Question

A．The cartoon pig is not smart, either.

B．That’s why both children and adults find McDull cute.

C．However, the slow, silly pig has won over Hong Kong people.

D．According to  his headmaster, McDull isn’t that silly. He’s just too kind.

E．The story is more than its funny points. It is pleasant and sour at the same time.

The best-loved pig in Hong Kong is called McDull. His mum makes a wish that he will look like Chow Yun-fat or Tony Leung, but he is well-known only by a birthmark around his right eye.

Everything he tries, he fails. He wants to be an Olympic champion of qiangbaoshan （抢包山）, but the sport of catching the hottest baozi from a small mountain doesn’t really exist （存在）, of course. He dreams of going to the Maldives, but ends up on only a one-day tour of a Hong Kong landmark instead.

1.    McDull was at first a supporting character in a story about his cousin McMug, a smart baby pig and “what parents expect of their children.” But interestingly, the wooden-headed McDull gradually became more attractive when he told his classmates that if he became the class monitor, he would treat everyone with strawberry cakes. McDull tried to speak out one sentence in his speech, “If you choose me, you will be...painful.” For him, it looks only a little bit different from an “A” when he gets an “E”.   2.

3.   In one of the McDull movies, he talks to the audience （观众）, “I suddenly realize that there is something you cannot have. No noodles, no Maldives, no golden medal, no money... Actually, being silly is not funny---it could mean failure （失败）. Being fat is not funny. Being fat does not even mean you are stronger. Disappointment is not funny, either. When I grow up, and face the strict world that isn’t funny, what should I do?” He is still happy, however. He always starts again with a new dream when one fails him.

4.   The popularity of McDull sometimes makes his creator Alice Mark confused, who has some simple thoughts, such as God creates humans, because he loves humans and he wants them to be happy. “Maybe people see themselves and their friends in McDull. McDull makes people realize that they used to be as simple and happy as him. If there is a theme in all the McDull movies, it is about how a simple person keeps his or her simplicity in a world full of problems.    5.  ” says Alice Mark.

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.E

4.C

5.B

【解析】

试题分析: 本文大意：香港最受人喜爱的猪是麦兜。麦兜是个笨笨的但可爱的善良的猪，他总是在梦想失败后又开始新的梦想，永远是开心的。他的受欢迎令他的创作者艾力丝.马克困惑，她说麦兜使人们意识到他们过去常常和他一样简单而快乐。

1.推理判断题。句意：卡通猪也不聪明。根据the wooden-headed McDull木头脑袋麦兜，可知选A

2.推理判断题。句意：据校长说，他不是笨，而是太善良了。根据For him, it looks only a little bit differenDt from an “A” when he gets an “E”当他得了一个E时，对于他来说，只与A有一点不同，可知选D

3.推理判断题。句意：这个故事不只是它的笑点，同时有欢乐与酸楚。麦兜所说的那些失败让人感觉现实的酸楚，但他在失败后的开心又让人感觉开心，可知选E

4.推理判断题。句意：但反应迟钝的笨笨猪赢得了香港人民的喜爱。根据The popularity of McDull麦兜的受欢迎，可知选C

5.推理判断题。句意：那就是为什么孩子和成人发现麦兜可爱的原因。根据McDull makes people realize that they used to be as simple and happy as him. 麦兜使人们意识到他们过去常常和他一样简单而快乐，可知选B

考点：故事类阅读。