Question

When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor if the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldn;t afford the operation because her family was poor.
Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic（閣樓）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Gainestown boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.
My father then set out to sell it. Eventfully, he foud himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.
My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But i doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
小題1:Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?

A．The girl’s mother.	B．The author’s father.
C．The girl.	D．The author.

小題2:Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?

A．O. Henry once worked in Houston.

B．O. Henry once stayed in Galveston.

C．O. Henry once moved to Des Moines.

D．O. Henry once taught at SMU.

小題3:The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means __________.

A．named

B．treated

C．proved

D．described

小題4:According to the text, why did the author’s father go to Des Moines?

A．To sell the O. Henry story.	B．To meet the author himself.
C．To talk with the O. Henry expert.	D．To give money to the girl.

Answer 1

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A

試題分析：文章大意：這是一位處于貧困中的母親在發(fā)現O.Henry書稿時沒有私藏，而是轉交給作者的父親，作者的父親讓專家鑒定后將書稿賣的錢如數給小女孩的母親，生病的孩子得救了。
小題1:A考查細節(jié)理解。根據第二段的She was cleaning out the attic（閣樓）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O.Henry”可知那位小女孩的母親一天打掃閣樓上發(fā)現布滿塵土的舊手稿，手稿上寫著O.Henry的簽名，故選A。
小題2:B 考查細節(jié)理解。根據第二段的My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O.Henry had once lived in Houston可知我父親從沒有聽說過這個故事，但是他知道O.Henry曾住在Houston，故選B。
小題3:C考查猜測詞義。根據前文作者的父親找到一位專家應是“證明”是O.Henry的作品。A命名；B對待；C證明；D描述。故選C。
小題4:A考查細節(jié)理解。根據最后一段的My father then set out to sell it我父親然后出發(fā)去把它賣掉，可知選A。