Question

  About 30 years ago,I left Cuba for the United States with my son. After getting settled finally in Brunswick,New Jersey,I enrolled (注冊) my son in kindergarten. Several weeks later,my son's teacher asked me to meet him at his office.

  In the teacher's office,an exchange of greetings was followed by his ques?tions, "Is your son mentally retarded (智力發育遲緩的) ？Does he suffer from any kind of mental disability?"

  Was he talking about my wonderful Scola? No,no, it can't be. What a helpless,lonely moment!I told him that Scola was a quiet,sweet little boy,instead. I asked him why he was asking me all these questions.

  My son could not follow the teacher's directions,he told me,and thus,Scola was disrupting the class. Didn't he know my son did not speak English yet?

He was angry, " Why hasn't your son been taught to speak English? Don't you speak English at home?"

  "No,I didn't speak English at home," I replied. I was sure my son would learn English in a couple of months,and I didn't want him to forget his native language. Well,wrong answer!What kind of person would not speak in Eng-lish to her son at home and at all time? "Are you one of those people who come to this country to save dollars and send them back to their country,never wanting to be a part of this society?" Needless to say,I tried to tell him I was not one of "those people". Then he told me the meeting was over,and I left.

  As I had expected,my son learned to speak English fluently before the school year was over. He went on to graduate from college and got a job,earning close to six figures. He travels widely and leads a well-adjusted,contented life. And he has benefited from being bilingual (雙語的) . Speaking more than one language allows people to communicate with others;it teaches people about other cultures and other places—something very basic and obviously lacking in the "educator" I met in New Jersey.

1. The teacher asked the author to his office         .

   A. to discuss Scola's in-class performance

   B. to get Scola enrolled in kindergarten

   C. to find a language partner for Scola

   D. to work out a study plan for Scola

2. What does the underlined word " disrupting" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

   A. Breaking.

   B. Following.

   C. Attending.

   D. Disturbing.

3. The author's attitude towards being bilingual may best be described as         .

   A. critical   B. casual 

   C. positive   D. passive

4. This text is likely to be selected from a book of         .

   A. medicine   B. education

   C. geography D. history

Answer 1

B[文章大意]本文是一篇記敘文。作者主要回憶了自己在教育孩子方面和老師之間發生的一個小插曲，旨在說明孩子在學會當地語言的同時，不應該忘記學習自己的母語。

1. A推理判斷題。根據第二段老師在辦公室里問"我"的問題"Is your son mentally retarded (智力發育遲緩的) ？" 以及第四段的第一句"My son could not…disrupting the class."可知A項正確。

2. D詞義猜測題。由語境可知，"我"兒子沒有聽從老師的指令，因此老師認為"我"兒子上課"搗亂"。故D項正確。

3. C細節理解題。根據倒數第二段"As I had expected,my son learned to speak English…And he has benefited from being bilingual (雙語的) ."可知選C項。

4. B推理判斷題。根據全文可知，文章主要講述了"我"和老師在孩子教育問題上的不同看法。因此，最有可能節選自教育類的書籍。故選B項。