5.Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen is a story of fear and hope,loneliness and friendship.Ade and his mother live right at the top of a tower block.It can get a bit lonely up there,but Ade
loves to spend hours sitting at the window watching the whole city unfold down below.
Things are pretty quiet in the flat since his mother fell ill.She has stopped cooking meals and doing the housework and singing the songs she always used to sing.In fact,these days she hardly gets out of bed.Ade doesn't know what to do,so he watches the world outside.But suddenly that starts to change.
One day,one of the other tower blocs crashes to the ground and Ade watches the disorder with disbelief.Have some of his school friends died in the disaster?Is his best friend Gaia still alive?Then another building falls down and then another.The world around Ade's tower block is disintegrating under his very eyes.
And then huge plants start to spring up and grow at an alarming rate.Where have they come from?It looks like the plants are pulling the buildings down and they are preventing the
emergency services from heping people.
Is this only happening in the area where Ade lives?The residents (居民) are deserting the tower blocks,and soon Ade is stuck in his flat because he can't leave his mother.Who or what can rescue him?
Ho-Yen has written a thrilling story with Boy In The Tower,but the most successful part is the narrative (敘述的) voice of the boy at the centre of the stor.He doesn't understand what i going on around him and this adds a fascinating dimension to th plot that moves the novel along.
Taking place in an urban environment that many of the novel's readers will immediately identify with,Ho-Yen's first novel is an interesting read about an ordinary boy facing a tough struggle to survive.
32.What do we know about Ade?D
A.He lives in a noisy tower block.
B.H tries to help his mother recover.
C.He often helps his mother with housework.
D.He likes seeing the world outside through the window.
33.What does the underlined word"disintegrating"in Paragraph 3probably mean?B
A.Showing up.
B.Breaking up.
C.Moving away.
D.Coming back.
34.The plants mentioned in the book areC.
A.poisonous
B.delicate
C.violent
D.beautiful
35.It can be inferred that Boy In The Tower isD.
A.a(chǎn) personal diary
B.a(chǎn) detective story
C.a(chǎn) science textbook
D.a(chǎn) science-fiction novel.
分析 本文主要講述的是一本科幻小說,在小說里主人公Ade經(jīng)歷了一系列的奇怪的事件.
解答 32.D 細節(jié)題.根據(jù)第一段的Ade loves to spend hours sitting at the window watching the whole city unfold down below.可知Ade喜歡看窗外的風景.故選D.
33.B.詞義猜測題.根據(jù)第三段的 crashes to the ground和 falls down可知,此處是指Ade周圍的高樓一棟接著一棟坍塌,他周圍的世界崩塌了.
34.C細節(jié)題.根據(jù)第四段的huge plants start to spring up and grow at an alarming rate和the plants are pulling the buildings down and they are preventing the emergency services from helping people可知,這些巨大的指物摧毀了高樓,并阻止救援救助人們,由此推斷,這些植物非常兇猛.
35.D推理題.由文中提到奇怪的指物在樓宇坍塌的瞬間突然出現(xiàn)并摧毀樓宇以及倒數(shù)第二段中的novel一詞可知,該書是一部科幻小說.
點評 本文是一個人物故事類閱讀理解,題目涉及多道細節(jié)理解題,做題時結合原文和題目有針對性的找出相關語句進行仔細分析,結合選項選出正確答案.推理判斷題也是要在抓住關鍵句子的基礎上合理的分析才能得出正確答案,切忌胡亂猜測,一定要做到有理有據(jù).