05 外国文学作品-2024年中考英语新热点时文阅读

2024年中考英语新热点时文阅读

05 外国文学作品 

01

Huck is my name, Huckleberry Finn. The story started when my best friend, Tom Sawyer and I found $12,000 in a cave. That money made us rich. We got $6,000 each. Judge Thatcher, an important man in St. Petersburg, put it in the bank, and now we get a dollar a day interest (利息).

Then a kind old lady called Douglas invited me to live with her because I haven’t got a family or a home. My mother died a long time ago, then my dad, Pap, disappeared. He was a violent (暴力的) man especially when he drank a lot, which was most of the time, and he often beat me. I was scared of him. I didn’t go to school like the other boys of my age. I lived on the streets and in the woods.

My life changed after I lived with Douglas. She gave me a bed to sleep in and bought new clothes for me. She read stories to me and taught me how to eat at a table. But then her sister Miss Watson arrived. She brought her black slave (奴隶) Jim with her. I liked Jim but I didn’t like Miss Watson very much. She often shouted at me.

Douglas sent me to school every day. I didn’t like going there at first because learning was very difficult. But when I could read and write a bit, I didn’t mind going.

The months passed and winter came. The weather got cold. One morning I woke up and there was snow on the ground. On my way to school I saw some footprints outside Douglas’s house. There was a cross on the heel (脚后跟) of the left one. My heart jumped. Only one person wore boots with a cross on the left heel! Pap!

“He’s heard about my ________” I thought. “And he wants it!”

That night I went to see Jim. Jim had a magic ball made of animal hair. There was a spirit inside the ball that could answer people’s questions about the future.

—Adapted from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1．How did Huck get the money which was put in the bank?

A．Huck’s father gave it to him.

B．Huck’s mother left it to him before she died.

C．Douglas gave it to him.

D．He and Tom Sawyer found it in a cave.

2．How did Huck feel about the life with Douglas?

A．He hated his new life.                           B．He didn’t mind his new life.

C．He felt satisfied with his new life.           D．He wanted to get away from his new life.

3．Which word can be put in the “__________”?

A．life                   B．spirit                      C．secret                     D．money

4．Which is the right order of what happened in the story?

①Douglas sent Huck to school.

②Huck’s mother died.

③Douglas invited Huck to live with her.

④Douglas read stories to Huck.

A．③②④①          B．②③④①               C．③④②①               D．②④③①

02

Katie was waiting for Gulliver’s calls. Instead, she just heard sparrows making noise in the bushes. “Maybe Gulliver missed the harbour.” Dad said. After breakfast, Katie took her camera to the harbour. All the colourful boats made pretty pictures, but not the one she wanted most.

Katie waved to Ernest, her uncle’s neighbour, on the boathouse. The gull’s name, Gulliver, was given by him. The gull’s size and his single leg made the bird itself different. But Ernest told Katie what Gulliver did that first summer Katie and her dad came caught everyone’s attention. Young Katie lay in her stroller (婴儿车) on the floating dock (码头) when Uncle Ralph and Dad were repairing boats nearby. The waves from the passing boat made Katie’s stroller shake strongly. “Kee-aah! Kee-aah!” Gulliver made the loudest cry. Dad and uncle rushed to Katie and stopped the stroller from falling into the water. They kept a close eye at Katie after that. Another summer Katie was three years old, she liked to touch everything. But Dad didn’t watch her every minute when she tried to catch small ducks around or fish from water. “Kee-aah! Kee-aah!” The gull’s cry brought Dad back in time. He stopped Katie as she tried to follow the small ducks running towards water. Several summers passed, and Gulliver continued to call out as Katie tried new things.

This summer Katie did the usual by-the-sea things she’d learned to do. One day, she rowed a boat out but was trapped on a rock by a storm. As she looked up and tried to catch the last warmth of the sunshine through dark clouds, she saw a single white feather. A gull feather? She searched the sky for an answer. Putting her arms around knees, she closed eyes to hold in the tears (眼泪). “Kee-aah! Kee-aah!” Katie sat up. “Katie! Katie!” Soon, Dad and Uncle Ralph appeared. “How lucky! We heard Gulliver as we came around the rocks,” Uncle Ralph said, “At least… it sounded like him. Strange, he was nowhere in sight.” Katie remembered the feather. “I thought I heard him, too.”

