First Day at School
It was my first day at school in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened. On my way to school I wondered, what questions the other boys would ask me and practiced all the answers: "I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven't lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It's about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago." I also wondered if it was the rule for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.
No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say "hello", but no one spoke to me.
My teacher was called Mr. Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn't stand out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr. Jones was very fond of Charles Dickens, so he asked several boys if they knew Dickens' birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said: "Timbuktu” and Mr. Jones went red in the face. Then he asked me. I said: "Portsmouth” and everyone stared at me because Mr. Jones said I was right. This didn't make me very popular, of course. “He thinks he's clever," I heard Brian say.
After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian's team, and he obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be the goalkeeper.
"He's big enough and useless enough;" Brian said when someone asked him why he had chosen me.
As the boy kicked the ball hard along the ground to my right, I threw myself down quickly and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were grazed and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.
"Do you want to join my gang (team)?" he said.
At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.
小題1: The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT "__________".
A.How old are you?
B.Where are you from?
C.Do you want to join my gang?
D.When did you come back to London?
小題2: We can learn from the passage that ___________________.
A.boys were usually unfriendly to new students
B.the writer was not greeted as he expected
C.Brian praised the writer for his cleverness
D.the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper
小題3:The underlined part "I didn't stand out" in paragraph 3 means that the writer was not ______.
A.noticeableB.nervous
C.importantD.outstanding
小題4:The writer was offered a handkerchief because _________________.
A.he was in Brian’s team
B.he was no longer a new comer
C.he was beginning to be accepted
D.he pushed a player on the other team

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C

試題分析: 文章主要講作者在新學(xué)校的第一天的生活,剛開始沒有人關(guān)注他,但是經(jīng)過努力,作者終于贏得了朋友并不再孤單的故事。
小題1:C。推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven't lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It's about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago?芍髡邷蕚浠卮痍P(guān)于年齡,出生地和居住地以及到倫敦的生活的時間等問題。故選C。
小題2:B。推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段和第二段I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say "hello", but no one spoke to me. 可知,作者準備了很多問題等待別人來問她,然而卻沒人關(guān)注他。故選B。
小題3:A。根據(jù)上下文猜測含義。根據(jù)第三段There were 42 boys in the class可知班上有42個男孩子。后文中作者回答出了別人不能回答的問題,說明作者還是比較聰明的。但是卻沒有人搭理他,說明作者不是很顯眼的。A. Noticeable顯眼的;值得注意的B. Nervous緊張的C. Important重要的D. Outstanding杰出的。故選A。
小題4:C。推理判斷題。根據(jù)第六段Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.和"Do you want to join my gang (team)?" he said.可知,見我受傷后,Brian拿出手絹替我包扎并要請我加入隊伍,說明作者被他們接受了。故選C。
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A.passedB.hadC.settledD.filled
小題20:
A.toB.inC.a(chǎn)gainstD.from

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