Question

One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test. After hearing that, all students were seated and waited for the test to begin. Now, the professor gave the test papers to all students with text facing down on the desk. Once he was done with handing out the test to all students, he asked them to turn the test pages and begin.

Students were confused to see that there was not a question but just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor noticed the students’ facial expressions and told them, “I want you to write about what you see there.”

The students were still confused but got started with the test. At the end of the class, the professor took all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. All of them described about the black dot and tried to explain its position. After the professor finished reading, the whole class was silent.

Now, the professor began to explain, “Don’t worry. I am not going to give you grades for this but I just want you to think about something. Here everyone focused on the black dot and wrote about it but no one wrote about the white paper. The same is with our lives. The white paper embodies our whole life and the black spot problems in our life.

Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate---our friends around us, the job that provides us our livelihood, the miracles we see everyday. Still we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships, etc. But we never see that these problems are very small compared to everything we have in our lives.”

1.From the text we learn that _________.

A. the professor gave the students an unexpected test

B. the professor graded the students’ test papers

C. none of the students focused on the black dot

D. the students were unwilling to take the test

2.The underlined word “embodies” in Paragraph 4 probably can be replaced by ________.

A. presents    B. represents

C. empties    D. enriches

3.What is the main idea of the text?

A. Be happy to take tests

B. Life is filled with problems

C. There are many black dots in our life

D. Take eyes off problems and enjoy life

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.D

【解析】本文通过一个教授对学生的一次突击考试，即对白纸及白纸上的黑点的描述，说明了在现实生活中人们只注意小的问题，而忘记了享受生活。从而建议我们把眼光从小问题上移开去享受生活。

1.A

细节理解题。根据第一段中的“One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprise test.” 一位教授走进教室，告诉学生们要进行一个突击考试。a surprise tset,也就是an unexpected test，出人意料之外的考试，故选A。

2.B

猜测词义题。根据本段中教授解释说每个人只注意白纸上的那个小黑点，即没有注意那张白纸。我们在生活中也是如此。白纸体现了我们的一生便黑点却是我们生活中的问题。因此可以判断是代表或体现。. presents 呈现， represent表现，象征,代表.。empty 把…腾出来; 把…移出,（把…）撤出。enrich，使富裕，使富有; 给…添加肥料。故选B，体现。

3.D

主旨大意题。文章最后一段的最后一句“Still we just focus on day to day problems like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships, etc. But we never see that these problems are very small compared to everything we have in our lives.””我们仍然只关注日常问题，如健康问题、金钱短缺、人际关系问题等等，但我们从来没有看到这些问题比我们生活中的任何事情都要小得多。通读全文可知教授通过学生对白纸及白纸上的黑点的描述，说明了在现实生活中人们只注意小的问题，而忘记了享受生活。从而建议我们把眼光从小问题上移开去享受生活。