“How was school, Ben?” I asked my grandson after he began kindergarten(幼兒園) this year. “The work is too long… and there’s not enough time to play,” he replied.
I couldn’t help but remember Ben’s own mother, my daughter, Jane, and her reaction(反應) to the first day of school. Julie was also disappointed with the first day of school and so was her little sister. My three-year-old daughter announced angrily after her big sister got on the big yellow school bus, “I want to go ‘sool’ and you not let me!”
When Julie returned home that afternoon, I asked her the same question that I asked Ben, “How was school, Julie?” Julie replied, “I didn’t learn to read today.”
This year as the school bus passed my house, my mind went back to those school days again. I could almost smell the chalk dust in the air. I also wonder what the children these days manage to get chosen to do in order to get out of school for a few moments since there are no erasers to clean. It was fun to be “chosen” for eraser cleaning duty. This was a task finished by going outside and beating erasers together while sneezing and coughing. No wonder so many babies now have allergies(過敏癥), and it’s simply because we all have chalk dust in our lungs!
On the first day of school, the expectation was so great that I would be ready long before it was time to leave for school. We didn’t have backpacks because we had cigar boxes. We carried our small supplies inside a cigar box from one of the local stores. We saved the cigar boxes and used them from year to year until they fell apart.
The first day of school was exciting. It was a new beginning. The doors of knowledge had been opened. The first day of school is an event in our lives that most of us remember. It’s a big step for a small child toward leaving babyhood and so “there isn’t enough time to play”.
小題1:Why did Jane become angry according to the passage?
A．Because she didn’t learn to read on the first day of school.
B．Because there was too much work for her to do at school.
C．Because she had no time to play at school.
D．Because she was not allowed to go to school.
小題2:The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 suggests that       .
A．the author was thinking of her school days jokingly
B．the author warned students against the harm of chalk dust
C．the author suffered from an allergy because of chalk dust
D．the author doubted whether her lungs had chalk dust
小題3:In the opinion of the author, the first day of school is        .
A．a(chǎn) day when a child is the happiest
B．a(chǎn) day when a child does much work
C．the beginning of great learning
D．the end of childhood full of toys

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:C

試題分析：文章介紹了作者的女兒，孫子對開學第一天的看法，引發(fā)感想開學第一天是開始學習的日子。
小題1:細節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：My three-year-old daughter announced angrily after her big sister got on the big yellow school bus, “I want to go ‘sool’ and you not let me!”可知Jane因為不能上學感到生氣。選D
小題2:細節(jié)題：從第五段的句子：It was fun to be “chosen” for eraser cleaning duty.可知作者是開玩笑的說學校值日的事情。選A
小題3:細節(jié)題：從最后一段的句子：It’s a big step for a small child toward leaving babyhood and so “there isn’t enough time to play”.可知開學第一天是學習開始的日子。選C。
點評：這種閱讀理解集中考查了細節(jié)題，要求考生仔細閱讀全文，做好相應的標志，以提高閱讀的效率和速度
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