【正文】 y to hear that. If there is anything I can do for you, you just knock on my door.” Dad’s eyebrow furrowed as if he was in deep thought. “I have a job offer in New Jersey that I’m pretty sure I’ll have to accept. It’s far away, so I’ll only be able to e home on weekends. If you have the time I would like to hire you to take care of the things here during my absence.” Shock, then hope ran across Mr. Fleming’s face. “Are you sure you want to hire me? You know what people will say.” “Let them talk. I’m hiring you because you are a good man, a hard worker, who made a mistake in his life— a mistake you’ve paid for dearly.” After Mr. Fleming left, Tom boldly questioned our Dad’s decision. “You can’t hire him! He’s no good! Nobody will want to be friends with us if he’s around!” Dad’s words, when he quoted Martin Luther King J r., were firm: “The final measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of fort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Dad looked from my face to Tom’s. “Do you understand? Just because other people won’t appro ve, our family shouldn’t be afraid to help him.” Dad cupped my chin in his large hand, continued, “You know, after the factory laid off Mr. Fleming, his little daughter became ill. In desperation, he stole the drugs he needed to help keep her alive. He went to prison. While he served his sentence, the child died, and his sad wife returned to her parents where later she also died. He was left with nothing, not even his dignity.” I suddenly felt terrible. I could tell by the way Tom looked at the ground instead of up at Dad that he regretted what he’d said about Mr. Fleming. The new year brought many changes to our family. We only saw our father on the weekends, but we didn’t worry when Dad was away because of Mr. Fleming. He handled everything with a smile, from a broken pipe to a leaky roof. Some nights Mom invited him to stay for dinner during which his tales of travels during World War II held our attention. And it was Mr. Fleming who carried a bloody Tom four blocks to the hospital when he fell off his bike. Despite the good Mr. Fleming did for our family, some people continued to keep away from him— and now us. Mom was dropped from several mittees. Tom and I were not invited to classmates’ parties. Strangely enough, we found that none of this bothered us because we knew what Dad said had already rooted in our hearts. 41. What made people keep away from Mr. Fleming? A. His having no job. B. His bad name. C. His wife leaving him. D. His being poor. 42. The reason why there was a fight between Tom and Jim is that Jim ______ . A. was rude to Tom’s father B. spoke ill of Tom’s father C. treated Mr. Fleming well D. made fun of Mr. Fleming 43. The writer’s father hired Mr. Fleming to work for his family because ______ . A. he felt pity for the poor man B. he wanted to show mercy to the man C. he considered the man to be responsible D. he expected the children to learn from the man. 44. The method the writer mainly uses to develop Paragraph 5 is ______ . A. offering analysis B. making parison C. giving examples D. providing explanation 學￥科￥網(wǎng) ... 45. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. How I Learned to Stand Tall B. Be Polite to People around You C. An Unfettable Experience D. Never Look Down upon the Poor 【答案】 41. B 42. B 43. C 44. C 45. A 【解析】 本文是一篇記敘文，主要講述了 Mr. Fleming是一個 “ 臭名昭著 ” 的人，但是父親卻非常信任他，并且為失業(yè)的他提供工作，開始我和哥哥并不理解，后來才明白 Mr. Fleming是一個好人。如本文的第 2 題，這是典型的生詞詞義題，需要利用語境來推斷詞義。 40. 推理判斷題。 C One of my summertime reading pleasures has been reading . Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters for the first time. The Screwtape Letters is written in a satirical style while it is fictional in format. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior devil Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood. As a new generation of property student begins the school year, I thought it would be useful to pass on this ment on the most property adjective, the possessive “my.” In this excerpt （摘錄） , a devil named Screwtape is continuing to tutor his nephew on how best to direct and control humans toward “our Father below”: We teach them not to notice the different senses of the possessive pronoun（物主代詞） — the finely graded differences that run from “my boots” through “my dog”, “my servant”, “my wife”, “my father”, “my master” and “my country”, to “my God”. They can be taught to reduce all these senses to tha t of “my boots,” the “my” of ownership. Even in the nursery, a child can be taught to mean by “my Teddy bear” not the old imagined recipient（接受者） of affection to whom it stands in a special relation (for that is what the Enemy will teach them to mean if we are not careful) but “the bear I can pull to pieces if I like.” And on the other hand, we have taught men to say “My God” in a sense not really very different from “My boots”, meaning “The God on whom I have a claim for my distinguished services and whom I make use of the pulpit— the God I have done a corner in.” And all the time the joke is that the word “Mine” in its fully possessive sense cannot be expressed by a human being about anything. In the long run either Our Father or the Enemy will say “Mine” of each thing that exists, and especially of each man. They will find out in the end, never fear, to whom their time, their souls, and their bodies really belong— certainly not to them, whatever happens. These “finely graded differences” are often lost in leg al conceptions of both real and intellectual property. 38. When the author read The Screwtape Letters, he felt ______ . A. pleased B. dissatisfied C. puzzled D. scared 39. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean? A. scold or blame B. attend or care C. teach or