I IMCKKD up the phone. Without so much as a hello ,a voice said: “What’s new? We have an eagle in the backyard.
It look me three second* lo recognize my nephew’s a voice. He was excited.
“He’s sitting on top of a dead tree in the backyard .He’s been there a long lime. We’re tilling in the sunroom watching him."
But actually, my nephew is blind.
Ketinitis pigmentosa（色素性視網(wǎng)膜炎）brgan stealing his sight when he was 12. He’ s in his 20s now.
“It’s a big thing. Dad said it must have a wingspan of 6 feet (1.88 meters). We’ve got an eagle out hack!"
I could believe they had the rare pleasure of spotting an eagle. What I couldn’t believe was that my nephew, without sight, was giving the comment. It shouldn’t have been that surprising,really?
His sight might be gone, but he sees plenty. From memory, mostly; from conventions around him; from listening to television and radio. He has an amazing memory. We took him into town with us when we were visiting his parents once. Our GPS wasn’ t working, so he gave us directions turn by turn, complete with landmarks, approximate distances and cautions on curves（拐彎處）in the road. He knew exactly where we were and got us to where wanted to go.
Second to his family, there are two things that have been important in this young man’s life: a guide dog and a job.
The guide dog gave him the confidence he didn’t know he had.
The job, “well” as his dad said: “Having a job makes him like everybody else. Now, he has something to come home and complain about at the end of the day."
I never have a conversation with my nephew without asking about his job in case lie wants to complain. But I know-and I know that he knows work is a gift.
We were created to work. We were made to produce goods and services, to invent and solve problems. Work is what drags us out of bed in the morning.
Work gives us something to do and somewhere to go. If that doesn’t I sound like a big deal, talk to someone who’ s unemployed. It is working hard that enhances the lime that you don’t work, from kicking back and reading a book to watching an eagle in your backyard.
小題1:What surprised the author when she received her nephew’s phone call?
A．An eagle remained in her nephew’ s backyard for a long time.
B．The sight of an eagle made her nephew so excited.
C．Her nephew regained his sight after he had been blind for several years.
D．Despite being blind, her nephew described the eagle as if he could really see it.
小題2:By mentioning her nephew lending her amend when site visited his parents, the author intends to           .   
A．show that she got along well with her nephew and his family
B．fell us of her nephew’s good sense of direction
C．show how good a memory her nephew has
D．prove that her nephew had no trouble living by himself alone
小題3:According lo the article, a job is very important lo the author's nephew mainly because    .
A．a(chǎn) job make* him confident and slops him from complaining
B．a(chǎn) job enables him lo feel normal
C．with a job he can afford to raise his guide dog
D．with a job he can help his parents support I he family
小題4:What can we conclude from the lust two paragraphs?
A．Everyone has to work, so make sure to play.
B．The hander you work, the more successful you w ill lie.
C．Work enriches our lives, so we should appreciate it.
D．Work is just a way for us to kill time and make a living.

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：這篇文章主要講了作者接到侄子的電話，讓她吃驚的是盡管她的侄子是盲人，卻能描述一只鷹，好像他親眼看到一樣。作者侄子的記憶力非常好，他擁有一份工作。工作對(duì)作者的侄子很重要，因?yàn)楣ぷ骺梢宰屗杏X(jué)像正常人一樣。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)I could believe they had the rare pleasure of spotting an eagle. What I couldn’t believe was that my nephew, without sight, was giving the comment. It shouldn’t have been that surprising,really? 可知作者接到侄子的電話，讓她吃驚的是盡管她的侄子是盲人，卻能描述一只鷹，好像他親眼看到一樣。故選D。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)He has an amazing memory. We took him into town with us when we were visiting his parents once. Our GPS wasn’ t working, so he gave us directions turn by turn, complete with landmarks, approximate distances and cautions on curves（拐彎處）in the road.可知通過(guò)這件事說(shuō)明作者侄子的記憶力非常好，故選C。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)The job, “well” as his dad said: “Having a job makes him like everybody else. Now, he has something to come home and complain about at the end of the day."可知工作對(duì)作者的侄子很重要，是因?yàn)楣ぷ骺梢宰屗杏X(jué)像正常人一樣，故選B。
小題4:推斷題：最后兩個(gè)自然段工作的重要性以及意思，故選C。
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