5.Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen is a story of fear and hope,loneliness and friendship.Ade and his mother live right at the top of a tower block.It can get a bit lonely up there,but Ade
loves to spend hours sitting at the window watching the whole city unfold down below.
Things are pretty quiet in the flat since his mother fell ill.She has stopped cooking meals and doing the housework and singing the songs she always used to sing.In fact,these days she hardly gets out of bed.Ade doesn't know what to do,so he watches the world outside.But suddenly that starts to change.
One day,one of the other tower blocs crashes to the ground and Ade watches the disorder with disbelief.Have some of his school friends died in the disaster?Is his best friend Gaia still alive?Then another building falls down and then another.The world around Ade's tower block is disintegrating under his very eyes.
And then huge plants start to spring up and grow at an alarming rate.Where have they come from?It looks like the plants are pulling the buildings down and they are preventing the
emergency services from heping people.
Is this only happening in the area where Ade lives?The residents (居民) are deserting the tower blocks,and soon Ade is stuck in his flat because he can't leave his mother.Who or what can rescue him?
Ho-Yen has written a thrilling story with Boy In The Tower,but the most successful part is the narrative (叙述的) voice of the boy at the centre of the stor.He doesn't understand what i going on around him and this adds a fascinating dimension to th plot that moves the novel along.
Taking place in an urban environment that many of the novel's readers will immediately identify with,Ho-Yen's first novel is an interesting read about an ordinary boy facing a tough struggle to survive.
32.What do we know about Ade?D
A.He lives in a noisy tower block.
B.H tries to help his mother recover.
C.He often helps his mother with housework.
D.He likes seeing the world outside through the window.
33.What does the underlined word"disintegrating"in Paragraph 3probably mean?B
A.Showing up.
B.Breaking up.
C.Moving away.
D.Coming back.
34.The plants mentioned in the book areC.
A.poisonous
B.delicate
C.violent
D.beautiful
35.It can be inferred that Boy In The Tower isD.
A.a personal diary
B.a detective story
C.a science textbook
D.a science-fiction novel.
分析 本文主要讲述的是一本科幻小说,在小说里主人公Ade经历了一系列的奇怪的事件.
解答 32.D 细节题.根据第一段的Ade loves to spend hours sitting at the window watching the whole city unfold down below.可知Ade喜欢看窗外的风景.故选D.
33.B.词义猜测题.根据第三段的 crashes to the ground和 falls down可知,此处是指Ade周围的高楼一栋接着一栋坍塌,他周围的世界崩塌了.
34.C细节题.根据第四段的huge plants start to spring up and grow at an alarming rate和the plants are pulling the buildings down and they are preventing the emergency services from helping people可知,这些巨大的指物摧毁了高楼,并阻止救援救助人们,由此推断,这些植物非常凶猛.
35.D推理题.由文中提到奇怪的指物在楼宇坍塌的瞬间突然出现并摧毁楼宇以及倒数第二段中的novel一词可知,该书是一部科幻小说.
点评 本文是一个人物故事类阅读理解,题目涉及多道细节理解题,做题时结合原文和题目有针对性的找出相关语句进行仔细分析,结合选项选出正确答案.推理判断题也是要在抓住关键句子的基础上合理的分析才能得出正确答案,切忌胡乱猜测,一定要做到有理有据.