Question

【题目】Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Five-year-old Albert Einstein stared at his hand as if it held magic. Cupped in his palm was a small, round instrument with a glass cover and a jiggling needle. Albert's father called it a compass. Albert called it a mystery. No matter how he moved the compass, the needle always pointed to the north. Quietly Hermann Einstein watched his son. Albert was a chubby little boy with pale, round cheeks and thick, black hair that was usually messy. His bright brown eyes were wide with discovery.

Something was in the room with him, Albert realized—something he couldn't see or feel, but that acted on the compass just the same. Deeply attracted, Albert listened to his father explain magnetism, the strange force that made the compass needle point north. 【1】To many children the compass would have been just another toy. To Albert the compass was a miracle he would never forget.

But then Albert had always been different from other children. Born March 14，1879, in Ulm, Germany, Albert hadn't been looked like other babies. As she cradled（摇） her new son in her arms, Pauline Einstein thought the back of his head looked strange. 【2】Was something wrong with Albert? Although the doctor told Pauline everything was fine, several weeks passed before the shape of Albert's head began to look right to her.

When Albert was one, his family moved to Munich，where his sister, Maja, was born a year later. Looking down at the tiny sleeping bundle, Albert was puzzled. Where were the baby's wheels? Albert had expected a baby sister to be something like a toy, and most of his toys had wheels.

【3】But any response at all would have delighted them. At an age when many children have lots to say, Albert seemed strangely backward. Hermann and Pauline wondered why he was so late in talking. As Albert grew older, he continued to have trouble putting his thoughts into words. Even when he was nine years old, he spoke slowly, if he decided to say anything at all.

But Albert was a good listener and a good thinker. Sometimes when he went hiking with his parents and Maja, he thought about his father's compass and what it had showed to him. The clear, open meadows (草地) were filled with more than the wind or the scent of flowers. 【4】The very thought of it quickened Albert's pulse.

A.Other babies didn't have such large, pointed skulls.

B.But nothing his father said made the invisible power seem less mysterious or wonderful.

C.There was so much curiosity about the world that Albert was always by himself thinking hard.

D.They were also filled with magnetism(磁性).

E.Albert was ahead of his peers in different aspects.

F.Albert's parents were amused by his confusion.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】F

【4】D

【解析】

这是一篇记叙文。通过大量实例记叙艾尔伯特与众不同之处。

【1】

通过上文得知被父亲所解释的驱使指南针工作的磁性所深深吸引。空格后面讲述的是不像其他小孩只把指南针当另一种玩具，而对于艾尔伯特来说是一件神秘难以让人忘怀的宝贝。可以推出此空格填与磁性是一种不可见的力量，但一点也不失其神秘感和神奇感相关的事物。故填：B。

【2】

根据文意，他妈妈抱着他的时候感觉他的头很奇特，是不是他有什么问题呢？不是，而是他的头比普通小孩的头要大些而已。故选A。

【3】

通过上文得知，艾尔伯特觉得妹妹很奇怪，她的轮子呢？因为他玩的玩具多半是带有轮子的玩具，而艾尔伯特对于任何事物的反应都会让他的父母亲高兴。据此可以推出艾尔伯特的混乱不清的思想使得他父母感到高兴，故选F。

【4】

当他出去玩的时候，他想的是他父亲给他讲的指南针的事情和他所展示给他看的神奇之处。所以当他看到这些鲜花时想起父亲讲的这些事情便心跳加速，说明这些鲜花也是充满磁性的。故选D。