Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality(現(xiàn)實(shí)) of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable(不合情理的) thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四腳朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky(搖晃的) legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out(著手) to do .”
小題1:What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A．A happy thing.B．A difficult task.
C．A big dream.D．A beautiful scene.
小題2:What does the book A View from the Zoo talk about?
A．A new-born giraffe’s first lesson.
B．A mother giraffe’s story.
C．The lives of some great people.
D．The way for a giraffe to stand up.
小題3:Why were some great people mentioned in the passage?
A．Because they all worked hard.
B．Because they all liked to read some special stories.
C．Because they were born with some illnesses.
D．Because they were similar to giraffes in some ways.
小題4:Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?
A．This passage is a description of giraffes’ living habits.
B．Baby giraffes can’t stand up until three months old.
C．Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people.
D．The great people can’t stand up after they’re knocked down for years.
小題5:What would be the best title for the passage?
A．How to Raise a Baby Giraffe.
B．Learning to Get Back Up.
C．Stories about the great people.
D．A Mother Giraffe and Its Baby Giraffe.

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:C
小題5:B

試題分析：本文講述了Gary Richmond通過一本書講述了長(zhǎng)頸鹿媽媽給剛出生對(duì)的小長(zhǎng)頸鹿上的第一課，并聯(lián)系一些名人的故事進(jìn)行了論述。
小題1:根據(jù)下文中長(zhǎng)頸鹿媽媽對(duì)待剛出生的子女的態(tài)度可知，長(zhǎng)頸鹿的成長(zhǎng)是一個(gè)艱難的過程，而訓(xùn)練自己的子女，讓其快速適應(yīng)生存環(huán)境，是一個(gè)困難的任務(wù)。故本處 a tall order的意思就是一項(xiàng)困難的任務(wù)的意思。所以本題選B。
小題2:根據(jù)In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.可知，本書就是關(guān)于新出生的長(zhǎng)頸鹿的第一課。所以本題選A。
小題3:通過閱讀全文，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)文中提到的名人與長(zhǎng)頸鹿在某些方面非常相似。所以本題選D。
小題4:根據(jù)Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people.可知，本題應(yīng)該選C。
小題5:通過閱讀全文可知，本文主要講述了長(zhǎng)頸鹿出生后上的第一課，學(xué)會(huì)如何站起來，并聯(lián)系名人的事跡進(jìn)行論述。選項(xiàng)中只有B比較符合題意，其他選項(xiàng)比較片面。所以本題選B。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：閱讀本文時(shí)應(yīng)注意長(zhǎng)頸鹿媽媽不斷將小長(zhǎng)頸鹿踢到的原因，進(jìn)而理解一些名人的人生經(jīng)歷，真正體會(huì)作者寫文章的意圖。本文的內(nèi)容有一定的難度，需要反復(fù)閱讀，并結(jié)合后面的事例加以理解�？傊�，本題中的幾個(gè)小題均有一定的難度，需要反復(fù)加以考量。
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