Question

【題目】Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you lack money.

This is how I experimented with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper. One discovery I made about giving-away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back, though the return often comes in all unexpected form.

One Sunday morning, the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home, though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to leave, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. He had overheard(無意中聽到)our conversation. "Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said yes. "Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complaints."

【1】From the passage, we understand that _____.

A. the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties

B. the author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers

C. the author received the same education as most people during his childhood

D. the author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting

【2】According to the author, _____.

A. giving means you will lack money

B. the excitement of giving can bring you money

C. you don’t have to be rich in order to give

D. when you give away money, you will be rich

【3】The author would make the suggestion to the storekeeper _____.

A. in writing B. in person

C. in the window display D. about the neighborhood

【4】When the author needed a post-office box, _____.

A. he had put his name on a waiting list

B. he wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation

C. many people had applied for post-office boxes before him

D. he asked the postmaster to make one for him

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】B

【4】C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述的是直到三十多歲作者才明白給予對生活的重大意義，活著并不是一味的索取，而給予也并不取決于是否有錢。作者以兩個事例向我們闡述這個道理。

【1】主旨大意題。從第一段中第二句”It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so much more exciting.”可知作者直到自己30多歲才開始懂得給予使生活更加有意義性。故選A。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。從文章第一段的最后一句. “You need not worry if you lack money.”如果你缺錢你也不必擔心，可知作者認為給予與金錢無關(guān)。A、B、D均不符題意，選C。

【3】推理判斷題。第二段第二句“If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper.”這是作者假設(shè)的一種情況，如果我突然發(fā)現(xiàn)鄰居的窗櫥擺設(shè)需要改善，我會走進去然后跟老板提出建議，即親自去，故選 B。

【4】細節(jié)理解題。第三段第四句“I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list”.當作者需要一個郵箱的時候，他發(fā)現(xiàn)已經(jīng)沒有了，而且我前面早就有很多人登記著名字等待，故選C。