Question

    My kids sit in Gee's living room and excitedly lit old New Year decorations out of a well-loved cardboard box. She tells me that she and Tom built their decoration collection piece by piece during each year's after-New Year sale. 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 on a bench outside the garbage with a thank-you note. When we got home from work that day, a typed letter had replaced the gift. The letter was from Tom and explained how he had come to walk the neighborhood on garbage day, retuning cans for people he barely knew. Back where he'd been fighting a war, his young wife, Gee, had found herself living alone. Neighbors had taken the time to handle her garbage cans so she didn't have to, and he never forgot. Now he paid it forward by doing the same for all of us. Unfortunately a few years after we'd moved in, Tom died.

These days, we're piling up boxes of our own. We're planning a move. The house that seemed so huge six years ago is filled to capacity with furniture and books and toys and, of course, people, We know it's time to go, and yet we can't seem to stick the For Sale sign up on the grassland. Gaining a third bedroom and maybe an office sometimes seems like a lousy trade for all we stand to lose.

It's not just Gee and Tom. It’s the man who lets our kids pick peaches of the tree in his front yard. It's the ladies who call Jim when their pool filter breaks and leave overflowing baskets for our kids on Easter. It's the officer who smiles and waves and makes me feel a little safer when Jim is away. It is they who teach us what it means to be a neighbor.

1.What do we know about the New Year decorations according to paragraph 1?

A.The kids don't like them.

B.Gee is willing to give them to us.

C.Gee sees them as useless now.  ,

D.Gee and Tom made them by themselves.

2.How did the author get to know Tom?

A.Tom lived across the street.

B.Tom liked the cookies the author baked.

C.Tom returned the garbage cans for the author.

D.Tom shared their decorations with the author.

3.Tom decided to help his neighbors because

A.they had just moved into the community

B.he had been saved by a neighbor during the war

C.his wife had been helped by the neighbors during his absence

D.there were so many garbage cans in the neighborhood at that time

4.What can we infer from the underlined sentence?

A.Their house couldn't be sold at a high price

B.The author didn't want to leave their neighbors

C.The author's family was in bad need of a third bedroom

D.Their moving out would be a great loss for the neighbors

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.B

【解析】

这是一篇记叙文。作者的邻居Tom帮助作者家及其他人送回垃圾箱是因为Tom的妻子曾受到邻居的帮助。Tom的妻子Gee将自己一生的圣诞节装饰收藏慷慨的相送。文章展现了邻居间的互帮互助和和睦相处。

1.推理判断题。根据第一段的She tells me that she and Tom built their decoration collection piece by piece during each year's after-New Year sale. She smiles as we leave with the box.可知，Gee把礼物给我们时，是笑着看着我们离开的，由此可知，她很乐意把礼物送给我们。故选B。

2.细节理解题。根据第二段的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结合下文可知，我们第一次遇见Tom是汤姆把垃圾桶还回来时。故选C。

3.细节理解题。根据第三段的Neighbors had taken the time to handle her garbage cans so she didn't have to, and he never forgot. Now he paid it forward by doing the same for all of us.可知，邻居们帮她妻子处理垃圾桶，现在他为所有人做同样的事来回报大家。故选C。

4.词义猜测题。根据上文作者描述的邻居之间的相互帮助可知，作者说是他们教会了我们什么是邻居，因此划线句子的意思是“作者舍不得离开他们。”故选B。