Question

My name is Jim. My story begins when an old sailor came to the inn(小旅馆)where I lived with my father. My father was the innkeeper.

“Do many people came here?” the old sailor asked my father.

“No,” my father told him. “It is a very quiet place.”

“Good,” the old sailor said. “Then this is a place for me.”

“And what’s your name, sir?” my father asked him.

“Just call me ‘captain’”, the man said.

He put some gold coins on the table. “Tell me when I have spent all these,” he said.

Not long after he came to the inn, the captain said to me, “Do you want to earn some money?”

“Yes, please,” I answered. I was only a boy at the time and never had any money. “What do you want me to do?”

“Keep watch for a man with one leg.” he said, “Tell me as soon as you see him. Do that and I’ll give you a coin every week.”

At first, the Captain was a very quiet man and did not want to talk to anyone. But there were nights when he drank a lot of rum. Then he talked a lot and became very noisy. He told stories about bad men doing bad things, and he sang the same song over and over again at the top of his voice, “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest. Yo-hap-ho! And a bottle of rum.”

My father wanted him to leave because some visitors stopped coming to the inn. But, even when the gold was spent, my father didn’t dare to tell him to leave.

Then father became ill, and Dr. Livesey came to see him. After giving my father some medicine, the doctor came into the inn. When the doctor waited for a man to bring his horse. The Captain started singing the same song again.

The doctor asked him to be quiet. “There was a sick man here,” he said angrily.

The Captain took out his knife and pointed it at the doctor.

“Put that knife down, man,” the doctor said. “And if you keep drinking rum, you’ll soon be dead.”

The Captain was very angry. He began to move toward the doctor.

“Keep away from me. If you do anything bad, you’ll be in trouble.” said the doctor.

Then the doctor’s horse came, and he rode away from the inn. For a few days after this, the Captain was quiet.

1. The Captain asked Jim _________.

A. to give him some money

B. to bring him some drinks

C. to watch the doctor

D. to look for a man with one leg

2. The underlined word “rum” in the passage probably means a kind of _________.

A. tea B. wine C. juice D. soup

3. Which is the right order of what happened in the story?

a. Jim’s father got sick.

b. Some visitors stopped coming to the inn.

c. The man told Jim’s father his name.

d. The doctor told the Captain to be quiet and mind his behaviour

e. The Captain gave Jim’s father some coins so he could stay at the inn.

A. c e a b d B. c e b a d

C. e c b a d D. e c a d b

4. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

A. An Important Visit B. A Quiet Inn

C. An Unwanted Guest D. A Simple Boy

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.B

3.B

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了一个小的旅馆来到了一个特殊的客人Captain，他给了老板一些钱，到了晚上他喝酒后，就讲一些坏人坏事还制造一些噪音，老板也不敢把他赶走。老板生病了，一位医生来了后吓唬了这位客人，从此他就安静多了。

1.细节理解题。根据Keep watch for a man with one leg 可知Captain让吉姆去监视独腿的人，故选D。

2.2】细节理解题。根据drank a lot of rum.And a bottle of rum可推知这里指的他喝的是酒，故选B。

3.3】细节理解题。根据先Captain 来到小旅馆了，老板问他的名字，然后他又给老板一些钱，所以故排除CD;后来旅客都不敢来这里住旅店里，父亲又不敢让Captain离开，在后来父亲就生病了，故排除A；故选B。

4.4】标题归纳题。短文叙述的是一个特殊客人来到这个旅店的情况，故选C。

考点：故事类短文阅读。