Question

    This was the first real task I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. As I searched the name, I found that there were two famous people having the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice; let the coin decide. I flipped (掷) a coin and Ah! Tails (背面)! My report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.

Weeks later, I stood in front of the classroom and proudly read my homework. But things started to get strange. I looked around the room, only to find my classmates with big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes and my stone-faced teacher. I was completely lost. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?”

Oh well, I dropped the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American War of Independence.” The whole world became quiet! How could I know that my teacher meant that George Washington?

Of course, my subject result was awful. Sad but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to the headmaster Miss Lancelot, but she said firmly: No re-dos; no new score. I felt that it was not fair, and I believed I deserved a second chance. So I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, I sat in the headmaster’s office again, but this time a completely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the terrible moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster told me I was good enough to skip (跳过) the 6th grade and started the 7th grade next term.

1.People in the class acted strangely because ________.

A.I was too proud of my homework

B.I mistook what the homework was about

C.the whole world suddenly became quiet

D.the teacher’s face turned to a stone

2.We can infer from the passage that ________.

A.the headmaster didn’t like the writer at all

B.the writer’s classmates felt sad at his mistake

C.the writer knew little about American history

D.the writer’s grandpa was a very wise man

3.Which of the following proverbs can best describe the main idea of this story?

A.Seeing is believing.

B.Where there is a will, there is a way.

C.One is never too old to learn.

D.A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.B

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。文章叙述了作者在新学校接到的第一次任务是在网上查找关于George Washington的信息，由于小作者对历史了解的很少，所以在班级出现了笑话，最后通过他自己的努力成功了这样一个故事。

1.

细节理解题。根据第三段中的Oh well, I dropped the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong.(哦，好吧，我把纸放下，坐在我的桌子前，急切地想知道我做错了什么)可推知，班上的学生表现得很奇怪是因为作者把作业的内容搞错了。故选B。

2.

推理判断题。根据整篇文章内容的理解我们可以推断出，作者对美国历史了解的很少。故选C。

3.

推理判断题。根据整篇文章内容的理解可知，作者是一个勇敢努力的人，因此推断这篇文章主要观点是有志者事竟成。故选B。