Question

First Day at School
It was my first day at school in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened. On my way to school I wondered, what questions the other boys would ask me and practiced all the answers: "I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven't lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It's about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago." I also wondered if it was the rule for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.
No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say "hello", but no one spoke to me.
My teacher was called Mr. Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn't stand out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr. Jones was very fond of Charles Dickens, so he asked several boys if they knew Dickens' birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said: "Timbuktu” and Mr. Jones went red in the face. Then he asked me. I said: "Portsmouth” and everyone stared at me because Mr. Jones said I was right. This didn't make me very popular, of course. “He thinks he's clever," I heard Brian say.
After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian's team, and he obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be the goalkeeper.
"He's big enough and useless enough;" Brian said when someone asked him why he had chosen me.
As the boy kicked the ball hard along the ground to my right, I threw myself down quickly and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were grazed and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.
"Do you want to join my gang (team)?" he said.
At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.
小题1: The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT "__________".

A．How old are you?

B．Where are you from?

C．Do you want to join my gang?

D．When did you come back to London?

小题2: We can learn from the passage that ___________________.

A．boys were usually unfriendly to new students

B．the writer was not greeted as he expected

C．Brian praised the writer for his cleverness

D．the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper

小题3:The underlined part "I didn't stand out" in paragraph 3 means that the writer was not ______.

A．noticeable	B．nervous
C．important	D．outstanding

小题4:The writer was offered a handkerchief because _________________.

A．he was in Brian’s team

B．he was no longer a new comer

C．he was beginning to be accepted

D．he pushed a player on the other team

Answer 1

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C

试题分析: 文章主要讲作者在新学校的第一天的生活，刚开始没有人关注他，但是经过努力，作者终于赢得了朋友并不再孤单的故事。
小题1:C。推理判断题。根据第一段I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven't lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It's about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago。可知作者准备回答关于年龄，出生地和居住地以及到伦敦的生活的时间等问题。故选C。
小题2:B。推理判断题。根据第一段和第二段I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say "hello", but no one spoke to me. 可知，作者准备了很多问题等待别人来问她，然而却没人关注他。故选B。
小题3:A。根据上下文猜测含义。根据第三段There were 42 boys in the class可知班上有42个男孩子。后文中作者回答出了别人不能回答的问题，说明作者还是比较聪明的。但是却没有人搭理他，说明作者不是很显眼的。A. Noticeable显眼的；值得注意的B. Nervous紧张的C. Important重要的D. Outstanding杰出的。故选A。
小题4:C。推理判断题。根据第六段Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.和"Do you want to join my gang (team)?" he said.可知，见我受伤后，Brian拿出手绢替我包扎并要请我加入队伍，说明作者被他们接受了。故选C。