Alone in the wilderness. Nothing but jungle. A world of shadow with the rays of light falling like blonde hair from the crowns of the giant trees. Jungle in the midday sun. Everything motionless. Not a sound from sky or earth. Complete silence. Only some coconuts falling, at long intervals, very far away. The world reduced to the soft touch of cool grass along my naked back, and a sweet smell of rich soil and vegetation. Stretched out with closed eyes beside my heavy burden of fruit and firewood, I enjoyed the feeling of fresh blood streaming through every part of my body and fresh jungle air filling every corner of my lungs.
Resting motionless, I could see the sun through my closed eyelids, alone in the sky, as lonely as I, and as motionless and silent as everything else. The earth had surely stopped turning and somewhere on this planet there was supposed to be roaring traffic in busy streets. What a crazy, unbelievable thought!
Another coconut fell, to make the world come to a complete standstill. I had to roll over onto my stomach to feel that at least I could move and make noises. Then I found company. A little brown ant was struggling to find its way with a bit of dry straw through the jungle of leaves and grass below my nose. I wondered if I could give the little fellow a lift with its burden, but it showed not the slightest sign of tiredness and struggled on with all six legs, head first or head last, waving its feelers energetically as if the trip had just started. Who ever saw a tired ant? Tiredness, disagreeable tiredness, is restricted to hunted animals, slaves and modern man. It is as great an effort for an office clerk to walk five blocks with a loaded brief-case as it is for a jungle-dweller to cross a valley with a goat on his back. It is as hard to get up and climb or run when you have been seated for years as it is to get up and walk when you have been in bed for months. The body is strange. Spare it, and you get really tired for almost nothing; use it, and almost nothing makes you really tired.
I rose to my feet. I had heard a horse neighing down in the valley. Above me, on the open highland plains, there were wild horses. But down in the valley there was never a horse unless there was a man on it. Somebody was making his way up the valley and my wife was alone.
小題1:What’s the right order of the following events?
① I heard a horse neighing down in the valley.
② I went to the jungle.
③ I found an ant carrying a bit of dry straw.
④ I lay on the ground to have a break.
⑤ I picked fruits and chopped firewood.
A.②③⑤①④B.⑤③②④①C.②⑤④③①D.⑤④③②①
小題2:How does the author feel about the ant?
A.He admired its attitude toward work.
B.He was amazed at its tireless efforts.
C.He showed sympathy for the little ant.
D.He was content to have it as a companion.
小題3:It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the author would probably          .
A.work harder than beforeB.talk to the man on the horse
C.make his way homeD.stay in the valley
小題4:We can learn from the passage that the author          .
A.enjoyed being alone
B.experienced a world of quietness
C.missed his busy life in the city
D.had an unforgettable adventure

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:C
小題4:B

試題分析:作者在去樹林采摘水果、收集柴火后躺在樹林中休息,聽著森林中偶爾掉落的椰子,獨自感受著正午靜謐的世界,享受著思想和身體的放松。然而這時作者感到了一只螞蟻爬過,看著螞蟻的辛勤,作者不由自主得對螞蟻心生敬佩之情。
小題1:C細節(jié)理解題。作者在文章開頭采用倒序的手法描寫了自己在樹林中休息的情況,提到了自己身邊采摘的水果和柴火,由此判斷作者是先去灌木叢中勞動,然后才去休息,根據(jù)首尾定位法可知B、D選項錯誤,再根據(jù)文章末段察覺到有馬在山谷里奔跑的聲音判斷C為正確選項。
小題2:A 推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第三段作者對螞蟻的描述but it showed not the slightest sign of tiredness and struggled on with all six legs, head first or head last, waving its feelers energetically as if the trip had just started. 以及作者發(fā)出的感慨Who ever saw a tired ant?可以推斷作者非常敬佩螞蟻對工作的態(tài)度,選A。
小題3:C 推理判斷題。從文章第二段Stretched out with closed eyes beside my heavy burden of fruit and firewood,可知作者是勞動后在休息,再由文章末段Somebody was making his way up the valley and my wife was alone.可以推斷作者認為有人上山來了,而他妻子一人在家,所以出于對妻子安全的考慮,作者很可能會回家,答案選C。
小題4:B 推理判斷題。整篇文章的大量篇幅都是描寫周圍環(huán)境的靜謐,用感受到血液的流動以及對螞蟻的注意都襯托了這一點,故B選項內(nèi)容正確,其他選項在文中沒有涉及。
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“Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy – they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.” –– Jeff Bezos.
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately (最后), I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.
小題1:What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?
A.His dream of being an inventor.
B.The support of his wife.
C.The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.
D.Millions of exciting titles.
小題2:Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?
A.The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.
B.He would be very excited if he tried it out.
C.He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try.
D.The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.
小題3:We can know from the passage that _______.
A.the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author
B.the author wanted someone else to try the idea
C.the author might not regret if he failed the idea
D.the author might go back to his boss if he failed
小題4:Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Cleverness and KindnessB.The Starting of Amazon
C.Following My PassionD.We Are What We Choose

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