Children are very, very observant and have excellent memories.
Around Christmas last year, we were heading to Grandma’s house. The drive was an hour long, so we had plenty of time to chat. We were waiting to get onto the freeway when my daughter Hayley noticed a homeless man, no sign in hand. “Mom, is that man homeless?” I told her I believed he was.
We got onto the freeway and drove away. But the chatting had stopped. Hayley was quiet all the way there. We spent a few hours at Grandma’s then packed up to head home. As we drove back, Hayley rustled(沙沙作響地移動) around in her seat, trying to reach something on the floor of the car. I asked her to sit still, worried her seatbelt would slip from the booster seat. She mumbled(咕噥)something and sat back.
“Mom, will the homeless man still be outside tonight?” I told her I was not sure, maybe. It was a freezing night, and I started to think of the man now too, and how cold he must be.
All of a sudden, as we got onto the freeway exit, Haley shrieked (尖叫): “There he is! There he is!” and started rolling down her window. “Mom, I found these gloves and scarf back here. Can I give them to him? Can I?” she asked.
I pulled over to the edge of the road, and beckoned(招手示意) the man to come over. Haley smiled at him and handed him her gift. I looked in the front passenger seat, loaded with leftovers from Grandma’s house, and handed those out to him as well.
The man thanked us, he clutched (抓緊) my hand in his and I could feel the bitter cold of them. We wished him a safe night and continued on our journey to our warm home.
“Haley, that was very sweet of you!” I told her. “Well, they were your gloves and scarf, Mom, but his hands looked colder, and he has to keep looking for his house!”
We had talked about homelessness before , and I could hear myself telling her: “Someone who has lost their home.” She had taken my words literally and thought the man’s home was like a lost puppy.
On the ride home, and as I carried my sleeping angel into the house that night, my heart filled with gratitude.
【小題1】The underlined word “observant” in Paragraph I means “      ”.

A．fond of serving othersB．quick at noticing things
C．good at memorizingD．easy to be pleased
【小題2】The girl thought “a homeless person” was a person who       .
A．had no home to go to
B．had lost his or her puppy
C．was in need of gloves and scarves
D．couldn’t find his or her home
【小題3】The mother felt thankful because        .
A．she felt lucky to have such a warm-hearted daughter
B．she was pleased that she had a great family
C．she felt happy to have given the leftovers to the man
D．they had arrived home safely despite the cold
【小題4】The article is mainly structured around        .
A．a(chǎn)nalysisB．comparison C．time orderD．cause and result


【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】C

解析試題分析：本文敘述了作者帶著女兒開車回家，在路上他們看見了一位無家可歸的男士，女兒主動把媽媽的手套和圍巾送給了這個男士，作者又把從家?guī)淼氖ｏ埥o了他，他很感激，作者也因有這么有愛心的女兒而感到很驕傲。
【小題1】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)詞根observe觀察，可推知，善于觀察的，機(jī)警的，故選B。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)he has to keep looking for his house 可知指無家可歸的人，故選D。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)as I carried my sleeping angel into the house that night, my heart filled with gratitude.她感到很幸運(yùn)有這樣一位熱心的女兒，故選A。
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。縱觀全文這是按時間的先后而寫的，故選C。
考點(diǎn)：故事類短文閱讀。
點(diǎn)評：詞義猜測題旨在考查學(xué)生根據(jù)上下文對生詞做出理解判斷的能力。近幾年來，閱讀理解中的詞義猜測題呈上升趨勢。在閱讀過程中根據(jù)選材、背景、及上下文等線索推測出生詞詞義是真實(shí)語言活動中的重要技巧。這一能力可以說是體現(xiàn)閱讀理解能力的一項(xiàng)重要指標(biāo)。

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