英语周报答案2023-2024九年级上GZQ第6期

英语周报答案2023-2024九年级上GZQ第6期

When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldn’t afford the operation because her family was poor.

Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.

My father then set out to sell it. Eventually, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.

My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.

1.Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?

A. The author. B. The author’s father.

C. The girl. D.The girl’s mother

2.Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?

A. O. Henry once worked in Houston.

B. O. Henry once stayed in Galveston.

C. O. Henry once moved to Des Moines.

D. O. Henry once taught at SMU.

3. The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means __________.

A. named B. treated

C. proved D. described

4. According to the text, why did the author’s father go to Des Moines?

A. To meet the author himself.

B. To sell the O. Henry story.

C. To talk with the O. Henry expert.

D. To give money to the girl.

英语周报答案2023-2024九年级上GZQ第6期试题答案

1.D

2.B

3.C

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：文章大意：本文主要介绍了作者一家搬到爱荷华州得梅因市时，父亲做教授时班里的一个女孩因家穷而无力支付手术费，她妈妈在整理阁楼偶然发现一个手稿。父亲巧妙运用手稿稿费帮小女孩治病的回忆。没想到那手稿是欧·亨利的短篇小说，作者认为父亲的这次助人比该短篇小说的本身还精彩。

1. 细节题。根据文章第二段的Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）.可知she指的是前句的mother的，故D正确。

2. 推断题。根据文章第二段的My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. n可知B正确。

3. 细节题。根据第二段的My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.可知authenticated 是authenticate的过去分词，具有验证，证实的意思，只有prove含有这个意思，故C正确。

4.

考点：考查传记类短文阅读

“I will never marry，” the future Elizabeth I declared at the age of eight, and, to the terror of her people, the Great Queen kept her word.

For four centuries, historians have guessed why Elizabeth never married.In her own day, her decision to remain single was considered absurd and dangerous.A queen needed a husband to make political decisions for her and to organise and lead her military campaigns.More important, she needed male heirs to avoid a civil war after her death.

There was no shortage of suitors for the Queen, both English courtiers (朝臣) and foreign princes, and it was confidently expected for the best part of 30 years that Elizabeth would eventually marry one of them.Indeed, although she insisted that she preferred the single state, she kept these suitors in a state of permanent expectation.This was a deliberate policy on the Queen’s part, since by keeping foreign princes in hope, sometimes for a decade, she kept them friendly when they might otherwise have made war on her kingdom.

There were, indeed, good political reasons for her avoiding marriage.The disastrous union of her sister Mary I to Philip II of Spain had had an unwelcome foreign influence upon English politics.The English were generally prejudiced against the Queen taking a foreign husband, particularly a Catholic one.Yet if she married an English, jealousy might lead to the separation of the court.

There were other, deeper reasons for Elizabeth’s unwillingness to marry, chief of which, I believe, was her fear of losing her autonomy as Queen. In the 16th century, a queen was regarded as holding supreme dominion(统治权)over the state, while a husband was thought to hold supreme dominion over his wife.Elizabeth knew that marriage and motherhood would bring some harm to her power.

She once pointed out that marriage seemed too uncertain a state for her. She had seen several unions in her immediate family break down, including that of her own parents.

Some writers, based on very fragile evidence, have argued that Elizabeth was frightened or incapable of the sex act, but it is more likely that she feared childbirth. Two of her stepmothers, her grandmother and several acquaintances had died in childbed.

Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, had had her mother, Anne Boleyn, killed; her stepmother Catherine Howard later suffered the same fate. When Elizabeth was 14 she was all but attracted by Admiral Thomas Seymour, who also went to the prison within a year. Witnessing these terrible events at an early age, it has been argued, may have put Elizabeth off marriage.

Elizabeth had to decide her priorities. Marriage or being single? Elizabeth was far too intelligent.The choice she made was courageous and revolutionary, and, in the long run, the right one for England.

1.To the suitors including English courtiers and foreign princes，Elizabeth ________.

A．held back the truth

B．gave a definite answer “no”

C．kept them expecting deliberately

D．said she preferred the single state

2.If Elizabeth had married a foreign prince, there might have been ________.

A．prejudice against her

B．separation of the court

C．jealousy among English courtiers

D．a negative impact on English politics

3.Which of the following implications is right according to the passage?

A．Queen Elizabeth was not a Catholic.

B．Some foreign princes made war on Britain.

C．Catherine Howard was killed by Anne Boleyn.

D．Admiral Thomas Seymour was killed by Henry VIII.

4.What is the attitude of the author towards Queen Elizabeth never marrying in her life?

A．Pitiful.　　　　　　　　B．Approving.

C．Negative. D．Neutral.

英语周报答案2023-2024九年级上GZQ第6期试题答案

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.B

【解析】

文章大意：伊丽莎白一世八岁时发誓终身不嫁，她竟然做到了。这是为什么呢？看本文的分析。

1.C　细节理解题。由第三段最后一句话“This was a deliberate policy on the Queen’s part, since by keeping foreign princes in hope, sometimes for a decade, she kept them friendly when they might otherwise have made war on her kingdom.”可知。

2.2】D　推理判断题。由第四、五和六段可知，如果她结婚可能对英国政治产生负面影响。

3.3】A　推理判断题。由第四段第三句话“The English were generally prejudiced against the Queen taking a foreign husband, particularly a Catholic one.”可推知，the Queen找了一位外国夫君遭到人们发对，尤其是该人还是天主教徒，所以the Queen应该不是天主教徒。

4.4】B　推理判断题。由最后一段最后两句话“Elizabeth was far too intelligent.The choice she made was courageous and revolutionary, and, in the long run, the right one for England.”可知，作者认为伊丽莎白一世没有结婚是明智的选择。

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