the child   all day long!

 A．Let, not to cry     B．Not let, cry

 C．Don’t let, to cry    D．Don’t let, cry

He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.

“What's the matter, Schatz?”

“I've got a headache.”

“You better go back to bed.”

“No. I'm all right.”

“You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed.”

But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

“You go up to bed,” I said, “You're sick.”

“I'm all right,” he said.

When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.

“What's is it?” I asked him.

“One hundred and two.”

Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative(泻药), the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza（流感）can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic(传染病；传染性的) of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia（肺炎）.

Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.

“Do you want me to read to you?”

“All right. If you want to, “ said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached（超然的；冷漠的）from what was going on.

I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates（海盗）;but I could see he was not following what I was reading.

“How do you feel, Schatz?” I asked him.

“Just the same, so far,” he said.

I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.

“Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine.”

“I'd rather stay awake.”

After a while he said to me, “You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”

“It doesn't bother me.”

“No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you.”

I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out with my gun and the young hunting dog….I killed two quail(鹌鹑), and missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey of quail close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.

At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.

“You can't come in,” he said. “You mustn't get what I have.”

I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed（发红）by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.

I took his temperature.

“What is it?”

“Something like a hundred,” I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths.

“It was a hundred and two,” he said.

“Who said so?”

“The doctor.”

“Your temperature is all right,” I said. “It's nothing to worry about.”

“I don't worry,” he said, “but I can't keep from thinking.”

“Don't think,” I said. “Just take it easy.”

“I'm taking it easy,” he said and looked straight ahead, He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.

“Take this with water.”

“Do you think it will do any good?”

“Of course it will.”

I sat down and opened the Pirate book and began to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.

“About what time do you think I'm going to die?” he asked.

“What?”

“About how long will it be before I die?”

“You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you? “

“Oh, yes, I am, I heard him say a hundred and two.”

“People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk.”

“I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two.”

He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.

“You poor Schatz,” I said. “Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight.”

“Are you sure?”

“Absolutely,” I said, “It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?”

“Oh,” he said.

But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack(松驰的) and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.

1.The author writes about the doctor’s visit in order to _____.

A．show the doctor’s knowledge about influenza and its treatment

B．show the boy’s illness was quite serious

C．create a situation of misunderstanding around which to build a story

D．show the father was very much concerned about the boy’s illness

2.The pronoun “it” in “Papa, if it bothers you” (line 41) refers to _____.

A．the boy’s high temperature

B．the father giving the medicine to the boy

C．the father staying with the boy

D．the boy’s death

3.It can be inferred from the story that it is _____ by the time the father gets home from hunting.

A．early in the afternoon

B．close to evening

C．at noon

D．late in the morning

4.From the story we know that the boy kept tight control over himself because _____.

A．he did not want to be a bother to others

B．he wanted to recover quickly so that he could go hunting with his father

C．he was afraid that he would die if he lost control over himself

D．he thought he was going to die and he must show courage in the face of death

5.That the boy cried very easily at little things of no importance the next day suggests that _____.

A．he couldn’t control his emotions when he finally relaxed

B．his father would go out hunting without him if he didn’t cry

C．something went wrong with his brain after the fever

D．he often complained about unimportant things as a spoiled boy

6.The theme of the story is _____.

A．death is something beyond a child’s comprehension

B．to be calm and controlled in the face of death is a mark of courage

C．misunderstanding can occur even between father and son

D．misunderstanding can sometimes lead to an unexpected effect

 

（贵州省兴义九中09-10学年高三上学期期中考试）

B

It was the afternoon of December 24, the day before Christmas; and as the newest doctor in our office, I had to work. The only thing that brightened my day was the beautifully decorated Christmas tree in our waiting room and a gift sent to me by a fellow I was dating- a dozen long-stemmed red roses.

As I was cleaning my office, our receptionist came and said there was a lady in the front office that urgently needed to speak with me. As I stepped out, I noticed a young, tired-looking woman with a baby in her arms. Nervously, she explained that her husband-a prisoner in a nearby prison-was my next patient. The guards were scheduled to bring him to the office that afternoon. She told me she wasn’t allowed to visit her husband in prison and that he had never seen his son. Her request was for me to let the boy’s father sit in the waiting room with her as long as possible before I called him for his appointment. Since my schedule wasn’t full, I agreed. After all, it was Christmas Eve.

