一天的等待改编高三英语阅读理解

He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was trembling, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.

"What's the matter, Schatz?"

"I've got a headache."

"You’d better go back to bed."

"No. I'm all right."

"You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed."

But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years old. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

"You go up to bed," I said, "You're sick."

"I'm all right," he said.

When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.

"What's is it?" I asked him.

"One hundred and two."

Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instruction for giving them.

Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.

"Do you want me to read to you?"

"All right. If you want to, " said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in bed and seemed very separated from what was going on.

I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates ; but I could see he was not following what I was reading.

"How do you feel, Schatz?" I asked him.

"Just the same, so far," he said.

I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strange.

"Why don't you try to go to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine."

"I'd rather stay awake."

After a while he said to me, "You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you."

"It doesn't bother me."

"No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you."

I though perhaps he was a little light-headed and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out for a while.

After some time,we got back home. At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.

"You can't come in," he said. "You mustn't get what I have."

I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had stared,

at the foot of the bed before I left.

I took his temperature.

"What is it?"

"Something like a hundred," I said. It was one hundred and two.

"It was a hundred and two," he said.

"Who said so?"

"The doctor."

"Your temperature is all right," I said. "It's nothing to worry about."

"I don't worry," he said, "but I can't keep from thinking."

"Don't think," I said. "Just take it easy."

"I'm taking it easy," he said and looked straight ahead, He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.

"Take this with water."

"Do you think it will do any good?"

"Of course it will."

I sat down and opened the Pirate not following, so I stooped.

"About what time do you think I'm going to die?" he asked.

"What?"

"About how long will it be before I die?"

"You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you? "

"Oh, yes, I am, I heard him say a hundred and two."

"People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to say so." "I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two."

He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.

"You poor Schatz," I said. " It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's a different thermometer(温度计). There are Fahrenheit(华氏度) and Celsius (摄氏度). On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight." "Are you sure?"

"Absolutely," I said, "It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?"

"Oh," he said.

But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack(松弛的) and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.

15.What can be the best title for the story?

A.The poisonous medicine

B.A day’s waiting

C.A boy’s worry about his health

D.A careless father

16.What does the underlined word “commenced ” mean?

A. stopped B.began C.tried D.praticed

17.What happened to the poor boy Schatz?

A. He would soon die because of his poor health.

B. He got a serious fever that led to pneumonia.

C. He pretended to be dying when he heard what the doctor said.

D. He misunderstood what the doctor said to his family.

18.If it is 104 degrees Fahrenheit, what it is in degrees Celsius?

A. About 50 degree Celsius B. About 40 degree Celsius

C. About 30 degree Celsius D. About 20 degree Celsius

19.Why did Schatz refuse to let anyone enter his room?

A. Because he wanted to die.

B. Because he was thinking about his future.

C. Because he felt very desperate about his health.

D. Because he only wanted his father to enter his room.

20.What did you think of the boy?

A. He was a childish and innocent boy.

B. He was indifferent to his life.

C. He was an an optimistic person.

D. He was very stupid.

答案 BBDBCA