When I was fourteen, I earned money in the summer by cutting lawns, and with

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When I was fourteen, I earned money in the summer by cutting lawns（草坪）, and within a few weeks I had built up a body of customers. I got to know people by the flowers they planted that I had to remember not to cut down, by the things they lost in the grass or struck in the ground on purpo. I reached the point with most of them when I knew in advance what complaint was about to be spoken, which particular request was most important. And I learned something about the measure of my neighbors by their preferred method of payment: by the job, by the month--- or not at all.Mr. Ballou fell into the last category, and he always had a reason why. On one day, he had no  change for a fifty, on another he was flat out of checks, on another, he was simply out when I knocked on his door. Still, except for the money apart, he was a nice enough guy, always waving or tipping his hat when he’d e me from a distance. I figured him for a thin retirement check, maybe a work-relayed injury that kept him from doing his own yard work. Sure, I kept track of the total, but I didn’t worry about the amount too much. Grass was grass, and the little that Mr. Ballou’s property comprid didn’t take long to trim (修剪). Then, one late afternoon in mid-July, the hottest time of the year, I was walking by his hou and he opened the door, mentioned me to come inside. The hall was cool, shaded, and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim light. “ I owe you,” Mr Ballou, “ but…”I thought I’d save him the trouble of thinking of a new excu. “ No problem. Don’t worry about it.”“ The bank made a mistake in my account,” he continued, ignoring my words. “ It will be cleared up in a day or two . But in the meantime I thought perhaps you could choo one or two volumes for a down payment.He gestured toward the walls and I saw that books were stacked (堆放) everywhere. It was like a library, except with no order to the arrangement.“ Take your time,” Mr. Ballou encouraged. “Read, borrow, keep. Find something you like. What do you read?”“ I don’t know.” And I didn’t. I generally read what was in front of me, what I could get from the paperback stack at the drugstore, what I found at the library, magazines, the back of cereal boxes, comics. The idea of consciously eking out a special title was new to me, but, I realized, not without appeal--- so I started to look through the piles of books.“ You actually read all of the?”“ This isn’t much,” Mr. Ballou said. “ This is nothing, just what I’ve kept, the ones worth looking at a cond time.”“ Pick for me, then.”He raid his eyebrows, cocked his head, and regarded me as though measuring me for a suit. After a moment, he nodded, arched through a stack, and handed me a dark red hardbound book, fairly thick.“ The Last of the Just,” I read. “ By Andre Schwarz-Bart. What’s it about?” “ You tell me,” he said. “ Next week.”I started after supper, sitting outdoors on an uncomfortable kitchen chair. Within a few pages, the yard, the summer, disappeared, and I was plunged into the aching tragedy of the Holocaust, the extraordinary clash of good, reprented by one decent man, and evil. Translated from French, the language was elegant, simple, impossible to resist. When the evening light finally failed I moved inside, read all through the night,To this day, thirty years later, I vividly remember the experience. It was my first voluntary encounter with world literature, and I was stunned (震惊) by the concentrated power a novel could contain. I lacked the vocabulary, however, to translate my feelings into words, so the next week. When Mr. Ballou asked, “ Well?” I only replied, “ It was good?”“ Keep it, then,” he said. “ Shall I suggest another?”I nodded, and was prented with the paperback edition of Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa ( a very important book on the study of the social and cultural development of peoples--- anthropology (人类学) ). To make two long stories short, Mr. Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught anthropology at Dartmouth College. Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had assumed it to be, not a light-hearted, instantly forgettable escape in a hammock (吊床) ( though I have since enjoyed many of tho, too). A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper ason, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the cour of all that follows.小题1:.The author thought that Mr. Ballou was ______________.A．rich but meanB．poor but politeC．honest but forgettableD．strong but lazy小题2:. Before his encounter with Mr. Ballou, the author ud to read _____________.A．anything and everythingB．only what was given to himC．only rious novelsD．nothing in the summer小题3:. The author found the first book Mr. Ballou gave him _____________.A．light-heated and enjoyableB．dull but well writtenC．impossible to put downD．difficult to understand小题4:. From what he said to the author we can gather that Mr. Ballou _______________.A．read all books twiceB．did not do much readingC．read more books than he keptD．preferred to read hardbound books小题5:. The following year the author _______________.A．started studying anthropology at collegeB．continued to cut Mr. Ballou’s lawnC．spent most of his time lazing away in a hammockD．had forgotten what he had read the summer before小题6:. The author’s main point is that _____________.A．summer jobs are really good for young peopleB．you should insist on being paid before you do a jobC．a good book can change the direction of your lifeD．a book is like a garden carried in the pocket. 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:.B小题1:.A小题1:.C小题1:.C小题1:.B小题1:C

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小题1:细节题：从第二段的前面四行，可知Mr. Ballou 是友好的吝啬的。选B小题1:推理题：从第九段的内容，可知作者在遇到Mr. Ballou之前是什么都读。选.A小题1:推理题：从倒数第五段的内容： Translated from French, the language was elegant, simple, impossible to resist. When the evening light finally failed I moved inside, read all through the night,可知作者放不下这本书了。选C小题1:从文章中俩个人的对话：“ You actually read all of the?” “ This isn’t much,” Mr. Ballou said. “ This is nothing, just what I’ve kept, the ones worth looking at a cond time.”可知Mr. Ballou读的书，比这些多。选.C小题1:推理题：从最后一段的句子：Mr. Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next,可知作者后面还是给Mr. Ballou除草。选 B小题1:从文章的最后一段的句子：A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper ason, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the cour of all that follows.可知作者认为好的书对人的影响是很深的。选C

考点

据考高分专家说，试题“When I was fourteen,.....”主要考查你对 [人生感悟类阅读 ]考点的理解。 人生感悟类阅读

人生感悟类阅读的概念：

生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。

生活感悟类阅读解题指导：

一、文章特点： 生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。有时故事的结尾会有一句“点睛之笔”，点出全文的中心思想，就像《伊索寓言》里的寓言一样。还可能是夹叙夹议的哲理散文或生活随笔。散文随笔通常会阐述一种朴素易懂，耳熟能详的人生道理或宝贵品质。文章的结构和议论文类似，一般是总分总或总分结构。每段首句或尾句为主题句（论点），其它句子围绕主题展开论述（论据），论证方法多种多样，或举例，或引用名言，或正反对照等。二、解题技巧：针对生活感悟类文章的特点，做这类文章的完形填空时，要特别注意以下几点：1、重点理解全文的首句。如果是记叙文，找出when，where，who，what等基本要素。如果是散文随笔，充分理解文章的中心句—全文的主题。2、阅读全文的结尾段或结尾句，有助于理解文章所阐述或蕴含的哲理、感悟或忠告等。3、调动自己的背景知识和情感。这类文章不会讲大道理也不会涉及到一些很专业的知识技术领域，而是谈一些小事和简单的道理，所以如果读者能和作者产生感情上的共鸣，读者会更好地把握作者的意图态度，从而提高做题的准确度。因此，考生在平时要做一个有心人，即用心去感悟生活中发生的小事，思考人生的一些基本道理，多阅读一些短小精悍的美文，多写写自己的心情故事和对生活学习的感悟。只有平时多用心，做题时才能调动自己的背景知识和情感。