Question

【題目】One day,while I was waiting for my father, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set free from some sort of prison( 監(jiān)獄) . The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his

face, as if nothing had happened.

At that moment, I thought to myself, “ Why aren’t most adults this way?” Most adults, when

they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even make a second attempt. They would be so

embarrassed that they would not try again if someone saw them fall. Or, because they fall, they

would find a good excuse for themselves that they’re not fit for it. They would end up being too afraid

to attempt again for fear of failure( 失敗) .

However, with kids, when they fall down, they don’t consider their falling down as a failure,

instead, they treat it as a learning experience. They try again and again until they succeed. The

answer must be that they have not connected “ falling down” with the word “ failure” . What’s more,

they probably think to themselves that it’s quite okay to fall down and that it’s not wrong to do so. In

other words, they allow themselves to make mistakes, so they remain energetic.

I was deeply impressed by the boy’s persistence( 堅持不懈) and the manner in which he did.

【1】What did the little boy do when he fell down?

A. He cried and lay on the grass. B. He asked his mother for help.

C. He got up and went on running. D. He got up and stood there crying.

【2】In the writer’s opinion,what might the little boy regard his falling down as?

A. A failure. B. A joke. C. An interesting game. D. A learning experience.

【3】In the writer’s opinion,why can’t many adults succeed?

A. Because they are afraid of being embarrassed.

B. Because they can’t find a good excuse.

C. Because once they fail, they won’t attempt again.

D. Because they don’t allow themselves to make mistakes.

【4】The underlined word “ attempt” in Paragraph 2 means .

A. 嘗試 B. 放棄 C. 面對 D. 懷疑

【5】What does the writer want to tell us?

A. Practice makes perfect. B. Failure is the mother of success.

C. All roads lead to Rome. D. Each coin has two sides.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】 C

【2】 D

【3】 C

【4】 A

【5】 B

【解析】

本文講述的是作者的一次觀察男孩自由奔跑所得到的啟示。在我們成長過程中，我們不能從容面對失敗和困難，而變得虛偽和恐懼，我們需要真實的自我和面對失敗的勇氣。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)句中第一段第三句：“The boy would then fall to the grass, get up,without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.（小男孩時不時地跌倒，爬起來，也不回頭看他媽媽，再次盡可能快地跑，臉上仍然有笑容，好像什么事情也沒有發(fā)生）”。所以答案選C。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中句子“However, with kids, when they fall down, they don’t consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a learning experience.（然而，對于孩子們，當他們跌倒時，他們不認為跌倒是個失敗，相反，他們把它當作一次學習經(jīng)歷）”知答案選D。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中句子“I thought to myself, “ Why aren’t most adults this way?” Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even make a second attempt（我自己想，為什么大部分的成年人不成功？大部分的成年人，當他們失敗的時候，小題大做找借口，不愿意再做第二次嘗試）知答案選C。

【4】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)文中句子Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even make a second attempt的.句意 “大部分的成年人，當他們失敗的時候，小題大做找借口，不愿意再做第二次嘗試”可推測：第二段劃線的單詞“attempt”意思是A. 嘗試。所以答案選A

【5】主旨大意題。從全文中可以看出作者對于失敗是很樂觀的，失敗了可以當做一次學習的機會，以后再嘗試。再就是端正態(tài)度，失敗是不可避免的，要想得通。所以答案選B。