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Test 23
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阅读理解第 部分一
第一节 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C 和 D) 中,选出最佳选项。
A
My father had returned from his business visit to London when I came in, rather late, to supper.
I could tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-
serious way I knew so well, he said, “How would you like to go to Eton?”
“You bet,” I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expensive, the
most famous of schools. You had to be entered at birth, if not before. Besides, even at 12 or 13, I,
understood my father. He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life,
which was in the middle of the middle class; our house was medium-sized; he had avoided joining
Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand
Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he felt embarrassed driving it, and quickly changed it for an
Austin 1100.
This could only be his delightful way of telling me that the whole boarding school idea was to be
dropped. Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone
else, if it did not confl ict with his fear of drawing attention to himself.
It seemed that he had happened to be talking to Graham Brown of the London offi ce, a very nice
fellow, and Craham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that
part of the world he thought he might just as well phone them. I remember my eyes stinging and my
hands shaking with the puzzlement of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness.
“Oh, he doesn’t want to go away,” said my mother. “You shouldn’t go on like this.” “It’s up to
him,” said my father. “He can make up his own mind.”
( ) 1. How did the author react to the idea of going to Eton?
A. He didn’t believe it. B. He was very unhappy.
C. He was delighted. D. He had mixed feelings.
( ) 2. From the text, we can know that Eton