Question

    When he was a little child, Andrew had a serious bad habit of sucking（吮吸） his fingers all day long, especially when he had nothing interesting to do: when he was sleeping, when watching TV, when sitting on the sofa and so on. At the beginning, his parents didn’t think it was a bad habit.

Therefore, as time goes by, the boy couldn’t give up his habit. Now, in his twenties, Andrew seems to have developed the bad habit into another one: he always bites his nails(指甲). He cannot stop biting his nails all the time. There’re moments when he even doesn’t know that he is doing it. He realized it was a problem and this worried him a lot. Some of his friends told him about this bad habit, and he stops for a while. But then, if he isn’t busy doing something, he starts biting his nails again!

In fact, there’re a lot of bacteria(细菌) in your nails and they can cause some disease. Also, the nails will become ugly and hard to recover. The worst thing is that this bad habit will bring the mental illness（心理疾病）. If people cannot correct it in time, it can affect man’s mental health.

In short, bad habits are very worrying, especially when the person with the habit is in public and cannot stop himself or herself doing it. Still, there must be ways to give up these bad habits and these people should try their best to stop doing them.

1.When Andrew was a little boy, he had a bad habit of ________.

A.biting his fingers B.sucking his fingers

C.sucking  his nails D.biting his nails

2.What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “recover” in paragraph 3?

A.覆盖 B.报告 C.发现 D.修复

3.Which is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Some of Andrew’s friends tried to help him stop his bad habit of biting nails.

B.Andrew had a kind of mental illness when he was a little child.

C.Andrew himself wasn’t worried about his habit in his twenties.

D.Andrew’s parents found it was a bad habit at the beginning.

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.A

【解析】

你有什么坏习惯吗？这篇短文中讲述了Andrew的例子，他有一个坏习惯——啃指甲。这种坏习惯不仅可能给我们的身体带来疾病，而且也可能带来心理的疾病。因此如果有坏习惯的话，应该尽力的改掉它。

1.细节理解题。根据短文开头“When he was a little child, Andrew had a serious bad habit of sucking（吮吸） his fingers all day long, especially when he had nothing interesting to do”可知，Andrew小时候的坏习惯是吮吸手指。故选B。

2.词义猜测题。根据语境“Also, the nails will become ugly and hard to recover.”“而且，指甲会变得丑陋，很难……”，这句话是说啃指甲带来的后果，结合常识可知，啃掉了指甲，它可能很难修复。recover的意思应该是“修复，恢复”。故选D。

3.推理判断题。根据短文第二段“Some of his friends told him about this bad habit, and he stops for a while.”可知，Andrew的朋友曾经帮助他改掉啃指甲的坏习惯，A选项符合文意，故选A。根据短文开头“When he was a little child, Andrew had a serious bad habit of sucking（吮吸） his fingers all day long”可知，这只是Andrew的一个坏习惯，并没有发展成心理疾病，故B不对；根据第二段“Now, in his twenties, Andrew seems to have developed the bad habit into another one: he always bites his nails(指甲). He realized it was a problem and this worried him a lot.”可知C不对；根据第一段“At the beginning, his parents didn’t think it was a bad habit.”可知D不对。故选A。