I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a driver's license. For the next eight hours I wanted to throw myself into helping people who I knew had much more to worry about than I did. Rebekah, mother of three lovely little girls, was only 32, admitted for chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery, When I gave her an injection, Rebekah shut her eyes tightly and murmured a prayer until it was over. Then she smiled and squeezed my hand. “Before you go, could you get my Bible from the table?" I handed her the worn book. "Do you have a favorite Bible verse?" she asked. "Jesus wept. John 11: 35." "Such a sad one," she said. "Why?""It makes me feel closer to Jesus, knowing he also experienced human sorrow." Rebekah nodded thoughtfully and started flipping through her Bible as I shut the door quietly behind me.
During the following months, her hospital stays became frequent and she worried about her children. One day when I entered her room, I found her talking into a tape recorder. She picked up a notebook and held it out to me. "I'm making a tape for my daughters, " she said. I read the list on her pad: starting school, confirmation, turning 16, first date, graduation. While I worried how to help her deal with death, she was planning for her children's future. She usually waited until the early hours of the morning to record the tapes so she could be free from interruptions. She filled them with family stories and advice，trying to cram a lifetime of love into a few precious hours. Finally, every item in her notes had been checked off and she entrusted the tapes to her husband.
I often wondered what I would say in her place. My kids joked that I was like an FBI agent, with my constant questions about where they’d been and who they’d been with. Where, I thought, are my words of encouragement and love?
It was three o'clock one afternoon when I got an urgent call from the hospital. Rebekah wanted me to come immediately with a blank tape. She was breathing hard when I entered her room. I slipped the tape into the recorder and held the microphone to her lips. "Ruthie, Hannah, Molly, this is the most important tape." She held my hand and closed her eyes. "Someday your daddy will bring home a new mommy. Please make her feel special. Show her how to take care of you. Ruthie, honey, help her get your Brownie uniform ready each Tuesday. Hannah, tell her you don't want meat sauce on your spaghetti. Molly, don't get mad if there's no apple juice. Drink something else. It's okay to be sad, sweeties. Jesus cried too. He knows about sadness and will help you to be happy again. Remember, I'll always love you. I shut off the recorder and Rebekah sighed deeply. "Thank you, Nan, "You'll give this one to them, won't you?" she murmured as she slid into sleep.
A time would come when the tape would be played for Rebekah's children, but right then, after I smoothed Rebekah's blanket, I got in my car and hurried home. I thought of how my Shannon also liked her sauce on the side and suddenly that quirk, which had annoyed me so many times, seemed to make her so much more precious. That night the kids didn't go out; they sat with me long after the spaghetti sauce had dried onto the dishes. And we talked, without interrogations, without complaints，late into the night.
小題1:From the first paragraph we can learn that ____________ .
A．Nan was in a bad state and wept a lot in her daily life.
B．Nan was not on good terms with her children.
C．Nan was worried about how to help Rebeka deal with her death.
D．Nan laid more stress on attending on her patients than her children.
小題2:Which of the following scenes was most likely to be seen at Nan’s home before she met Rebekah?
A．The family sat down in a circle and shared an interesting story.
B．After dinner, the children either went out or shut themselves up in their rooms.
C．The son was the headache of the parents while the daughter their comfort.
D．When Eric did poorly at school, the parents comforted him and cheered him up.
小題3:Which was the most vital message Rebekah left to her children?
A．Bringing home satisfying school report cards
B．Landing a job after graduation
C．Growing up healthily and happily
D．Accepting their step-mother into their lives.
小題4:The writer learnt from Rebekah that a parent’s real concern should be_______.           .
A．protecting the children from the dangers they may be trapped in.
B．having encouraging and loving talks with children.
C．making tape records to guide the children in their future lives.
D．tolerating the children’s annoying quirks.

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:B

試題分析： 本文敘述了一位和孩子們相處并不融洽的醫(yī)生，從他的病人Rebekah身上看到了對孩子的愛。Rebekah有三個孩子，在她患乳腺癌晚期，她總是在錄一些磁帶，以備她死后能讓孩子永遠感覺到母親對他們的關心。作者作為她的醫(yī)生目睹了一切，并從她身上學到了如何關愛孩子。
小題1:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段第二句“My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a driver's license.”作者的兒子帶來了令人失望的成績單，女兒和他在關于取得駕照那件事上吵了一架�？芍髡吆退暮⒆觽兿嗵幍牟缓�。故選B。
小題2:推理題。文章第二句的介紹可知作者和子女們關系不融洽，第三段孩子們說他像聯(lián)邦調查局的特工，而最后一句“That night the kids didn't go out; they sat with me long after the spaghetti sauce had dried onto the dishes. And we talked, without interrogations, without complaints，late into the night.”說明在作者看到Rebekah如何對待孩子之后的那晚，他們飯后在餐桌上聊了許久。可以推測在見到Rebekah之前Nan家里的情況很可能是“晚飯后，孩子們都出去了或者各自回房間關上房門”。故答案選B。
小題3:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段"Ruthie, Hannah, Molly, this is the most important tape." She held my hand and closed her eyes. ”以及下面的敘述，可知Rebekah給孩子們最重要的信息是要接受他們的繼母。故答案選D。
小題4:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章中的描述和第四段“Remember, I'll always love you.”可知父母對孩子真正的關心應該是和孩子進行鼓勵和慈愛的交談。故答案選B。
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Carson also made the world aware of how scientific discoveries can harm as well as help living things. In her best-selling book Silent Spring, Carson challenged the profligate use of chemical pesticides by large agricultural and government organizations. She was the first to detail how the pesticide DDT had entered the food chain and damaged populations of bald eagles, falcons, and brown pelicans by causing the shells of their eggs to become so thin that they could not withstand the weight of the parent bird.
Carson died of cancer in 1964. Today, the Rachel Carson Council collects and disseminates (散播) information on pesticide-related issues. In 1970, the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, a large area of salt marsh and freshwater habitat in Maine, was dedicated to her memory.
小題1:Which of the following words is closest to the meaning of the underlined word in paragraph 3 ?
A．excessiveB．inadequateC．a(chǎn)uthoritativeD．efficient
小題2:Which of the following inferences is correct ?
A．Carson wrote books that the average person could understand.
B．Dangerous properties of new chemical products may be immediately apparent.
C．If not for Carson, no one would have learned about the dangers of DDT.
D．In 1970, large quantities of salt and freshwater were dedicated to Carson’s memory by the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge
小題3:Which of the statements below expresses the main idea of the passage ?
A．Writers have played an important role in the battle against pollution.
B．The scientist Rachel Carson taught people about environmental issues through her writing.
C．Carson’s book Silent Spring changed the way some pesticides were used.
D．Many of Carson’s books were about pesticide-related issues.

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