Question

【题目】Willa Cather once said, "When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the famous saying: The end is nothing；the road is all. That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never used the computer with the thought that one more task had to be done."

Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from child to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plain with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers.

"It's a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower, an old factory, a waterfall, the country all made to look like a German Christmas card...But when I come to the open plain, something happens. I'm home. I breathe differently."

【1】Willa Cather wrote because she found writing _____.

A. simple and lively

B. opened up a road to success

C. neither too hard nor too easy

D. interesting and enjoyable

【2】What was the place like where Cather grew up?

A. It was cold, plain and without a church.

B. It was vast, open and flat.

C. It was like a German Christmas card.

D. It was a colorful world of wild flowers.

【3】When she said "It takes hold of you or it leaves you perfectly cold.", Willa Cather meant that _____.

A. you either love the place or hate it

B. you decide either to stay or to leave

C. some find the place warm; others find it cold

D. some find the place peaceful; others find it wild

【4】What happens when Cather comes to the open plain?

A. She breathes differently from others.

B. She wants to make the place her home.

C. She feels completely comfortable.

D. She finds the place similar to her home.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】A

【4】C

【解析】作家薇拉凯瑟以自幼所熟悉的西部生活为题材，创作出很多富有地方特色的作品。薇拉凯瑟认为，写作本身很重要，它能带给人快乐，她不以写作作为赚钱的手段，而是喜欢写作带来的乐趣。

【1】细节理解题。根据第二段中的句子“Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing.”可知，薇拉凯瑟认为写作能给她带来快乐，也就是充满趣味性，故答案为D。

【2】细节理解题。根据第二段"where she grew from childhood to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the Great Plains with its wild flowers，wheat fields and rivers"和最后一段"But when I come to the open plains"可知，作家薇拉凯瑟的故乡是广阔的、开放的、平坦的，故选B。

【3】细节理解题。根据最后一段"A great many people find it very dull；…But when I come to the open plains, something happens．I'm home. I breathe differently.""可知，有的人不喜欢那里，而作者却很喜欢自己的家乡，故选A。

【4】细节理解题。根据最后一段"But when I come to the open plains，something happens. I'm home."可知，作者来到广阔的草原就像到了自己的家一样，感觉舒适而温馨，故选C。