Question

Harvey was having his hair cut in a barber shop when a young boy entered the shop. The barber said to Harvey in a very low voice, "This is the silliest kid in the world. Watch while I show it to you." The barber put a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters(25美分) in the other, then called the boy over and asked, "Which do you want, son?" The boy took the quarters and left. "What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"
Later, when Harvey left, he saw the same young boy coming out of an ice cream store. "Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?" The boy ate his ice cream and replied, "Because the day I take the dollar, the game's over!
【小题1】 The barber gave the boy money because he         .
A. wanted the boy to help him        B. loved the boy       C. wanted to prove(证明) his words.
【小题2】 The boy got          from the barber.
A. one dollar                      B. 50 cents(美分)               C. a quarter
【小题3】 The sentence “the game's over” here means         .
A. he can’t play the computer game any longer
B. he can never get money from the barber
C. he can never go to the barber shop
【小题4】We can learn that          is the smartest one among the three people in this story.
A. the boy                        B. the barber                  C. Harvey
【小题5】 We can infer(推断) from the passage that         .
A. The young boy was the barber’s son       
B. Every time the boy got the money, he went to buy an ice cream.
C. The barber thought the boy wasn’t clever at all.

Answer 1

【小题1】C
【小题2】B
【小题3】B
【小题4】A
【小题5】C

解析【小题1】根据第一段的内容"This is the silliest kid in the world. Watch while I show it to you." The barber put a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters(25美分) in the other, then called the boy over and asked, "Which do you want, son?" The boy took the quarters and left. "What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"，可知答案为C。
【小题2】根据文章内容The barber put a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters(25美分) in the other, then called the boy over and asked, "Which do you want, son?" The boy took the quarters and left. "What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"可知答案为B
【小题3】根据单词词组的意思和文章中的语境，故选B
【小题4】根据文章内容可知答案为A
【小题5】根据文章内容可知答案为C