A short time later, her husband arrived-with chains on his feet and hands, and two armed guards as bodyguards. The woman’s tired face lit up like our little Christmas tree when her husband took a seat beside her. I kept glancing out to watch them laugh, cry and share their child. After almost an hour, I called the prisoner back to my office. While I worked, the guards stood just outside my door. The patient seemed like a gentle and modest man. I wondered what he possibly could have done to be held under such conditions. I tried to make him as comfortable as possible.

At the end of the appointment, I wished him a Merry Christmas-a difficult thing to say to a man headed back to prison. He smiled and thanked me. He also said he felt saddened by the fact he hadn’t been able to get his wife anything for Christmas. On hearing this, I was inspired with a wonderful idea.

I’ll never forget the look on both their faces as the prisoner gave his wife the beautiful, long-stemmed roses. I’m not sure who experienced the most joy-the husband in giving, the wife in receiving, or myself in having the opportunity to share in this special moment.

60．What can be inferred from the first paragraph?

       A．The writer was a newcomer to her office.

       B．A fellow sent her a dozen red roses as Christmas present.

       C．She was in low spirits because she had to work before Christmas.

       D．She was at work with a light heart.

61．The young woman came to the writer’s office for the purpose of         .

       A．having her baby examined                    

B．giving her husband a chance to make his escape

       C．having her husband examined               

D．getting a chance for her family to get together

62．The underlined part in paragraph 3 most probably means “         ”.

      A．to be sent to hospital                            B．to be separated from his family

       C．to be comfortable D．to become a prisoner

63．What does the writer learn from the story?

       A．The wife experienced the most joy in receiving.

       B．An act of kindness can mean a lot.

       C．The prisoner was treated with mercy.   

D．Whoever breaks the law should be punished.

  

From the day that she learned to walk, Katie’s parents had warned her not to walk past the wire fence. The fence divided the farm from the open grassland that ran for miles. A child would get lost in the high, waving grass. Katie’s mother would remind her about her sister Hannah. “Hannah was no older than you the day that she disappeared, ” Mama would say. Katie couldn’t think of anything worse than to be separated from her parents.

Katie had never seen her sister. Hannah had been lost before Katie was born. Katie often imagined one day a beautiful stranger would come up the road and it would be Hannah.

Now, more than twelve years after her disappearance, Hannah was coming home! She was found at a small village far away. A woman found the lost child many years ago and raised Hannah like one of her own children.

Katie and her mother were busy cleaning the spare bedroom all day.

The next day Hannah arrived. Katie raced out into the yard, her arms open wide. As she came closer to the tall, young woman, her arms dropped. The cry of welcome died in her throat. Hannah had sun—Browned skin. A blanket pulled around her shoulders. She stood staring, looking helpless as Katie’s mother moved forward to embrace(拥抱) her.

At that moment, Katie remembered the rabbit she caught last winter. She carried it home gently and built a comfortable house for it. The next morning the rabbit was gone. “It was used to freedom,” her mama had explained.

Hannah stayed at her new home for almost a month. She never slept in the soft bed. She seldom came out of her room. Whenever Katie went in, she always found Hannah looking our of the window. Katie’s parents kept telling her that it was just a matter of time. Hannah would get used to their ways. “After all,” Mama said, “we’re her real family.”

Then one night, when Katie went in to say good night, Hannah was gone. Her window was open wide. Katie looked around the empty room. She started to run downstairs to call her parents, but then stopped. She thought of the rabbit that she had caught. She wouldn’t tell. She would let her parents discover Hannah’s absence in the morning. Then Hannah would have had a head start on her long journey back to her family.

1．What happened to Hannah many years ago?

       A．She went to catch a rabbit and got lost.

       B．She got lost in the grass and was taken to a village.

       C．She walked past the fence and found a small village.

       D．She didn’t like living with her parents and ran away.

2．Katie’s experience with the rabbit helps her to believe         .

       A．people are cruel animals

       B．family members should always stay together

       C．people belong where they feel most comfortable

       D．both people and animals enjoy a life close to nature

3．Which words best describe Katie?

       A．Lonely and shy                                    B．Brave and confident.

       C．Honest and helpful.                              D．Kind and understanding

4．What can be inferred from the story?

      A．Hannah didn’t want a sister.

       B．It is always dangerous to walk alone.

       C．Hannah, in fact, was not Katie’s sister.

       D．We should think more of others’ happiness.