Question

One year ago, I worked at a Chinese traditional medicine store. Business was not bad. Every day we mixed (混合）medicinal herbs(中藥) for patients, so the store was always full of a strong herbal smell. After I had worked there for a time, a boy of 13 or 14 started coming and sitting on the stairs outside the store for a while every day. It seemed strange to me.

“Do you like the herbal smell?” I asked him one day.

“I grew up with this kind of smell,” he said. He told me that his mother took herbal medicine for years, so he could mix herbs for his mother when he was very young. He mixed the herbs with deep love, hoping his mother would get better as soon as possible.

“Is your mother well now? I asked.

He shook his head. “My mother passed away（去世）three years ago.” Looking up into the sky, he went on: “When I first passed by here and smelled the herbs, I thought of my mother. It is comforting to remember those days when she was alive. So I come here every day to sit for a moment. When I sit around this smell, I feel as if my mother is still alive and is waiting for her medicine in her room.

1.The writer felt ________ when seeing a boy sitting on the stairs at the beginning of the story.

A. strange B. angry

C. excited D. bored

2.The boy grew up with the smell of the herbs because ______________________.

A. he liked go play with herbs.

B. he studied at a herbal medicine store

C. his family had a herbal medicine store

D. he often mixed herbs for his mother

3.The boy’s mother passed away when he was_________ years old.

A. 6 or 7 B. about 10

C. 13 or 14 D. about 16

4.We can tell from the story the boy ______________.

A. used to take herbal medicine

B. missed his mother very much

C. wanted to make friends with the writer

D. hoped to make friends with the writer

Answer 1

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了作者在一家中藥店工作，每天都有難聞的中藥味，可是他看見一個(gè)小男孩每天來這里坐一坐。小男孩告訴作者他媽媽吃中藥好多年了，他習(xí)慣了中藥的氣味。他的媽媽三年前去世了，他為了懷念媽媽才來這里的。

1.It seemed strange to me.”可知作者感到奇怪。故選A。

2.He told me that his mother took herbal medicine for years, so he could mix herbs for his mother when he was very young.”可知他的媽媽吃中藥好多年了，從很小的時(shí)候，他就為媽媽熬藥。故選D。

3.推理判斷題。根據(jù)文中說一個(gè)十三、四歲的小男孩，又說道他的媽媽在三年前去世了，可推斷那時(shí)小男孩是10歲左右。故選B。

4.When I sit around this smell, I feel as if my mother is still alive and is waiting for her medicine in her room.”可知他坐在這兒聞著中藥的氣味，就像媽媽仍然活著。可推知小男孩想念媽媽。故選B。

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