How to Become Cleverer Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer

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How to Become Cleverer Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer

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How to Become Cleverer
Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer, because his mother always called him “foolish boy”.
“That’s easy,” answered the fisherman. “I know one way to make you become cleverer.”
“Really?”
“Of course. It is said a fish head is good for brain. If you eat one, you’ll become cleverer indeed. Pay only three pounds for one fish head.” The boy paid him three pounds and the fisherman cut off a fish head and handed it to him.
A raw fish head is not good—not even for a hungry boy to eat but the boy ate it up in two gulps.
“Do you feel anything?” asked the fisherman.
“Not in my head,” said the boy.
The boy lay on the ground and thought. “One whole fish costs only two pounds. I had paid him three pounds for the fish head. Why couldn’t I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” He jumped up and shouted at the fisherman. “You thief! You are fooling me!” The fisherman laughed, saying, “The fish head works now, you see.”
小题1:The boy ate up the raw fish head only in two gulps, because he __________.
A．enjoy it
B．wanted to taste it
C．took it as a good medicine
D．was a foolish boy
小题2:The boy came to the fisherman in order to __________.
A．buy a fish head
B．ask the fisherman a question
C．become cleverer
D．A and C
小题3:“Not in my head” means “__________”.
A．The fish head was not in the boy’s head
B．The boy felt nothing came into his head
C．It’s difficult to give an answer right away
D．The boy didn’t feel that he was cleverer
小题4:The boy paid three pounds. He should have had __________.
A．a whole fish
B．a fish head and one pound back
C．a whole fish and one pound back
D．a whole fish, a fish head and one pound back
小题5:__________ helped the boy become cleverer.
A．A good mealB．The raw fish head
C．NothingD．What had happened

答案

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:C
小题5:C
解析

试题分析：本文叙述了一个男孩因为妈妈经常说他“傻孩子”，所以去问渔夫怎样才能变聪明。渔夫说吃鱼头可以变聪明，他就花了三英镑买了个鱼头，两口吞下了。之后，他感觉自己上当了。
小题1:细节理解题。根据“It is said a fish head is good for brain. If you eat one, you’ll become cleverer indeed.”渔夫说鱼头对脑子好，吃了会变聪明。可知男孩两口吞下鱼头，是因为他把鱼头当成能变聪明的良药了。故答案选C。
小题2:细节理解题。根据文章第一句“Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer，”可知男孩来找渔夫是为了问他怎样能变聪明。至于买鱼头，是后来渔夫让他买的。故答案选B。
小题3:词义猜测题。根据上下文，渔夫说吃鱼头能变聪明，所以他就吃了。吃完后，渔夫问有什么感觉，他回答“Not in my head” ，所以词句意思应该是“男孩没感觉自己变聪明”。故答案选D。
小题4:细节理解题。根据“Why couldn’t I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” 可知，男孩花费三英镑可以买到一整条鱼还能找回一英镑。故选C。
小题5:推理题。根据文章中男孩吃鱼前后的情况，可知并没有什么帮男孩变得更聪明，他本来就不傻。故答案选C。
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In the kitchen of my mother’s houses there has always been a wooden stand (木架) with a small notepad (记事本)　and a hole for a pencil.
I’m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can’t be the same pencil? The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely  the original one.
“I’m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Can’t you afford a pen?”
My mother replies a little sharply. “It works perfectly  well. I’ve  always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in those days.”
Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, “One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”
This story—which happened before I was born—reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is, as a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have travelled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible (看不到的) exhibits at every meal.
小题1:Why has the author’s mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?
A．To leave messages.
B．To list her everyday tasks.
C．To note down maths problems.
D．To write down a flash of inspiration.
小题2:What is the author’s original opinion about the wooden stand?
A．It has great value for the family.
B．It needs to be replaced by a better one.
C．It brings her back to her lonely childhood.
D．It should be passed on to the next generation.
小题3:The author feels embarrassed for             .
A．blaming her mother wrongly
B．giving her mother a lot of trouble
C．not making good use of time as her mother did
D．not making any breakthrough in her field
小题4:What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．The mother is successful in her career.
B．The family members like travelling.
C．The author had little time to play when young.
D．The marks on the breadboard have disappeared.
小题5:In the author’s mind, her mother is             .
A．strange in behaviour
B．keen on her research
C．fond of collecting old things
D．careless about her appearance

