16.About 15 years ago,I taught A Problem from Hell,a book on genocides (大屠殺),to a group of 18-and 19-year-olds in a mid-west university in the US.In my class there was a young man who had spent his boyhood in Bosnia as NATO bombed his hometown.My other students,amazed by his connection to the genocide in the textbook,asked him what it was like to grow up in a war-zone."A pretty normal childhood as you had here,"he said."We played cards inside a lot,and when there was no bombing we kicked a ball in the street."
In the past few years,the world has seen a rapid increase in refugees (難民),with the number hitting 60million.Viet Thanh Nguyen's story collection The Refugees reminds us that literature is news that stays news.Set in the Vietnamese communities in California as well as in Vietnam,the stories do not aim to surprise us with new twists or shock us with wonderful details,as war and refugee stories could easily choose to do.Rather,like the young man from Bosnia,Nguyen's characters tell these stories because they are the only ones known to them.
Included in the collection are two of the most touching pieces,both about siblings (兄弟或姊妹) separated by geography and history.In"Black-Eyed Women",the narrator (講述人),a young Vietnamese woman,is visited by the ghost of her elder brother,who died young on the boat when the family took flight from the war.The tale of love and loss,violence and violation,may not be unfamiliar to the reader,but the determination of the brother's ghost (he has taken decades to swim across the Pacific to reach America) and the sister's abandoning herself to a half death make the story lasting.
As an echo,the closing story,"Fatherland",explores a more complex situation between two siblings.The narrator,a young Vietnamese woman,meets her half-sister,visiting from the US for the first time.Adding to the tension is the fact that her father has named the narrator and her siblings after his first set of children.Two sisters,one American and one Vietnamese,yet named the same by the father-it may sound strange,but isn't it the fate many refugees have to face:a life left behind,that could have been theirs; and a life in an adopted country.
The theme of doubleness-choice and inevitability (不可避免性),home and homelessness,starting afresh and being stuck-is present not only in the stories of Vietnamese refugees,but also of those who have become refugees from their own homes and loved ones."Smiling at your relatives never got you very far,but smiling at strangers and acquaintances sometimes did."So a pilot,who fought in the Vietnam war and is now revisiting the country for the first time,thinks while waving at the locals from a tour bus.He's distant from his daughter,just as a Mexican American in the collection is distant from his wife,or a young man from Hong Kong is distant from his father.
The collection is full of refugees,whether from external or from a deeper,more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each other.With anger but not despair,with reconciliation (和解) but not unrealistic hope,and with genuine humour that is not used to insult anyone,Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters.
32.The first paragraph is intended toD.
A.describe the boring life of war victims
B.a(chǎn)ppeal to the readers to help war victims
C.criticize NATO's killing of innocent people
D.introduce the story collection The Refugees
33.Which of the following about The Refugees is True?D
A.It tells the news in a literary form.
B.It is full of surprising twists and plots.
C.The author experiences the stories himself.
D.Its characters narrate their own stories.
34.We can infer from Paragraph 5 thatB.
A.relatives hate their loved ones for being left behind
B.separation from loved ones tends to make them distant
C.people become refugees due to their double character
D.smiling is a good way to keep loved ones together
35.Which of the following is the theme of The Refugees?B
A.Despair,suffering,and regret.
B.Anger,humour and hope.
C.Sympathy,regret,and reconciliation.
D.Dream,hope,and expectation.
分析 短文主要講了難民故事集的一些故事,并揭示其主題.
解答 32.D,推理判斷題,根據(jù)句子About 15 years ago,I taught A Problem from Hell,a book on genocides 可知作者用自己以前教書的一個(gè)事跡來介紹關(guān)于難民的故事集,故答案為D.
33.D,細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)句子like the young man from Bosnia,Nguyen's characters tell these stories because they are the only ones known to them可知難民故事集里面的角色自己講述自己的故事,故答案為D.
34.B,推理判斷題,由第五段句子He's distant from his daughter,講了一個(gè)飛行員打仗完后回來跟他的女兒疏遠(yuǎn)了,可知"與所愛的人分離會(huì)讓他們有距離感",故答案為B.
35.B,主旨大意題,由最后一句With anger but not despair,with reconciliation (和解) but not unrealistic hope,and with genuine humour that is not used to insult anyone可知其主題為Anger,humour and hope.
點(diǎn)評(píng) 解答任務(wù)型閱讀理解題,首先對(duì)原文材料迅速瀏覽,掌握全文的主旨大意.因?yàn)殚喿x理解題一般沒有標(biāo)題,所以,速讀全文,抓住中心主旨很有必要,在速讀的過程中,應(yīng)盡可能多地捕獲信息材料.其次,細(xì)讀題材,各個(gè)擊破.掌握全文的大意之后,細(xì)細(xì)閱讀每篇材料后的問題,弄清每題要求后,帶著問題,再回到原文中去尋找、捕獲有關(guān)信息.最后,要善于抓住每段的主題句,閱讀時(shí),要有較強(qiáng)的針對(duì)性.對(duì)于捕獲到的信息,要做認(rèn)真分析,仔細(xì)推敲,理解透徹,只有這樣,針對(duì)題目要求,才能做到穩(wěn)、準(zhǔn).