—Adapted from the story by Gillian Richardson

5．Katie took a camera to the harbour in order to take a picture of ________.

A．Gulliver            B．Ernest                    C．sparrows                 D．boats

6．What’s the right order of the following events about Katie?

①She was trapped on a rock by a storm.

②She lay in her stroller on the floating dock.

③She followed the small ducks running towards water.

A．①②③             B．①③②                  C．②③①                   D．②①③

7．Which of the following can show the change of Katie’s feelings in Paragraph 3?

A．sad—peaceful—excited                         B．sad—excited—nervous

C．helpless—hopeful—thankful                  D．helpless—thankful—nervous

8．What’s the best title for the story?

A．Katie and Gulliver                                B．Katie’s Holidays

C．Katie and Dad                                      D．Katie’s Tears

03

Marie didn’t like Eva’s friendship with Tom, so she told her husband that she didn’t want any smell of horses in the house. St Clare told Tom to stop working with the horses. Eva told her father she liked going for walks with Tom. So Tom had orders to leave what he was doing when Eva needed him. Eva and Tom spent a lot of time together.

Tom noticed that St Clare didn’t look after his money and his house very well, and that he spent too much money on the wrong things. He started making some suggestions, and soon St Clare understood that Tom’s business advice was very good. After some time Tom started to look after the house expenses（费用）.

Tom also noticed that his master didn’t take anything seriously and didn’t live well, and this worried him. One night St Clare went to a party where he drank too much. He came home very late, and Tom and another slave（奴隶）had to help him to get into bed. Tom went into his room and prayed（祈祷）for his master.

The morning after, St Clare gave Tom some money to do some business for him. Tom took the money but he didn’t move.

“Well, Tom, what are you waiting for?” said St Clare. “Is everything alright?”

“I’m afraid not, Master,” said Tom.

“What’s the problem? You look very serious.”

“I feel very bad, Master. I thought that Master was always going to be good to everybody.”

“Well, Tom, am I not? Do you need anything?”

“No, Master is always good to me. But there is someone that Master isn’t good to.”

“What do you mean?”

“I thought about it last night. Master isn’t good to himself.”

St Clare felt his face become red, then he laughed. “Oh, Tom!” said St Clare, with tears in his eyes. “Well, you’re right. Never again, Tom, I promise.”

—Adapted from Uncle Tom’s Cabin

9．Tom was asked to, leave what he was doing to ________

A．work with horses                                  B．go for walks with Eva

C．spend some time with St Clare               D．look after money for St Clare

10．In Paragraph 3, the thing that worried Tom is ________.

A．St Clare asked Tom to look after his money

B．St Clare drank too much every day

C．St Clare didn’t look after himself well and didn’t live well

D．St Clare didn’t look after Tom well

11．The underlined word “himself ” in Paragraph 12 is ________.

A．Maria              B．St Clare                 C．Eva                        D．Tom

12．According to the passage, the correct order of the story is ________.

1. Maria was unhappy with Eva’s friendship with Tom.
2. St Clare felt moved and joyful when he laughed.
3. St Clare gave Tom some money to do some business for him.
4. Tom’s master spent too much money on the wrong things.

A．adcb                B．abcd                      C．badc                       D．dabc

13．From the passage, we know that Tom was a ________ person.

A．lazy but smart   B．kind but stupid        C．caring and brave      D．lazy and stupid

04

The Adventures of Huckleberry Fine by Mark Twain is one of the first Great American Novels. It was also one of the first major American novels ever written by using Local Colorism（地方色彩主义）. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is famous for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River.

This book is about how a boy called Huck set the slave（奴隶） free and realized his dream of living an adventures life. In order to get out of his father’s control. Hook pretended that he was dead by Jim, who is practical and loyal to friends. Jim went together with Huck in the journey, and they became friends after experience. scenes of adventures. In their voyage, they met two frauds（骗子）. One called himself king, the other duke. Because of the king, Jim got caught by his master. By an expected chance, Huck and Tom, best friend of Hack. Got together, and they decided to set Jim free. At last, they made it.

Although the book has been popular with young readers since it came out, the book immediately became controversial（有争论的） and has remained so today because the Southern society that it satirized（讽刺） had already been history.

