【題目】My favorite English teacher could draw humor out of the driest material. It wasn’t forced on us either. He took Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, Addison’s essays, and many other literary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them funny, even at eight o’clock in the morning. The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own some of them seemed dead, but the second time, after his explanation, I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t seen the humor. The stories and poems and plays were suddenly filled withhilariousmoments. I learned more from him than from any other teacher.

My least favorite English teacher also made people laugh. Some students found him to be wonderfully funny. Many others did not. He asked us to keep journals. At the end of the six weeks I had a notebook full of bits and pieces about my ideas, short stories, reactions to what we had read, and so on. Our teacher announced that we would be grading each other’s journals. Mine was passed to Joe, who always behaved in a funny or silly way. He saw it fit to make a joke of and said, “This writing isn’t fit to line the bottom of a birdcage.” Our teacher laughed at that funny remark. It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven away my writing and teaching ever since.

So what makes the difference? Humor is one of the most powerful tools teachers or writers have. It can build up students and classes and make them excited about literature and writing, or it can tear them apart. It is true that humor is either productive or self-defeating.

【1】The passage mainly discusses _____.

A. teaching B. literature

C. knowledge D. humor

【2】The underlined word “hilarious” in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.

A. inspiring B. tiring

C. funny D. brilliant

【3】With his favorite English teacher, the writer found it most amazing that _____.

A. his teacher was very learned

B. his teacher was very humorous

C. few were able to find humor in works by Johnson and others

D. the works by Johnson and Addison were very humorous

【4】The English teacher the writer disliked most _____.

A. was not able to make students laugh B. had no sense of humor

C. didn’t let his students do the grading D. hurt his students’ feelings

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】D

【4】D

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文。文章敘述了英語老師能從一些干癟的材料中找出幽默，一些小說、詩和劇本經(jīng)過老師的解釋學(xué)生能夠讀出其中的幽默之處，幽默對(duì)于老師和作家是最有力的工具之一。

【1】主旨大意題。根據(jù)全文的內(nèi)容可知主要談?wù)摰氖怯哪脑掝}，故選D。

【2】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)My favorite English teacher could draw humor out of the driest material. It wasn't forced on us either. 這里敘述英語老師能從干癟的材料中找出幽默，后面是舉例，所以猜出這個(gè)詞是“滑稽的，可笑的”，故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own some of them seemed dead, but the second time, after his explanation, I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t seen the humor.可知，這句話，在老師講解后，發(fā)現(xiàn)這些著作中有很多幽默之處。故選D。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since.最不喜歡的是傷害學(xué)生的感情，故選D。

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