Question

【題目】 My father was a cemetery（公墓）keeper. When I was a child, he often took me there. Before we left each time, he would lay some stones on some graves（墳墓）.I never asked why. I just thought that was his work.

Yesterday, I visited my sick father. He asked me to go to the cemetery and lay some stones. For some reason, it had to be done that day. I agreed. I hadn't been there for a long time.

When I got there, I found a woman in front of one of the graves I would lay a stone on.As I bent to lay it, I heard her whisper“ Thank you”. It was then that I noticed the date of death on the grave was that same day. The grave was that of a child, only five when he died fifteen years ago.

“ He's my son,” she said. “But, where’s your father? He was always the one to leave the stone.”

I told her that my father was ill but he asked me to do this. It seemed important to him. “Your father’s kindness means more to me than anything else. When my child died, I came often to see him. It is our custom to leave a stone. It tells the one who is here that he is thought of. But, then we moved away from here. so many painful memories…. I was so afraid that he would be alone. But your father marked the grave every time he came. Each time I returned here, I saw that stone and it always comforted me. Your father is the kind of man who would ease the pain of a mother’s heart though we are strangers. Just tell him you saw me today, won’t you?” She said.

It took me a minute to find my voice. That small stone marked the grave of a child and the heart of his mother.

【1】The underlined phrase“ some reason＂ in Paragraph2 refers to(指代)_______.

A. the writer had been away from the cemetery for a long time

B. the woman’s child died on that day fifteen years ago

C. the writer's father was always the one to leave the stone

D. the writer’s father would meet the woman that day

【2】What does the underlined word "ease"in Paragraph 5 mean?

A. IncreaseB. CauseC. ReduceD. Express.

【3】According to the passage， we can infer(推斷)___________.

A. the writer understood his father in the end

B. laying stones was part of a cemetery keepers work

C. the woman knew the writers father well fifteen years ago

D. the stone marked the grave of a child and the heart of his mother

【4】What's the best title of the passage?

A. A Strange CustomB. One Small Stone, Unforgotten

C. A Cemetery KeeperD. Painful Memories, Unforgotten

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】A

【4】B

【解析】

這篇短文是一篇記敘文，短文講述的是作者的父親是公墓看守人，作者小時候，父親經(jīng)常帶他去那兒。每次離開的時候，父親總是會在一些墳墓上放一些石頭，作者不知道是怎么回事。后來父親生病了，讓作者代替他去墓地放石頭。作者在那里看到了一個女人，從那個女士那里，作者知道了父親放石頭的原因。原來在墳墓上放石頭是他們的一個風俗，這代表著有人還想念著死去的人。作者的父親一直都替他們做著這件事，作者知道了父親的善良。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段，出于某些原因，這件事情今天不得不做，聯(lián)系下文第三段，“ It was then that I noticed the date of death on the grave was that same day. ”這句，說明今天這個日子是那位女士孩子死亡的日期。故應選B。

【2】詞義猜測題，根據(jù)第五段這句話，“I saw that stone and it always comforted me”.那塊石頭總是能安慰我，所以后半句可以推斷出父親是一個減少了一個母親內(nèi)心的痛苦的人，A.增加，B.引起，D.表達。故應選C。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文第五段和第六段的內(nèi)容可知，作者聽了那個女士的話，最終理解了父親為什么要在墳墓上放石頭，也理解了父親的善良，故A選項符合文意，選A。B選項說“放石頭是父親工作的一部分”，不符合文章意思；這位母親和作者父親不認識，他們是陌生人，故C不對；D選項在原文中直接提到了，不是推斷的。

【4】主旨大意題。根據(jù)文意可知，文章圍繞石頭這個線索展開，這個小石頭寬慰了一個失去孩子的母親的心，是難以遺忘的。B選項這個題目最能概括文章主題，點明文章主旨，故應選B。

這是一篇記敘文，短文講述了作者善良的父親，在墳墓上放石頭，寬慰了一個失去孩子的母親的心。文章敘述清晰，比較容易掌握大意，但文章中有一些難理解的句子，需要在理解中好好體會其中的含義。題目設置有詞義猜測題、推理判斷題和主旨大意題，有一定的難度。做題時，應先通讀短文，了解文章大意；然后根據(jù)上下文語境，結合選項，體會文章深意，選擇最佳的答案。例如第2小題，這是一個猜測詞義的題目，根據(jù)第五段這句話，“I saw that stone and it always comforted me”.那塊石頭總是能安慰我，所以后半句可以推斷出父親是一個減少了一個母親內(nèi)心的痛苦的人，A.增加，B.引起，C減少，D.表達。故應選C。再如第3小題，這是一個推斷題，根據(jù)短文第五段和第六段的內(nèi)容可知，作者聽了那個女士的話，最終理解了父親為什么要在墳墓上放石頭，也理解了父親的善良，故A選項符合文意，選A。B選項說“放石頭是父親工作的一部分”，不符合文章意思；這位母親和作者父親不認識，他們是陌生人，故C不對；D選項在原文中直接提到了，不是推斷出來的。