Mrs. Amatuli was my teacher in the fourth grade. One day at lunch time,I was getting ready to eat my same old tuna fish(金槍魚)sandwich and suddenly Mrs. Amatuli asked me if she could buy my sandwich from me. She explained that I could use the money to buy a hot lunch from the cafeteria.
I was thrilled. I never bought my lunch at the cafeteria. It was too expensive for my family,and I always carried my lunch and brought the bag back home to use again the next day. My sandwiches were either bologna(大香腸)or tuna fish. It rarely varied beyond that.
You can understand my delight when I had the opportunity to buy a hot lunch.
When we finished lunch that day. Mrs. Amatuli took me aside and said she wanted to explain why she had bought my sandwich. I really didn’t care why, but it gave me a few minutes of her precious attention so I was very quiet as she explained. You see，she was Catholic and she told me that Catholics didn’t eat red meat on Fridays—they ate fish on Fridays.
Oh,I couldn’t wait to get home and tell my mama that from now on 1 wanted tuna fish on Fridays. After my mama understood why，she gladly fixed tuna fish for me on Fridays. She even fixed it on brown bread because she knew Mrs. Amatuli liked brown bread. From then on. every Friday I could get in line with the rest of the kids for a hot lunch. I didn’t care how many of the kids complained about cafeteria food—it tasted divine to me!
I realize now that Mrs. Amatuli could have fixed herself a tuna sandwich of Friday. But she bought my sandwich because she saw a 1ittle girl who was thrilled over the simple act of having a hot lunch.
I will never forget her for her compassion and generosity and what I should do is to follow her example.
小題1:Mrs.Arnatuli bought the writer’s sand wish because_____________.
A．she was tired of cafeteria food
B．she hated getting in line with kids
C．she didn’t eat red meat on Friday
D．she wanted to show care to the writer
小題2:What can we learn about the cafeteria food?
A．It was terrific.B．It was terrible.
C．The writer enjoyed it.D．Most kids were fond of it.
小題3:The underlined word "divine" in Paragraph 5 means___________.
A．perfectB．sweetC．unpleasantD．special
小題4:Which of the following can best show the theme of this text?
A．It is hard to please all.
B．Better to give than to receive.
C．Love makes the world go around.
D．The more you offer,the more you are rewarded.

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:C

試題分析：年幼的作者為能在學(xué)校買一份熱午餐而欣喜不已，事后才意識到是老師在不動(dòng)聲色地關(guān)心自己，感激之情油然而生，決心向她學(xué)習(xí)。
小題1:這是推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段提到作者后來意識到她之所以買作者的三明治是因?yàn)樗吹阶髡咭虺缘揭环轃嵛绮瓦@樣簡單的事情而非常激動(dòng)，由此可推斷她是想關(guān)心作者。故選D
小題2:這是推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段最后提到作者不在乎很多孩子對自助餐廳食物的抱怨，由此可推斷作者喜歡吃自助餐廳的食物。故選C。
小題3:這是詞義猜測題。根據(jù)破折號前面提到作者不在乎其他孩子對食物的抱怨，破折號后面是感嘆句，下一段的后半部分又提到作者因吃到一份熱午餐而非常激動(dòng)，由此可推斷作者覺得這些食物嘗起來非常好吃。故選A。
小題4:這是主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段揭示了Mrs. Amatuli買作者的三明治的真正原因，最后一段則提到作者將效仿她的熱情和慷慨，所以本文的主題應(yīng)是“愛能感動(dòng)世界”。故選C。
點(diǎn)評：詞義猜測題旨在考查學(xué)生根據(jù)上下文對生詞做出理解判斷的能力。近幾年來，閱讀理解中的詞義猜測題呈上升趨勢。在閱讀過程中根據(jù)選材、背景、及上下文等線索推測出生詞詞義是真實(shí)語言活動(dòng)中的重要技巧。這一能力可以說是體現(xiàn)閱讀理解能力的一項(xiàng)重要指標(biāo)。
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