Question

I can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. A few minutes’ nap time before class couldn’t hurt, I thought.

Boom! I lifted my head immediately and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart beating quickly trying to find the cause of the noise. My young professor was looking back at me with a mischievous, boyish smile on his face. He had intentionally dropped the pile of textbooks he was carrying onto my desk. “Good morning!” he said, still smiling. “I’m glad to see everyone is awake. Now let’s get started.”

For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. Instead, it was from the attractive discussion he led. With knowledge and good humor, he made the material come alive. His insights were full of both wisdom and loving kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he taught with were contagious (有感染力的). I left the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.

I learned something far more important than not sleeping in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with joy, and make it an expression of your love. What a glorious place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well! What a beautiful world we could create if every doctor, teacher, musician, cook, waitress, poet, miner, farmer, and laborer made their work an expression of their love! Don’t sleepwalk your way through life then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work and your soul. Life is too short not to live it well.

1.What did the author want to do just before his first class of the day?

A. Talk with his friends.

B. Take a short sleep.

C. Get his eyes examined.

D. Stay away from the class.

2.The underlined word “mischievous” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”.

A. naughty        B. tricky      C. sensitive          D. dishonest

3.What else did the author learn that day?

A. Students should not sleep in class but respect their teachers.

B. Everyone should love his job and sleepwalk his way through life.

C. Life is too limited to make your work an expression of your love.

D. People from all walks of life should do their jobs with wisdom and love.

4.What can be inferred from this passage?

A. The professor often kept his students sharp by using a textbook alarm.

B. The author was attracted by the professor’s great wisdom and enthusiasm.

C. The author left the two-hour period not only wide awake, but a little smarter.

D. Though the author was frightened awake, he was not clear-headed in the class.

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了作者在上大学第一年有一次因熬夜在第二天课上犯困，年轻的教授有意惊醒他。作者在教授知识丰富，语言幽默的教学中认识到，我们不要浑浑噩噩过一生，要把快乐融到工作生活中，在短暂一生中过得有意义。

1.B 细节理解题。根据第一段的Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow.可知，在上第一节课之前，我的眼皮感觉越来越重，我的头低到课桌上枕在课本上，故是睡着了，选B。

2. 词义猜测题。mischievous淘气的，恶作剧的；naughty顽皮的；淘气的。根据后面boyish smile on his face.可知，教授脸上带着男孩子的笑容，故可以推断教授是淘气的，故选A。

3.D 推理判断题。根据最后一段的I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with joy, and make it an expression of your love. 可知，作者学到了各行各业的人都应该用智慧和爱做自己的工作。故选D。

4. 细节理解题。根据第三段中And the enthusiasm and joy that he taught with were contagious (有感染力的). I left the classroom not only wide awake, but a little smarter and a little better as well.可知，作者被教授的智慧和热情所吸引。故选B。

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