Question

11．Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family．The family were rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room．Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement．As they made their bed on the hard floor，the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it．When the younger angel asked why，the older angel replied："Things aren't always what they seem．"
    The next night the paircame to rest at the house of a very poor，but very hospitable（好客的）farmer and his wife．After sharing what little food they had，the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest．When the sun came up the next morning，the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears．Their only cow，whose milk had been their only income，lay dead in the field．
The younger angel was very angry and asked the older angel，"How could this happen？""Why did you not watch out for the cow？The first man had everything，yet you wat ched over his house，"she accused．"The second family had little but was willing to share everything，and you did not help．"
"Things aren't always what they seem，"the older angel replied．"When we stayed in the basement，I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall．Since the owner was so greedy and unwilling to share his good fortune，I asked God if I could seal（封口） the wall so he wouldn't find it．Then last night as we slept in the farmer's bed，the angel of death（死神） came for his wife．I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead．Things aren't always what they seem．"
21．The underlined part"the pair"in the second paragraph two refers toD．
A．the poor couple    B．the rich couple    C．the guests        D．the angels
22．The younger angel was very angry becauseA．
A．the older angel treated the two families unfairly．
B．the older angel killed the farmer's cow．
C．the wealthy man gave them a bad place to live．
D．the angel of death took the cow away．
23．Why did the older angel let the farmer's cow die？A
A．Because she wanted to save the farmer's wife．
B．Because she wanted to teach the younger angel a lesson．
C．Because she was sympathetic to the rich．
D．Because God wanted the older angel to take the cow．
24．The story tries to tell the reader thatD．
A．the young should always learn from the old  
B．a(chǎn)ngels are always ready to help the poor．
C．a(chǎn)ngels are always ready to help the rich．
D．sometimes things are not what they seem．

Answer 1

分析 這篇短文講述的是兩個天使來到人間，他們先到了一個富人的家里，富人待他們很不好，讓他們睡在地下室里．其中一個天使看到墻上有個洞，他幫這個富人把洞補好．
第二天兩個天使又來到了一個窮人的家里，窮人夫婦對他們很熱情，第二天窮人家的牛死了，天使沒有幫忙．更年輕一點的天使覺得很不可理解．老一點的天使說，事情
并不是像你看到的那樣的．我?guī)椭�窮人補洞是因為在那個地下室里有金子，這樣富人就發(fā)現(xiàn)不了了；而昨天晚上死神天使來拿窮人妻子的性命，我讓他用牛的命替換了他妻子的命．

解答 21．D，單詞指代題，短文前面講了兩個天使來到人間的故事，因此這里的the pair指代的是Two travelling angels，故答案為D．
22．A，細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章的第三段可知，年輕的天使對老天使的做法很生氣，是因為富人對他們不好，他反而幫富人修補墻上的洞，而窮人對他們很好，在他們的牛生病時，天使卻不幫忙．所以他覺得老天使對待這兩個家庭不公平．故選A．
23．A，細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章最后一段中 last night as we slept in the farmer"s bed，the angel of death came for his wife．I asked God if the angel could take the cow instead可知，原本死神天使是來去窮人妻子的命的，但是天使幫忙請求上帝用牛的性命來代替，故而救了窮人妻子的命．故選A．
24．D，主旨大意題．這篇短文通過這樣一個故事想要告訴我們，有時候事情并不總是表面看起來的那個樣子的，即So things aren‘t always what they seem．故選D．

點評 解答任務型閱讀理解題，首先對原文材料迅速瀏覽，掌握全文的主旨大意．因為閱讀理解題一般沒有標題，所以，速讀全文，抓住中心主旨很有必要，在速讀的過程中，應盡可能多地捕獲信息材料．其次，細讀題材，各個擊破．掌握全文的大意之后，細細閱讀每篇材料后的問題，弄清每題要求后，帶著問題，再回到原文中去尋找、捕獲有關信息．最后，要善于抓住每段的主題句，閱讀時，要有較強的針對性．對于捕獲到的信息，要做認真分析，仔細推敲，理解透徹，只有這樣，針對題目要求，才能做到穩(wěn)、準．