单选题 There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage (孤儿院) turned me into an old man.
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement (水泥) step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back. But it would not stay on him.
单选题 The author set the living butterfly free because ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 第五段第一句:“How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. ”
事实细节题。根据定位句可知,作者认为杀死如此美丽的生命真是太残忍了。所以非常同情这些美丽的蝴蝶。故选B。
单选题 According to the passage, the author"s life in the orphanage was ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 第一段最后一句和第二段。
推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句“I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage (孤儿院) turned me into an old man. ”可知,作者在孤儿院的生活很无聊。根据第二段“I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory. ”可知,孤儿院有很严格的规矩。故选A。
单选题 What is the author"s attitude towards the house parent"s pinning some butterflies on the cardboard?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 第五段第一句:“How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. ”
语义推断题。根据定位句可知,作者觉得宿管的做法很残忍,所以对于这种杀死蝴蝶的做法应是厌恶。故选C。
单选题 We know from the passage that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 全文。
事实细节题。根据第二段“...with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory”可知,A项错误;根据第三段“...butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage”可知,B项错误;根据第六段第一句“When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement (水泥) step and went inside to answer the phone. ”可知,C项错误;根据最后一段最后一句“But it would not stay on him. ”可知,D项正确。故选D。
单选题 Which of the following is right according to the passage?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 全文。
事实细节题。根据第一段第一句“There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. ”可知,A项错误;根据第二段“...make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become...”可知,B项错误;根据第四段“I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet. ”可知,C项错误;根据第五段第一句“How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. ”可知,D项正确。故选D。