Question

【題目】 One day a man gave his son some wood to saw (鋸; 鋸子). The boy did not want to do such work, so after his father had gone away, he threw the saw down, and it broke.

"I did not break the saw," said the boy to himself, "it broke itself." He tried to deceive himself with words, but he knew in his heart that they were false words, and he was afraid to meet his father.

One day a mother said to her son, who had just returned from school, "It is six o'clock. Your school closes at four -where have you been, my boy?"

"Oh, mother," said Ned, "when we play at ball, we forget everything else. We do not think of the time, or of coming home. Is tea ready?"

The boy 's mother was cheated. Ned's answer led her to think that he had been playing with his friends. But he had not been playing at all.

He had been “kept in” by his teacher, because he had not learned his lessons. He did not like to tell his mother that. He wished her to think that he had been playing.

“What a shame it is for you to try to cheat your mother," said something in Ned's heart, as he sat down to his tea.

"I don't care," said the boy to himself, “I don't care. I did not tell a lie- I did not say that I was playing. "

If we use words which are about to cheat, we tell a lie. Ned's lie was a very bad one, for it looked so like the truth. A lie that looks like the truth is the worst kind of lie.

【1】Who broke the saw actually?

A. The father.B. The boy.C. The mother.D. Nobody.

【2】The underlined word "deceive" probably means“

A. 鼓勵(lì)B. 鞭策C. 欺騙D. 懲罰

【3】What time did the school close?

A. At 14:00.B. At 15:00.C. At16:00.D. At17:00.

【4】The boy got home at six on that day, because he_

A. played at ballB. was busy with his lessonsC. forgot the timeD. was asked to stay by the teacher

【5】What does the writer mainly want to tell us?

A. A truth is a real lie.B. What looks like a truth is a lie.

C. A truth that looks like a lie is a lie.D. A lie that looks real is the worst lie.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】C

【4】D

【5】D

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文，講述了小男孩犯了錯(cuò)，或者想隱瞞某事時(shí)總會(huì)向父母撒謊，而且甚至想用語(yǔ)言把自己也騙過(guò)去，但這是不對(duì)的。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)The boy did not want to do such work, so after his father had gone away, he threw the saw down, and it broke，可知是男孩弄壞了鋸子，故選B。

【2】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)劃線(xiàn)詞所在句句意“他努力用話(huà)語(yǔ)________自己，但是他心中知道這些話(huà)都是錯(cuò)的”，可以猜測(cè)此處是“欺騙”的意思，故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)It is six o'clock. Your school closes at four，可知學(xué)校下午四點(diǎn)放學(xué)，故選C。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)He had been “kept in” by his teacher, because he had not learned his lessons，可知他被老師留堂了，故選D。

【5】文章主旨題。根據(jù)全文的內(nèi)涵，以及A lie that looks like the truth is the worst kind of lie，可知作者想告訴我們聽(tīng)起來(lái)很像事實(shí)的謊言是最壞的謊言，人們不該說(shuō)謊，故選D。