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[原文]I began to grow up that winter night when my parents and I were returning from my aunt’s house,and my mother said that we might soon be leaving for America. We were on the bus then. I was crying,and some people on the bus were turning around to look at me. I remember that I could not bear the thought of never hearing again the radio programme for school children to which I listened every morning.

  I do not remember myself crying for this reason again. In fact,I think I cried very little when I was saying goodbye to my friends and relatives. When we were leaving,I thought about all the places I was going to see—the strange and magical places I had known only from books and pictures. Never to come back to the country I was leaving was hardly in my head then.

I[问题]Upon leaving for America,the author felt        .

   A. confused   B. excited

   C. worried   D. amazed

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Answer 1

n.阅读技能(推理判断)

B 按照常理，从祖国到另外一个陌生的国度时往往会一时难以适应，充满着疑惑和彷徨，所以A项的干扰性很强；第一段中提到作者听到不久就要去美国的消息后禁不住哭了起来，因为从此

以后再也听不到学生广播节目了，假如考生根据这一部分内容进行判断，很容易误选C项；如果只注意第二段中的"…the strange and magical places…"，则容易误选D项。考生之所以会误选这些选项是因为惯性思维或者是只根据某一处细节就匆忙确定答案而忽视了段落之间的逻辑关系。文章中提到作者哭泣是去美国之前所发生的事情，而此处问的是在去美国的那一刻作者的内心感受。文章虽然没有直接表明作者当时十分兴奋，可是第二段中提到作者与朋友和亲戚道别时几乎没有哭，而是在思考将要看到的所有陌生而又神奇的地方，由此推测出作者当时感到无比兴奋。