Joseph Rudyard Kipling, who enjoyed early success with his poems, was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, India. Some of Kipling’s earliest and fondest memories are of his and sister Alice’s trips to the fruit market with their woman servant, or walking with his parents alongside the sea at night.
The beautiful days were to end when in 1871 Rudyard and Alice were sent to school in Southsea, England, to live with Captain Holloway and his wife. She ruled the boarding house with punishment and Kipling was often beaten by her and her son. “Then the old Captain died, and I was sorry, for he was the only person in that house as far as I can remember who ever threw me a kind word.” So he wrote in his later books. Kipling soon learned to read and found comfort in literature and poetry.
Freedom from the Holloway household was gained when he spent one month a year in London with his mother’s kind sister Aunt Georgie and her husband, pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne Jones and their children. Those months of December were a really paradise to Kipling.
In 1877 Kipling’s mother returned to England and collected him so that he could attend the United Services College in Devon. Now he was able to settle into the life of a student and in his second year started writing his own Schoolboy Lyric poems printed by his parents. In 1878 his father took him to the Paris Exhibition where he was allowed to wander freely and gained much appreciation for French culture which he wrote about in “Souvenirs of France”.
【小題1】 Kipling first left his parents in __________.

A．1865 B．1871 C．1877 D．1878
【小題2】 Kipling fell in love with literature and poetry __________.
A．before the old Holloway died
B．when he was a little boy with his parents
C．when he attended the United Services College
D．when he was in school, living with the Holloways
【小題3】 From the underlined sentence in paragraph 3 we learn that __________.
A．he felt free and happy with his aunt’s family
B．he felt terrible when he stayed with the old Captain
C．the death of the old captain influenced him a lot
D．the days at his aunt’s helped him become a successful poet


【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A

解析試題分析：Joseph Rudyard Kipling(吉卜林)的詩取得了初步的成功。他于1865年的12月出生在印度的孟買。他的童年很快樂，1871年他和妹妹被送到英國的學(xué)校，與隊(duì)長霍洛威和他的妻子生活。在那里他們經(jīng)常被毆打。那老隊(duì)長對(duì)他還好一些，但是后來死了，于是吉卜林很快就學(xué)會(huì)了閱讀并在文學(xué)和詩歌中找到慰藉。對(duì)吉卜林而言，和姨媽一家在一起的那些個(gè)十二月就像天堂般的日子。1877，吉卜林的母親回到英國，他收集以便他能去德文郡的聯(lián)合服務(wù)學(xué)院。他能融入學(xué)生的生活，在第二年開始寫自己的男生的抒情詩由他的父母印刷。1878他父親帶他去巴黎展覽，使他得以自由馳騁，備受贊賞的法國文化，他把這些都寫在了“法國回憶”一詩中。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的第一句話可知，在1871年，他離開父母，去英國南海上學(xué)住在Holloway夫婦家中，選B。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題干問Kipling喜歡上文學(xué)和詩歌是在什么時(shí)候。根據(jù)第二段的最后一句話可知，Kipling在學(xué)校受到懲罰和毒打，只有Captain Holloway偶爾會(huì)說一兩句好話。所以Kipling學(xué)會(huì)了讀書并從文學(xué)和詩歌中尋找安慰。故選D。
【小題3】句意推測題。根據(jù)該段的描述，文中有kind一次提示，后有說那些12月份對(duì)Kipling而言是天堂一般。與A（他覺得和他的姨媽一家在一起的日子很自由、快樂）。
考點(diǎn)：人物類閱讀。

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