Question

Tom Costello was once afraid of homeless Americans. “I was so afraid that if I saw a homeless person walking down the street, I’d cross the street,” he said.

That changed seven years ago after his wife, Nancy, a volunteer at a homeless shelter, persuaded him to help with a holiday dinner for shelter residents. Tom remembered going to a store and buying socks for the residents. He knew many of them were in need of clothing.

At the shelter, Tom said, he dropped a pair of socks into a bag for a woman. She asked him if she could have socks for a friend who wasn’t with her that day. He gave her another pair. “She started to cry and told me that nobody had ever given her socks before,” Tom said, “Then she reached out and gave me a hug.” That experience at the shelter helped Tom end his fear of the homeless.

It also led him to set up a group called “The Joy of Sox.”, which borrows from a name of a popular book. The group collects socks from donors and gives them mostly to shelters in the area where Tom and Nancy live. It has been expanding its reach and provides socks to homeless shelters in 21 states and other three countries now.

Why socks? Tom explains that some Americans give food, coats and other clothing to shelters. But donating socks is not something most people think about. And, he said, socks are very helpful at keeping people warm, especially in cold weather. A man named Kiwi，who has lived in homeless shelters, said most of the time he could find enough food through shelters and soup kitchens. But socks were much more difficult to get, he noted.

1.What removed Tom’ s fright of the homeless?

A. A woman’s need for socks.

B. The encouragement from Nancy.

C. The hug from a homeless person.

D. The first experience of helping the homeless.

2.What did Tom do when the woman asked for another pair of socks?

A. He felt afraid.    B. He walked away.

C. He satisfied her demand.    D. He gave her a hug.    ,

3.What can we know about “The Joy of Sox”？

A. It got the name from a book.

B. It was founded by Tom and Nancy.

C. It helps the homeless of three countries.

D. It buys different socks for the homeless.

4.Why does Tom provide socks for the homeless?

A. The homeless are lack of socks.

B. Tom’ s wife persuaded him to do so.

C. Socks are popular among the donators.

D. The homeless can’t buy socks in shelters.

Answer

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.A

【解析】 本文为记叙文。汤姆本来是一个害怕那些无家可归的人，因为一次在庇护所的经历，让他不仅摆脱了恐惧的心理，还建立了一个“The Joy of Sox”组织，给无家可归的人们提供袜子。

1.【解题剖析】此题属于细节理解中的（2）语言转述型。这是一类间接事实细节题，答案与题目在意义上运用了词义之间的转述关系，即正确选项是原文有关词语和句子的另一种表达。

【答案定位】根据第二和三段的内容可知，汤姆的妻子说服他帮助这些庇护所的人准备节日晚餐，汤姆带着买的袜子去看这些人，得到袜子的妇女拥抱了她。在第三段中That experience at the shelter helped Tom end his fear of the homeless.这第一次经历让他摆脱了对无家可归的人的恐惧的。其中的end his fear of与remove Tom’s fright of是同义词转述。

【推理关系】题干What removed Tom’ s fright of the homeless? ☞文章内容That experience at the shelter helped Tom end his fear of the homeless

helped Tom end his fear of the homeless.☞D选项The first experience of helping the homeless.