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When a first-time father saw his newborn son, he immediately noticed the baby"s ears obviously standing out from his head. He expressed his concern to the nurse that some children might tease his child. A doctor examined the baby and reassured the new dad that his son was healthy- the ears presented only a minor problem with its appearance.
But the nervous father persisted. He wondered if the child might suffer psychological effects of ridicule, or if they should consider plastic surgery. The nurse assured him that it was really no problem, and he should just wait to see if the boy grows into his ears.
The father finally felt more optimistic about his child, but now he worried about his wife"s reaction to those large ears. She had been delivered by operation, and had not yet seen the child.
“She doesn"t take things as easily as I do,” he said to the nurse.
By this time, the new mother was settled in the recovery room and ready to meet her new baby. The nurse went along with the dad to lend some support in case this inexperienced mother became upset about her baby"s large ears.
The baby was in a receiving blanket with his head covered for the short trip through the cold air-conditioned corridor. The baby was placed in his mother"s arms, who eased the blanket back so that she could look at her child for the first time.
She took one look at her baby"s face and looked to her husband and gasped, “Oh, Honey! Look! He has your ears!”
No problem with Mom. She married those ears...and she loves the man to whom they are attached.
The poet Kahlil Gibran said, “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” It"s hard to see the ears when you"re looking into the light.
小题1:When the father first saw his baby, he was worried that________.
A．The baby might not grow up healthily
B．The baby might be laughed at by others.
C．The baby might disappoint its mother
D．the baby might have mental problems.
小题2:According to the doctor and nurse, the baby’s ears________.
A．could not function well.B．looked the same as others.
C．only caused a small problem.D．needed to have plastic surgery.
小题3: What is true about the baby’s mother?
A．She blamed her husband for the baby’s big ears.
B．She was the first to discover the baby’s large ears.
C．She suggested having an operation on the baby immediately.
D．She found something similar between the baby and its father.
小题4: What does the underlined word they refer to?
A．The ears.B．The parents
C．The doctor and nurse.D．The problems
小题5: What’s the function of the last paragraph?
A．To advise readers to listen carefully.
B．To draw a conclusion from the story.
C．To criticize the wrong attitude to physical beauty.
D．To stress the importance of doctor-patient relationship.

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Norah has a cottage on a cliff above a big bay. In winter it could be very nasty because of strong winds and sea spray. In fact, when a gale was blowing, Norah and her husband got used to sleeping in a small room downstairs, because their bedroom upstairs, which faced the gales, had a very big window, and they were afraid that an extra violent gust might break it and blow pieces of broken glass over them.
Also, the salt spray from the sea put an end to many of the colorful plants Norah planted in the garden. She tried putting up a fence to protect them, but the wind just hit it, went up over the top and then down the other side, so in the end she filled the garden with trees and bushes that liked salt.
But most of the summer Norah enjoyed her cottage and garden very much. At weekends she could sit out-of-doors in the sun, looking at the beautiful view, with interesting ships and boats passing by, and she could very easily cycle down to the sea for a swim.
Now, Norah and her husband had plenty of friends and relations. In the summer most of them used to come to enjoy the beautiful place, and in the end it really became quite annoying for Norah and her husband. When they were at home, they found friends and relations arriving, expecting to be given unlimited drinks and meals, and to sit in the sun for hours, talking as if Norah and her husband had nothing else to do but entertain and listen to them.
This went on for several years. Norah did not wish to appear rude by refusing to let her friends and relations in, but on the other hand, she was getting tired every summer.
Then one day Norah was complaining about this to her hairdresser while she was doing her hair. “You’re disturbed by too many uninvited guests, are you?” said the hairdresser. “Why don’t you try my way of escaping?”
“What’s that?” asked Norah.
“Well,” the hairdresser answered, “when the bell rings, I put on my coat and take my shopping bag. If it’s someone I don’t want to see, I say innocently, ‘I’m sorry, but I’ve got to go out. But…’”
小题1:In paragraph one the underlined word “spray” probably means 　　　. 
A．wastes produced by some birds living near the sea
B．great waves caused by strong wind
C．plants floating on the surface of the sea
D．very small drops of sea water sent through the air by something
小题2:We can infer that 　　　. 
A．a lot of friends came to visit them in winter
B．few friends came to visit them in winter.
C．Friends came to visit them only for drinks and meals
D．Norah was a good cook
小题3:The best title for the passage might be 　　　. 
A．A Good Place of Enjoying the Sea
B．A Warm-hearted Couple
C．A Clever Way of Escaping
D．A Visit to Norah
小题4:What the hairdresser is likely to continue to say in the end is “　　　” 
A．If I am tired, I say, ‘Sorry, can you come next time?’
B．If it’s someone I like to see, I say, ‘How lucky! I’ve just come in!’
C．If it’s someone I like to see, I say, ‘How happy to see you! I was going shopping, but now I’ve changed my mind.’
D．If it is fine that day, I say, ‘I am tired, but I’ll show you around the place, anyhow.’

