Question

【題目】Hans Christian Andersen was born in Denmark in 1805. He lived with his parents in a town called Odense. They were a very poor family and they couldn’t afford to send Hans Christian to school.

As a little boy, Hans Christian enjoyed making up fairy tales(童話) and puppet(木偶) shows. When he was only eleven years old, his father died and he had to go out to work to make money to help his mother.

Three years later, Hans Christian left home and went to the city of Copenhagen to be famous and rich. To begin with he didn’t do very well there, but at last he was able to go back to school and then on to university to continue his education.

He wrote fairy tales and stories and soon became famous. At first he wrote the stories that he had heard when he was a child and then began to make up new tales. During his seventy-one year life. Hans Christian wrote over three hundred stories.

Many of his stories are still enjoyed by children today. Among his best-known stories are: the Emperor’s New Clothes, the Ugly Duckling, the Snow Queen, the Princess and the Pea, and the little Mermaid.

【1】Which sentence is true about Hans Christian when he was a boy?

A. His mother died when he was 11 years old.

B. He had to work to make money to help the family.

C. He went to school to learn how to make up fairy tales.

D. He enjoyed reading fairy tales and watching talk shows.

【2】The stories Hans Christian wrote in his early years are from________.

A. what he learned from the university B. the story books he read in school

C. what he heard when he was young D. his own stories in the childhood

【3】What is the correct order in which these events happened?

a. Hans went to the city of Copenhagen. b. Hans began to make up new stories

c. Hans studied in the university d. Hans lived with his parents in Odense.

A. d-a-c-b B. a-b-c-d C. b-a-d-c D. d-b-a-c

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】A

【解析】本文介紹了安徒生的生平經(jīng)歷。

【1】B

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)When he was only eleven years old, his father died and he had to go out to work to make money to help his mother.可知安徒生11歲時，父親去世了，他不得不出去工作掙錢來幫助家人，故選B。

【2】C

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)At first he wrote the stories that he had heard when he was a child and then began to make up new tales.可知安徒生早年寫的故事是來自于他小時候聽到的故事，故選C。

【3】A

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的He lived with his parents in a town called Odense.可知安徒生和父母一起生活在歐登塞；根據(jù)第三段的Three years later, Hans Christian left home and went to the city of Copenhagen to be famous and rich.和but at last he was able to go back to school and then on to university to continue his education.可知后來安徒生離開家，去了哥本哈根，然后去大學(xué)繼續(xù)學(xué)習(xí)；根據(jù)第四段的At first he wrote the stories that he had heard when he was a child and then began to make up new tales.可知安徒生編寫新的故事，故選A。