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【題目】根據(jù)短文理解，選擇正確答案。
When I was eight or nine years old, I wrote my first poem.
My mother read the little poem and began to cry. “Buddy, you didn't really write this beautiful, beautiful poem!” Shyly, I said that I had. My mother poured out her welcome praise. Why, this poem was nothing short of genius!
What time will Father be home?” I asked. I could hardly wait to show him what I had accomplished. My mother said she hoped he would be home around 7. I spent the best part of that afternoon preparing for his arrival. First, I wrote the poem out in my finest handwriting. Then I used colored pens to draw a border around it. Then I confidently placed it right on my father's plate on the dining table. But my father did not return at 7, Seven-fifteen, Seven-thirty. My father had begun his motion-picture career as a writer. He would be able to appreciate my poem even more than my mother.
It was almost 8 o'clock when my father burst in. He was an hour late, but he could not sit down. I can see him now, a big Havana cigar in one hand, the rapidly disappearing drink in the other, calling down bitter words on his employees.
Suddenly, he paused and glared at his plate. There was a silence. He was reaching for my poem. I lowered my head and stared down into my plate.
“What is this?” I heard him say.
“Ben, a wonderful thing has happened,” my mother said. “Buddy has written his first poem. And it's beautiful, absolutely amazing”.
“If you don't mind, I'd like to decide that for myself,” Father said.
I kept my face lowered to my plate. It was only 10 lines long. But it seemed to take hours. I remember wondering why it was taking so long. I could hear him dropping the poem back on the table again. Now was the moment of decision.
“I think it's bad,” my father said.
I couldn't look up. My eyes were getting wet.
“Ben, sometimes I don't understand you,” my mother was saying. “This is just a little boy. You're not in your studio now. These are the first lines of poetry he's ever written. He need encouragement.”
“I don't know why,” my father held his ground. “Isn't there enough bad poetry in the world already? No law says Buddy has to become a poet.”
I couldn't stand it another second. I ran from the dining room, threw myself on the bed and cried.
That may have been the end of the anecdote(軼事) — but not of its significance for me.
A few years later I took a second look at that first poem, and unwillingly I had to agree with my father's tough judgment. It was a pretty bad poem. After a while, I worked up the courage to show him something new, a short story. My father thought it was overwritten but not hopeless. I was learning to rewrite. And my mother was learning that she could disapprove of me without ruining me. You might say we were all learning. I was going on 12.
As I worked my way into other books and plays and films, it became clearer and clearer to me how fortunate I had been to have had a mother who said, “Buddy, it's wonderful!” and a father who shook his head no and drove me to tears with his, “I think it's bad.” In fact all of us in life need that mother force, the loving force from which all creation flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete, even misleading, finally damaging, without the father force to caution, “Watch. Listen. Review. Improve.” Between the two poles of affirmation (肯定) and doubt, both in the name of love, I try to follow my true course.
（1）What did the mother think of the Buddy's poem?
A.She was so moved that she cried.
B.She believed Buddy needed advice from his father.
C.She considered Buddy had no talent for poetry.
D.She thought the poem was well written.
（2）Which underlined word in the following sentences best reflects Buddy's eagerness to show his father the poem?
A.Then I confidently placed it right on my father's place on the dining table.
B.He would be able to appreciate my poem even more than my mother.
C.I wrote the poem out in my finest handwriting.
D.I could hardly wait to show him what I had accomplished.
（3）The underlined sentence “My father held his ground” could best be replaced by ________.
A.My father began to explain his reasons
B.My father thought his comment is unreasonable
C.My father refused to change his opinion
D.My father got so angry that he rose to his feet
（4）From the passage, we can infer that the father can be best described as ________.
A.cruel and stubborn
B.loving and matter-of-fact
C.bad-tempered and rude
D.cautious and strict
（5）Which of the following statements do you think the author might agree with?
A.The incident helped the writer work his work further as a writer.
B.The author only realized the significance of the incident after becoming a writer.
C.After the incident, the author stopped writing but tried his luck in plays and films.
D.The incident completely changed the author's course of life.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）D
（2）A
（3）C
（4）B
（5）A
【解析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者在八歲的時(shí)候?qū)懥艘皇自?shī)，母親看了之后夸獎(jiǎng)道“精彩極了”，而父親卻毫不留情地批評(píng)道“糟糕透了”，作者認(rèn)為正是這兩股力量促使作者不斷地努力提升。

⑴考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“Buddy, you didn't really write this beautiful, beautiful poem!” Shyly, I said that I had. My mother poured out her welcome praise.可知，媽媽認(rèn)為詩(shī)寫得好。故選D。

⑵考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Then I confidently placed it right on my father's plate on the dining table.”我滿懷信心的把它好好放在餐桌上父親的盤子上，right準(zhǔn)確反映了作者急切想把詩(shī)展示給父親的心情，故選A。

⑶考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第十一段中的“Isn't there enough bad poetry in the world already?No law says Buddy has to become a poet.”難道世界上還沒(méi)有足夠的壞詩(shī)嗎？沒(méi)有法律說(shuō)Buddy必須成為一個(gè)詩(shī)人，以及第十二段中的“I couldn't stand it another second. I ran from the dining room, threw myself on the bed and cried.”我一秒也不能容忍了，我從餐廳跑出來(lái)，躺在床上哭了。可知，父親拒絕改變主意。故選C。

⑷考查推理判斷。縱觀全文，特別是尤其是第十一段“I don't know why,” my father held his ground.“Isn't there enough bad poetry in the world already? No law says Buddy has to become a poet.” 我不知道為什么，父親拒絕改變主意。難道世界上還沒(méi)有足夠的壞詩(shī)嗎？沒(méi)有法律說(shuō)Buddy必須成為一個(gè)詩(shī)人。故B項(xiàng)loving and matter-of-fact（愛(ài)與事實(shí)）是對(duì)父親最好的描述。故選B。

⑸考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“As I worked my way into other books and plays and films, it became clearer and clearer to me how fortunate I had been to have had a mother who said, “Buddy, it's wonderful!” and a father who shook his head no and drove me to tears with his, “I think it's bad.”可知，作者會(huì)同意A項(xiàng)The incident helped the writer work his work further as a writer.”這一事件幫助作家成為作家作進(jìn)一步工作“。故選A。