Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftop. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it is that most city people --- myself included --- usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We have television, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought, “Before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touched the moon.”
【小題1】The best title for the passage would be _________.

A．Touched by the Moon 
B．The Pleasures of Modern Life 
C．A Bottomless well of Silence 
D．Break away from Modern life 
【小題2】The writer felt sorry for himself because __________.
A．there was too much pollution. 
B．he failed to see the fullest moon. 
C．he didn’t adapt to modern inventions 
D．there were too many accidents on the road. 
【小題3】What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A．No modern equipment. 
B．Complete silence. 
C．The nice moon. 
D．The high mountain. 
【小題4】Modern things are mentioned mainly to ___________.
A．show that the writer likes city life very much. 
B．tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life. 
C．explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature. 
D．show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them. 
【小題5】The author wrote the passage to __________.
A．express the feeling of returning to nature. 
B．show the love for the moonlight. 
C．a(chǎn)dvise modern people to learn to live. 
D．want to communicate longing for modern life. 


【小題1】A
【小題2】B
【小題3】C
【小題4】C
【小題5】A

解析試題分析：在開(kāi)車去朋友家的路上，作者被朋友家屋頂上冉冉升起的美麗的滿月吸引了。作者停下來(lái)看了片刻，覺(jué)得大多數(shù)住在城里的人錯(cuò)過(guò)這樣的美景真是遺憾。
【小題1】根據(jù)第一段的“I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftop”和第二段的“It had touched much of his life.”及第三段的“And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.”還有最后一段的“...touched the moon”可知，作者和朋友都被月亮的美打動(dòng)了。故選A。
【小題2】根據(jù)第一段“thinking about what a pity it is that most city people --- myself included --- usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors”可知，作者和大多數(shù)人一樣，住在大城市里，錯(cuò)過(guò)了欣賞滿月美景，故選B。
【小題3】根據(jù)第三段“And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.”可知，一輪滿月深深地觸動(dòng)了作者，故選C。
【小題4】作者提到現(xiàn)代生活中的物品，言外之意是，人們生活在忙碌的現(xiàn)代社會(huì)，到處明亮的燈光、各種家用電器等，方便了人們的生活，同時(shí)也剝奪了人們接觸大自然的機(jī)會(huì)，故選C。
【小題5】根據(jù)最后一段““Before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains...”可知，作者表達(dá)了回歸大自然的強(qiáng)烈欲望，故選A。
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