Question

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（孤兒院）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.
小題1:The author set the living butterfly free because_______.

A．he liked it very much

B．he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly

C．he couldn’t bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes

D．its wing broke off

小題2:According to the passage，the author’s life in the orphanage was_____.

A．dull and full of strict rules

B．simple and easy

C．happy and full of hope

D．hard and busy

小題3:What is the author’s attitude towards the house parent’s pinning some butterflies on the cardboard?

A．tolerant

B．unconcerned

C．disgusted

D．discouraged

小題4:We know from the passage that_________.
A. the author lived alone in the dormitory
B. there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes
C the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched
D. the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit
小題5:Which of the following is right according to the passage?

A．I found beauty meant nothing special to me.

B．The house parent helped the children handle the quilt.

C．The house parent chased the butterfly in order to show it to the children.

D．I thought it cruel to catch the butterfly.

Answer 1

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:D
小題5:D

試題分析：
小題1:B 推理題。根據文章最后一段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說明他把這些蝴蝶都放了，是因為他可憐它們，故B正確。
小題2:A 推理題。根據文章第二段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. 說明他在孤兒院的生活很單調，沒有什么樂趣，也有很多嚴格的規則。故A正確。
小題3:C 推理題。根據第四段第一行How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty.說明他認為這種做法很殘忍，很讓人厭惡。故C正確。
小題4:D 細節題。根據倒數第二段最后一行Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.說明他失敗了，故D正確。
小題5:D 推理題。根據文章第四段內容尤其是第一句How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty.說明他認為這種行為很殘忍，故D正確。
點評：我在孤兒院里看見the house parent在抓那些蝴蝶，并殘忍地對待他們，感覺這些做法很殘忍。乘他接電話的時候，我想把這些蝴蝶放掉。