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“What’s that?” my ten-year-old daughter, Genie, asked. She’d caught me laughing at a piece of mail I’d just opened. “Wake-up service, $2.50 per call.” At the bottom was a phone number and a drawing of a rotary phone, like the one my great- aunt Sara had owned 40 years ago.

“Is that mail funny?” Genie asked.

“Not really,” I admitted. “It’s just outdated.”

“What’s a wake-up call?” She asked. I explained how, before smart-phones, people sometimes paid someone to wake them with a call.

“Who sent this flyer（传单）?” she pressed.

“Probably someone older,” I said.

Her eyes lit up. “Can we order a wake-up?” she asked.

“We don’t need it.” I picked it up and headed for the recycling bin.

“Wait!” she screamed. “I feel sorry for the wake-up man, if he needs some money,” she said, tearing up. “Can’t we order?”

I looked at the flyer with its drawing of a rotary phone. I remembered, again, my great-aunt Sara and her rotary phone. As a kid, I’d visited her over Labor Day, when Jerry Lewis would host his charity event for the disabled kids. Aunt Sara would squeeze my hand, then reach for the rotary phone, dialing the number on the screen. Holding the receiver between us, we’d announce to the operator, “We’d like to help those kids.”

Now here was my own child, showing the same big heart I’d once been encouraged to have, and how could I ignore her? I googled the flyer’s return address. The address belonged to a man called Raymond. He was in his mid-60s. We called him and, holding the receiver between us, the way Aunt Sara and I used to, told him we needed his services. “Great!” Raymond said in a shaky but friendly voice, clearly amazed at receiving an order from a child.

Genie was happy all week.

Technology has made some things outdated. But there are still other things the world will always require. In the rush of my daily life, I’d temporarily forgotten that, I guess I just needed a wake-up call.

1.Why did Genie beg to order the service?

A. She was afraid of being late.

B. She wanted to help the old man.

C. She was curious about the service.

D. She was interested in the rotary phone.

2.What made the author finally decide to order a wake-up call?

A. Her own childhood experience.

B. The less fortunate wake-up man.

C. Genie’s curiosity about the service.

D. The information she found on Google.

3.How did Raymond feel when receiving our order?

A. Excited.    B. Disappointed.

C. Doubtful.    D. Regretful.

4.What could be the best title for the passage?

A. A Wake-up Man    B. A Kindhearted Girl

C. The Wake-up Call    D. The Rotary Phone

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.A

4.C

【解析】本文为记叙文。文章讲述女儿想订购电话叫醒服务，我认为没有必要，我回忆自己小时的经历同意的女儿的要求，在科学技术进步的今天，善良的心仍然是我们所需要的。

1.推理判断题。根据第九段中的 “I feel sorry for the wake-up man, if he needs some money,” she said, tearing up. “Can’t we order?”（ “我为这个叫醒服务的人感到难过，如果他需要钱的话，”她说“我们为什么不订这个服务呢？”）可推知，Genie想订这个服务是因为她想帮助那位老人。故选B。

2.推理判断题。根据倒数第四段提到作者想到自己童年的经历，所以决定预定这项服务。故选A。

3.推理判断题。根据倒数第三段中的“Great!” Raymond said in a shaky but friendly voice, clearly amazed at receiving an order from a child.（“太棒了！” Raymond用颤抖但友好的声音说，接到了孩子的预订，他明显很惊讶。）可推知，Raymond收到了我们的预订时，他非常兴奋。故选A。

4.标题归纳题。通读全文可知，本文主要围绕“电话叫醒服务”展开的，所以“电话叫醒服务”适合作本文最佳标题。故选C。

【名师点睛】

推理判断题要求在理解原文表面文字信息的基础上，做出一定的推理判断，从而得到文章的隐含意义和深层意义。推理判断题所涉及的内容可能是文中的某一句话，也可能是某几句话，所以，推理判断题的答案只能是根据原文表面文字信息进一步推出的答案：即对原文某一句话或某几句话所作出的同义改写或综合。推理判断题的题干中通常含有infer，suggest，imply，conclude，indicate等标志性词语。这种题型只要包括细节判断题、观点态度推断题、写作意图推断题、文章出处判断题和猜测想象判断题等。在做此类题目时，也应做到有理有据，将答案依据在原文中标识出来。如第3小题How did Raymond feel when receiving our order?（当Raymond接到我们的预订时，他什么感受？），根据倒数第三段中的“Great!” Raymond said in a shaky but friendly voice, clearly amazed at receiving an order from a child.（“太棒了！” Raymond用颤抖但友好的声音说，接到了孩子的预订，他明显很惊讶）尤其是Raymond说的“Great!”可推知，Raymond收到了我们的预订时，他非常兴奋。由此可知，正确答案。并将此处标识为第3小题的答案依据。