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【題目】Willa Cather once said, "When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the famous saying: The end is nothing；the road is all. That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never used the computer with the thought that one more task had to be done."

Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from child to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plain with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers.

"It's a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower, an old factory, a waterfall, the country all made to look like a German Christmas card...But when I come to the open plain, something happens. I'm home. I breathe differently."

【1】Willa Cather wrote because she found writing _____.

A. simple and lively

B. opened up a road to success

C. neither too hard nor too easy

D. interesting and enjoyable

【2】What was the place like where Cather grew up?

A. It was cold, plain and without a church.

B. It was vast, open and flat.

C. It was like a German Christmas card.

D. It was a colorful world of wild flowers.

【3】When she said "It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold.", Willa Cather meant that _____.

A. you either love the place or hate it

B. you decide either to stay or to leave

C. some find the place warm; others find it cold

D. some find the place peaceful; others find it wild

【4】What happens when Cather comes to the open plain?

A. She breathes differently from others.

B. She wants to make the place her home.

C. She feels completely comfortable.

D. She finds the place similar to her home.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】A

【4】C

【解析】作家薇拉凱瑟以自幼所熟悉的西部生活為題材，創(chuàng)作出很多富有地方特色的作品。薇拉凱瑟認(rèn)為，寫(xiě)作本身很重要，它能帶給人快樂(lè)，她不以寫(xiě)作作為賺錢(qián)的手段，而是喜歡寫(xiě)作帶來(lái)的樂(lè)趣。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中的句子“Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing.”可知，薇拉凱瑟認(rèn)為寫(xiě)作能給她帶來(lái)快樂(lè)，也就是充滿趣味性，故答案為D。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段"where she grew from childhood to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the Great Plains with its wild flowers，wheat fields and rivers"和最后一段"But when I come to the open plains"可知，作家薇拉凱瑟的故鄉(xiāng)是廣闊的、開(kāi)放的、平坦的，故選B。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段"A great many people find it very dull；…But when I come to the open plains, something happens．I'm home. I breathe differently.""可知，有的人不喜歡那里，而作者卻很喜歡自己的家鄉(xiāng)，故選A。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段"But when I come to the open plains，something happens. I'm home."可知，作者來(lái)到廣闊的草原就像到了自己的家一樣，感覺(jué)舒適而溫馨，故選C。