内容正文:
选择性必修 第一册
第一部分 听力 (略)
第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节, 满分
40
分)
第一节 (共
15
小题; 每小题
2
分, 满分
30
分)
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的
A
、
B
、
C
和
D
四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。
A
Car Talk
When I got the driving license last summer, Mom and I took our first trip around an empty
parking lot. Then I found that my mother was not the best teacher for me. It wasn蒺t that she
shouted, or told me that I was doing poorly . As you can imagine, my mother蒺s
“
helpful
instructions
”
only managed to make me more nervous.
Since I could no longer practice with her, the job was placed in the hands of my father. I
loved him dearly, but I just did not regard Dad as someone I could be comfortable learning
from. He almost never talked. We shared a typical father-daughter relationship. He蒺d ask how
school was, and I蒺d say it was fine. Unfortunately, that was the most of our conversations.
Spending hours alone with someone who might as well have been a stranger really scared me.
As we got into the car that first time, I was not surprised at what happened. Dad and I
drove around, saying almost nothing but a few instructions on how to turn. As my lessons went
on, however, things began to change. Dad would turn the radio up so I could fully appreciate his
favorite Stones music. And he actually began talking. I was soon hearing about
“
basic body
”
gym class and other stories from his past, including some of his first meeting with Mom.
Dad蒺s sudden chattiness was shocking until I thought about why he was telling me so much
in the car. In all the years that I had wondered why my father never spoke that much, I had
never stopped to consider that it was because I had never bothered to listen. Homework, friends,
and even TV had all called me away from him and I had never thought my quiet father had
anything to say.
Since I began driving with