Question

阅读下列短文,选出最佳选项。  Three-year-old Teddy Lasry was sleeping in his cowboy outfit (套装) yesterday at his family’s Fifth Ave．apartment when he shot up in bed screaming．A 3-foot-long black-and-white snake twisted around his left arm and had just bitten his little finger．

“The babysitter (a person taking care of children while their parents are away for a short time) was frightened to death,” said Teddy’s father, David Lasry, who, along with his wife, Evelyn, was at work when the snake appeared about 4:00 pm．

The horrified babysitter called 911 and the building’s doorman．The doorman and two cable TV workers helped take the snake off the boy’s arm and put it in a garbage bag．Police rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous．It wasn’t．Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where policemen took the snake, found out it was a non-poisonous California king snake．

But how did it end up in Teddy’s bed?

A little detective work determined that the snake had escaped two weeks ago from its cage in the apartment of a doctor whose family lives four floors below the Lasrys．The apologetic owner said his son’s pet snake likely traveled up the water pipes and into his neighbor’s apartment．“It’s a very gentle, very harmless snake,” he said．“It’s handled by our family all the time．”

David Lasry believed the pet was simply hungry after two weeks of wandering．Evelyn said her son seems to have overcome his fright by thinking of himself as a hero cowboy as he rode in the back of the police car to the hospital．

“I told Teddy he’s a pretty snake, a nice pet snake who got out of his cage,” Evelyn said．“But he asked, ‘Why did he bite my finger, Mamma?’ And I said, ‘Because he saw that you are a big boy, Teddy, in your cowboy outfit and he got scared．’”

1.What did the babysitter do after Teddy was bitten by a snake?

A．She ran out of the apartment．

B．She called the TV company．

C．She made an emergency call．

D．She took the snake off Teddy’s arm．

2.We can learn from the passage that the snake _______．

A．was poisonous

B．was kept in a cage by its owner

C．was deserted by its owner

D．escaped to the apartment

3.From the passage, we know _______．

A．Teddy needed a heart machine to stay alive for two hours

B．Teddy was awake when the snake arrived

C．Teddy’s mother was at home when the snake turned up

D．the snake was used to being touched

4.Teddy probably believed he was attacked because _______．

A．his parents weren’t at home

B．he was asleep the snake

C．was scared of him

D．the snake was hungry

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.C

【解析】

1.根据第三段第一句The horrified babysitter called 911 and the building’s doorman 可知，保姆在小孩被蛇咬了以后马上报警了。故选C。

2.第五段第一句中的the snake had escaped two weeks ago from its cage in the apartment of a doctor whose family lives four floors below the Lasrys 可知B选项的描述是正确的。

3.从文章的第五段中的描述可知道，那条咬了小孩子的蛇是一条家养的蛇，很温和对人没有伤害，还有第五段最后一句It’s handled by our family all the time可知，这条这经常被人触摸，故选D。

4.根据全文的最后一句Because he saw that you are a big boy, Teddy, in your cowboy outfit and he got scared，可知应该选C。

考点：人物／故事