Question

One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about that."  and it is even harder to say, "I was wrong? and you were right about that.

I had an experience recently with someone admit?ting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighbourhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons (箱子).Then he related an incident and I began to remember clearly the incident he was describing.

I was about eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly-grocery shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the dairy food department where the incident took place.

There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were stacked three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together, so I went to work.

The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting (examining) some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the criminal. He severely scolded me and wanted me to pay for all the broken eggs. I protes?ted my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the inci?dent, obviously the manager did not.

1.    The author was       when he wrote this article.

A. about 8      B. about 18

C. about 23     D. about 15

2.    Who was to blame for knocking off the stacks of car?tons?

A. The author. B. The manager.

C. The woman.      D. The author's mother.

3.    When the manager scolded him the author   .

A.    was frightened and cried

B.    tried to explain

C.    did not say anything

D.    felt the manager was right

4.    It can be inferred that the author .

A.    regrets arguing with the manager for what he didn't do

B.    would like to tell people never to be fooled by an egg sale

C.    has forgiven the manager for what he did to him fifteen years ago

D.    expects the woman to say sorry to him for the mistake she made

Answer 1

【文章大意】有時候向別人認(rèn)錯是一件極為困難的事，但有一個人為他在15年前犯的錯向"我"道歉，15年前到底發(fā)生什么事了呢？

C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段的第一句"I had an experi-ence recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago."和第三段的第~^句"1 was about eight years old at the time..."可知，一個人向"我"承認(rèn)他在15 年前犯的錯誤，而當(dāng)時"我"大概8歲，故作者現(xiàn)在大概有（8 + 15 = )23歲，故選C項。

C 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段中"Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of car-tons."可知，實際上是一位推車的女士撞倒了（裝雞蛋的）紙箱堆，所以這位女士應(yīng)當(dāng)受到責(zé)備。故選C項。

B 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后一段中"He severely scolded me and wanted me to pay for all the broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good.，，可知， 在被冤枉時，"我"盡力地去解釋，故選B項。

C推理判斷題。文章開始已表明，作者認(rèn)為向別人認(rèn)錯、道歉有時是非常困難的。故可以推知，在15年后，當(dāng)初冤枉他的人們向他道歉時，他就原諒他了。故選C項。