Question

My mother says she probably wouldn’t love butterflies（蝴蝶）today if it weren’t for Mr. Patti.

When my mother Ada was a kid, she loved playing baseball and she wanted to for the New York Yankees. Then her brother Howie pointed out that there weren’t any women playing major league baseball（棒球聯(lián)賽）. Ada realized he was right. That made her so angry that she started throwing baseballs into the air and hitting them as as she could.

One day Ada hit a ball through Mr. Patti’s window. She was about to run away when a bright yellow butterfly flew through the hole in the window. A blue butterfly . Then a lot of colourful butterflies flew out like a rainbow（彩虹）. Ada to open her arms and catch the butterflies.

It was too bad she didn’t she heard Mr. Patti shouting, “Hey! You there!” Ada almost jumped 12 feet. When she landed, Mr. Patti handed her a net and a box. He pointed to the butterflies. “One hundred butterflies. We need to get them all back. Go!”

Running with the net, Ada began to catch some of the butterflies. By the end of the day, her

was filled with butterflies ― including the bright yellow butterfly. There were still 13 butterflies missing. Mr. Patti showed Ada pictures had taken of the missing butterflies. The photographs were so beautiful that she could hardly catch her breath.

“ do you get them to stay still（靜止的，不動(dòng)的）?” Ada asked.

“I’ll show you,” Mr. Patti replied.

And he did. He taught my mother everything he knew about photographing butterflies. That’s her now. It is good because there still aren’t any women playing in the major leagues.

“I’ll never forget that day,” my mother says. “Breaking that window changed my .” Then she goes into her workroom, which is filled with swirling butterflies.

1.A. cheer B. play C. work D. act

2.A. carefully B. high C. hard D. proudly

3.A. appeared B. joined C. followed D. reached

4.A. offered B. wanted C. agreed D. refused

5.A. so B. because C. after D. though

6.A. net B. box C. room D. yard

7.A. she B. they C. I D. he

8.A. How B. When C. Why D. Where

9.A. job B. hobby C. pleasure D. way

10.A. project B. purpose C. life D. Plan

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.B

5.B

6.B

7.D

8.A

9.A

10.C

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文主要講述了作者的母親喜歡蝴蝶的原因。文章介紹，作者的母親小時(shí)候因?yàn)榇虬羟蚨�打碎了帕蒂先生的窗戶玻璃，致使許多蝴蝶從窗戶飛了出來。雖然他們用網(wǎng)捕回了一些，但是還有13只失蹤。當(dāng)看到帕蒂先生出示這些失蹤蝴蝶美麗的照片，作者的母親被震驚了，從此把拍攝蝴蝶當(dāng)作她的職業(yè)。

1.play：打球，work：工作，act：表演。根據(jù)語境，這里指的是“她想為紐約楊基隊(duì)效力（打球）”，故選B。

2.hard：用力地，proudly：自豪地。根據(jù)語境可知，由于她非常生氣，所以用力地?fù)舸虬羟�。故選C。

3.joined：加入，followed：跟隨，reached：到達(dá)。根據(jù)語境，這里指的是一只黃色的蝴蝶從窗戶的破洞飛出來后，一只藍(lán)色的蝴蝶緊隨其后飛了出來。故選C。

4.offered：提供，wanted ：想要，agreed：同意，refused：拒絕。根據(jù)語境可知，這里指的是她想要張開雙臂去捕捉蝴蝶，故選B。

5. because：表示原因， after：表示（時(shí)間）之后，though：表示讓步。根據(jù)語境，這里指的是“因?yàn)榕恋傧壬�的叫喊，所以她沒有抓住蝴蝶”，故應(yīng)選B。

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10.project：課題，purpose：目的，life：生命，plan：計(jì)劃。根據(jù)語境，這里指的是“打碎玻璃改變了她的生命’，故應(yīng)選C。

考點(diǎn)：人生百味類短文。