Question

I made a pledge(发誓) to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would try to be a loving husband and father. 

   The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The speaker was quoting a Biblical (圣经的) passage about husbands being thoughtful of their wives. Then he went on to say, “Love is an act of will. A person can choose to love.” To myself, I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband. Well, for two weeks that would change.

   And it did. Right from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said, “That new yellow sweater looks great on you.”

   “Oh, Tom, you noticed,” she said, surprised and pleased. Maybe a little puzzled.

After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, but then I thought, “Evelyn’s been alone here with kids all week and now she wants to be alone with me.” We walked on the beach while the children flew the kites.

So it went. Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director; a visit to the shell museum though I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that’s how the whole vacation passed. I made a new pledge to keep on remembering to choose love.

There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today. On the last night at our cottage, preparing for bed, Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression. “What’s the matter?” I asked her.

“Tom, ” she said in a voice filled with sadness, “do you know something I don’t?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well…..that checkup(体检) I had several weeks ago….. our doctor ….. did he tell you something about me? Tom, you’ve been so good to me….. am I dying ?”

It took a moment for it all to sink in. Then I burst out laughing.

“No, honey,” I said, wrapping her in my arms. “You’re not dying; I’m just start to live.”

1.The writer thought he was a _______ husband in the past.

A. lovely   B. loyal      C. strict               D. selfish

2. From the story we may infer that Tom drove to the beach cottage _______.

A. with his family     B. with Evelyn C. alone    D. with his children

3. The underlined words “one thing” in the text refer to the fact that _______.

A. he praised her sweater, which puzzled her

B. she insisted on visiting a museum, which he hated

C. he knew something about her illness but didn’t tell her

D. he was so good to her that she thought she must be dying

Answer

1.D

2.C

3.D

【解析】

试题分析：收音机里一个关于爱的谈话节目使作者意识到了自己的自私，于是下决心在度假的两周里尝试着去做一个好丈夫。然而丈夫的“反常表现”却使妻子误以为丈夫表现出来的体贴周到是因为提前知道了自己的体检结果，认为自己肯定要不久于人世了。

1.D细节理解题。根据文章第二段I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband.可知作者认为自己是个自私的丈夫，故D选项正确。

2.C推理判断题。由文中作者心里想的“Evelyn’s been alone here with kids all week’s been alone here with kids all week可知妻子Evelyn一周以来都是自己带着孩子们，而作者刚开车到家，由此推断作者是独自开车去海滨度假村的，所以答案选C。

3.D细节理解题。根据下文作者的叙述可知对于作者一反常态的表现，妻子误以为肯定是自己的体检结果有问题，肯定是因为自己要活不长了，丈夫才对她这么体贴周到的，所以D选项正确。

考点：考查故事类短文阅读。