Question

    My kids sit in Gee’s living room and respectfully lift antique Christmas ornaments (装饰品) out of a cardboard box. They giggle at Ann, who is a foreign character to them. Gee stands beside them, quietly explaining each treasure. She tells me that she and Tom built their ornament collection piece by piece. She smiles as we leave with the box.

We first met Tom and Gee in the early days of our marriage. Someone had been returning our garbage cans to the garage each garbage day, and Jim and I had wondered who. Then one day we spotted him: an elderly man who lived across the street.

I baked cookies and left them outside with a thank-you note. When we got home that day, a typed letter had replaced the gift. The letter was from Tom and explained back when he’d been fighting a war, neighbors had taken the time to handle the garbage cans for his young wife, Gee, and he never forgot. Now he paid it forward by doing the same for all of us.

A few years after we’d moved in, Tom died. We photocopied that letter and attached it to one of our own for Gee. We told her how special Tom had been to us. She wrote back and told us she still talked to Tom every day.

These days, we’re piling up boxes of our own. We’re planning a move. We know it’s time to go, and yet we can’t seem to stick the For Sale sign up on the lawn. It’s not just Gee. It’s the man who lets our kids pick peaches off the tree in his front yard. It’s the ladies who leave overflowing baskets for our kids on Easter.

Jim and I agree to wait until January. This Christmas, we’ll decorate our tree with Gee’s ornaments, out of the box labeled in Tom’s handwriting. Maybe I’ll talk to him just as Gee still does. Thank you, I’ll say. For teaching us what it means to be a neighbor.

1.What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A. The kids thought little of these antique Christmas ornaments.

B. The kids were fond of these antique Christmas ornaments.

C. The kids were afraid of these antique Christmas ornaments.

D. The kids had no interest in these antique Christmas ornaments.

2.Which of the following is true about Tom?

A. He fought a war from which the author suffered a lot.

B. He first met the author at her wedding.

C. He was an elderly man whose job was handling garbage cans.

D. He helped to handle his neighbors’ garbage cans secretly.

3.What could be the best title of this passage?

A. This is what Tom did for us.

B. This is why we didn’t want to move.

C. This is what it really means to be a neighbor.

D. This is how neighbors help each other.

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.C

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。文章告诉我们“什么才是真正的邻居。”

1.推理判断题。根据第一段中My kids sit in Gee’s living room and respectfully lift antique Christmas ornaments (装饰品) out of a cardboard box.和She tells me that she and Tom built their ornament collection piece by piece.可知，孩子们喜欢这些古老的圣诞装饰品。

2.推理判断题。根据第三段中The letter was from Tom and explained back when he’d been fighting a war, neighbors had taken the time to handle the garbage cans for his young wife, Gee, and he never forgot.可知，他帮邻居们偷偷地处理垃圾桶。故选D。

3.主旨大意题。根据最后一段最后一句For teaching us what it means to be a neighbor.“感谢你教会我们什么是邻居。”可知C想为最佳主题。故选C。

概括主旨的方法是：先看首尾或各段开头再看全文找主题句，若无明显主题句，就通过关键词句来概括(如议论文中寻找表达作者观点态度的词句，记叙文寻找概括情节和中心的动词或反映人物特点的形容词)。文中出现两种或两种以上的不同观点时，务必牢记作者的观点才是体现全文中心的。本题第3小题，根据最后一段最后一句For teaching us what it means to be a neighbor.“感谢你教会我们什么是邻居。”可知C想为最佳主题。故选C。