shirt是什么意思山东省济南市高考英语阅读理解九月统练(4)

2021年1月12日发(作者：杨谏)
2015山东省济南市高考英语阅读理解九月统练（4）及答案
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for “Six days shall you labor and
do all your work” was taken seriously back then. Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick
next door were busy in chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs.
Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning.
Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the
risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for
more string(线). It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would
fly today.
My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping.
Again she cast a look toward the window. “Come on, girls! Let’s take string to the
boys and watch them fly the kites a minute.”
On the way we met Mrs. Patrick, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong,
together with her girls.
There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the
boys’ kites and they went up higher and higher. We could hardly distinguish the
orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back,
watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth,
just for the joy of sending it up again.
Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn,
laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their
duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies.
“Perhaps it’s like this in the kingdom of heaven,” I thought confusedly.
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It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the houses. I suppose we
had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been a surface tidying-up, for
the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was, we didn’t
mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed. Surely none of the others
had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where
we keep“the things that cannot be and yet they are.”
The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment,
trying to get some work out of the way while my three- year-old insistently cried her
desire to“go park, see duck.”
“I can’t go!” I said. “I have this and this to do, and when I’m through I’ll
be too tired to walk that far.”
My mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling. “It’s
a wonderful day,” she offered, “really warm, yet there’s a fine breeze. Do you
remember that day we flew kites?”
I stopped in my dash between stove and sink. The locked door flew open and with it
a rush of memories. “Come on,” I told my little girl. “You’re right, it’s too
good a day to miss.”
Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath(余波)of a great war. All evening we
had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences
as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent.
What was he thinking of—what dark and horrible things?
“Say!” A smile slipped out from his lips. “Do you remember—no, of course you
wouldn’t. It probably didn’t make the impression on you as it did on me.”
I hardly dared speak. “Remember what?”
“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp(战俘营), when things weren’t too
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good. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”
1. Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought .
A. she was too old to fly kites
B. her husband would make fun of her
C. she should have been doing her housework then
D. her girls weren’t supposed to play the boys’ game
2. By“we were all beside ourselves”, the writer means that they all .
A. felt confused B. went wild with joy C. looked on D. forgot their
fights
3. What did the writer think after the kite-flying?
A. The boys must have had more fun than the girls.
B. They should have finished their work before playing.
C. Her parents should spend more time with them.
D. All the others must have forgotten that day.
4. Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?
A. She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.
B. She was reminded of the day they flew kites.
C. She had finished her work in the kitchen.
D. She thought it was a great day to play outside.
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5. The youngest Patrick Boy is mentioned to show that .
A. the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories
B. his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life
C. childhood friendship means so much to the writer
D. people like him really changed a lot after the war
【参考答案】1--5 、CBDBA


Passage Eighteen (Strictly Ban smoking)
If you smoke and you still don’t believe that there’s a definite link between smoking
and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly
deceiving yourself. No one will accuse you of hypocrisy. Let us just say that you
are suffering from a bad case of wishful thinking. This needn’t make you too
uncomfortable because you are in good company. Whenever the subject of smoking and
health is raised, the governments of most countries hear no evil, see no evil and
smell no evil. Admittedly, a few governments have taken timid measures. In Britain
for instance, cigarette advertising has been banned on television. The conscience
of the nation is appeased, while the population continues to puff its way to smoky,
cancerous death.
You don’t have to look very far to find out why the official reactions to medical
findings have been so lukewarm. The answer is simply money. Tobacco is a wonderful
commodity to tax. It’s almost like a tax on our daily bread. In tax revenue alone,
the government of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire
educational facilities. So while the authorities point out ever so discreetly that
smoking may, conceivable, be harmful, it doesn’t do to shout too loudly about it.
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