Question

【題目】

閱讀短文，完成下列各題，將正確答案的序號填入題前括號內(nèi)。（10分）

Do you know what the White House is? Perhaps some of you do, while others don’t.

The White House is a house in Washington D.C. The president of the USA works in it. It is really white. But do you know why the White House is white?

The story happened in 1812. That year England was at war (與……交戰(zhàn))with America; the British army (軍隊)got to Washington and set the president’s house on fire.

In 1814, in order to hide the marks of the fire, the stone walls of the president’s house were painted white and it has been the “White House” ever since.

( ) ⑴The White House is______.

A.a house for the president of the USA

B.a house for American people

C.a house for American soldiers

D.one of the American museums

( ) ⑵In______American people painted the president’s house white.

A.1810 B.1812 C.1814 D.1816

( ) ⑶The house is called“White House” because______.

A.the house is very clean

B.the stone walls of the house are white

C.the American people like white colour

D.it is covered with snow

( ) ⑷In the passage “set...on fire” means “______”in Chinese.

A. 放火燒 B. 解雇 C. 開火 D.把……放在火上

( ) ⑸The Chinese for“the White House” is“______”

A.白房 B.白殿 C.懷特豪斯 D.白宮

Answer 1

【答案】⑴A；⑵C；⑶B；⑷A；⑸D

【解析】

思路分析：本題應(yīng)該先整體的通讀文段，然后再通讀試題問題題干，根據(jù)具體題干從文章中得出答案。

名師解析：

⑴題干問題是白宮是……，從第二行第二句The president of the USA works in it.美國的總統(tǒng)在里面工作�？芍�答案是A。

⑵題干問題是在……年美國人民把白宮涂成了白色，從倒數(shù)第一段In 1814，in order to hide the marks of the fire, the stone walls of the president’s house were painted white and it has been the “White House” ever since.在1814年，為了蓋住火燒過的標(biāo)志，總統(tǒng)房子的石頭墻被涂成了白色，從那以后就叫白宮�？芍�答案是C。

⑶題干問題是這座房子被叫做白宮是因為……，從倒數(shù)第一段In 1814, in order to hide the marks of the fire, the stone walls of the president’s house were painted white and it has been the “White House” ever since.在1814年，為了蓋住火燒過的標(biāo)志，總統(tǒng)房子的石頭墻被涂成了白色，從那以后就叫白宮。可知答案是B。

⑷題干問題是在文章里面set...on fire意思是……，set...on fire意思是放火燒，所以答案是A。

⑸題干問題是the White House的漢語意思是……，the White House的意思是白宮。可知答案是D。