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A farmer went to town to sell his vegetable. But it was snowing that afternoon, and there_26_ few people in the street. So when his vegetable was sold out, it was dark. _27_ his way home, he saw a man _28_ in the snow. He put his basket _29_ and was going to _30  the man to get up. At that time he found  31  was a dead man _32_ that there was _33  blood on the ground. He was _34_ frightened that he ran away _35 ,  _36_ his basket away.
The next _37_ the farmer was sent to the police station. After showing him the basket, an officer asked, “Is this yours?” “Yes,sir.” the farmer answered_38_.
“When did you see the dead man?”
“At about seven yesterday evening.”
“Did you see who _39 him?” the officer brought out a knife and asked, “Have you seen it yet?” “No, sir.”
The officer became angry and told the policeman _40_ him up and _41_ him in prison.
That afternoon the officer went on 42_ the farmer._43 the knife, the officer asked him again, “Now, listen to me! Did you see it yet?” “Yes,sir.”
“Well,” the officer became 44_ and asked, “but when and where?”
“I saw it _45  this morning, sir.”
小题1:
A．hadB．wasC．would haveD．were
小题2:
A．OnB．ByC．InD．At
小题3:
A．lyingB．layC．liedD．laying
小题4:
A．in the snowB．on his shoulderC．on his backD．on the ground
小题5:
A．makeB．helpC．letD．hope
小题6:
A．himB．him justC．itD．himself
小题7:
A．evenB．soC．andD．/
小题8:
A．a lotB．muchC．quite a fewD．many
小题9:
A．veryB．muchC．soD．very much
小题10:
A．in timeB．slowlyC．happilyD．quickly
小题11:
A．without takingB．not tookC．and tookD．taking
小题12:
A．afternoonB．morningC．nightD．evening
小题13:
A．loudlyB．friendlyC．nervouslyD．proudly
小题14:
A．killedB．askedC．sentD．helped
小题15:
A．beatingB．beatC．of beatingD．to beat
小题16:
A．putB．sentC．tookD．send
小题17:
A．askB．to askC．tryingD．to try
小题18:
A．PointedB．To point toC．Pointed toD．Pointing to
小题19:
A．greyB．happyC．angry againD．silly
小题20:
A．in my basketB．hereC．near my basketD．in the snow

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One day as a boy and his father were taking a walk in the woods, they saw lying beside a half-fallen tree a pair of shoes. An old workman was cooling his feet in a neighboring stream. The son, in a spirit of 36 ____ , picked up some small pebbles (卵石）and said, “I will put these in the old fellow’s shoes, and it’ll be great fun when he tries to put them on.”
“I 37 ____ if you will get much fun out of that,” said the father, “ 38  ____from his clothes, he must be a poor man. And his life is hard. Would there be fun in 39 ____ his troubles? If you were to surprise him in a 40 ____ way, say by putting a coin in each shoe, you would probably enjoy more.”
The boy adopted the 41 ____ of his father and slipped a silver coin into each shoe. Then they hid behind a tree to watch the 42 ____ of their trick. After a while, the old man came back to his work and slipped his right foot into his shoe.
43 ____ something hard in the shoe he 44 ____ his foot to see what was inside. He discovered the coin. A(n) 45  ____look came over his face. He turned the coin over and over in his hand, and gazed at it in astonishment. As he looked at it, he felt with his foot for the other shoe, which also held a coin. Then 46 ____ clasping his hands together, he fell upon his 47 ____ and prayed. The boy and his father 48 ____ from his words that his poor wife was sick and
49 ____at home, and that his orphaned grandchildren were suffering starvation, while he was struggling to earn a living.
“The kind helper has gone,”cried the old man, “without even waiting to be thanked. But 50____he may go, my blessing shall seek him out and be 51  ____him to the end of life. May God keep him from poverty, 52 ____ him against evil and ever fill his heart with warmth and joy, 53____ he has filled mine today.” The boy and his father listened to the most heart-felt words in the world, eyes 54 ____.
“Now I call this the best kind of fun”，said the father, “So，you see, fun may lead to 55 ____as well as to laughter. Of all the pleasures of life, those that are expressed by tears rather than laughter are the most blessed”.
小题1:
A．mercyB．charityC．helpD．fun
小题2:
A．wonderB．doubtC．analyzeD．suspect
小题3:
A．ConsideringB．DistinguishedC．JudgingD．Determined
小题4:
A．adding toB．making upC．bringing outD．adding up to
小题5:
A．confusingB．differentC．sameD．challenging
小题6:
A．agreementB．planC．requestD．proposal
小题7:
A．outputB．outcomeC．intentionD．production
小题8:
A．FeelingB．RealizingC．NoticingD．Recognizing
小题9:
A．droveB．droppedC．pushedD．withdrew
小题10:
A．excitedB．strangeC．puzzledD．delighted
小题11:
A．suddenlyB．frequentlyC．finallyD．gradually
小题12:
A．handsB．kneesC．feetD．head
小题13:
A．thoughtB．guessedC．sensedD．learned
小题14:
A．uselessB．helplessC．worthlessD．careless
小题15:
A．howeverB．wheneverC．whateverD．wherever
小题16:
A．afterB．againstC．withD．onto
小题17:
A．spareB．guardC．helpD．prevent
小题18:
A．asB．whenC．whatD．although
小题19:
A．wetB．wideC．closedD．fixed
小题20:
A．appreciationB．hurtC．tearsD．satisfaction

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