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That summer an army of crickets(蟋蟀) started a war with my father. Dad didn’t care for insects much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to support her point she wouldn’t go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father’s cigarettes and paced between the sofa and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed poison from a jug. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it.

  For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that we’d all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn’t like because he scratched for no reason.

  However, soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upset because she thought they were the dead crickets coming back, but Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the basement again.

  A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.

  While we ate supper that evening, the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower’s(割草機(jī)) fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn’t much anyone could do.

  After the fire trucks left, Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail’s. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didn’t talk much, while all around the noise of crickets broke our silence.

1.What do we know about the author’s mother?

A. She didn’t like insects at all.

 B. She liked insects more than his father.

 C. She cared for insects very much.

 D. She could only tolerate a few insects.

2.The author’s father drove to the store to buy _______.

A. cigarettes for himself                                                   B. some poison

C. more coffee for his wife                                              D. some gasoline

3.The author’s father burned the old newspapers and magazines because he thought ______.

A. they were no longer useful

B. the crickets were afraid of fires

C. they became the home of crickets

D. the dead crickets came back to life

4.We learn from the last paragraph that ________.

A. the author’s family lost their battle against the crickets

B. the author’s parents learned to put up with insects

C. the author’s family didn’t suffer much in the fire

D. the author’s parents got divorced

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了作者媽媽不能忍受蟋蟀的叫聲，父親用毒藥毒死蟋蟀后再焚燒它們的身體時(shí)不小心引著了木堆，割草機(jī)油箱中的汽油發(fā)生爆炸并波及到房屋，作者的媽媽帶著其他人去了Gail嬸嬸家，作者和爸爸還有Burt叔叔把房屋中的東西搬出去后堆放在路邊，并一直忙到晚上，此時(shí)打破他們之間沉默的還是蟋蟀的叫聲這一故事。

1.推理題，第一段中提到作者的爸爸能夠容忍在地下室中有幾只昆蟲，而作者的媽媽在城市中長大，說蟋蟀太吵了，為了證明這一點(diǎn)，她不肯睡覺，喝咖啡，吸煙，甚至要威脅離開，由此可知她根本不喜歡昆蟲。故選A。

2.細(xì)節(jié)題，根據(jù)第一段中“Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed poison from a jug.”內(nèi)容可知，在作者的媽媽的一番折騰后，作者的爸爸開車去商店買回了一些毒藥。故選B。

3.細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第四段最后一句“Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests. ”爸爸焚燒了大量舊報(bào)紙和舊雜志，說蟋蟀已經(jīng)把報(bào)紙和雜志變成了窩。故選C。

4.推理題，作者的爸爸用毒藥殺死一些蟋蟀，之后木堆起火，割草機(jī)油箱中的汽油發(fā)生爆炸并波及到房屋，作者的媽媽帶著其他人去了Gail嬸嬸家，作者和爸爸還有Burt叔叔把房屋中的東西搬出去后堆放在路邊，并一直忙到晚上，此時(shí)打破他們之間沉默的還是蟋蟀的叫聲，由此可推斷在與蟋蟀的戰(zhàn)爭中，作者一家失敗了。故選A。

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