Question

Nine years ago, after Leo had died, people said to me. "I never knew he was your stepfather." You see, I never called him that. At first, he was no one special in my life. Then he became my friend. In time, I felt he was also my father.

Leo married my mother when I was eleven. Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban development, where we put down roots. At first our lawn was just a mud with wild grass, but Leo saw bright possibilities. "We'll plant trees there to give us shade as well as some flowers," he said. And just these little touches made our house different from all the others. More important, a real family was forming. Leo was becoming a full-time parent, and I was learning what it meant to have a father.

Weekday mornings when the weather was bad, Leo often drove me to school. Having a father drop you off may have been something my classmates took for granted, but I always thought it was wonderful. Saturday mornings, we went to the hardware shop, then stepped into the five-and-ten, buying a sports magazine or something else. Some people might think that doing shopping together is nothing special, but I, who had ever before spent my childhood watching other families do their everyday activities, experienced them now with extreme delight. Looking back, I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most—the experience of doing ordinary things together as a family.

Soon after we moved to the suburbs, one of our new neighbors introduced herself to me. She had already met my mother and Leo. "You know," she said, "you look just like your father." I knew she was just making conversation--but even so... "Thank you", I said. Why tell her anything different?

1.The writer's purpose in writing this passage is _______.

A．to show his pride to have a good stepfather

B．to show how interesting a person Leo was

C．to remind us of our parents

D．to explain why they moved to the suburbs

2.The phrase “put down roots”in the second paragraph means _______.

A．farmed B．planted C．settled D．worked

3.In the writer's opinion, _______.

A．it is not easy to live with a stepfather

B．not all the stepfathers are as good as Leo

C．the husband and wife must think more about their children before they divorce

D．in stepfamilies the love and friendship are extremely precious

4.The last sentence “Why tell her anything different?”means that _________.

A．he should have told the truth

B．he wouldn't tell her the truth

C．he wanted to tell her something that had nothing to do with Leo

D．he wanted to keep silence whenever he met the neighbors

Answer 1

1.A

2.C

3.D

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：這是一篇包含深情的散文。作者講述了從繼父來了之后，家庭生活發(fā)生很大的變化。繼父對作者的關(guān)愛讓他找到了擁有父親的快樂與幸福。

1.A 推理判斷題 通讀全文可知，作者描述了與繼父一起生活的美好和快樂，父子間的和諧融洽讓外人認(rèn)為他們是親父子。他很自豪擁有這樣一位繼父。A項表述表明了作者的寫作意圖。故選A。

2.C 猜測詞義題。根據(jù)前面一句“Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban

development”可知，我們搬到郊區(qū)新開發(fā)的房子里，之后在那里定居下來。put down roots扎根，定居，和settle 意思相近，故選C。

3.D 觀點態(tài)度題。根據(jù)第一段的“Then he became my friend. In time, I felt he was also my father.”，第二段的最后一句“and I was learning what it meant to have a father.”，第三段的最后一句“I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most—the experience of doing ordinary things together as a family.”以及最后一段的內(nèi)容可知，最初，繼父在我生活中不占特殊地位，后來，他成為我的朋友。繼父對我的關(guān)愛讓我和他成為親父子。因此，作者認(rèn)為，再婚家庭中愛和友誼異常珍貴。故選D。

4.B 推理判斷題。根據(jù)前面的句子“I knew she was just making conversation--but even so...”可知，我知道她是在尋找交談的話題，但即使是這樣，我也不打算告訴她真相。A、C、D三項均不符合文意，故選B。

考點：考查日常生活類短文閱讀