If you want to know how crazy people can be about their pets, you might remember that Helmsley left $12 million to her little Maltese dog when she died last year.
The dog's name is Trouble. And apparendy Trouble is still alive. Of course, I would hang on,too, if someone left me $12 million. Look! Top-shelf dog food, soft pillows everywhere, drivers walking me in nice leafy parks. I would live to be 110 in dog years.
The dog's story is still fresh in my mind the other night when I leave a steak house after a superb meal. Then I notice a woman carrying a small bag out of the door behind me.
Once outside, she walks over to where a man is holding a tiny dog hke it's a baby. The dog looks like a Maltese, too, barking and annoying, with a cute haircut,
And now I am treated to an absolute astonishing sight. Because now the woman reaches into the bag and begins pulling out little pieces of meat, which she puts on a plastic spoon and feeds to the dog.
This is no cheap steak house. It's actually, way out of my league --I'm there only because it's a special occasion. I can tell you this: if I walked out of the place with any leftover steak, it sure wouldn't go to a dog. Not at those prices.
So now the woman is Spoon-feeding the dog and the man is just standing there, holding this dog and looking as if this is the most normal thing in the world. And the dog is calmly chewing these pieces of steak as if he's a little king. And this dog is in no hurry. He's having a great time.
A few minutes go by, and now the dog finishes all of his steak. At this point, I hear the woman say to the man "Think he's still hungry?" And she glances behind her at the restaurant, as if she might go back in there to get more steak for the dog.
Watching all this, I'm afraid I'm going to shout, "Are you out of your mind? Feeding all that pricey steak to that little dog? Did you see what our American life is like today? We're all going to be eating dog food if this keeps up!"        
小題1:Why would the author live to be 110 in dog years?
A．Because he is always in poor health and falls ill.
B．Because a Maltese dog lives longer than a human being.
C．Because his grandparents left him a large sum of money.
D．Because he thinks the dog is treated extremely well.
小題2:What is the story mainly about?
A．An American family's happy life.
B．A Maltese dog getting $12 million from its owner.
C．A New Yorker spending $ 8 billion for a few banks.
D．A pet dog being fed with expensive food.
小題3:The underlined sentence "It's actually way out of my league. " (in Para. 6) means __
A．the restaurant is too expensive for the author
B．the author hates the dog being taken there
C．the superb restaurant is about to be out of service
D．the dog doesn't belong to the author's group
小題4:Seeing the dog.is being treated to expensive steak, the author becomes extremely ____
A．indifferentB．a(chǎn)nnoyed C．concernedD．envious

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:B

試題分析：本文講述了在現(xiàn)在的美國(guó)社會(huì)里，很多的寵物得到了超乎尋常的待遇。文章中舉例進(jìn)行了說(shuō)明。
小題1:D 推理題。根據(jù)文章第二段Of course, I would hang on,too, if someone left me $12 million. Look! Top-shelf dog food, soft pillows everywhere, drivers walking me in nice leafy parks.說(shuō)明這只狗的待遇非常好，讓作者很羨慕。所以他才這樣說(shuō)。故D正確。
小題2:D 段落大意題。根據(jù)文章后四段內(nèi)容可知，這四段內(nèi)容講述的是一個(gè)富人給這只狗吃昂貴的牛排的故事，故D正確。
小題3:A 推理題。根據(jù)本句This is no cheap steak house. It's actually, way out of my league --I'm there only because it's a special occasion.說(shuō)明這里的牛排很貴，超出了作者承受的范圍。故A正確。
小題4:B 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后3行Watching all this, I'm afraid I'm going to shout, "Are you out of your mind? Feeding all that pricey steak to that little dog? Did you see what our American life is like today? We're all going to be eating dog food if this keeps up!"說(shuō)明作者很生氣，故B正確。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文講述了在現(xiàn)在的美國(guó)社會(huì)里，很多的寵物得到了超乎尋常的待遇。要求考生在理解原文表面文字信息的基礎(chǔ)上，做出一定判斷和推論，從而得到文章的隱含意義和深層意義。推理題所涉及的內(nèi)容可能是文中某一句話，也可是某幾句話，但做題的指導(dǎo)思想都是以文字信息為依據(jù)，既不能做出在原文中找不到文字根據(jù)的推理，也不能根據(jù)表面文字信息做多步推理，要根據(jù)原文表面文字信息一步推出的答案。
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