Question

 My favourite English teacher could draw humour out of the driest material. It wasn’t forced on us either. He took Samuel Johnson’s dictionary,Addison’s essays,and many other literary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them hilarious,even at eight o’clock in the morning. The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own,some of them seemed dead,but the second time,after his explanation,I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t seen the humour. The stories and poems and plays were suddenly filled with allusions (典故) and irony and hilarious moments. I learned more from him than from any other teacher.

  My least favourite English teacher also made people laugh. Some students found him to be wonderfully funny. Many others did not. He assigned journals over a six-week period,to be written every day. At the end of the six weeks I had a notebook full of bits and pieces about my ideas,short stories,reactions to what we had read,and so on.   Our teacher announced that we would be grading each other’s journals. Mine was passed to Joe,that class clown,who always behaved in a funny or silly way. He saw it fit to make a joke of and said, “This writing isn’t fit to line the bottom of a birdcage. ” Our teacher laughed at that funny remark. It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since.

  So what makes the difference? Humour is one of the most powerful tools teachers or writers have. It can build up students and classes and make them excited about literature and writing,or it can tear them apart. It is true that humour is either productive or counter-productive and self-defeating.

(   ) 1. The passage mainly discusses        .

   A. teaching   B. literature

   C. humour   D. knowledge

(   ) 2. The underlined word “hilarious” in Paragraph 1

probably means “________”.

   A. funny   B. tiring

   C. inspiring   D. brilliant

(   ) 3. With his favourite English teacher,the writer found it most amazing that________.

   A. his teacher was very learned

   B. his teacher was very humorous

   C. the works by Johnson and Addison were very humorous

   D. few were able to find humour in works by Johnson and others

(   ) 4. The English teacher the writer disliked most        .

   A. was not able to make students laugh

   B. hurt his students’ feelings

   C. didn’t let his students do the grading

   D. had no sense of humour

Answer 1

[文章大意]本文敘述了英語老師能從一些干癟的材料中找出幽默。一些小說、詩和劇本經(jīng)過老師解釋，學(xué)生能夠讀出其中的幽默之處。幽默對(duì)于老師或作家是最有力的工具之一。

1. C主旨大意題。本文作者寫了自己最喜歡的英語老師和最不喜歡的英語老師所表達(dá)的不同的幽默，一位讓他很喜歡，一位讓他不喜歡。故c正確。

2. A詞義猜測題。根據(jù)"My favourite English teacher could draw humour out of the driest material. It wasn't forced on us either."可知這里敘述英語老師能從干癟的材料中找出幽默，后面是舉例，所以猜出這個(gè)詞是"滑稽的，可笑的"之意，故選A.

3. C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段提到"He took Samuel Johnson's dictionary,Addison's essays,and many other liter?ary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them hi?larious even at eight o'clock in the morning. The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own,some of them seemed dead,but the second time) af?ter his explanation,I couldn't believe that I hadn't seen the humour."可知Johnson's dictionary,Addison's essays是非常幽默的，故選C項(xiàng)。

4. B推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段最后一句"It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since."可知，這位英語老師的話傷害了作者的感情，故選B項(xiàng)。