Question

 

Mr. Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living. When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak: to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once.

When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered, "I think we should try for 1,000 nights."

   Mr. Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights?! "I thought, we'll never do it," he recalled. "And then we got to 1,000, and we said, 'How can we stop?' "

For 3,218 nights (and some mornings, if Mr. Brozina was coming home too late to read). The Streak went on. It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare, continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college.

In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls. When Kristen was still in elementary school, her father went to Washington. "The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr. Brozina recalled. "She said, 'Dad, we forgot The Streak!' Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there."

This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan' University. She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak, an English major with a 3.94 average. She also won two national writing contests, was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award.

1.According to the passage, Mr. Brozina and his daughter read together for          .

A. 100 bedtimes                      B. 1000 nights                          C. over nine years                       D. nearly 3000 nights and some mornings

2.In the passage, the underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.

A. the period of time for reading together    B. me children's book                    C. the special night                      C. the school work

3.How has Kristen benefited from reading with her father?

A. She has grown closer to her father.      B. She has become a school librarian herself.  C. She has performed well at university.       D. She has won many reading awards.

4.This passage is about a father who _____.

A. is very strict in his work               B. enjoys reading when travelling          C. makes his daughter love reading       D. has a hard time bringing up his daughter

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.A

3.C

4.C