Question

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a "complicated idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)

There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the "hundred most important books of Western Civilization." "More than anything else in my life," the professor told the reporter with finality," these books have made me all that I am." That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.

1.On hearing the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought________.

A．one must read as many books as possible

B．a student should not have a complicated idea

C．it was impossible for one to read two thousand books

D．students ought to make a list of the books they had read

2.The underlined phrase "with finality" probably means_________.

A．firmly       B．clearly

C．proudly      D．pleasantly

3.The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to________.

A．explain why it was included in the list

B．describe why he seriously crossed it off the list

C．show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand

D．prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

4.The writer provides two book lists to ________.

A．show how he developed his point of view

B．tell his reading experience at high school

C．introduce the two persons' reading methods

D．explain that he read many books at high school

Answer

1.A

2.A

3.C

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文作者通过自己的具体事例向我们讲述了学生时代的读书经历，从此反映出自己的成长过程。

1.A细节推理题。根据When one of my teachers suggested that a person could not have a "complicated idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read.可知作者听完老师的话后觉得要尽可能多的读书，故选A.

2.A词意猜测题。finality是名词“终结，定局”，句意：教授用终结的话告诉记者。A．firmly 坚定地；B．clearly清晰地，明显地；C．proudly骄傲地；D．pleasantly愉快地。A项符合句意，故选A.

3.C推理判断题。根据最后一段内容可知有的书很难理解，但作者硬着头皮看完了，证明自己看过了。通过这个例子表明作者在盲目读书，故选C.

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考点：考查教育类短文阅读。