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【题目】 The Khao San Road woke early. At five, car horns began sounding off in the street outside. Then the water pipes under the floor started to rattle as the guest-house staff took their showers. I even could hear their conversations.

Lying on my bed, listening to the morning noises, the tension of the previous night became unreal and distant. Although I couldn't understand what the staff were saying to each other, their occasional laughter conveyed a sense of normality: they were doing what they did every morning, their thoughts connected only to routine. I imagined they might be discussing who would go for kitchen supplies in the market that day or who would be sweeping the halls.

Around five-thirty a few bedroom-door bolts clicked open as the early-bird travellers emerged and the die-hard party goers from Patpong returned. I realised that the dreamless snatches of sleep I’d managed were finished, so I decided to get up and have breakfast.

There were already a few travellers at the tables, drinking glasses of black coffee. I began studying the menu, a once white sheet of A4 paper with such an excessive list of dishes I felt making a choice was beyond my ability. Then I was distracted by a delicious smell. A kitchen boy had wandered over with a tray of fruit pancakes. He distributed them to a group of Americans, cutting off a good-natured argument about train times to Ciang Mai.

One of them noticed me eyeing their food and he pointed at his plate. ‘Banana pancakes,’ he said. ‘The business.’

I nodded. They smell pretty good.，

‘Taste better. English?’

‘Uh，huh.，

‘Been here long?’

'Since yesterday evening. You?”

“A week’, he replied, and popped a piece of pancake in his mouth, looking away as he did so. I guessed that signaled the end of the exchange.

The kitchen boy came over to my table and stood there, gazing at me expectantly through sleepy eyes.

"One banana pancake, please,' I said, obliged into making a quick decision.

‘You wan’ order one banan’ pancake?’

‘Please.’

‘You wan’ order drink?’

‘Uh, a Coke. No, a Sprite’

‘You wan’ one banan’ pancake, one Spri.’

“Please.”

He walked back towards the kitchen, and a sudden feeling of happiness washed over me.

【1】The writer described the morning noises in order to__________.

A.imply that he didn’t sleep well

B.predict the morning would be different

C.compare the city's morning and night

D.show what a terrible dream he had

【2】According to the writer, what were the staff talking about?

A.Their daily work.B.Their strange guests.

C.Their normal supplies.D.Their night experience.

【3】The American let the writer know that he wouldn’t like to go on with the conversation by__________

A.asking the writer about the pancakeB.telling the writer what he liked

C.stopping looking at the writerD.commenting on the pancake

【4】By the end of the passage, the writer felt he had recovered from __________.

A.the depressionB.the nervousness

C.the injuryD.the tiredness

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】A

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者住在宾馆早晨时的经历以及心理情绪的变化。

【1】细节理解题。根据第三段I realised that the dreamless snatches of sleep I’d managed were finished, so I decided to get up and have breakfast.可知作者描述早晨的噪音是为了暗示他没有睡好，故选A。

【2】细节理解题。根据第二段Although I couldn't understand what the staff were saying to each other, their occasional laughter conveyed a sense of normality: they were doing what they did every morning, their thoughts connected only to routine. I imagined they might be discussing who would go for kitchen supplies in the market that day or who would be sweeping the halls.（虽然我听不懂员工们在说些什么，但他们偶尔的笑声传达出一种正常的感觉:他们在做他们每天早上做的事情，他们的想法只是例行公事。我猜想他们可能在讨论那天谁去市场上买厨房用品，谁去打扫大厅。）由此可知，根据作者所说，工作人员在谈论他们的日常工作，故选A。

【3】细节理解题。根据 “A week’, he replied, and popped a piece of pancake in his mouth, looking away as he did so. I guessed that signaled the end of the exchange.可知美国人通过停止看作者来让作者知道他不想继续谈话，故选C。

【4】细节理解题。根据最后一段He walked back towards the kitchen, and a sudden feeling of happiness washed over me.（他朝厨房走去，我突然感到一阵幸福。）可知到文章结束时，作者感到他已经从紧张中恢复过来了，故选B。

细节理解题大多是根据文章中的具体信息如事实、例证、原因、过程、论述等进行提问的。抓住文段中的事实和细节是做好该题型的关键，也是做好其它类型问题的基础。该题型几乎都可以在文章中直接找到与答案有关的信息，或是其变体。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都属于这类围绕主体展开的细节。做这类题一般采用寻读法，即先读题，然后带着问题快速阅读短文，找出与问题和选项有关的词语或句子，再对相关部分进行分析对比，找出答案。正确选项虽然一般不是原文照搬，但是一般是原文的改写，意思不变。如换一个同义词，把否定改为肯定，把肯定改为否定等。如第2小题，根据第二段Although I couldn't understand what the staff were saying to each other, their occasional laughter conveyed a sense of normality: they were doing what they did every morning, their thoughts connected only to routine. I imagined they might be discussing who would go for kitchen supplies in the market that day or who would be sweeping the halls.（虽然我听不懂员工们在说些什么，但他们偶尔的笑声传达出一种正常的感觉:他们在做他们每天早上做的事情，他们的想法只是例行公事。我猜想他们可能在讨论那天谁去市场上买厨房用品，谁去打扫大厅。）由此可知，根据作者所说，工作人员在谈论他们的日常工作，故选A。