浙江省高一英语阅读理解专练记叙文(一)新人教版

2021年1月22日发(作者：寸心千古)
记叙文类

（
I
）★★

Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one hot August afternoon, I was reminded
of
an
incident
in
my
own
childhood
．
When
I
was
a
boy
of
12
in
South
Carolina,
something
happened to me that cured me forever of wanting to put any wild creature in a cage.
We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come
and rest in the trees and sing. There isn’t a musical instrument made by man that can produce a
more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.
I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way would have
my own private musician.

I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, in its fright at being captured,
the bird fluttered about the cage, but eventually it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased
with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.
I had left the cage out on our back porch, and on the second day of the bird’s captivity my
new
pet’s
mother
fle
w
to
the
cage
with
food
in
her
mouth.
The
baby
bird
ate
everything
she
brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her
baby.
The following morning when I went to see how my captive was doing, I discovered it on the
floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened! I had taken excellent care of my little
bird, or so I thought.
Arthur
Wayne,
the
famous
ornithologist,
happened
to
be
visiting
my
father
at
the
time,
hearing
me
crying
over
the
death
of
my
bird,
explained
what
had
occurred.
“A
mother
mockingbird,
finding
her
young
in
a
cage,
will
sometimes
bring
it
poison
berries.
She
thinks
it
better for her young to die than to live in captivity.”

Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures
have a right to live free.
1
．
Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy of 12?




A
．
He had just got a new cage.




B
．
He liked its beautiful feather.




C
．
He wanted it to sing for him.



D
．
He wanted a pet for a companion.
2
．
The mockingbird died because it ______.





A
．
was frightened to death








B
．
ate the poisonous food its mother gave it




C
．
refused to eat anything








D
．
drank the poisonous water by mistake
3
．
An ornithologist probably means ______.




A
．
a religious person












B
．
a kind person




C
．
a schoolmaster














D
．
an expert in birds
4
．
What is the most important lesson the writer learned from the incident?
A
．
Freedom is very valuable to all creatures.




B
．
All birds put i
n a cage won’t live long.





C
．
You should keep the birds from their mother.
D
．
Be careful about food you give to baby birds.
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（
II
）★★

Once upon a time a man became a great archer(
射手
)
．
He asked the king to declare him as
the greatest archer of the country
．
The king was about to do so when an old servant of the king
said
，
“Wait
，
sir
．
I know an old man who lives in the forest
．
He is a much greater archer
．
Let this
young man go to him and learn from him for at least three years
．
”





The man could not believe that there could be a greater archer than him
，
but he went and
found the old man and he was! For three years he learned from him
．
Then one day
，
when he
thought he had learned everything
，
the thought arose in him
：
“If I kill this
old man
，
then I will be
the greatest archer
．
”



The
old
man
had
gone
to
cut
wood
and
he
was
coming
back
carrying
wood
on
his
shoulder
．
The young man hid behind a tree
，
waiting to kill him
．
He shot an arrow
．
The old man
took
a
small
piece
of
wood
and
threw
it
．
It
struck
the
arrow
and
the
arrow
turned
back
and
wounded the young man very deeply
．
The old man came
，
took Out the arrow and said
。
“I knew
that
some
day
or
other
you
were
going
to
do
this
．
That’s
why

I
have
not
taught
you
this
secret
．
There is no need to kill me
．
My Master is still alive
，
and
I’m

nothing before him
．
You
must be

with him for at least thirty years
．
And he is very old
，
SO go fast! Find the old man!”

1
．
The underlined word in the 1st paragraph is closest in meaning to
“







”
.


A
．
admire



B
．
advise



C
．
announce




D
．
admit
2
．
The young archer wanted to kill the old man in the _______.



A
．
he had nothing more to learn from him
B
．
he could then become the greatest archer




C
．
the old man refused to teach him everything




D
．
the king’s old servant ordered him to do SO

3
．
The following pictures show what happened between the young archer and his master
．

Which is the right order of the events?




A
．
1
—
2
—
3
—
4



B
．
4
—
3
—
2
—
1




C
．
4
—
2
—
3
—
1



D
．
4
—
2
—
1
—
3


4
．
What do you think would most probably happen next?




A
．
The young archer died from the wound soon after
．





B
．
The king declared the young man the greatest archer
．





C
．
The young archer found the old man’s master and killed him
．





D
．
The young archer set off to look for the old man’
s master
．



5
．
What lesson can you learn from the story?




A
．
There’s always someone better than you in this world
．





B
．
You must never try to become better than your teacher
．





C
．
The older a man is
，
the better archer he usually becomes
．