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【题目】My family moved from Taiwan to a small town in central Georgiawhere my dad got a visa for his family and a jobI had just learned Englishand from what little I could gather from my classmatesSanta Claus would come down one’s chimney(烟囱) and put toys in one’s stocking on Christmas Eve! What a great countryI thoughtAfter I looked up “stocking” in my Chinese-English dictionaryI knew what I had to do

On that fateful nightafter everyone went to bedI took my longestcleanest knee sock and attached it to a nail already on the mantel(壁炉)Obviouslythe previous owners of this house were no strangers to this Santa character

I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ran to the fireplaceTo make a sob story shortI was hit with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever toldI burst into tearsquickly took down the sockand stuffed it in the back of a drawerSanta was dead

Every December since thenthe topic of Christmas memories would unavoidably come upand I would amuse my friends with my poor-little-me storyI had to make it as funny as possibleor else I would cry

How could I know that Santa was just late? Nine years agoon Christmas Evean older man with a white beard and a red cap knocked on my front doorHe said“I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five years” He handed me a bulging red stockingwinkedand leftOn top of the stocking was a cardIt read: “For Becky—I may have missed you in the second gradebut you’ve always lived in my heartSanta

Through tear-blurred eyesI recognized the handwriting of Jilla friend I had met just two months beforeI later discovered that the older man was her fatherJill had seen the hurt little girl underneath the thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it

So now I believe that Santa is realI don’t mean the twinkle-eyed character of children’s mythology(神话) or the creation of American holiday marketersThose Santas annoy and sadden meI believe in the Santa Claus that live inside good and thoughtful peopleThis Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day purposefullyreally listens to friendsand then plans deliberate acts of kindness

1What does the underlined part “what I had to do” in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A. Waiting for Santa Claus

B. Putting a stocking on the mantel

C. Asking for gifts from her parents

D. Looking up “stocking” in the dictionary

2It can be inferred from the passage that the author’s parents ____

A. didn’t love their child at all

B. didn’t know the previous owners of the house

C. didn’t know much about Christmas tradition

D. didn’t have enough money to buy the author Christmas presents

3When the author told her friends about the storyshe felt ______in her heart

A. proud B. amusing C. hate D. regret

4By writing the passagethe author speaks highly of ________

A. friendship

B. parenting

C. religion

D. culture

5The author of the passage is probably ________

A. a teenager

B. a primary school student

C. a middle-aged woman

D. a native American

【答案】

1B

2C

3D

4A

5C

【解析】

1B推理判断题。根据第二段的描述可知作者在壁炉边挂了一个圣诞长筒袜,选B

2C推理判断题。从文章首段可知作者在学了些英语之后才知道圣诞老人的故事,但是在壁炉边挂的长筒袜里没能得到希望的礼物,这说明作者的父母不了解有圣诞老人送礼物这种事情,故选C

3D细节理解题。根据第四段 I had to make it as funny as possibleor else I would cry.可知作者给别人讲述自己的事情时,感觉非常后悔做了这种让自己失望伤心的事情,选D

4A推理判断题。从文章末段内容可知作者对于朋友让父亲装扮成圣诞老人送礼物的事情非常感动,根据This Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day purposefullyreally listens to friendsand then plans deliberate acts of kindness可知作者写文章的目的是赞扬友谊的,故选A

5C细节理解题。根据文章第五段 He said“I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five years可知作者写文章的时候应该是个成年人了,故选C

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