Question

Eddie’s father used to say he’d spent so many years by the ocean, breathing seawater. Now, away from that ocean, in the hospital bed, his body began to look like a beached fish. His condition went from fair to stable and from stable to serious. Friends went from saying, “He’ll be home in a day,” to “He’ll be home in a week.” In his father’s absence, Eddie helped out at the pier (码头), working evenings after his taxi job.

When Eddie was a teenager, if he ever complained or seemed bored with the pier, his father would shout, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?” And later, when he’d suggested Eddie take a job there after high school, Eddie almost laughed, and his father again said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?” And before Eddie went to war, when he’d talked of marrying Marguerite and becoming an engineer, his father said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?”

And now, regardless of all that, here he was, at the pier, doing his father’s labor.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. It is not until much later, as the heart weakens, that children understand: their stories, and all their achievements, sit on top of the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

Finally, one night, at his mother’s urging, Eddie visited the hospital. He entered the room slowly. His father, who for years had refused to speak to Eddie, now lacked the strength to even try.

“Don’t sweat it, kid,” the other workers told him. “Your old man will pull through. He’s the toughest man we’ve ever seen.”

When the news came that his father had died, Eddie felt the emptiest kind of anger, the kind that circles in its cage.

         In the weeks that followed, Eddie’s mother lived in a confused state. She spoke to her husband as if he were still there. She yelled at him to turn down the radio. She cooked enough food for two. One night, when Eddie offered to help with the dishes, she said, “Your father will put them away.” Eddie put a hand on her shoulder. “Ma,” he said, softly, “Dad’s gone.”“Gone where?”

1.In Paragraph four, the writer wants to say that __________.

A. Children wouldn’t have achieved so much without their parents’ support  

B. Children often feel regretful because they leave their parents

C. Children like moving away from their parents

D. Children can never understand how much their parents have devoted to them

2.The underlined sentence “Don’t sweat it” (Para. 6) probably means __________.

A. Don’t touch it                                              B. Don’t worry about it

C. Don’t let him down                                   D. Don’t give it up

3.Which of the following shows the right order of the story?

   a. Eddie’s father died.

   b. Eddie married Marguerite.

   c. Eddie worked as a taxi driver.

   d. Eddie was bored with his father’s job.

A. dbca                        B. dcab                        C. bcda                        D. bacd

4.From the last paragraph, we learn that __________.

A. Eddie’s mother liked to listen to the radio

B. Eddie and his wife lived in his mother’s apartment

C. Eddie’s mother missed her husband so much that she was at a loss

D. Eddie often helped his mother wash the dishes

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.B

3.A

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：文章讲述了发生在Eddie家里的事情。Eddie的爸爸常年在码头工作，他想让Eddie也在那里工作，但是Eddie不喜欢他爸爸的工作。父亲因病去世以后，Eddie感到空虚和愤怒，Eddie的妈妈也无法接受这样的事实。

1.根据“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them...their stories, and all their achievements, sit on top of the stories of their mothers and fathers”可知，父母舍不得离开孩子，孩子们只好离开他们。到后来，孩子们才意识到，他们的所有成就都是以父母的支持为基础的，故选A。

2.根据后面一句““Your old man will pull through. He’s the toughest man we’ve ever seen.””可知，其他人在安慰Eddie，他爸爸会好转的，劝他不要紧张。故选B。

3.根据地一、二、七段“Eddie helped out at the pier (码头), working evenings after his taxi job”和“if he ever complained or seemed bored with the pier, ...when he’d talked of marrying Marguerite”及“When the news came that his father had died,”可知，Eddie不喜欢爸爸的工作；后来Eddie结婚、上战场；再后来，父亲生病，Eddie白天开出租晚上在码头帮忙；最后，得知爸爸去世。故选A。

4.根据“In the weeks that followed, Eddie’s mother lived in a confused state. She spoke to her husband as if he were still there.”可知，父亲去世后，Eddie的妈妈处于一种神志不清的状态，幻想着在和Eddie的父亲说话。故选C。

考点：生活类短文阅读