单选题 Summer has come, making us think of all kinds of nice things, such as holidays in the country.
The days are long and the nights are short, for the sun gets up early and goes to bed late in sunny June. It is one of the best and brightest months in the year. Birds sing all the day.
As night falls, the birds stop their song, one after another. However, they do not all sleep. When other birds are silent, a soft (轻柔) cry comes, then, after a few moments, louder. It is the nightingale (夜莺) singing his beautiful song.
The nightingale not only sings at night. On almost every warm day in early June, the little brown bird sings away on the roads and trees, but because all the other birds are also singing at the same time, we do not hear his voice so much. It is only at night, that we hear the nightingale at his best.

单选题 What does summer make us think?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[名师解析] 本文是一篇有关夏天的散文。本题目问夏天使人想到什么。文章第一句说夏天使人想到各种美好的东西,如乡下的假日。因此选项B是正确的。A说各种事情,而文中是说各种美好的东西。C项没有提到。
单选题 Why are nights shorter in summer?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[名师解析] 题目问为什么夏天夜短,这在文中第二段可找到解释。for这个词后面就是原因,因为太阳升得早,落得晚。选B。
单选题 Why does the text say "they do not all sleep"?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[名师解析] “They do not all sleep”这句话在文中第三段出现,文章说,夜晚降临时,鸟儿一个个地停止了唱歌,然而并不是所有的鸟儿都去睡觉了,当别的鸟安静下来时,夜莺开始唱歌了。因此这句话的意思是:“并不是所有的鸟儿都停止了唱歌,去睡觉了”,因为还有夜莺在唱。因此C是对的。
单选题 How does a nightingale sing?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[名师解析] 题目问夜莺是如何唱歌的,文章第三段说,先是一阵轻柔的叫声,一会儿后变得响起来了,因此选项A是正确的。
单选题 Why can't people hear nightingale sing during the day?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[名师解析] 题目问为什么人们在白天听不到夜莺叫,其原因在最后一段,因为别的鸟也同时在叫,所以人们听不太清楚它的声音。所以选C。
单选题 What is the text talking about?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[名师解析] 本题是对全文中心意思的提问。文章并不是讲夏天是个好季节,或夏天有许多鸟,而主要是关于夏天的夜莺。