Question

When Mr. Brown entered the classroom that Friday morning, he stopped at the blackboard. For there, on the blackboard, were words in huge red letters: BROWN IS STUPID!

Mr. Brown thought for a moment. This could only have been the work of one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before.

Mr. Brown turned the blackboard around so that the words could not be seen. Half an hour later,Mr. Brown wrote four names on the board: Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie. Then he said, “I want these four to stay in the classroom. The rest of you may go to the playground.”

The four boys came to the blackboard. “One of you has written a most impolite remark on the blackboard,” he stared （盯著看）at them and thundered, “which one of you did it?”

The four boys gathered closer together, afraid of what was to come.

“Was it you, Gerald?”

Gerald shook his head. “No, it was not me, Sir,” he gave the teacher a most sincere look in his wide eyes.

“What do you have to say, Alex?”

“I don’t know anything about it, Sir,” said Alex, and his ears turned red.

Michael had a bright idea. “Perhaps someone broke in during the night,” he said. “And when he saw the lovely red chalk lying there, he wrote something on the blackboard.”

“Is that the best you can think so, Michael?” asked the teacher.

“I only thought ...”

“And what about you, Laurie?”

Laurie said in a rather low voice, “I didn’t do it, Sir. I don’t even know what it says on the blackboard.”

“You really don’t know what’s written there?” Mr. Brown asked. “And I don’t think dear Gerald knows either.”

“No, Sir. No idea.”

“Michael, Alex, can either of you tell me what it says on the blackboard?”

“No, Sir!” the two boys answered together. Brown walked forward and his fingers seized(揪住) a schoolboy. He said in his kindest and softest voice to the other three boys, “Very well. I only punish the one who has been telling lies, and you three may go to the playground!”

1. What did Mr. Brown write on the blackboard?

A. BROWN IS STUPID

B. WHICH ONE DID IT

C. The rules of the class

D. The names of the four boys

2. Which of the following can be put into “______” in Paragraph 3?

A. all the students arrived

B. all the children laughed

C. the four students ran away

D. the headmaster came in

3. The underlined word “thundered” in Paragraph 4 most probably means “______”.

A. asked softly B. said slowly

C. spoke happily D. shouted loudly

4.Who has been telling lies?

A. Gerald B. Alex C. Michael D. Laurie

5.The word that can best describe Mr. Brown is “______”.

A. honest B. smart

C. hard-working D. warm-hearted

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.D

4.C

5.B

【解析】

1.1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文Mr. Brown wrote four names on the board: Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie. 布朗先生在黑板上寫了四個名稱:杰拉爾德,亞歷克斯,邁克爾和勞里。故選D。

2.2】推理判斷題。A：所有的學生到了B：所有的學生笑了C：所有的學生逃跑了D：所有的學生走進來了。根據(jù)短文理解選A。

3.3】thundered詞義是打雷。he stared （盯著看）at them and thundered,老師盯著學生，大聲地喊道。 根據(jù)短文大意，應(yīng)該是大聲喊叫，故選D。

4.4】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文大意，四個孩子回答了老師的問題。只有Michael說出了答案，可以推斷她是做賊心虛。故選C。

5.5】推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文大意，主要介紹的是Mr. Brown破案的小故事。所以選選B。

考點：記敘文類短文閱讀。