Question

My family moved from Taiwan to a small town in central Georgia, where my dad got a visa for his family and a job. I had just learned English, and from what little I could gather from my classmates, Santa Claus would come down one’s chimney and put toys in one’s stocking on Christmas Eve! What a great country, I thought. After I looked up “stocking” in my Chinese-English dictionary, I knew what I had to do.

On that fateful night, after everyone went to bed, I took my longest, cleanest knee sock and attached it to a nail already on the mantel(壁炉). Obviously, the previous owners of this house were no strangers to this Santa character.

I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ran to the fireplace. To make a sob story short, I was hit with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. I burst into tears, quickly took down the sock, and stuffed it in the back of a drawer. Santa was dead.

Every December since then, the topic of Christmas memories would unavoidably come up, and I would amuse my friends with my poor-little-me story. I had to make it as funny as possible, or else I would cry.

How could I know that Santa was just late? Nine years ago, on Christmas Eve, an older man with a white beard and a red cap knocked on my front door. He said, “I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five years.” He handed me a bulging red stocking, winked, and left. On top of the stocking was a card. It read: “For Becky—I may have missed you in the second grade, but you’ve always lived in my heart. Santa.”

Through tear-blurred eyes, I recognized the handwriting of Jill, a friend I had met just two months before. I later discovered that the older man was her father. Jill had seen the hurt little girl underneath the thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it.

So now I believe that Santa is real. I don’t mean the twinkle-eyed character of children’s mythology or the creation of American holiday marketers. Those Santas annoy and sadden me. I believe in the Santa Claus that live inside good and thoughtful people. This Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day purposefully, really listens to friends, and then plans deliberate acts of kindness.

1.What does the underlined part “what I had to do” in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A. Waiting for Santa Claus.

B. Putting a stocking on the mantel.

C. Asking for gifts from her parents.

D. Looking up “stocking” in the dictionary

2.It can be inferred from the passage that the author’s parents ________.

A. didn’t love their child at all

B. didn’t know the previous owners of the house

C. didn’t know much about Christmas tradition

D. didn’t have enough money to buy the author Christmas presents

3.When the author told her friends about the story, she felt ________ in her heart.

A. proud       B. amusing      C. hate       D. regret

4.The author of the passage is probably ________.

A. a teenager                B. a primary school student

C. a middle-aged woman       D. a native American

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇故事，作者小时候希望圣诞老人送给自己礼物，但是没能如愿。后来她的朋友让父

亲装扮成圣诞老人给作者送来了迟到25年的礼物，来安抚作者多年前因没得到礼物而受伤的心。通过这件

事她深刻地体会到了友谊带给人的快乐。

1.。

2.

挂的长筒袜里没能得到希望的礼物。这说明作者的父母不了解有圣诞老人送礼物这种事情，故选C。

3.

自己的事情时，感觉非常后悔做了这种让自己失望伤心的事情，选D。

4.

者写文章的时候应该是个成年人了，故选C。

【名师点睛】

英语高考阅读理解细节题解题技巧

一、语义转换题——说穿了，语义转换题实际就是事实细节题。跳读查找法这是做事实细节题最基本也是最常用的方法。在通常情况下，细节题主要考查考生对某句话或某几句话的理解，同学们若能根据题干内容从原文中找到相关的句子，然后进行比较和分析，便可确定最佳答案。运用跳读查找法时，同学们要特别注意试题(包括选项)与原文之间的适当变换。根据近几年的考题情况来看，现在很少有直接用原文中的句子进行考查和测试的，而通常要进行一定的处理。而这种“处理”主要就是指进行语义转换，其中包括同义变换、概念解析、归纳事实等。比如第1小题，根据第二段中I took my longest, cleanest knee sock and attached it to a nail already on the mantel我把我最长的，最干净的膝袜系在壁炉架上钉(壁炉)，而四个选项中B. Putting a stocking on the mantel在壁炉边挂了一个长筒袜中的“Putting”作弊和文中“attached”意思接近，可知正确答案是B。比如第2小题，根据第一段第二句I was hit with the reality of an empty sock我被一只空袜子的现实击中了，由此可知作者并没有得到圣诞礼物，也可以推理得出B项didn’t know much about Christmas tradition作者的父母并不知道圣诞节的传统。故选B。

二、细节排序题——首尾定位法

这种试题要求考生根据动作发生的先后顺序和句子之间的逻辑关系，找出事件发生的正确顺序。同学们在做这种题时可采用“首尾定位法”，即最先找出第一个动作和最后一个动作，迅速缩小选择范围，从而快速选出正确答案。

三、生活应用题——常识理解法生活应用题要求考生在读懂文章的基础上结合一定的生活常识进行判断。不过，有趣的是，高考有时会出现一些“低级”常识判断题，即无需看懂文章，也可选出最佳答案。

四、寻找信息题——题干定位法快速寻找信息题一般为功能阅读题，主要形式有广告、公告、演出信息、航班时间表等。做这类题时没有必要阅读全文，宜采用“题干定位法”。

考点：考查故事类短文阅读