Question

Monkeys are clever and lively, but they are naughty and greedy (貪婪的) as well. Whenver they find delicious food, they will eat enough.  What’s more, they will take it when they leave. They have suffered (吃虧) a lot because of this. But they never change this way.

In India, people use monkey’s greed to catch them. Do you know how they can catch monkeys? Here are some instructions.

◆               Make a hole in a big pumpkin (南瓜). The hole must be just right     ----neither too big nor too small.

◆               Put some jujubes (棗) in the hole.

◆               Leave the pumpkin under a tree. Make sure there are some monkeys in   the tree.

◆               Hide yourself and watch the monkeys.

As soon you leave, the monkeys can’t wait to come down to the pumpkin. When they find a hole in the pumpkin, they don’t know what’s in it and one of them can't help putting its hand into the hole to find what on earth there is. When it touches the jujubes, it will clench (攥緊) some of them in its hand. As a result, it isn’t able to take its fist (拳) out of the hole. You can’t come close until this time. Will the monkey drop off the pumpkin? Don’t worry. It prefers the pumpkin than its life. It will run with the pumpkin, clenching its fist more tightly. In the end, it is caught helplessly.

1.Monkeys haven’t changed their way of doing with nice food because they are

       .

   A. clever     B. lively     C. greedy    D.naughty

2.“The hole must be just right” means it is     .

   A. big enough for the monkey to put its hand in

   B. smaller than a monkey’s hand

   C. bigger than a monkey’s fist

   D. bigger than a monkey’s hand but smaller than its fist

3.Seeing the hole in the pumpkin, a monkey will     .

   A. be interested in    B. be afraid of   

C. run away at once   D. take the pumpkin away in arms

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

   A. Indians often catch the monkeys in this way.

   B. sometimes monkys are stupid.

   C. as soon as the monkeys comes to the pumpkin, you can rush to catch it.

   D. In India,monkeys like pumpkins every much.

5. What should we learn from the passage?

   A. weshould catch monkeys in this way.

   B. One mustn’t be greedy.

   C. We should protect monkeys.

   D. Come up with another way to catch monkeys.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.A

5.B

【解析】【主旨大意】可愛、淘氣的猴子由于貪婪的習(xí)性不該，印度的人們便利用其不改的習(xí)性來捉猴子。

1. 細(xì)節(jié)理解題 由文章第一段可知，猴子可愛、淘氣，“Whenver they find delicious food, they will eat enough.  What’s more, they will take it when they leave”，可知猴子對(duì)美食有貪婪的習(xí)性。

2. 整體理解題 通讀下文可知，洞必須夠大讓猴子的手進(jìn)去，但不能太大讓它的拳頭出來。

3. 細(xì)節(jié)理解題 由下文“When they find a hole in the pumpkin, they don’t know what’s in it and one of them can't help putting its hand into the hole to find what on earth there is”“他們不知南瓜的里面有什么，他們迫不及待的把手伸進(jìn)去，來看看里面到底有什么”。

4.整體理解題 通讀全文可知由于猴子的貪婪不改，印度人經(jīng)常利用此法來逮猴子。

5.歸納總結(jié)題  猴子由于貪婪，而招致被捉。喻示人們不能太貪心。