Question

What Is a Boy?
Between the innocence of babyhood and the seriousness of manhood we find a delightful creature called a “boy”. Boys come in different sizes, weights, and colors, but all boys have the same belief: to enjoy every second of every minute of every hour of every day and to fill the air with noise until the adult males send them off to bed at night.
Boys are found everywhere –--  on top of, under, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around, or jumping to. Mothers spoil them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers love them, and God protects them. A boy is TRUTH with dirt on its face, BEAUTY with a cut on its finger, WISDOM with chocolate in its hair, and the HOPE of the future with a snake in its pocket.
When you are busy, a boy is a trouble-maker and a noise. When you want him to make a good impression, his brain turns to jelly or else he becomes a wild creature destroying the world and himself with it
A boy is a mixture – he has the stomach of a horse, the digestion (消化) of stones and sand, the energy of an atomic bomb, the curiosity of a cat, the imagination of a superman, the shyness of a sweet girl, the brave nature of a bull, the violence of a firecracker(鞭炮), but when you ask him to make something, he has five thumbs on each hand.
He likes ice cream, knives, saws, Christmas, comic books, woods, water (in its natural habitat), large animals, Dad, trains, Saturday mornings, and fire engines. He is not much for Sunday schools, company, schools, books without pictures, music lessons, neckties, barbers, girls, overcoats, adults, or bedtime.
Nobody else is so early to rise, or so late to supper. Nobody else gets so much fun out of trees, dogs, and breezes. Nobody else can put into one pocket a rusty knife, a half eaten apple, a three-feet rope, six cents and some unknown things.
A boy is a magical creature – he is your headache but when you come home at night with only destroyed pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words, “Hi, Dad!”
小題1:The whole passage is in a tone (語氣) of _________.

A．respect and harmony	B．humor and love
C．hope and expectation	D．confidence and imagination

小題2:What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence?

A．He has altogether five fingers.	B．He is slow, foolish and clumsy.
C．He becomes clever and smart.	D．He cuts his hand with a knife.

小題3:According to the writer, boys appreciate everything in the following except _________.

A．ice cream	B．comic books
C．Saturday mornings	D．Sunday schools

小題4:What does the writer feel about boys?

A．He feels curious about their noise.	B．He is tired of these creatures.
C．He is amazed by their naughtiness.	D．He feels unsafe staying with them.

Answer 1

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：本文通過幽默詼諧的筆調(diào)描述出男孩子的特質(zhì)。男孩子是什么樣子的。充滿著“頑皮勁”“淘氣勁”的感覺。
小題1:考查整體理解。通過快速閱讀文章不難看出文章的寫作方法和筆調(diào)是幽默和愛。
小題2:考查推理判斷。易錯題。只要具備閱讀技巧就能答對此題。答案在關(guān)鍵詞but之后，but之前講的是boy的長處，而but之后筆者筆鋒一轉(zhuǎn)，顯然是說男孩的弱點。
小題3:考查細節(jié)理解。從文章倒數(shù)第三段第二行He is not much for Sunday schools, company, schools,得知答案。
小題4:考查主旨大意。易誤選B。如果不知道be fed up with="be" tired of是“討厭”的意思，就很難排除B選項。從文章的最后一段A boy is a magical creature及其后面的解釋就能看出作者對男孩那種“頑皮勁”“淘氣勁”的感覺。
點評：本文通過幽默詼諧的筆調(diào)描述出男孩子的特質(zhì)。男孩子是什么樣子的。充滿著“頑皮勁”“淘氣勁”的感覺。本文層次不是很鮮明，敘述男孩生活的點點滴滴，娓娓道來，愛惜之情貫穿始終。集中考查推理題，對于考生在上下文中理解字里行間的能力要求較高。