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课时作业(三十三) UNIT 2 ICONIC ATTRACTIONS
一、阅读理解
(2022·浙江宁波五校高三适应性考试)When I reached inside the floorboard, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was an old and small book: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. I wondered whom the quotations (引语) were supposed to be familiar to. What I did know, thanks to Ms. Rattray, my seventhgrade teacher, was the correct way to use quotation marks. I decided to see what was inside this little book.
On the top corners of each page was a word or phrase, I opened it to “comfort and despair” and then “doubt” and “light”. I'd never thought about “light” any other way except as a lamp or daylight. It turned out that Mr. Bartlett didn't feel all these emotions himself. He had gathered up quotations from thousands of other people.
I was relieved to discover that those people were not afraid to express what they thought, including the fears and that they had so many thoughts about things that troubled me. Before this, I was lonely and I didn't know whom talk to about the world and my role in it.
In ninth grade, I worked as an assistant at our local library. I often hid in the corner, where no one would see me, and I would read. It was at this library that I realized how some of those emotions I'd felt while reading Bartlett's Familiar Quotations came to life in the characters I had started discovering in novels.
I have bought a few of the newer editions, but the original one is the one that helped me explore my inner self and see more than young mind and heart were able to understand.
[语篇解读] 本文是一篇记叙文。作者碰巧发现一本名字叫Bartlett's Familiar Quotations的书,作者发现这本书里收集了成千上万人的引语。作者在九年级时,生动地理解了里面人物的感情。
1.How might the author feel when he found the book by chance?
A.Curious. B.Familiar.
C.Thankful. D.Puzzled
A 解析:推理判断题。根据第一段中“I pulled it out. It was an old and small book: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. I wondered whom the quotations were supposed to be familiar to.(我把它拿出来。那是一本又旧又小的书:《巴特利特熟悉语录》。我想知道这些引文应该是谁熟悉的。)”由此可知,当作者偶然发现这本书时,他觉得“好