【題目】I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left a message the night before, telling me that my show was to be cancelled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my work, and he didn’t care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”

At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, snatched the phone, tore off the wires (電線), and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.

I stood watching her, speechless, what on earth…?

She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the rest of the house, “Now hear this! All things in this room — if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go! ”

Then she turned to me, kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.

After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight, I noticed that something in my mood (情緒) had changed. I was laughing. How could she have trouble with that phone? Her antics helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him calmly.

【1】Why did the writer shout, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are”?

A. He was impatient with the phone.

B. He was impatient with the secretary.

C. He was mad at the telephone.

D. He was angry with his agent.

【2】The underlined word “antics" means _________.

A. surprising looks

B. sweet kisses and smart words

C. strange and funny behavior

D. reliable suggestion

【3】We can infer (推測) from the passage that _________.

A. The secretary didn’t care about the writer

B. the writer sometimes couldn’t control himself well

C. the agent was not responsible for his own work

D. the writer’s wife was not intelligent

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【解析】這篇短文講述了作者有一次因?yàn)橐稽c(diǎn)小事而情緒失控，他的妻子通過自己的一些滑稽、古怪的行為讓作者意識(shí)到了這一點(diǎn)，并告訴作者要學(xué)會(huì)控制自己的情緒。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第一段So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient.的描述可知，作者一直在等經(jīng)紀(jì)人的電話，等了很長時(shí)間他都沒有給作者回電話，所以作者變得沒有耐心了，所以他在電話里說的這句話說明了他當(dāng)時(shí)非常的生氣，故應(yīng)選D。

【2】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)上文I stood watching her, speechless, what on earth…?...After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight, I noticed that something in my mood (情緒) had changed.可知，這里描述了作者的妻子的行為，我們可以看到他的妻子的行為是比較奇怪，很夸張，讓作者感到吃驚，因此這個(gè)單詞的意思應(yīng)該是“古怪的，滑稽的”，故選C。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文中Then she turned to me, kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.”以及Her antics helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things.可知，作者有時(shí)候不能控制他的情緒，容易被一些小事影響情緒，故B選項(xiàng)是正確的。其他三個(gè)選項(xiàng)在短文中都找不到依據(jù)。

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