Question

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.?

Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.?

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.?

Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.?

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”?

The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

1.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

A.The Silent Woman on the Bus

B Friends of the Road

C. Going to Work by Bus

D. Different Kinds of Friendship

2.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

A. poor B. warm –hearted

C. cold D. silent

3.The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as ______.

A. keep B. set up

C. discover D. accept

4.The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

A. they both disabled people

B. they both liked bus travel

C. they both brought interest to the passengers

D. they both had some difficulty in expressing

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.B

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：文章主要講述了作者和他的妻子過(guò)去常常認(rèn)為要想與一些不知道名字的人成為真正的朋友是不太可能的事情，但是通過(guò)公交車(chē)上那位年輕的女人改變了作者的看法。

1. of the Road比較貼切這篇文章；A項(xiàng)的巴士車(chē)上的安靜女人，太片面；C項(xiàng)的坐巴士車(chē)去上班，文章沒(méi)有提到；D項(xiàng)不同種類(lèi)的友誼，如果說(shuō)是不同種類(lèi)的人更貼切一些。所以選B。

2. the silent woman who sits up front可知，這個(gè)女人很安靜，故D項(xiàng)排除；根據(jù)Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare可知，這個(gè)女人很窮，故A項(xiàng)排除；根據(jù)but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.可知這個(gè)女人是熱心腸的，排除B，故選C項(xiàng)。

3. many months, our only sadness lay in our inability無(wú)能無(wú)力 toestablish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus.由于在巴士車(chē)上，這個(gè)女人很沉默，所以作者和他的妻子都很悲哀的無(wú)能為力去跟這個(gè)坐在公交車(chē)前面的這個(gè)女人建立友誼。故我們可知?jiǎng)潤(rùn)M線的單詞含義為“建立，確立”。故B項(xiàng)正確。

4. learned the situation of a single mother with a disabled son who……可知，這個(gè)女人有一個(gè)殘疾的兒子；并根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二自然段的We don’t say what we want to say可知，他們不能說(shuō)他們想說(shuō)的話(huà)，所以他們都在表達(dá)上有困難。選D。

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