Question

【題目】 A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow (烏鴉) was jumping around.The crow watched them with disdain (鄙視)．

“You have no flying skills at all！” he said to the swans. “All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air? No，that's beyond you. Let's have a flying competition. I'll show you what real flying is！”

One of the swans，a strong young male，took up the challenge. The crow flew up and began to show his skills. He flew in circles，performed other flying tricks，and then came down and looked proudly at the swan.

Now it was the swan's turn. He flew up，and began flying over the sea. The crow flew after him，making all kinds of comments(評價) about his flying. They flew on and on till they couldn't see the land and there was nothing but water on all sides. The crow was making fewer and fewer comments. He was now so exhausted that he found it hard to stay in the air，and had to struggle to keep himself from falling into the water.

The swan pretended (假裝) not to notice，and said，“Why do you keep touching the water，brother? Is that another trick？”

“No，” said the crow. He knew he had lost the competition.“I'm in trouble because of my pride! If you don't help me，I'll lose my life...”

The swan took pity on him，and took him on his shoulders and flew back to the beach.

【1】What's the correct order of the following events?

a．The crow showed off his flying skills.

b．The swan felt pity for the crow and saved him.

c．The crow laughed at the swan's flying.

d．The crow followed the swan and got into trouble.

e．The crow challenged the swans and a strong young swan accepted it.

A.e，c，d，a，bB.a，e，c，d，b

C.c，e，a，d，bD.e，a，d，c，b

【2】What does the underlined word “exhausted” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A.Tired.B.Angry.

C.Frightened.D.Regretful.

【3】Why did the crow keep touching the water?

A.Because he was showing another flying skill.

B.Because it was difficult for him to stay in the air.

C.Because he was thirsty and wanted to drink some water.

D.Because he was enjoying himself by doing so.

【4】What can we infer (推斷) from the passage?

A.The crow didn't know flying.

B.Flying skills were useless.

C.The swan saved the crow because they were good friends.

D.The swan was better at longdistance flying than the crow.

【5】What does the story tell us?

A.No pains，no gains.

B.The early bird catches the worm.

C.Pride goes before a fall.

D.Practice makes perfect.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】B

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】

本文是一篇故事，講述了一只烏鴉和天鵝比飛翔技巧的故事。起初烏鴉炫耀它的飛翔技巧很多，嘲諷天鵝，但是天鵝的飛翔很扎實，在比賽中，烏鴉體力不支敗下陣來，最后承認是自己太過于自大與驕傲了。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。通讀全文，可知故事的發(fā)展順序是“烏鴉嘲笑天鵝—烏鴉挑戰(zhàn)天鵝，一只天鵝應(yīng)戰(zhàn)—烏鴉炫技—烏鴉和天鵝比飛翔但陷入了困境—天鵝救了烏鴉”，故選C。

【2】詞義猜測題。該詞所在句句意為“現(xiàn)在他如此________以至于很難站在空中”。Tired累的；Angry生氣的；Frightened害怕的；Regretful后悔的，根據(jù)句意，可以推測此處表示很累了，故選A。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“He was now so exhausted that he found it hard to stay in the air，and had to struggle to keep himself from falling into the water”，可知它太累了，無法繼續(xù)飛在空中，故選B。

【4】推理判斷題。根據(jù)故事的結(jié)局，可知天鵝在長距離飛行中比烏鴉更有優(yōu)勢，故選D。

【5】文章主旨題。通讀全文，可知文章主要講述了驕傲自大的烏鴉最終在飛翔比賽中落敗于天鵝的故事，這告訴我們一個道理：驕兵必敗。故選C。