14．Where did the story happen in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? ________

A．Along the Mississippi River.                                        B．In the southern states.    C．In Canada.

15．What is the plot（情节） of the story? ________

①Huck met a run-away slave. Jim.

②Huck met two frauds.

③Huck pretended to be dead.

④Jim was caught by his master and then set free.

A．①②③④                    B．③①②④                          C．③②①④

16．What does the underlined word “pretended” mean in Paragraph 2 ________.

A．否定                           B．承认                                 C．假装

17．We can read the following in the passage EXCEPT ________.

A．history of Local Colorism

B．Huck’s life experience

C．popularity of the book

18．What can we learn from the passage? ________

A．It’s Buck’s dream to live a peaceful life.

B．The book has gained a lot of attention.

C．Huck succeeded in setting Jim free on his own.

05

They left the busy streets and went to a part of the town Scrooge never visited. It was a terrible place. The streets were dirty, and the smell was very bad. The houses and shops were of the poorest kind. The people were all thin, dirty, and they looked very ill. Everything was ugly.

They came to where an old man sat. He was selling dirty pieces of cloth, smelly old bones, and all kinds of old and useless things. As they watched, two old women and an old man, equally dirty, smelly, and ugly came into the shop. They carried large bags.

“Come and sit by the fire,” the shopkeeper said. “Tell me what you have to sell me.”

“Nothing a dead man will miss,” the first woman said with a nasty（让人讨厌的）laugh.

“If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, why wasn’t he a good man when he was alive? If he had been, he would have had someone to look after him. He would not have died alone.”

“That’s very true,” said the second woman, putting a few clothes on the floor. “He got the death he deserved.” She pointed at the clothes. “What will you give me for those, Joe?” She asked the shopkeeper, adding, “I did no wrong taking them from the dead man’s house.”

The shopkeeper looked at everything the woman wanted to sell him and put a price on it. Then he added everything up. The final amount was very small.

“That’s not much,” the woman said.

“Take it or leave it,” the shopkeeper said. “I won’t pay a penny（便士）more.”

—Taken from A Christmas Carol

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

19．What was the next place they visited like?

A．It was strange and pleasant.                  B．It was dirty and ugly.

C．It was cold and dark.                            D．It was cold and rainy.

20．What does the underlined word “deserved” mean?

A．Shouldn’t be punished.                        B．Give something naturally.

C．Unable to accept the result.                   D．Receive something because of actions or qualities.

21．What is the right order of the following things?

①The shopkeeper invited the women to sit by the fire.

②The shopkeeper offered a rather small amount of money for the things.

③The women showed the shopkeeper what they had to sell.

④They went to a part of the town Scrooge never visited.

A．①②③④         B．①③②④               C．④①②③               D．④①③②

22．Which is the right information according to the passage?

A．The spirit took Scrooge to a rich area of town.

B．They saw an old man selling old and useless things.

C．The shopkeeper wants to buy the things more than its value.

D．The man who was dead had someone to look after him.

23．Where does this passage come from?

A．A novel.           B．A poem.                 C．A speech.                D．A report.

06

Pinocchio promises the Fairy (仙女) to be good and to study hard, because he wishes to become a real boy.

“Can I go out to give out the invitations?” Pinocchio asked the Fairy.

“Of course, but remember to    24    home before dark.”

“I’ll be back in one hour. I promise,” answered Pinocchio. In less than an hour, all his friends were invited except Romeo who was his best    25   . Romeo was the laziest boy in school and the biggest trouble maker, but Pinocchio loved him the most.

Pinocchio searched everywhere, and    26    found him hiding near a farmer’s wagon (车).

“What are you doing here?” asked Pinocchio.

“I am waiting for midnight”

“Why?”

“To go far, far away!”

“Where are you going?”

“To Toyland. It’s the most    27    country in the world! Come with me, Pinocchio!”

“Me? No, I can’t!”

“Believe me! You’ll be really sorry    28    you don’t come. There are no schools in Toyland. Every day is a Saturday except for Sunday.”

“How do people    29    their days in Toyland?”

“Days are spent in play and enjoyment. At right one goes to bed happy and satisfied, and the next morning, the good times    30    all over again. What do you think of that?”

“Hmm…,” said Pinocchio, “That’s the kind of    31    I’ve always wanted.”

