Question

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.

Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability无能无力 to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly( 笨拙地) from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.

Over dinner; we learned the situation of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately不顾一切地, she explained.

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”

The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

1.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

A．Friends of the Road	B．The Silent Woman on the Bus
C．Going to Work by Bus	D．Different Kinds of Friendship

2.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

A．poor

B．warm hearted

C．silent

D．cold

3.The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as _____.

A．keep

B．discover

C．set up

D．accept

4.The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

A．they both disabled people

B．they both had some difficulty in expressing

C．they both liked bus travel

D．they both brought interest to the passengers

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.B

【解析】

试题分析:

1.考察主旨大意题。本题是让学生选出本文的最佳题目，也是总结概括的题型，通读全文可知，作者和他的妻子在星期日早上的巴士车上遇到了很多“无名”的人才改变了他们的一些看法。故用Friends of the Road比较贴切这篇文章；B项的巴士车上的安静女人，太片面；C项的坐巴士车去上班，文章没有提到；D项不同种类的友谊，如果说是不同种类的人更贴切一些。故A项正确。

2.考察推理判断题。根据文章第二自然段的where’s the silent woman who sits up front可知，这个女人很安静，故C项排除；根据Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare可知，这个女人很穷，故A项排除；根据but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.可知，这个女人心地是善良的，因为她总是请司机喝咖啡，虽然她没有太多的钱。故D项正确。

3.考察词义猜测题。根据文章第四自然段For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability无能无力 to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus.由于在巴士车上，这个女人很沉默，所以作者和他的妻子都很悲哀的无能为力去跟这个坐在公交车前面的这个女人建立友谊。故我们可知划横线的单词含义为建立，确立。故C项正确。

4.考察细节理解题。根据文章倒数第三自然段的we learned the situation of a single mother with a disabled son who……可知，这个女人有一个残疾的儿子；并根据倒数第二自然段的We don’t say what we want to say可知，他们不能说他们想说的话，所以他们都在表达上有困难。A项文章没提到妈妈也是个残疾人，只是说她很少说话，故排除；C项文中没有提到她的儿子喜欢巴士车旅行，故排除；D项他们都给乘客带来了极大的兴趣，她的儿子在很远的地方被照顾，没在巴士车上出现过，故排除；故B项正确。

考点：本篇为记叙文。