Question

I went to bed at 11pm, it was snowing. I slept deep and my clock didn’t work. It was so cold that I didn’t want to get up again. I called my mother “Mom, my alarm clock is dead, but tomorrow morning I need to get up at six o’clock to catch an early bus . Can you give me a wakeup call?” My mother’s voice was a little dull, “Fine, dear.”

Phone rings pulled me out of my dreams. Mom said from the other end of the line,“It is time to get up, and you need to catch the early bus.” I looked at my watch-5:40.“Didn’t I ask you to wake me up at SIX?” I complained.“Let me have some more sleep, please!”

I got up and ready for the trip. It was a dark, cold morning, and everywhere was filled with snow. As I reached the bus stop, I found a white-haired couple(夫妻) had already been waiting. “You see, you didn’t sleep at all night and got here so early,” the man murmured( 喃喃细语) to his wife.

The bus finally came. The driver was a very young man. He waited just long enough for me to get on before he started the bus again. “Please wait,” I said to the driver. “There are two older people that need to get on, too. It is so cold, and they have waited for a long time. How could you leave them behind?”

Without stopping the bus, the young driver said“That’s OK, they are my parents. This is my first day on the job, so they came to make sure I was all right.”

I couldn’t hold back my tears. My mobile phone rang, incoming was my father’s message, “Sweetie, your mom is not feeling well, she was awake most of the night so that she wouldn’t miss your wakeup call.”

The wakeup call, the older couple, the young driver…reminded me of a Jewish proverb:

“When a father gives something to his son, the son smiles; when a son gives something to his father, the father cries.”

1. Why did the writer need to get up at six a.m. the next morning?

A.Because he needed to get ready for trip.

B.Because he needed to catch the early bus.

C.Because his mother was ill.

D.Because it was his first day to work.

2. According to the passage, the writer’s mother __________.

A. mended the alarm clock

B. slept well the whole night.

C. kept up most of the night in order not to miss the wakeup call.

D. waited for the early bus.

3. Which is the reason to keep the older people waiting so long?

A. To catch the early bus

B. To see their son off

C. To have a trip

D. To make sure their son was all right on the first day to work

4. What can we learn from the last proverb( 谚语)？

A. Parents’ love is great

B. Father’s love is more important than mother’s

C. A father should give something to his son

D. A son should give something to his father

5. The writer makes the idea clear by _________.

A. telling his story B. giving reasons

C. giving explanations D. instructions.

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.A

5.A

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文中作者主要讲述了母亲为了早上叫醒儿子乘车而几乎一夜没睡，司机的父母为了确保儿子第一天上班一切正常也几乎一夜没睡，从而阐明“父母的爱是伟大的”这一观点。

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考点：故事类短文阅读。