Jack used to curse(咒罵) the front yard as if it were a living thing. He was the man who lived with my grandmother for thirty years. He was not my grandfather, but an Italian who came down the road one day, selling fruit in Florida.
Jack stopped at my grandmother’s house to sell her some oranges just a stone’s throw from downtown Miami, and he was delivering her whiskey a week later. He stayed for thirty years. Jack hated the front yard because he thought it was against him. There had been a beautiful lawn(草坪) there when Jack came along, but he let it wander off into nothing. He refused to water it or take care of it in any way.
Now the ground was so hard that it gave his car flat tires(輪胎) in the summer. The yard was always finding a nail to put in one of his tires or the car as always sinking out of sight in the winter when the rains came on. The lawn had belonged to my grandfather, who lived out the end of his life in an insane hospital. It had been his pride and joy and was said to be the place where his powers came.
小題1:It can be inferred that the real reason Jack had problems with the yard was that _______.
A．he didn’t like the lawn.
B．the author’s grandfather was against Jack working on the lawn
C．the lawn was full of living things
D．he himself did not take care of the lawn
小題2:We can learn from the passage that when the lawn belonged to the author’s grandfather, it had been _______.
A．beautifulB．worn outC．wastedD．full of nails
小題3:What do we know about Jack and the author’s grandfather?
A．They both hated the front lawn.
B．Jack was jealous of the author’s grandfather.
C．They sold fruit in Florida.
D．They came from Italy and lived together.

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:B

Jack為什么曾經(jīng)指桑罵槐，因?yàn)樗刀饰易娓�。我祖父曾把前花園弄得很漂亮。
小題1:判斷題。從第2段最后一句話He refused to water it or take care of it in any way. 可以判斷。
小題2:語義理解題。根據(jù)There had been a beautiful lawn(草坪) there when Jack came along, but he let it wander off into nothing 可知答案。
小題3:判斷題。運(yùn)用排除法：根據(jù)原文可知A、C、D三項(xiàng)明顯不對(duì)。再看第1段第1句話的意思：Jack 過去常常咒罵前花園，就好像那花園是一個(gè)有生命的東西一樣，可以看出Jack 不是在罵花園，而是指桑罵槐，所以選B。
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