Question

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.

Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability無能無力 to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly( 笨拙地) from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.

Over dinner; we learned the situation of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately不顧一切地, she explained.

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”

The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

1.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

A．Friends of the Road	B．The Silent Woman on the Bus
C．Going to Work by Bus	D．Different Kinds of Friendship

2.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

A．poor

B．warm hearted

C．silent

D．cold

3.The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as _____.

A．keep

B．discover

C．set up

D．a(chǎn)ccept

4.The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

A．they both disabled people

B．they both had some difficulty in expressing

C．they both liked bus travel

D．they both brought interest to the passengers

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.B

【解析】

試題分析:

1.考察主旨大意題。本題是讓學(xué)生選出本文的最佳題目，也是總結(jié)概括的題型，通讀全文可知，作者和他的妻子在星期日早上的巴士車上遇到了很多“無名”的人才改變了他們的一些看法。故用Friends of the Road比較貼切這篇文章；B項的巴士車上的安靜女人，太片面；C項的坐巴士車去上班，文章沒有提到；D項不同種類的友誼，如果說是不同種類的人更貼切一些。故A項正確。

2.考察推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二自然段的where’s the silent woman who sits up front可知，這個女人很安靜，故C項排除；根據(jù)Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare可知，這個女人很窮，故A項排除；根據(jù)but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.可知，這個女人心地是善良的，因為她總是請司機喝咖啡，雖然她沒有太多的錢。故D項正確。

3.考察詞義猜測題。根據(jù)文章第四自然段For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability無能無力 to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus.由于在巴士車上，這個女人很沉默，所以作者和他的妻子都很悲哀的無能為力去跟這個坐在公交車前面的這個女人建立友誼。故我們可知劃橫線的單詞含義為建立，確立。故C項正確。

4.考察細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三自然段的we learned the situation of a single mother with a disabled son who……可知，這個女人有一個殘疾的兒子；并根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二自然段的We don’t say what we want to say可知，他們不能說他們想說的話，所以他們都在表達上有困難。A項文章沒提到媽媽也是個殘疾人，只是說她很少說話，故排除；C項文中沒有提到她的兒子喜歡巴士車旅行，故排除；D項他們都給乘客帶來了極大的興趣，她的兒子在很遠的地方被照顧，沒在巴士車上出現(xiàn)過，故排除；故B項正確。

考點：本篇為記敘文。

點評：文章主要講述了作者和他的妻子過去常常認為要想與一些不知道名字的人成為真正的朋友是不太可能的事情，但是通過公交車上那位年輕的女人改變了作者的看法。