Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy – five, he gave $ 60,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s ground.
As a result of his kindness, he became famous. Many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
【小題1】Johnson became a rich man through _______.
A.doing business | B.making whisky | C.cheating | D.buying and selling land |
A.had many children in the school | B.was a strange old man |
C.was very fond of children | D.was very kind |
A.what kind of whisky he had |
B.how to live longer |
C.how to become wealthy |
D.in which part of the neck to have an injection |
A.he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening |
B.he needn’t an injection in the neck |
C.a(chǎn) daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well |
D.there was something wrong with his neck |
【小題1】A
【小題2】D
【小題3】B
【小題4】A
解析試題分析:有錢而古怪的Johnson在他七十五歲的時(shí)候給當(dāng)?shù)匦W(xué)捐錢去購置設(shè)備和用地,他因此而出名了。然后每天都有很多人來拜訪他。當(dāng)一名記者問到他是如何保持健康的時(shí)候,他幽默的把每天喝的一杯威士忌酒說成了每晚注射的針劑,于是人們紛紛寫信尋問針劑的情況。
【小題1】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段 He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries.可知Johnson是通過做生意成為有錢人的,答案選A.
【小題2】D推理判斷題。根據(jù)情理可知只有善良、有愛心的人才會(huì)做慈善,給學(xué)校捐錢,而且根據(jù)文章第二段首句As a result of his kindness也可以證明他是善良的,所以D選項(xiàng)正確。
【小題3】B推理判斷題。從文章內(nèi)容可知當(dāng)記者問Johnson如何在七十五歲的時(shí)候仍然能夠保持健康的原因時(shí),他幽默的把每天喝一杯威士忌酒說成了“I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,”,由此推斷人們給他寫信問他“daily injection”的情況,實(shí)際上是問他如何才能長(zhǎng)壽,故答案選B。
【小題4】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段“I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.可知當(dāng)Johnson提到“an injection in my neck”實(shí)際上是指每晚喝的威士忌酒,故答案選A。
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