5.When my friend went to Europe last summer,instead of snapping photographs of the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower or Stonehenge,she brought back 32rolls of…cathedral ceilings.Ceilings.For the 10years I've known her I had never suspected that she was this passionate about stained glass.
Still one of the best things about such pictures-despite their obvious narrow appeal-is that they can't help but tell us a great deal about the people who took them.
So I shouldn't have been surprised when I got the roll of film back from my 5-year-old son's first camping trip.I opened the envelope,naively expecting to see pictures of the nightly campfire,the sun setting over the forest,and possibly even a deer or two.
Instead,I saw an off-center picture of tennis shoes.Not even his tennis shoes,mind you,but a pair someone had lost and left in the cabin.Mystery shoes.And that's not all.
As I went through the stack,I found that my son had also taken a picture of his sleeping bag,a penny he found in the gravel next to the car,a leaf,an orange sock,a close-up of his father's ear,a burned hot dog,his thumb,a piece of gum,and many other similar things.
There was barely one sign of nature in the whole stack.I couldn't help thinking that if he'd wanted pictures of assorted junk,it would've been cheaper had he spent the weekend in our back-yard.
AT LEAST that is what I thought until I showed the photographs to my ceiling-snapping friend,the mother of three teenagers,who said simply,"There's nothing wrong with these."
But of course,this is just the type of answer you'd expect from someone who photographs ceiling.
Then she told me about the time her daughter went to Yosemite Valley and returned with rolls of photographs of the hotel,restaurant,and gift shop.She also told me about the time her son took his camera to a Major League Baseball game and returned with 24pictures of cloud formations.
I had a feeling she was just trying to make me feel better.
Then again,to a 5-year-old boy,finding a penny is more exciting than seeing a squirrel.And why would he waste good film on something like,say,some endangered water buffaloes,when he could take a picture of cool tennis shoes?Or his shiny new green sleeping bag?
Face it:Things like beautiful sunsets and campfires can't compare to a bag of extra-large marshmallow.
So I did what any good mother would do:I marked the date on the back of the pictures and slid them into our family vacation photo album-right after the five pages of ice sculptures I took last year on our cruise to the Bahamas.
28.Which of the following proverbs best displays the author's final thought?B
A.Every dog will have its day.
B.Every man has his hobby-horse.
C.If a thing is worth doing,it's worth doing well.
D.You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
29.Who might have taken a picture of the back seat of the family car in his or her trip mentioned in this passage?B
A.The author's friend.B.The author's son.
C.The author.D.The author's friend's daughter.
30.The author changed her mind on her son's picture taking becauseC.
A.her friend persuaded her to do so
B.her son's pictures finally struck her
C.she realized the truth by herself inspired by the surrounding examples
D.it suddenly occurred to her that she herself had also taken unique pictures before
31.What can we infer from this passage?C
A.Age and gender play an important role in one's vision of the world.
B.The author's friend is a better mum in terms of educating children.
C.The author will allow her son more freedom to choose in his future life.
D.The author will take vacation pictures of different kind from her past ones.
分析 本文主要讲述了在旅途中,母亲总发现儿子拍一些"垃圾"照片而烦恼,但是通过她自己朋友家人的例子,最后母亲改变了看法,接受每个人都有自己的选择.
解答 28.B 推理判断题.本文主要讲述了在旅途中,母亲总发现儿子拍一些"垃圾"照片而烦恼,但是通过她自己朋友家孩子的例子,最后母亲改变了看法,接受每个人都有自己的选择.Every dog will have its day意为"凡人皆有得意时";If a thing is worth doing,it's worth doing well意为"如果有一件事值得你去做,那么就值得你去做好";You can take a horse to the water but youcannot make him drink意为"牵马河边易,逼马饮水难";Every man has his hobby-horse意为"各人有各人的忧愁"正好符合文章中母亲的心情,故选B.
29.B 推理判断题.根据文章的第三段"…myson had also taken a picture of his sleeping bag,a penny he found in the gravel next to thecar,a leaf,an orange sock,a close-up of his father's ear,a burned hot dog,his thumb,a piece of gum,and many other similar things"可知她的儿子拍的照片有:他的睡袋,他在车旁的砾石里发现的一便士,一片树叶,一只橙色的袜子,他父亲耳朵的特写,烧坏的热狗,他的拇指,一块口香糖,还有许多其他类似的东西.所以是她的儿子可能会拍一张家庭汽车后座的照片,故B项符合题意.
30.C 细节理解题.根据第六段的"There was barely one sign of nature in the whole stack.I couldn't help thinking that if he'd wanted pictures of assorted junk,it would've been cheaper had he spent the weekend in our back-yard."和第七段的"AT LEAST that is what I thoughtuntil I showed the photographs to my ceiling-snapping friend,the mother of three teenagers,who said simply,"There's nothing wrong with these."可知作者认为在所有的照片里几乎没有一个自然的迹象,她禁不住想,如果他想要各种垃圾的照片,在她们后院度过周末,那会更便宜.直到作者把这些照片拿给她的爱拍天花板的朋友看时,对儿子所拍的照片才改变了看法,故选C.
31.C 推理判断题.根据文章的最后一段可知,母亲改变了自己的看法,接受儿子拍摄的照片,意味着母亲允许儿子自主的选择自己的人生.故选C.
点评 本文是人物故事类阅读,主要考查细节理解题和推理判断题.在做细节理解题时,首先根据题目要求迅速在文章里找出相应的段落、句子或短语.认真比较选项和文中细节的区别,在做推理判断题时不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.