerned about the boy’s illness

2.The pronoun “it” in “Papa, if it bothers you” (line 41) refers to _____.

A.the boy’s high temperature

B.the father giving the medicine to the boy

C.the father staying with the boy

D.the boy’s death

3.It can be inferred from the story that it is _____ by the time the father gets home from hunting.

A.early in the afternoon

B.close to evening

C.a(chǎn)t noon

D.late in the morning

4.From the story we know that the boy kept tight control over himself because _____.

A.he did not want to be a bother to others

B.he wanted to recover quickly so that he could go hunting with his father

C.he was afraid that he would die if he lost control over himself

D.he thought he was going to die and he must show courage in the face of death

5.That the boy cried very easily at little things of no importance the next day suggests that _____.

A.he couldn’t control his emotions when he finally relaxed

B.his father would go out hunting without him if he didn’t cry

C.something went wrong with his brain after the fever

D.he often complained about unimportant things as a spoiled boy

6.The theme of the story is _____.

A.death is something beyond a child’s comprehension

B.to be calm and controlled in the face of death is a mark of courage

C.misunderstanding can occur even between father and son

D.misunderstanding can sometimes lead to an unexpected effect

 

【答案】

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.D

5.A

6.B

【解析】

試題分析:本文是海明威的《一天的等待》的具體內(nèi)容,并告訴我們以人的尊嚴(yán)和勇氣面對厄運(yùn)迎接生活挑戰(zhàn)的”硬漢”精神。

1. C. 主旨大意題。本文是海明威的《一天的等待》。敘述了一個九歲男孩由于不知道有兩種不同計算方式的溫度計,在與父親交談的過程中產(chǎn)生了誤解,誤以為自己將不久于人世。竭力表現(xiàn)出冷靜與勇敢的他靜靜地等待著死亡的降臨,直到得知這僅僅是一個誤解,才逐漸放松下來。作品體現(xiàn)了海明威所提倡的以人的尊嚴(yán)和勇氣面對厄運(yùn)迎接生活挑戰(zhàn)的”硬漢”精神。

2.D. 推理題。兒子聽到醫(yī)生說102度,就認(rèn)為自己即將死亡。與下文父親所說的”it”不是同一概念。故D正確。

3. B.推理題。 故事開頭結(jié)合下文的after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out …及He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning. 可知B正確。。

4.D.推理題。 本文中小男孩竭力表現(xiàn)出冷靜與勇敢的他靜靜地等待著死亡的降臨,直到得知這僅僅是一個誤解,才逐漸放松下來。作品體現(xiàn)了海明威所提倡的以人的尊嚴(yán)和勇氣面對厄運(yùn)迎接生活挑戰(zhàn)的”硬漢”精神。故D正確。

5. A. 推理題。一個九歲的男孩前一天竭力表現(xiàn)出冷靜與勇敢,靜靜地等待著死亡的降臨。但孩子必竟只是孩子,緊繃的心放松后變得很脆弱。故A正確。

6. B. 目的意圖題。本文是海明威的《一天的等待》。敘述了一個九歲男孩由于不知道有兩種不同計算方式的溫度計,在與父親交談的過程中產(chǎn)生了誤解,誤以為自己將不久于人世。竭力表現(xiàn)出冷靜與勇敢的他靜靜地等待著死亡的降臨,直到得知這僅僅是一個誤解,才逐漸放松下來。作品體現(xiàn)了海明威所提倡的以人的尊嚴(yán)和勇氣面對厄運(yùn)迎接生活挑戰(zhàn)的”硬漢”精神。故B正確。

考點:考查文學(xué)類短文閱讀

點評:本文是海明威的《一天的等待》。本文要求考生在閱讀理解整體語篇的基礎(chǔ)上,把握文章的真正內(nèi)涵。要吃透文章的字面意思,從字里行間捕捉有用的提示和線索,這是推理的前提和基礎(chǔ);要對文字的表面信息進(jìn)行挖掘加工,由表入里,由淺入深,從具體到抽象,從非凡到一般,通過分析、綜合、判定等,進(jìn)行深層處理,符合邏輯地推理。不能就是論事,斷章取義,以偏概全。要忠實于原文,以文章提供的事實和線索為依據(jù)。

 

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