Joseph Rudyard Kipling, who enjoyed early success with his poems, was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, India. Some of Kipling’s earliest and fondest memories are of his and sister Alice’s trips to the fruit market with their woman servant, or walking with his parents alongside the sea at night.
The beautiful days were to end when in 1871 Rudyard and Alice were sent to school in Southsea, England, to live with Captain Holloway and his wife. She ruled the boarding house with punishment and Kipling was often beaten by her and her son. “Then the old Captain died, and I was sorry, for he was the only person in that house as far as I can remember who ever threw me a kind word.” So he wrote in his later books. Kipling soon learned to read and found comfort in literature and poetry.
Freedom from the Holloway household was gained when he spent one month a year in London with his mother’s kind sister Aunt Georgie and her husband, pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne Jones and their children. Those months of December were a really paradise to Kipling.
In 1877 Kipling’s mother returned to England and collected him so that he could attend the United Services College in Devon. Now he was able to settle into the life of a student and in his second year started writing his own Schoolboy Lyric poems printed by his parents. In 1878 his father took him to the Paris Exhibition where he was allowed to wander freely and gained much appreciation for French culture which he wrote about in “Souvenirs of France”.
小題1: Kipling first left his parents in __________.
A．1865B．1871C．1877D．1878
小題2: Kipling fell in love with literature and poetry __________.
A．before the old Holloway died
B．when he was a little boy with his parents
C．when he attended the United Services College
D．when he was in school, living with the Holloways
小題3: From the underlined sentence in paragraph 3 we learn that __________.
A．he felt free and happy with his aunt’s family
B．he felt terrible when he stayed with the old Captain
C．the death of the old captain influenced him a lot
D．the days at his aunt’s helped him become a successful poet

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:A

試題分析：Joseph Rudyard Kipling(吉卜林)的詩(shī)取得了初步的成功。他于1865年的12月出生在印度的孟買(mǎi)。他的童年很快樂(lè)，1871年他和妹妹被送到英國(guó)的學(xué)校，與隊(duì)長(zhǎng)霍洛威和他的妻子生活。在那里他們經(jīng)常被毆打。那老隊(duì)長(zhǎng)對(duì)他還好一些，但是后來(lái)死了，于是吉卜林很快就學(xué)會(huì)了閱讀并在文學(xué)和詩(shī)歌中找到慰藉。對(duì)吉卜林而言，和姨媽一家在一起的那些個(gè)十二月就像天堂般的日子。1877，吉卜林的母親回到英國(guó)，他收集以便他能去德文郡的聯(lián)合服務(wù)學(xué)院。他能融入學(xué)生的生活，在第二年開(kāi)始寫(xiě)自己的男生的抒情詩(shī)由他的父母印刷。1878他父親帶他去巴黎展覽，使他得以自由馳騁，備受贊賞的法國(guó)文化，他把這些都寫(xiě)在了“法國(guó)回憶”一詩(shī)中。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的第一句話可知，在1871年，他離開(kāi)父母，去英國(guó)南海上學(xué)住在Holloway夫婦家中，選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。題干問(wèn)Kipling喜歡上文學(xué)和詩(shī)歌是在什么時(shí)候。根據(jù)第二段的最后一句話可知，Kipling在學(xué)校受到懲罰和毒打，只有Captain Holloway偶爾會(huì)說(shuō)一兩句好話。所以Kipling學(xué)會(huì)了讀書(shū)并從文學(xué)和詩(shī)歌中尋找安慰。故選D。
小題3:句意推測(cè)題。根據(jù)該段的描述，文中有kind一次提示，后有說(shuō)那些12月份對(duì)Kipling而言是天堂一般。與A（他覺(jué)得和他的姨媽一家在一起的日子很自由、快樂(lè)）。
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I'd been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tire. So I had to stop and get the tools to       the problem. It certainly wasn’t       doing this with a white shirt and suit on.
Nightfall was approaching. Suddenly a car pulled       from behind me. A man got out and offered to         me. Seeing his unpleasant appearance and tattoos(紋身)on his arm, I became        as thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind. But       I could say anything he had already begun to take the tools to change the       . While watching him I happened to look back at his car and noticed someone sitting in the passenger seat. This had        me. 
Then, without       , it began to rain. He suggested that I wait in his car because my car was unsafe. As the rain increased, getting us wet within seconds, I        agreed. When I settle into the back seat, a woman’s voice came from the front seat. “Are you all right?” She turned around to me. “Yes, I am.’’ I replied with much        when seeing an old woman there. It must be his Mom, I thought. To my      , the old woman was a neighbor of the man who was helping me. “Jeff insisted on stopping when he saw you      with the tire. ”“I am grateful for his help, ” I said. “Me, too!” she said with a smile. He helped drive her to see her husband twice a week in a nursing home. She also said that he       at the church and tutored disadvantaged students. 
The rain stopped and Jeff and I changed the tire. I tried to offer him money and of course he     it. It was shameful that I judged people by the way they       . As we shook hands I began to apologize for my     . He said, ‘‘I experience that same        often. People who look like me don’t do nice things. I        thought about changing the way. But then I saw this as a chance to make a       . So I’ll leave you with the same question I ask everyone who takes time to know me. If Jesus returned tomorrow and walked among us again, would you recognize Him by what He wore or by what He did?’’
小題1:
A．fixB． findC． makeD． avoid
小題2:
A．wiseB． usefulC． luckyD． easy
小題3:
A．onB． roundC． upD． out
小題4:
A．driveB． helpC． carryD． lift
小題5:
A．a(chǎn)stonishedB． disappointedC． frightenedD． discouraged
小題6:
A．a(chǎn)sB．beforeC． whenD． until
小題7:
A．shirtB． suitC． expressionD． tire
小題8:
A．concernedB． embarrassedC． discouragedD． puzzled
小題9:
A．knowingB． realizingC． warningD． waiting
小題10:
A．directlyB． happilyC． unwillinglyD． hurriedly
小題11:
A．fearB． reliefC． satisfactionD． excitement
小題12:
A．regretB． amusementC． delightD． surprise
小題13:
A．strugglingB． repairingC． fightingD． working
小題14:
A．volunteeredB． performedC． grewD． studied
小題15:
A．leftB． keptC． ignoredD． refused
小題16:
A．behavedB． lookedC． spokeD． thought
小題17:
A．selfishnessB． weaknessC． stupidityD．disability
小題18:
A．lifeB． reactionC． incidentD． change
小題19:
A．hardlyB． finallyC． actuallyD． probably
小題20:
A．comparisonB． startC． remarkD． point

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