Question

A man came home from work late, tired, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.

“Daddy, how much money do you make each hour?”

“If you must know, I make $20 each hour.”

“Oh,” the little boy answered, with his head down. He thought for a moment, looked up and said, “Daddy, could you lend me $10?”

The father was furious, “If you asked for the money to buy a toy or some other rubbish, then go straight to your room and think about why you are so selfish!”

The little boy went to his room with no words and shut the door. After a short while, the father calmed down, and started to think, “Maybe he really needs to buy something and he didn’t really ask for money very often.” So he went to the little boy’s room.

“Sorry！Maybe I was too hard on you just now.” said the man, “Here’s $10.”

“Oh, thank you Daddy!” he said happily. Then the boy took out some coins. When the father found that the boy already had money, he got angry again.

“Why do you want more money since you already have some?” the father shouted angrily.

“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do.” the little boy replied, “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy one hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”

1.In this passage, the underlined word “furious” in Paragraph 5 means _________.

A. very angry    B. quite happy   C. too excited  D. a little nervous

2.At first, the father didn’t lend the money because _________.

A. he thought the boy wanted to keep the money for himself.

B. he did not have enough money at that moment

C. he thought the boy would buy something useless

D. the boy always borrowed money from him

3.The boy wanted to buy _________ with twenty dollars.

A. a new novel for himself       B. a nice present for his father

C. a toy for his own birthday     D. one hour of his father’s time

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.D

【解析】

试题分析：短文大意：一个男人常常下班回家很晚。他五岁的儿子想用20美元买他爸一个小时的时间，让他爸明天早一点回家，想和他一起吃晚餐。

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考点：日常生活类阅读。