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专题04 阅读理解(2015-2016)
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“You can have the same neighbors for years.” the old man said. “You love them , or you think you love them . And you hope they love you. But do you ever really understand them?”
Charlie Kemp and his family lived next door to me for fifteen years. We were good friends for all that time. I enjoy friendship—I’m sure it’s the best thing in the world. And friendship with the Kemps was easy , because they seemed to welcome it.
They were interesting and clever people, but they were always in some sort of trouble. It was usually illness or accident, but there were other things too .For example their house caught fire twice, and twice the whole family slept in mine. They were always losing things—money, keys, a watch, a camera. Pictures fell off the walls; the children fell out of bed … I used to wake in the morning and think: “what will happen?”
I was their neighbor and their friend. Life was always interesting, never dull. Best of all, I liked the whole family.
One day I made a fire in my garden and was burning some rubbish. After a time Charlie Kemp came out of his house and walked up the road. “Morning Charlie,” I said, “Lovely day, isn’t it?” He smiled and nodded. I went on with my work.
Twenty minutes later a policeman arrived. He walked into my garden and said: “You’ll have to put out that fire. Your neighbor has complained to us. He doesn’t like the smell”. “My neighbor….?” I said. “Yes.” The policeman took out his notebook and asked. Charlie Kemp, He lives next door, doesn’t he?”
1. In the passage, the old man talked a lot about______。
A. his new friend B. his old neighbor
C. his warning from the police D. his trouble with gardening
2. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 suggests that the Kemps______。
A. hated the smell of burning leaves
B. ere interesting and clever people
C. enjoyed greeting the old man every morning
D. needed and never refused the old man’s help
3. It can be seen from Paragraph 3 that the Kemps wer