15.When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines,Iowa,he told me about the only time he had been there.It was in the 1930s,when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University(SMU) in Dallas,Texas.He also worked as a professor at SMU,and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease.She couldn't afford the operation because her family was poor.
Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston,a seaside town near Houston,Texas.She was cleaning out the attic(閣樓) one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿).On its top page were the words,"By O.Henry."It was a nice story,and she sent it to her daughter at SMU,who showed it to my father.My father had never read the story before,but it sounded like O.Henry,and he knew that O.Henry had once lived in Houston.So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse,and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident.My father visited an O.Henry expert at Columbia University in New York,who authenticated the story as O.Henry's.
My father then set out to sell it.Eventfully,he found himself in Des Moines,meeting with Gardner Cowles,a top editor at the Des Moines Register.Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot.My father took the money to the girl.It was just enough for her to have the operation she so badly needed.
My father never told me what the O.Henry story was about.But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
24.Who found the O.Henry's manuscript?A
A.The girl's mother.
B.The author's father.
C.The girl.
D.The author.
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A.O.Henry once worked in Houston.
B.O.Henry once stayed in Galveston.
C.O.Henry once moved to Des Moines.
D.O.Henry once taught at SMU.
26.The underlined word"authenticated"in Paragraph 2probably means"C".
A.named              
B.treated       
C.proved          
D.described
27.According to the text,why did the author's father go to Des Moines?A
A.To sell the O.Henry story.
B.To meet the author himself.
C.To talk with the O.Henry expert.
D.To give money to the girl.

分析 這是一位處于貧困中的母親在發(fā)現(xiàn)O.Henry書稿時(shí)沒有私藏,而是轉(zhuǎn)交給作者的父親,作者的父親讓專家鑒定后將書稿賣的錢如數(shù)給小女孩的母親,生病的孩子得救了.

解答 24.A.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)文章第二段中的"She was cleaning out the attic(閣樓) one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿)"可判斷出,是那位生病女孩的母親在打掃閣樓時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)的這本手稿,她把手稿送給她的女兒,然后她的女兒又給我的父親看.故可知,是那個(gè)女孩的母親發(fā)現(xiàn)的手稿.故答案為A.
25.B.推理判斷題.根據(jù)文章中的"…stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse"可判斷出,我的父親知道O.Henry曾經(jīng)去過Houston,在Galveston住過,所以這就可能解釋他的手稿出現(xiàn)在閣樓的事實(shí).故答案為B.
26.C.詞義猜測題.根據(jù)前后的語境,我的父親去拜訪了一位研究O.Henry的專家,從下文的"My father then set out to sell it"以及后面的事實(shí)可判斷出,那位專家證明這本手稿是真正的O.Henry的作品.a(chǎn)uthenticate意思是"證明(某物)為真".故答案為C.
27.A.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)文章第三段中的"My father then set out to sell it"以及"he found himself in Des Moines"可知,我的父親是去這個(gè)地方出售O.Henry的手稿的.故答案為A.

點(diǎn)評(píng) 考察學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時(shí)一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進(jìn)行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個(gè)人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí),要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.

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增加:在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)(∧),并在其下寫出該加的詞。

刪除:把多余的詞用斜線(\)劃掉。

修改:在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線,并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意:1.每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞;

2.只允許修改10處,多者(從第11處起)不計(jì)分。

When I was a child, I spent more than ten years learn the violin. Therefore, I couldn’t understand ‘real music’. After I graduated at high school, a friend of mine suggested that we started to learn the guitar because we all thought it was cool. I will never forget the day on that we went to buy guitars in the guitar store. There I saw a guitar player playing the guitar, which I really enjoy. He became my the first guitar teacher. It took me such a long time choose a guitar among several wonderful model. Now the guitar is the most importantly part of my life and I practice it every day.

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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:選擇題

5.Mr Ware is             teacher              we all like him.( 。
A.such a good,thatB.such good a,that
C.so good,thatD.so a good,that.

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