“I wish you a good day, Uncle,” said Dete, as she walked towards him, “and I have brought you Tobias and Adelaide’s child. You will hardly recognize her, as you have never seen her since she was one year old.” Hearing that the old man asked curtly. “But what has the child to do with me up here?” Dete made answer, “The child is here to stay with you. I have done my duty for these four years, and I have to go because the family I had waited on asked me to go to Frankfurt. You are the next of kin (亲属) to the child.”
As she uttered her last words, Uncle looked at her and said to her in a commanding voice, “Get back, and do not let me see your face again.” Dete did not wait to be told twice. “Good-bye to you then, and to you too, Heidi,” she called.
As soon as Dete had disappeared, the old man went back to his bench. Heidi, meanwhile, was enjoying herself in her new surroundings.
“Come!” and the grandfather went before her towards the hut.
“Bring your clothes in with you,” he asked her as she was following. “I shan’t want them any more” was her prompt answer. The old man turned and looked searchingly at the child, whose dark eyes were sparkling in delighted anticipation of what she was going to see inside. “She is certainly not wanting wisdom,” he murmured to himself. “And why shall you not want them any more?” he asked aloud. “Because I want to go about like the goats with their thin light legs.” Heidi asked, “Where am I to sleep, grandfather?”
“Wherever you like,” he answered.
Heidi was delighted. In the corner near her grandfather’s bed she saw a short ladder against the wall; up she climbed and found herself in the hay loft. “I shall sleep up here, grandfather,” she called down to him, “It’s lovely, up here. Come up and see how lovely it is!”
“Oh, I know all about it,” he called up in answer.
In the middle of the night the old man got up. “The child will be frightened,” he murmured. He mounted the ladder and went and stood by the child’s bed. Outside the moonlight was falling through the round window straight on to Heidi’s bed. She lay under the heavy cover lid, her cheeks rosy with sleep, her head peacefully resting on her little round arm, and with a happy expression on her baby face as if dreaming of something pleasant. The old man stood looking down on the sleeping child until the moon disappeared behind the clouds and he could see no more, then he went back to bed.
—Excerpt from Heidi, written by Johanna Spyri
【小题1】Why did Dete leave Heidi with the old man?A.Because Dete was the next of kin to Heidi. | B.Because Dete got a new job out of town. |
C.Because Dete didn’t love Heidi any more. | D.Because Dete wanted to give him a surprise. |
A.Heidi had the habit of unthinking. |
B.The old man thought Heidi was wise, |
C.Heidi got used to the life with the old man. |
D.The old man was worried about Heidi’s health. |
A.The new environment made Heidi feel very frightened. |
B.The old man looked after Heidi through the whole night. |
C.Heidi was an animal-lover and wanted to play with goats. |
D.Heidi felt peaceful and delighted when living with the old man. |
A. | B. | C. | D. |
One summer he got a job in a butcher's(肉铺) during the daytime and the other in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learned to cut and sell meat. He did so well that the butcher often left him to do all the things while the butcher went into a room behind the shop to do the accounts(账目). In the hospital, of course, Nick was told to do only the easiest job. He helped to lift people and carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both in the butcher's shop and in the hospital, Nick had to wear white clothes.
One evening in the hospital, Nick had to help to carry a woman from her bed to the operating-room. The woman was afraid of the operation. When she saw Nick, she cried, "No! No! Not the butcher! I won't let the butcher operate on me!" With these words, she fainted(昏倒).
【小题1】Nick had to work after school and during his holidays because_______.
A.his father told him to make more friends |
B.he wanted to become a rich man |
C.he couldn't go on with his studies without enough money |
D.he had nothing to do at home |
A.wanted to become not only a butcher but also a doctor |
B.got two different jobs at two places |
C.worked only at night |
D.worked only during the daytime |
A.take care of the sick people |
B.give the doctors advice |
C.find out what was wrong with the sick people |
D.carry the sick people from one place to another |
A.手术 | B.合作 | C.手术刀 | D.手术室 |
A.she was so afraid that she fainted |
B.she was too tired |
C.she was very sad |
D.she was quite happy |
The Taj Mahal is a love story, a sad and beautiful one.
The building itself stands on a marble platform 29 meters square and 6-7 meters high.
The emperor planned to build the same tomb (坟墓)of black marble for himself.
A.It sets on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge. |
B.He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne. |
C.If it didn't exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale. |
D.Towers rise from each of the four corners. |
E.He organized the best artists and architects(建筑师) from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was complete. |
My father was German, but he worked in England. He married my mother, who was English. Her family name was Robinson, so when I was born in 1632 in England, they called me Robinson, after her.
My father did well in his business and I went to a good school. He wanted me to get a good job, and live a quiet, pleasant life. But I wanted adventure and an exciting life.
“I want to be a sailor and go to sea”, I told my mother and father. They were very unhappy about this.
“Please don’t go.” my father said, “You won’t be happy you know. Sailors have a difficult and dangerous life.” And because I loved him, and he was unhappy, I tried to forget about the sea.
But I couldn’t forget, and about a year later, I saw a friend in town. His father had a ship and my friend said to me, “We are sailing to London tomorrow. Why don’t you go with us?”
On September 1, 1651, I went to Hull and the next day we sailed for London.
But, a few days later, there was a strong wind. The sea was rough and dangerous, and the ship went up and down, up and down. I was very ill, and was very afraid.
“Oh, I don’t want to die!” I cried, “I want to live! If I live, I will go home and never go to sea again!”
The next day the wind stopped, and the sea was quiet and beautiful again.
“Well, Robinson,” my friend laughed, “How do you feel now? The wind wasn’t too bad.”
“What!” I cried. “It was a terrible storm.”
“Oh, that wasn’t a storm,” my friend answered, “Just a little wind. Forget it, come and have a drink.”
After a few drinks with my friend, I felt better. I forgot about the danger, and made up my mind not to go home. I didn’t want my friend and family to laugh at me!
I stayed in London for some time, but I still wanted to go to the sea. So, when the captain of a ship asked me to go with him to Guinea in Africa, I agreed. And so I went to the sea for the second time.
It was a good ship, and everything went well at first, but I was very ill again. Then when we were near the Canary Islands, a Turkish pirate (海盗) ship came after us. They were famous thieves of the sea at that time. There was a long, hard fight, but when it finished, we and the ship were prisoners. The Turkish captain and his men took us to Sallee in Morocco. They wanted to sell us as slaves (奴隶) in the market. But in the end, the Turkish captain decided to keep me for himself, and took me home with him. This was a sudden and terrible change in my life.
【小题1】Robinson wanted to forget about the sea at the beginning because he _______.A.had no money to own a ship | B.hoped to get a good job |
C.wanted to make his parents happy | D.hated to live a dangerous life |
a. Robinson drank with his friend.
b. A long and hard fight happened.
c. The Turkish captain took Robinson home.
d. A captain asked Robinson to go with him to Guinea.
e. One of Robinson’s friends invited him to sail to London.
A.e-a-d-b-c | B.d-a-e-b-c | C.a-c-b-e-d | D.d-c-a-b-e |
A.Everything was fine. | B.The sea was quiet all the time. |
C.The wind was weak. | D.Sea life was dangerous at times. |
A.wanted to serve the Turkish | B.lived happily with the Turkish captain |
C.became a slave to the Turkish captain | D.made friends with the Turkish captain |
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