英语四级阅读练习及详解(10)

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When school was out, I hurried to find my sister and get out ofthe schoolyard before seeing anybody in my class. But Barbaraand her friends, had beaten us to the playground entrance andthey seemed to be waiting for us. Barbara said,

“So now you’rein the A class. ” She sounded impressed.

“What’s the A class?” Iasked. Everybody made superior yet faintly envious gigglingsounds.

“Well, why did you think the teacher moved you to thefront of the room, dopey? Didn’t you know you were in the C class before, way in the back of theroom?”

Of course I hadn’t known.

『The Wenatchee fifth grade was bigger than my whole school whichhad been in North Dakota, and the idea of subdivisions within a grade had never occurred tome.』

① The subdividing for the first marking period had been done before I came to the school,and l had never, in the six weeks I’d been there, talked to anyone long enough to find out aboutthe A, B, and

C classes.

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I still could not understand why that had made such a difference to Barbara and her friends. Ididn’t yet know that it was shameful and dirty to be a transient laborer and ridiculous to be fromNorth Dakota. I thought living in a tent was more fun than living in a house.

I didn’t know that we were gypsies, really (how that thought would have excited me then! ), andthat we were regarded with the suspicion felt by those who plant toward those who do not plant.It didn’t occur to me that we were all looked upon as one more of the untrustworthy naturalphenomena, drifting here and there like mists or winds, I didn’t know that I was the only child whohad camped on the Baumann’s land ever to get out of the C class. I didn’t know that schooladministrators and civic leaders held conferences to talk about the problem of transientlaborers.

I only knew that for two happy days I walked to school with Barbara and her friends, playedhopscotch and jumped rope with them at class intervals, and was even invited into the house forsome ginger ale—a strange drink I had never tasted before.

1.The tone of this passage as a whole is.

A. reflective B. enthusiastic C. impersonal D. defensive

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2.The narrator had most probably been placed in the C class because .

A. she was a poor reader

B. she had come from a small school

C. the marking system confused her

D. all children of transient laborers were placed in the C class

3.The basic reason why the people in the community distrusted the transient workers was that thetransient workers.

A. tended to be lawbreakers

B. had little schooling

C. were afraid of strangers

D. were temporary residents

4. Which of the following is not characteristic of Gypsies?

A. Wandering around the world.

B. Make ginger ale in their house.

C. Never plant something.

D. Had been foreigners wherever they go.

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5.Immediately after the narrator was moved to the A class, what was the attitude of Barbara andBarbara’s friends towards her?

A. Dislike B. Acceptance C. Apology D. Jealousy

Vocabulary

1.envious adj.嫉妒的 2.giggling n. 傻

笑 3.subdivision n. 细分

4.transient adj.短暂的 5.mist n. 薄

雾 6.hopscotch n. 跳房子游戏

长难句解析

①【解析】and 连接两个并列的句子。第一个分句中含有than 引导的比较状语从句，注意主从句中时态的不同。occur to译为“想到，想起”。

【译文】Wenatchee 的五年级比我以前在Dakota 北部的学校规模还要大，在一个年级内分班这是我以前从未想到过的。

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答案与详解

【短文大意】在文章中作者回顾了她童年时从低级班升入高级班的往事及这件事给她带来的感受。

1.A 主旨题。 reflective在此意为：回顾的。在这个问题中tone 意为：语气、心情。纵观全文， 我们可以看出，叙述者是在回忆她童年时发生的一件事（第一、二、三、四段）及这件事 的发生所给她带来的感受（第四、五段）。 impersonal意为：不涉及个人情感的，客观的。 defensive意为：辩护的，申辩的。这里并非是作者因受到指责而为自己辩护，本文主要谈的是人与人之间的歧视给作者当时幼小心灵带来的困惑。

2.D 细节题。在文章第五段第六句，本文叙述者告诉我们，在所有生活在Baumann 这个地方 帐篷里的孩子中，她是迄今为止（ever ）从 C班（低级班）升入 A班（高级班）唯一的一个孩子。而生活在那里的人无固定工作，被称作“无固定工作者”（transient laborer， 见本段第三句与第七句）。C 意为：记分体制（或方法）使之困惑。

3.D 推断题。文章第四、五段指出，当地的人（农民：those who plant）用怀疑的眼光（with thesuspicion）来看待他们，因为，他们住帐篷，“没有固定职业，像吉普赛人（gypsies ： 这里并非真指吉普赛人，而是指他们的生活方式像吉普赛人）一样游移不定，四海漂泊

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（drifting here andthere like mists or winds）。 A意为：很可能成为违法分子； B意为：受过很少教育。”

4.B 推断题。吉普赛人住帐篷，没什么房子，因而也不会在房子里做ginger ale。另外三项都是他们的生活特色。

5.B 推断题。答对题的关键是准确地理解这个题。这个题提问的焦点是：叙述者刚刚升入A 班后（Immediately after…A class）， Barbara及其朋友对她是什么态度，而不是后来。仔细审视一下本题，我们就会得出这样一个结论：在叙述者介入A 班后，Barbara 等起初是一种态度，尔后，她们改变了这种态度。从原文第四段第三句我们了解到：叙述者与Barbara 等在那个学校上学至少有六个星期了，只是不知道

A 、B 、C 班的分班基础。同时，在文章 最后一段，我们了解到：叙述者与Barbara 等至少共度了两天的快乐时光，如，课间

（at class intervals）一起玩，到她们家做客等。很明显，这两天说的是叙述者刚刚升入A 班。

3.D 词汇题。从第四段我们可以猜出paradox 是“自相矛盾”的意思。因此选项D 正确。

4.C 词汇题。意为：“Sanctuary”就是你可躲起来避过灾祸的地方。在中世纪一般是某些教堂或者修道院可以充当躲避任何政府惩罚的避难所，所以A 、B 两项也是与它词义有一点关联的，D 关系最小。

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5.D 观点题。根据文章末尾，

and how they come out is bound to influence American universityand political life in the 1990’s. 作者认为在哈佛的争论的结果一定会影响美国的大学和政治生活。本题中的ferment 意为“骚动，纷扰”，指的就是文章所说的争论。因此D 符合作者的观点。

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