Ⅳ.閱讀理解

　　(2014·天津)

　　“Dad，” I say one day, “l(fā)et's take a trip. Why don't you fly out and meet me?”

　　My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thoughts, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

　　My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.

　　He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.

　　“What's our first stop?” asks my father.

　　“What time is it?”

　　“Still don't have a watch?”

　　Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite (花崗巖)，his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of a little boy.

　　“Unbelievable，” he says. “How was this done?”

　　A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.

　　We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything?

　　No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father's voice. Now I hear them in my own.

　　The next day we're at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.

　　“Did you ever travel with your dad?” I ask.

　　“Only once，” he says. “I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other—but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”

　　That last sentence—it's probably the same thing I'd say about my father. And what I'd want my child to say about me.

　　In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I've never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling, I realize—and maybe a regular job won't be as dull as I feared.

　　Weeks after our trip, I call my father.

　　“The photos from the trip are wonderful，” he says, “We've got to take another trip like that sometime.”

　　I tell him I've decided to settle down, and I'm wearing a watch.

　　文章大意：本文介紹了一對(duì)父子，父親忙于工作，很少和兒子交流。而兒子整日漂泊，不愿意安定下來，后來通過一次旅行，父子倆都改變了原來的生活態(tài)度。

　　1.We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father ________.

　　A.followed the fashion

　　B.got bored with his job

　　C.was unhappy with the author's lifestyle

　　D.liked the author's collection of stamps

　　答案：C　 推理判斷題。第二段和第三段都描述了父子兩人的不同和分歧，和對(duì)彼此的期望。故可以推斷出父親對(duì)于這一切都是不高興的。

　　2.What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore?

　　A.His father is interested in sculpture.

　　B.His father is as innocent as a little boy.

　　C.He should learn sculpture in the future.

　　D.He should pursue a specific aim in life.

　　答案：D　 推理判斷題。從文中的We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything?和I realize—and maybe a regular job won't be as dull as I feared.可推知答案。

　　3.From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author ________.

　　A.wants his children to learn from their grandfather

　　B.comes to understand what parental love means

　　C.learns how to communicate with his father

　　D.hopes to give whatever he can to his father

　　答案：B　 句子理解題。上文說道，父親和他的父親彼此深愛，但是都不向?qū)Ψ奖磉_(dá)。作者認(rèn)識(shí)到自己和父親也是這樣，自己也希望將來自己的兒子能向自己表達(dá)愛。故本題選B項(xiàng)。

　　4.What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?

　　A.The call solves their disagreements.

　　B.The Swiss watch has drawn them closer.

　　C.They decide to learn photography together.

　　D.They begin to change their attitudes to life.

　　答案：D　 推理判斷題�？v觀全文可知，父親原來只忙于工作;而兒子整天流浪;經(jīng)過這次旅行之后，父子兩人都改變了，兒子要安定下來，腳踏實(shí)地，父親開始欣賞生活中的美好。故本題選D項(xiàng)。

　　5.What could be the best title for the passage?

　　A.Love Nature, Love Life

　　B.A Son Lost in Adventure

　　C.A Journey with Dad

　　D.The Art of Travel

　　答案：C　 主旨大意題�？v觀全文可知，是這次和父親的旅行改變了作者和父親對(duì)生活的態(tài)度和彼此的關(guān)系。故選C項(xiàng)。