Question

"Dad," I say one day, "let's take a trip. Why don't you fly out and meet me?"

My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thoughts, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.

He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.

"What's our first stop?" asks my father.

"What time is it?"

"Still don’t have a watch?"

Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(花岗岩), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of a little boy.

"Unbelievable," he says. "How was this done?"

A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.

We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything?

No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father's voice. Now I hear them in my own.

The next day we've at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.

"Did you ever travel with your dad?" I ask.

"Only once," he says. "I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other—but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave."

That last sentence—it’s probably the same thing I’d say about my father. And what I’d want my child to say about me.

In Glacier National Park, my father says, "I've never seen water so blue." I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling, I realize—and maybe a regular job won't be as dull as I feared.

Weeks after our trip, I call my father.

"The photos from the trip are wonderful," he says. "We've got to take another trip like that sometime."

I tell him I've decided to settle down, and I'm wearing a watch.

1.We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father______________  .

A. followed the fashion    B. got bored with his job

C. was unhappy with the author’s lifestyle    D. liked the author’s collection of stamps

2.What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore?

A. His father is interested in sculpture.

B. He should pursue a specific aim in life.

C. He should learn sculpture in the future.

D. His father is as innocent as a little boy.

3.From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author                   .

A. wants his children to learn from their grandfather

B. comes to understand what parental love means

C. learns how to communicate with his father

D. hopes to give whatever he can to his father

4.What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?

A. The call solves their disagreements.    B. The Swiss watch has drawn them closer.

C. They decide to learn photography together.    D. They begin to change their attitudes to life.

Answer

1. C

2. B

3. B

4. D

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。文章叙述了作者的父亲在退休前一直忙于工作，没有时间旅行，而儿子平时整天无所事事。在儿子的请求下，父子两个进行了一次旅行，通过这次旅行两人都改变了对人生的观点。

1.推理判断题。文章第二段讲述作者过着流浪的生活，而父亲忙于自己的工作；第三段讲述父亲想要作者安顿下来，但作者想让他进行一次冒险。由此可推断父子二人的生活轨道是完全不一样的，父亲不喜欢作者的生活方式。故选C。

2.判断推理题。根据文章中We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything? No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father's voice. Now I hear them in my own.可知，作者开始反思自己，从而推断出作者意识到自己应该追求自己明确的人生目标了。故选B。

3.推理判断题。根据划线的句子的内容可知作者想说的关于父亲的话，和作者的孩子说的关于作者的话内容是一样的。从而可以推断出这里指的是作者慢慢地理解了父母对孩子的爱。故选B。

4.推理判断题。根据最后的几句父亲和作者的话，父亲要改变以前的做法，想要在将来的某个时候继续旅行，作者决定安顿下来，不再无所事事，所以可推断出他们通过这次旅行都改变了各自的人生观点。故选D。