Question

When I was at University I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing than working in the library.

Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “True” or “False”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll just toss（擲）the coin to decide the answers. That way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.”

The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.

    The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. “Oh, good,” he said to the teacher, “Have you got the result of the test?” The teacher reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

“I’m terribly sorry, Fred,” he said, “You failed!”

1.This story mainly wants to tell us           .

A. chemistry is really hard to learn            

B. there are many questions for students to prepare.

C. good exam results really need studying hard              

D. tossing a coin can not always decide the result

2.Fred Baines was one of those who          .

A. did just enough to pass an exam         

B. didn’t work hard enough for their studies

C. had more important work to do than study 

D. were quite good at passing exams

3. Fred came happily into the exam room because           .

A. he had got ready for the exam           

B. he knew the answers already

C. one excellent student would help him     

D. he had his special way to finish the exam

4.Which of the following about the chemistry exam is TRUE?

A.The chemisty exam was not very difficult at all.    

B. It in fact took an hour to finish the chemisty exam

C. The chemisty exam had more than one hundred questions.        

D. The chemisty exam needed to be done by tossing a coin.

5.The professor tossed a coin to tell Baines that          .

A. he was satisfied with Baines’ way for the exam 

B. he wanted to make friends with Baines

C. Baines’ way for the exam would never work   

D. the exam result depended on the coin

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.B

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：在大學(xué)里，很多學(xué)生只是為了考及格而學(xué)習(xí)，也有些學(xué)生根本不學(xué)習(xí)，F(xiàn)red就是其中之一。在一次考試前發(fā)愁的Fred想出一個(gè)用擲硬幣來決定答案的辦法，考完后的Fred遇到教授后詢問考試成績(jī)，教授也用擲硬幣的方法決定了Fred成績(jī)不及格。

1.B推理判斷題。作者在文中講述了上大學(xué)時(shí)的一個(gè)同學(xué)，平時(shí)不學(xué)習(xí)，考試時(shí)慌了手腳，所以故事主要告訴我們的是學(xué)生們?cè)谄綍r(shí)應(yīng)該好好做功課，考試時(shí)才會(huì)從容不迫，答案選B。

2.C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)首段末句Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time playing than working in the library.可知Fred是根據(jù)不學(xué)習(xí)的學(xué)生，答案選C。

3.A推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段Fred說的話可知他想好了如何應(yīng)對(duì)考試，所以他認(rèn)為自己準(zhǔn)備充分了，答案選A。

4.B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.可知考試時(shí)間應(yīng)該是一個(gè)小時(shí)，答案選B。

5.D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)故事內(nèi)容可知教授是想懲罰Fred，所以也用擲硬幣的方法來決定Fred的考試成績(jī)，答案選D。

考點(diǎn)：考查故事類短文閱讀。