Question

I made a pledge(發(fā)誓) to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would try to be a loving husband and father. 

   The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The speaker was quoting a Biblical (圣經(jīng)的) passage about husbands being thoughtful of their wives. Then he went on to say, “Love is an act of will. A person can choose to love.” To myself, I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband. Well, for two weeks that would change.

   And it did. Right from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said, “That new yellow sweater looks great on you.”

   “Oh, Tom, you noticed,” she said, surprised and pleased. Maybe a little puzzled.

After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, but then I thought, “Evelyn’s been alone here with kids all week and now she wants to be alone with me.” We walked on the beach while the children flew the kites.

So it went. Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director; a visit to the shell museum though I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that’s how the whole vacation passed. I made a new pledge to keep on remembering to choose love.

There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today. On the last night at our cottage, preparing for bed, Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression. “What’s the matter?” I asked her.

“Tom, ” she said in a voice filled with sadness, “do you know something I don’t?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well…..that checkup(體檢) I had several weeks ago….. our doctor ….. did he tell you something about me? Tom, you’ve been so good to me….. am I dying ?”

It took a moment for it all to sink in. Then I burst out laughing.

“No, honey,” I said, wrapping her in my arms. “You’re not dying; I’m just start to live.”

1.The writer thought he was a _______ husband in the past.

A. lovely   B. loyal      C. strict               D. selfish

2. From the story we may infer that Tom drove to the beach cottage _______.

A. with his family     B. with Evelyn C. alone    D. with his children

3. The underlined words “one thing” in the text refer to the fact that _______.

A. he praised her sweater, which puzzled her

B. she insisted on visiting a museum, which he hated

C. he knew something about her illness but didn’t tell her

D. he was so good to her that she thought she must be dying

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.C

3.D

【解析】

試題分析：收音機(jī)里一個(gè)關(guān)于愛的談話節(jié)目使作者意識(shí)到了自己的自私，于是下決心在度假的兩周里嘗試著去做一個(gè)好丈夫。然而丈夫的“反常表現(xiàn)”卻使妻子誤以為丈夫表現(xiàn)出來的體貼周到是因?yàn)樘崆爸�道了自己的體檢結(jié)果，認(rèn)為自己肯定要不久于人世了。

1.D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband.可知作者認(rèn)為自己是個(gè)自私的丈夫，故D選項(xiàng)正確。

2.C推理判斷題。由文中作者心里想的“Evelyn’s been alone here with kids all week’s been alone here with kids all week可知妻子Evelyn一周以來都是自己帶著孩子們，而作者剛開車到家，由此推斷作者是獨(dú)自開車去海濱度假村的，所以答案選C。

3.D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)下文作者的敘述可知對(duì)于作者一反常態(tài)的表現(xiàn)，妻子誤以為肯定是自己的體檢結(jié)果有問題，肯定是因?yàn)樽约阂�活不長(zhǎng)了，丈夫才對(duì)她這么體貼周到的，所以D選項(xiàng)正確。

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