Question

Delia was a young pianist. Her husband, Joe, was a young artist.

Each of them was taking lessons: Joe with a famous art teacher, and Delia with a great pianist from Germany. Their teachers were the very best, so lessons were expensive, more than they could really afford, but…when you love your art, nothing is too much.

But soon the money began to run out, and they couldn’t afford the lessons any more.

Then one day Delia came back home and told Joe that she had met a man whose daughter, Sally, wanted to learn the piano, and he was going to pay her $ 50 an hour.

“Delia,” Joe said, “I’ll be much happier if you keep up your lessons,” Delia said it didn’t matter. “When I’ve had some money, I’ll continue.” But Joe also decided to stop his lessons, to draw pictures and sell them.

A few days later, Joe came home and proudly took $ 200 from his pocket. “I met a man from Vermont,” he said, “who bought one of my pictures. And he wants to buy more!”

_________________.They didn’t have to worry any more about money.

Then, one day, Joe came home and saw that Delia’s hand was wrapped in a bandage(绷带). He asked her what had happened. “Oh,” said Delia. “My student, Sally, asked me to make some coffee for her. I dropped the coffee and burned my hand. Sally went straight to the drugstore and got this bandage for me. ”

“Delia, what have you been doing the last two weeks?” Joe asked. She tried not to tell him, but the tears came. “Oh Joe, I couldn’t get any students, so I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Today, I burned my hand with hot water. So I can’t work any more. But we’ll still have money from the man in Vermont, won’t we?”

Joe looked at her. “There’s no man in Vermont, ” he said. “I’ve been working in a drugstore, and today someone came in to buy bandages for a woman who’s burned her hand. So when I saw you, well, I guessed.”

They both laughed.

[A story by O. Henry—adapted(改编)]

1.The writer of the story is ____.

A. Joe    B. Delia    C. O. Henry   D. Sally

2. Which of the following can be put in the “____” in Paragraph 7?

A. A bigger plan came to their mind

B. Since then Joe became very famous

C. So the two of them were very happy

D. Delia stopped her lessons and stayed home

3.Both of them laughed in the end because ____.

A. they would go on with their lessons soon

B. they had both told lies to make the other happy

C. they didn’t have to worry about money any more

D. they thought they had done something meaningless

4. The best title for the passage can be ____.

A. Blind love

B. A pleasant gift

C. A service of love

D. An unforgettable lesson

Answer

1.C

2.C

3.B

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：迪莉娅是个年轻的钢琴家。她的丈夫，乔，是一个年轻的艺术家。两人深爱着对方及自己喜欢的艺术。但是不久之后，他们钱用完了，上不起学了。于是迪莉娅告诉丈夫，有人请她教孩子钢琴，每小时付给50美元；乔也给妻子说，有人买了他的画，付给他200美元。最后，当他们发现妻子其实是在饭店当服务生，丈夫其实是在药店上班时，他们都含着泪笑了。

1.C 细节理解题。故事的作者是谁？A. Joe；B. Delia；C. O. Henry；D. Sally。由短文最后的注释：A story by O. Henry—adapted可知，本故事作者是O.Henry，故选C。

2.C 推理判断题。题意：下面哪一个可以补充在第七段的空里？ A. A bigger plan came to their mind他们有了更大的计划；B. Since then Joe became very famous从那以后乔变得很出名；C. So the two of them were very happy因此他们俩都高兴； D. Delia stopped her lessons and stayed home迪莉娅停止了上课并呆在家。后句说“他们再也不担心钱的事了。可以推测出他们钱的问题解决了，都很开心。故选C。

3.3】B 推理判断题。题意：最后两人都笑了，是因为什么？ A. they would go on with their lessons soon他们很快都可以继续上课了；B. they had both told lies to make the other happy为使对方开心他们俩都撒谎了；C. they didn’t have to worry about money any more他们再也不必担心钱了；D. they thought they had done something meaningless他们认为他们做了无意议的事。根据短文内容，迪莉娅告诉丈夫，有人请她教孩子钢琴，每小时付给50美元；乔也给妻子说，有人买了他的画，付给他200美元。都是撒的谎，善意的谎言被揭穿后，他们都笑了。故选B。

4. 题目推断题。题意：短文最好的标题是什么？ A. Blind love瞎爱；B. A pleasant gift高兴的礼物；C. A service of love爱的服务；D. An unforgettable lesson难忘的教训。为了爱，两人都给对方说了谎。故选C。

【考点定位】 考查故事类短文阅读。