Question

Two children stood outside the door with old coats. “Any old papers, Lady?” asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say no, but I saw that their shoes were broken and wet. “Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot tea.” They came in, saying nothing. Their shoes left snow on the floor.
I gave them tea and bread to protect them against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started my housework again.
The silence in the front room surprised me. I looked in.
The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked me in a low voice, “Lady, are you rich?”
Am I rich? Oh, no! I looked at my old things in my room.
The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟) carefully. “Your cups match your saucers.”
They left then, holding their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said thank you. They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. The blue cups and saucers were simple. But they said that they matched. The potatoes and meat before me, a roof over our hands, my husband with a job—these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The prints of their small shoes were still wet on my floor. I let them be. I wanted them there to remind me how rich I was.
小題1:The writer let the two children in _________.

A．to offer them some warm clothes	B．to serve them tea and food
C．to sell them some old papers	D．to show them how rich she was.

小題2:We can learn from the passage that_______.

A．the writer was in fact not very rich

B．the children took away many old papers

C．the writer’s husband was out of work

D．the two children were looking for a job

小題3: It can be inferred(推斷) from the passage that _______.

A．it was snowing outside when the story happened

B．the two children thanked the writer and then left

C．the two children were not polite to the writer

D．the writer had a set of new furniture in her house

小題4:The underlined sentence “I let them be” means  “_________”.

A．I dislike them	B．I didn’t want to see them
C．I cleaned them	D．I left them there

小題5: What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Any Old Papers?	B．Matching Cups and Saucers
C．Are You Rich?	D．Two Poor Children

Answer 1

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:A
小題4:D
小題5:C

試題分析：這篇短文講的是作者招待了兩個(gè)貧窮的孩子，通過這次經(jīng)歷他們使作者意識(shí)到什么是真正的富有，精神的富有要比物質(zhì)富有重要得多。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中原句I gave them tea and bread to protect them against the cold outside. （我給他們茶和面包來讓他們抵御外面的寒冷。）可知此題選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中信息Am I rich? Oh, no! I looked at my old things in my room.（我富有嗎？不，我看著我房間的舊東西）可知事實(shí)上作者并不富有，故此題選A。
小題3:推理判斷題。根據(jù)文中原句Their shoes left snow on the floor.（他們的鞋把雪留在地板上）可以推斷出故事發(fā)生時(shí)外面正在下雪，故選A。其他選項(xiàng)不符合題意。
小題4:句意猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)下文I wanted them there to remind me how rich I was.（我想讓他們?cè)谀莾禾嵝盐矣卸嗝锤挥�。）可知作者讓這兩個(gè)孩子的腳印留在地板上，故選D。
小題5:標(biāo)題歸納題。根據(jù)全文信息，作者和孩子們?cè)诮涣饔嘘P(guān)“富有”的問題，所以C是最佳標(biāo)題。