Question

Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five, he gave £12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.

As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson said that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.” He told the newspaperman, thinking of evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and has a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

1.Johnson became a rich man through ________.

A. doing business    B. making whisky    C. cheating    D. buying and selling land

2.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out ________.

A. how to inject themselves to live longer    B. how to live happily

C. how to become wealthy    D. what kind of whisky he had

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Johnson needed an injection in the neck.

B. Johnson liked whisky and drank some each day.

C. The newspaperman misled the public deliberately.

D. The newspaperman got the wrong end of the stick.

Answer

1. A

2. A

3. D

【解析】

本文是一篇故事，讲述了一个幽默的老人把喝酒说成是颈部注射。记者没有理解他的意思，直接把这句话印刷在报纸上，引起了人们的误解。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段的句子He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries.可知，他是做生意挣的钱。故选A。

2.推理判断题。根据文章最后一句Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.可知，很多人都询问他注射的秘密，因为他们都认为他的长寿是因为注射药物。故选A。

3.推理判断题。根据最后一段第一句The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant.可知，那个新闻记者搞错了。get the wrong end of the stick是英语口语，意为“完全搞错了，完全误解了”，故选D。B项正确，但不是推理出来的，文中有原句He liked whisky and drank some each day.