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er, I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks. My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure. He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City. “What39。re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a piic. “Did you ever travel with your dad ? ” I ask. “Only on ce, ” h e says. “I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other— but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.” That last sentence— it39。ve never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling, I realize— and maybe a regular job won39。m wearing a watch. 文章大意:本文介紹了一 對父子,父親 忙于工作,很少和兒子交流。s collection of stamps 答案: C 推理判斷題。從文中的 We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything?和 I realize— and maybe a regular job won39。作者認(rèn)識到自己和父親也是這樣,自己也希望將來自己的兒子能向自己表達(dá)愛。故本題選 D項。 ??v觀全文可知,是這次和父親的旅行改變了作者和父親對生活的態(tài)度和彼此的關(guān)系。 4. What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story? A. The call solves their disagreements. B. The Swiss watch has drawn them closer. C. They decide to learn photography together. D. They begin to change their attitudes to life. 答案: D 推理判斷題。 3. From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author ________. A. wants his children to learn from their grandfather B. es to understand what parental love means C. learns how to municate with his father D. hopes to give whatever he can to his father 答案: B 句子理解題。故可以推斷出父親對于這一切都是不高興的。 1. We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father ________. A. followed the fashion B. got bored with his job C. was unhappy with the author39。ve got to take another trip like that sometime.” I tell him I39。d say about my father. And what I39。t have a watch ? ” Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite (花崗巖 ), his