“So are you coming with me, then? Yes or no? You have to    32    your own decision.”

“No, no!” said Pinocchio, “I promised my kind Fairy that I would become a good boy, and I want to keep that     33    . The sun is setting now, and I must leave you and run home, Goodbye and good luck to you!”

24．A．love                           B．build                                 C．return

25．A．teacher                     B．friend                                C．student

26．A．easily                        B．seriously                           C．finally

27．A．wonderful                B．delicious                           C．boring

28．A．although                  B．if                                         C．unless

29．A．spend                       B．miss                                    C．forget

30．A．begin                        B．finish                                C．fly

31．A．toy                             B．life                                    C．book

32．A．see                             B．sell                                    C．make

33．A．promise                    B．day                                   C．diary

07

It was December and the snow was falling quietly outside. The four March sisters were sitting around the fire in the living room. They were knitting (织) socks for     34    . There was a war and everyone had to help.

Meg was the     35     of the four sisters. She was sixteen. She was very pretty and she loved pretty clothes. Jo was fifteen. She was very tall and thin. She was different from Meg. She didn’t     36     dresses or hairstyles. She was a tomboy (假小子). Beth was thirteen. She was very shy and     37     and she seemed to live in a happy world of her own. The youngest, Amy, looked like a snow princess with her blue eyes. She loved beautiful things and she was a little vain (虚荣的). She also thought that she was a very important person.

“Christmas isn’t Christmas without any presents,” Jo said     38    .

“I hate being unwealthy!” Meg said, looking at her old dress.

“Some girls have lots of nice things, and     39     girls have nothing at all,” said Amy. “I don’t think it’s     40    !”

“But we’ve got Father and Mother, and each other,” said Beth.

The four sisters looked happy for a moment when they remembered this.

“But we haven’t got     41    ,” said Jo. Their smiles suddenly disappeared. Mr March was far away     42     the soldiers.

“Mother says our men are suffering and we     43     spend money for pleasure,” Meg said. “That’s why we can’t have presents this year.”

“Well, each of us has a dollar to spend,” said Jo. “    44     can the army do with four dollars?     45    !

I don’t expect anything from Mother but I’d like to buy a book for myself!” Jo was a(an)     46    .

“I want to spend mine on some new music.” said Beth. She played the piano and she loved singing.

“I’m going to buy a box of drawing pencils. I really need them!” said Amy. She wanted to be an artist.

“Mother didn’t     47     anything about spending our own money,” cried Jo. “Let’s each buy what we want and have a little fun; I’m sure we     48     hard enough to earn it.”

It was true. The two older sisters had jobs. Meg worked as a teacher for the King family and Jo looked after Aunt March, their father’s rich, bad-tempered (坏脾气的) old aunt. Beth and Amy helped with the housework.

34．A．neighbours      B．sisters                    C．parents                   D．soldiers

35．A．prettiest           B．oldest                     C．smartest                  D．youngest

36．A．care of              B．care for                  C．care about               D．care with

37．A．noisy                B．quiet                        C．generous                 D．mean

38．A．sadly               B．happily                    C．loudly                       D．gently

39．A．other               B．the other                C．others                       D．the others

40．A．fair                  B．right                        C．unfair                       D．necessary

41．A．parents           B．Father                    C．Mother                      D．presents

42．A．for                  B．with                         C．from                          D．in

43．A．needn’t          B．wouldn’t                 C．mightn’t                    D．mustn’t

44．A．How               B．Why                         C．What                         D．Who

45．A．Everything    B．Something             C．Nothing                    D．Anything

46．A．pianist            B．artist                      C．bookworm               D．writer

47．A．say                   B．talk                        C．tell                            D．speak

48．A．study              B．work                      C．save                       D．help

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参考答案

1．D    2．C    3．D    4．B

【导语】本文是一篇记叙文，改编自《哈克贝利历险记》。主要讲述了Huck的故事，之前孤苦伶仃，无家可归，后被Douglas收养，送他去上学，过上了新的生活。

1．细节理解题。根据第一段“Tom Sawyer and I found $12,000 in a cave.”和“Judge Thatcher … put it in the bank”可知，Tom Sawyer和“我”在一个洞穴中发现了12000美元，Judge Thatcher把钱放进银行。故选D。

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