Question

Dear Mr. Rupp,

The day I met you was the first day of high school. We liked each other immediately. You gave me a lot of advice over the next four years, like how I should get my ass to Berkeley where I belonged. I’m still there, by the way. I wish you were still around, too.

I remember your laugh, which would start with a rough guffaw(狂笑) and end with a hacking smoker’s cough that would make even the most rebellious (叛逆的) teenager decide to lay off the cigarettes. I remember the way you didn’t lower your standards, yet still refused to give up on us. You were tough on us, and we were tough on you. Love is tough sometimes.

The last time I wrote you a letter, it was 2005—four years after I graduated. I had just become a teacher, like you, and it had given me a new appreciation for the work you did with countless high school students over the years.

It’s hard to say what I’ll miss the most about you. There are simply too many memories to sort through those four years, and it hurts to think you’ll never read this letter. I want to believe that you knew how much you meant to your family, your students, your community, and your colleagues, but that would be a lot of realization to handle, even for you.

You changed the lives of everyone around you. Even now, you are reminding me to cherish life and its brevity and beauty, and to tell the people I love how much they mean to me before it is too late.

Dear teacher, dear mentor, and dear friend—I miss you and all that is about you. God bless you in Heaven.

To infinity and beyond,

Teresea

1.What does the underlined phrase “lay off” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?

A. likeB. get intoC. give outD. throw away

2.When did the author meet her teacher—Mr. Rupp?

A. In 1997.B. In 2001.C. In 2005.D. In 2009.

3.Why did the author write a letter to her teacher in 2005?

A. She wanted to tell her teacher that she had become a teacher.

B. She had some difficulties in study and needed her teacher’s help.

C. She wanted to be a teacher and needed her teacher’s instruction.

D. She wanted to borrow some books from her teacher.

4.When the author wrote this letter, her teacher—Mr. Rupp was_______.

A. about to dieB. seriously ill

C. deadD. in good shape

Answer

1.D

2.A

3.A

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文是作者写给老师的一封信，在信中回忆了和老师的相处及老师对自己的深刻影响，并表达了对老师的思念。

1. 猜测词义题。此处指你的笑声使最叛逆的青少年也决定戒烟。lay off在此表示“停止”，D项throw away意为“扔掉”，故与D项意思相近，故选D。

2. 推理判断题。根据文中提到的时间You gave me a lot of advice over the next four years, 和The last time I wrote you a letter, it was 2005—four years after I graduated.可知，作者1997年遇到了老师Mr. Rupp，在一起相处4年2001年毕业。故选A。

3. 推理判断题。根据第三段it was 2005—four years after I graduated. I had just become a teacher, like you, and it had given me a new appreciation for the work you did with countless high school students over the years.可知，作者2005年写信是要告诉老师自己也成了一名老师，故选A。

4. 推理判断题。根据文章最后Dear teacher, dear mentor, and dear friend—I miss you and all that is about you. God bless you in Heaven.可知，老师已经去世，作者希望在天堂上帝保佑老师。故选C。

考点：考查人物故事类短文阅读。

【名师点睛】

推理判断题的解题方法 ：

推理判断题不仅要求考生读懂文章中的每个句子的意思还要推理它们之间的关系，结合自己的生活常识和经验，再通过逻辑推理和判断，理解文章的言外之意，从而揭示文章的深层涵义。比如文章第26小题根据文中提到的时间You gave me a lot of advice over the next four years, 和The last time I wrote you a letter, it was 2005---four years after I graduated.可知作者1997年遇到了老师-Mr. Rupp，在一起相处4年2001年毕业。故选A. 第28小题根据文章最后Dear teacher, dear mentor, and dear friend----I miss you and all that is about you. God bless you in Heaven.可知老师已经去世，作者希望在天堂上帝保佑老师。故选C.

任何一篇文章都有其特定的写作目的，读者应当知道如何去做或按照某种方式传递思考问题。推理判断题的答案不可能在文章中直接找到，因此推理时我们务必要忠于原文，在文章中寻找并确定可推论的依据，即：已知部分－推论的前提，从中推测出未知部分－推理的结论，切忌妄加评论，把自己的观点当成作者的观点。