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How to Become Cleverer
Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer, because his mother always called him “foolish boy”.
“That’s easy,” answered the fisherman. “I know one way to make you become cleverer.”
“Really?”
“Of course. It is said a fish head is good for brain. If you eat one, you’ll become cleverer indeed. Pay only three pounds for one fish head.” The boy paid him three pounds and the fisherman cut off a fish head and handed it to him.
A raw fish head is not good—not even for a hungry boy to eat but the boy ate it up in two gulps.
“Do you feel anything?” asked the fisherman.
“Not in my head,” said the boy.
The boy lay on the ground and thought. “One whole fish costs only two pounds. I had paid him three pounds for the fish head. Why couldn’t I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” He jumped up and shouted at the fisherman. “You thief! You are fooling me!” The fisherman laughed, saying, “The fish head works now, you see.”
小題1:The boy ate up the raw fish head only in two gulps, because he __________.
A．enjoy it
B．wanted to taste it
C．took it as a good medicine
D．was a foolish boy
小題2:The boy came to the fisherman in order to __________.
A．buy a fish head
B．ask the fisherman a question
C．become cleverer
D．A and C
小題3:“Not in my head” means “__________”.
A．The fish head was not in the boy’s head
B．The boy felt nothing came into his head
C．It’s difficult to give an answer right away
D．The boy didn’t feel that he was cleverer
小題4:The boy paid three pounds. He should have had __________.
A．a whole fish
B．a fish head and one pound back
C．a whole fish and one pound back
D．a whole fish, a fish head and one pound back
小題5:__________ helped the boy become cleverer.
A．A good mealB．The raw fish head
C．NothingD．What had happened

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:C
小題5:C

試題分析：本文敘述了一個男孩因為媽媽經常說他“傻孩子”，所以去問漁夫怎樣才能變聰明。漁夫說吃魚頭可以變聰明，他就花了三英鎊買了個魚頭，兩口吞下了。之后，他感覺自己上當了。
小題1:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“It is said a fish head is good for brain. If you eat one, you’ll become cleverer indeed.”漁夫說魚頭對腦子好，吃了會變聰明�？芍泻煽谕滔卖~頭，是因為他把魚頭當成能變聰明的良藥了。故答案選C。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一句“Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer，”可知男孩來找漁夫是為了問他怎樣能變聰明。至于買魚頭，是后來漁夫讓他買的。故答案選B。
小題3:詞義猜測題。根據(jù)上下文，漁夫說吃魚頭能變聰明，所以他就吃了。吃完后，漁夫問有什么感覺，他回答“Not in my head” ，所以詞句意思應該是“男孩沒感覺自己變聰明”。故答案選D。
小題4:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“Why couldn’t I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” 可知，男孩花費三英鎊可以買到一整條魚還能找回一英鎊。故選C。
小題5:推理題。根據(jù)文章中男孩吃魚前后的情況，可知并沒有什么幫男孩變得更聰明，他本來就不傻。故答案選C。
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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Something that has always interested me about Abraham Lincoln is，not surprisingly，his sense of humor. As far as I can tell，he's the first American President to have one．
That's because the term“sense of humor” really wasn't in common usage until the eighteen-sixties and seventies．In the eighteen-forties and fifties，it was called“the sense of the ridiculous," and didn't have the positive connotations（隱含意義）that“sense of humor" has today. Back then，what was ridiculous was what invited ridicule（譏笑）．Funniness and cruelty went hand in hand．Of course，they still do a lot of arm-in-arm walking in our day as well．
Lincoln’s humor was very different because，for one thing，it was actually "humor＂as what the word meant in his time. We don't make the distinction between "wit（風趣）”and "humor”anymore; but in the nineteenth century people did．Wit was unpleasant and offensive while humor was pleasant and sympathetic．It’s the difference we note now when we distinguish between "laughing with”and“l(fā)aughing at．”Lincoln was much more about "laughing with”than "laughing at．”And when“l(fā)aughing at，”it was often himself he was teasing.
In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates，when Douglas accused Lincoln of being two-faced，Lincoln replied，referencing his plain looking，“Honestly，if I were two-faced，would I be showing you this one？”And，in a way，Lincoln's face itself tells us much about his sense of humor．
You can comb through thousands of photographs of politicians，soldiers，and the like from Lincoln's time and not find a single smile．
True, the long exposures（曝光）required for photographs of that time made smiling difficult．Yet Lincoln alone，as far as I can tell，overcame that difficulty.
Interestingly, while having a sense of humor，or at least the appearance of one provided by comedy writers has become a necessary characteristic for an American President in our time，in the nineteenth century，too much humor was considered problem.  And that was the case for Lincoln．A journalist covering the Lincoln-Douglas debates commented that“I could not take a real personal liking to the man，owing to an inborn weakness. . .that he was extremely, fond of jokes，anecdotes，and stories．”
小題1:We can infer from Paragraph 2 that＿＿
A．the American President could influence the use of English
B．the term "sense of humor”wasn't invented until the 1860s
C．what is funny to someone might be offensive to someone else
D．the concept of humor remains the same despite the passing of time
小題2:The underlined words“this one”in Paragraph 4 refer to＿＿．
A．Lincoln's unattractive face
B．Lincoln's sense of humor
C．the debate they were having
D．cruelty that went with funniness
小題3:We rarely see people from Lincoln's time wear smile in their photos because＿．
A．being humorous was considered inappropriate
B．they found it quite funny to smile before camera
C．not smiling for photographs was the fashion
D．photography technology then was not advanced
小題4:What might the writer think of the journalist covering the Lincoln-Douglas debates？
A．His comment accurately reflected his time
B．He created a false picture of Lincoln
C．He was prejudiced and self-centered
D．He was brave to point out Lincoln's weakness

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