Question

    Mr. Buxton taught me Shakespeare in 10th grade. We were reading Macbeth. Mr. Buxton, who probably had better things to do, nonetheless agreed to meet one night to go over the text line by line. The first thing he did was point out the repetition of themes. For example, the reversals of things.

What Mr. Buxton didn’t tell me was what the play meant. He left the conclusions to me. The situation was much the same with my religious studies teacher in 11th grade, Mr. Flanders, who encouraged me to have my own relationship with the Gospels.

High school was followed by college, where I read Umberto Eco’s The Role of the Reader, in which it is said that the reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious (渴求的) and engaged reader. The open texts, Eco calls them. In college, I read some of the great Europeans and Latin Americans: Borges and Kafka, Genet and Beckett, Artaud, Proust-open texts all. I may not have known why Kafka’s Metamorphosis is about a guy who turns into a bug: but I knew that some said cockroach, and others, European dung beetle.

There are those critics, of course, who insist that there are right ways and wrong ways to read every book. No doubt they arrived at these beliefs through their own adventures in the stacks. And these are important questions for philosophers of every stripe. And yet I know only what joy and enthusiasm about reading have taught me, in bookstores new and used.

There is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.

Supposing the truth is not hard, fast, masculine, simple, direct? You could spend a lifetime thinking about this sentence ,and making it your own. In just this way, the freedom to see literature,history, truth unfolding ahead of me like a book whose spine has just now been cracked.

1.When did the author begin to read Shakespeare’s work?.

A.In primary school. B.In 11th grade.

C.In secondary school. D.In college.

2.What can we know about The Role of the Reader from the text?

A.It w as written by the readers.

B.It is about a guy turning into a bug.

C.It insists that the reader completes the text.

D.Some great Europeans and Latin Americans wrote it together.

3.What is the main reason of the author loving reading?

A.Being an excellent student.

B.Mr. Buxton’s teaching method.

C.The joy and enthusiasm from his reading.

D.His admiration for literature masters like Shakespeare.

4.What can be inferred about the author from the text?

A.He has a preference for the open texts.

B.Shakespeare is his favorite.

C.He is naturally talented in reading.

D.He is also a famous literary critic.

Answer

1.C

2.C

3.C

4.A

【解析】

本文为记叙文。作者自十年级开始在老师的引导下进行开放式阅读，后来又从翁贝托·艾柯的《读者的角色》中受益，至今仍享受开放式阅读带来的快乐。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段中的第一、二句Mr. Buxton taught me Shakespeare in 10th grade. We were reading Macbeth.可知，布克斯顿先生在十年级教我莎士比亚。我们在读麦克白。由此可知，作者在中学时开始读莎士比亚的作品。故选C。

2.细节理解题。根据第三段中的第一句High school was followed by college, where I read Umberto Eco’s The Role of the Reader, in which it is said that the reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious (渴求的) and engaged reader.可知，高中之后是大学，我读了翁贝托·艾柯的《读者的角色》，书中说读者完成了文本，直到遇见这个贪婪而投入的读者，文本才算完成。由此可知，《读者的角色》要求读者读完了整个文本。故选C。

3.推理判断题。归纳全文并结合第四段中的And yet I know only what joy and enthusiasm about reading have taught me, in bookstores new and used.可知，然而，我只知道，在新书店和旧书店里，阅读的乐趣和热情教会了我什么。由此推知, 阅读的愉悦和热情是作者喜爱阅读的主要原因。故选C。

4.推理判断题。 通读全文，归纳概括可知作者自十年级开始在老师的引导下进行开放式阅读，后来又从翁贝托·艾柯的《读者的角色》中受益，至今仍享受开放式阅读带来的快乐等。由此可推知，他偏爱开放式阅读。故选A。