单选题 The trees arrived by post, a haft-open parcel. They were thin and straight, rather like arrows but with shiny leaves at one end and muddy roots at the other. Terry and his father took them down the garden and planted them in their prepared places. Terry had great hopes of the middle tree, now set in the memorial spot where Herry, his cat, run over, had been laid to rest a year before. The pine trees made an avenue down one side of the garden, where there was already a fifteen-foot stone wall between the garden and the back-yards of the Jenkins Street houses.
"Why do we want a row of trees as well as a wall?" Terry asked his father.
His father said, "For privacy. These trees grow very thickly."
His father's love of privacy often puzzled Terry, who was not one to keep himself to himself, but he could see part of the point here. The houses in Jenkins Street were on higher ground. His friend Leslie lived in number twelve, and Leslie had only to stand on a box to see right over the wall.
"Will the trees grow higher than the wall?" Terry asked then.
"Oh. Yes, twice as high if not more. It'll take a few years but they'll grow.
So they were going to have nine trees thirty feet tall, to keep them from being over-looked. Terry wondered why this was so desirable. He said, "Our garden is very pretty. Why can't we let the people over the wall see it? That wouldn't be showing off, would it"
"No, I don't think it would be," his father said, "Yet some people might feel a bit less happy if they can always see a good thing that isn't theirs. We don't want to be the cause of any jealousy if we can help it."
This consideration for other people's feelings must be a grownup thing, Terry thought. It was no his idea of how to run things. He said, "These trees--it seems a lot of trouble to go just to stop people being jealous of us."
His father looked at him. "It isn't much trouble. Terry. "He said, "These trees will grow without help from us. They'll be beautiful. And listen to them. You can already hear them whispering to us in the wind."

单选题 The passage mainly deals with the topic of ______.

A. protection of environment
B. relationship between neighbors
C. generation gap
D. cause of jealousy

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 概括题。 [试题详解] 文章虽然是从树说起，但其实是由它引出特利和他父亲之间的一段对话。特利弄不明白他父亲为什么要在已有一堵墙后还要在周围种上一排树。他父亲说是为了隐私，为了不让别人因羡慕而难过，可特利就是理解不了这种做法或说法，这就是两代人之间存在代沟所然。所给四个选项中只有C合适。

单选题 Part of the garden is called a memorial spot because ______.

A. a cat was buried there
B. Herry had been run over there
C. Terry's own tree was planted there
D. it was in front of Leslie's house

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 信息细节题。 [试题详解] 文章第一自然段中有一句话：Terry had great hopes of the middle tree，now set in the memorial spot where Herry，his cat，run over，had been laid to rest a year before．从这句话我们可知这部分之所以对特利来说具有纪念意义是因为他的猫一年前被埋在了这里。故本题正确答案应选A。

单选题 The word "privacy" in the third paragraph most probably means ______.

A. to keep away from thieves
B. to avoid being disturbed
C. to keep the air fresh
D. to avoid being polluted

单选题 Terry's father was a man who ______.

A. was proud of his garden and liked showing it off
B. was very sociable towards his neighbours
C. preferred to keep himself to himself
D. felt jealous of the people in Jenkins Street

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 推导题。 [试题详解] 文章第四自然段第一句话：Terry's father's love of privacy often puzzled Terry，who was not one to keep himself to himself,．．．”这句话中who引导非限制性定语从句，其先行词是Terry，那实际说，特利的父亲是个“to keep himself to himself”的人。所给四个选项中，C最合适。其余A说他是个“为自己的花园感到自豪且喜欢以此向人炫耀”的人，从文中我们知道他父亲不是个喜欢炫耀的人，所以A不对；B说他“对邻居非常随和”，文中没有说到，且我们也可想象：用层层围墙把自己隔开的人会对邻居随和吗?D说他是“对在Jenkins Street住的人嫉妒”更不对，是他怕别人嫉妒自己。故只有C最合适，应选C。