Question

    A kind woman baked an extra loaf of bread hungry passer-by. She placed it beside a window and prayed for her son. He went to a faraway land.

A tramp(流浪汉)would always came to take away the bread. As he left, he would always say, "The evil you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you. "

The woman felt irritated. '"Not even a word of thanks'", she said to herself.

Finally the woman became so angry that she decided to add poison to the loaf. As she was placing it, her hands shook. "Look at what I've done!" she said. She immediately threw the bread away and made another one.

As usual, the tramp came and picked up the bread.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. Surprisingly, the woman's son was standing in the doorway. He was tired and weak. "Mom, it's a miracle that I can come back home! I nearly starved to death as I got closer. Thanks to an old tramp, he gave me a loaf of bread. He said that he got it from a nice lady. "

The woman's face turned pale at once. The tramp's words suddenly came back to her, "The evil you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you. "

1.What does the underlined word "irritated" mean?

A.scared B.excited C.angry D.thankful

2.After hearing what her son said, the woman's face turned pale because ______________.

A.her son was dying of hungry.

B.she got angrier with the tramp

C.she nearly poisoned her own son.

D.the tramp didn't truly help her son

3.The story teaches us that ________.

A.good things only happen to nice people

B.there is no such thing as a free lunch.

C.we should be good and do good things

D.we shouldn't judge people by their looks

Answer

1.C

2.C

3.C

【解析】

本文讲述了一个善良的女士做面包给路人，从而间接救了自己儿子的故事，告诉人们如果做了好事，会得到好报。

1.

词义猜测题。scared使害怕；excited激动；angry生气；thankful感谢的；根据“Not even a word of thanks”可知一句感谢的话也没有，可推测出她很生气，所以该单词意思是“生气的”，故选C。

2.

推理判断题。结合第四段“Finally the woman became so angry that she decided to add poison to the loaf”以及最后一句“Thanks to an old tramp, he gave me a loaf of bread. He said that he got it from a nice lady.”可知，如果这位女士在给流浪汉的面包中下毒的话有可能会伤害到自己的儿子，所以她的脸变得惨白，由此可以推断C项正确。故选C。

3.

主旨大意题。结合文章中这个善良的女士做面包给路人，从而间接救了自己的儿子，以及文章中反复出现“The evil you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you”可知，文章的大意是表达如果做了好事，会得到好报。故C项正确。故选C。