【题目】Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
【1】The best title for the passage would be______.
A. Touched by the moon
B. The pleasures of modern life
C. A bottomless well of silence
D. Break away from modern life
【2】The writer felt sorry for himself because________.
A. there was too much pollution
B. he failed to see the fullest moon
C. he didn’t adapt to modern inventions
D. there were too accidents on the road
【3】What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A. No modern equipment B. Complete silence.
C. The nice moonlight D. The high mountains
【4】Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.
A. show that the writer likes city life very much
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C. explain that people have fewer chances to enjoy nature
D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
【5】The author wrote the passage to_______.
A.A. express the feeling of returning to nature
B. show the love for the moonlight
C. advise modern people to learn to live
D. want to communicate longing for modern life
【答案】
【1】A
【2】B
【3】C
【4】C
【5】A
【解析】
试题分析: 通过晚上欣赏满月使作者感受到现在的生活让人们离大自然越来越远了。我们在享受生活的同时,也远离了自然。
【1】主旨大意题。文章全篇贯穿了月亮给作者带来的感动。所以选A。
【2】细节理解题。根据第一段最后可知,作者因为整天在室内不能看到满月的遗憾。 所以选B。
【3】细节理解题。根据And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.可知,最打动作者的是满月。选C。
【4】细节理解题。根据全文的内容可知,作者向往自然,喜欢自然界的东西而第四段提到的都是把人和自然分开的东西。所以选C。
【5】写作目的题。最后一段非常明显,作者想要去农村生活,即使贫困也愿意。欣赏月亮是欣赏大自然的一部分。所以选A。
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