Question

【题目】Looking through a magazine in a waiting room recently, I came across an article with the title “My top five most precious possessions”．It was just a few lines of text with pictures, but it caught my imagination.

It’s interesting how inanimate(无生命的) objects can take on such significance and become woven into a person’s, and sometimes a whole family’s, life history.

Anyway, the article had me considering what my most precious possessions are.It was difficult to choose only five, but here are mine:

An old cardboard box filled with my children’s baby photos.

A yellow pocket-sized birthday book of special things (poems, pictures of flowers and trees, etc) given to me by my dad when I was probably about seven or eight years old.

A 21st Birthday card from my mum.In it she’s written her congratulations, her love, and her hopes for my future.She died not long after, when I was in my early twenties.

A few ancient but very beautiful botany books that were once my great grandmother’s.She was a botanist in a time when it was relatively unusual for women to be qualified in this field and I think she was probably a remarkable and very interesting woman.I’d like to have known her.

A brooch(胸针) left to me by my much-loved grandmother.It was given to my great grandmother (her mother) by my great grandfather on his return from World War Ⅰ.It is not worth anything in terms of money.However, it not only stands for a link between four generations of women, but it is also a reminder of one young man’s return from World War I.

How about you? I’d love to hear what you feel are your most precious possessions.

【1】What made the writer have the idea of writing the passage?

A．Her love for her relatives.

B．Her rich imagination about the objects.

C．An article in a magazine.

D．Some pictures in an article.

【2】According to the passage, the writer ________.

A．lost her mother at the age of 26

B．was a mother of several children

C．got the yellow birthday book at 8

D．studied botany well when she was young

【3】 The writer considered her grandmother remarkable and interesting because she ______.

A．wrote a large number of botany books

B．left the writer some ancient but beautiful botany books

C．was unusually famous for her achievements

D．could become a botanist in the special time

【4】How many reasons made the writer think the brooch was one of her most precious possessions?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Three.

D．Four.

【5】 In the writer's opinion, something that is thought to be the most precious should be able to ________.

A．change a person’s and even the whole family’s life history

B．have a great effect on one person’s life

C．remind somebody of his or her close relatives

D．show a person’s love and respect for his or her relatives

Answer 1

【答案】【1】C

【2】B

【3】D

【4】B

【5】A

【解析】【1】 细节理解题。根据第一段可知，杂志上的一篇文章引起了作者的注意，于是作者写了本文，与读者进行交流。

【2】推理判断题。根据第四段“An old cardboard box filled with my children’ s baby photos.”可判断选B。

【3】细节理解题。根据倒数第三段“She was a botanist in a time when it was relatively unusual for women to be qualified in this field and I think she was probably a remarkable and very interesting woman.”可判断选D。

【4】细节理解题。根据第八段“However, it not only stands for a link between four generations of women, but it is also a reminder of one young man’s return from World War I．”可判断选B。

【5】推理判断题。根据第二段“It’s interesting how inanimate(无生 命的) objects can take on such significance and become woven into a person’s, and sometimes a whole family’s, life history.”再结合作者对她的五样最珍贵的东西的描述可判断选A。B项具有干扰性，但较之于A项来说较为片面。