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【2023广东深圳一模】From cottages surrounded by impressive gardens to days spent exploring sandy beaches and deep woods filled with wildlife, in My Family and Other Animals, English writer Gerald Durrell provided a vivid account of his family’s time on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.
Come for the arresting descriptions of Corfu landscapes and stay for Durrell’s laugh-out-loud tales of his unusual family. This book, Durrell wrote humorously in the introduction, “was intended to be a nostalgic(怀旧的)account of natural history, but in the first few pages, I made the mistake of introducing my family. ”
Durrell, later known for his zoo keeping and the prervation of wildlife, was just a child during his family’s five-year stay in Corfu. He is 10-year-old Gerry in the book — curious, passionate about animals and a detailed storyteller of his strange family: his imaginative elder brother Larry with his literary ambitions, lovestruck sister Margo, sporty brother Leslie and his ever-calm, loving mother.
Durrell’s attention to detail is what makes the book so winning, with every sight, sound and smell of the island brought to life. One minute you’ll be laughing as Larry’s clever literary friends walk down to the daffodil-yellow cottage, the next you’ll be catching your breath as Durrell describes swimming at night in the Ionian Sea: “Lying on my back in the silky water, staring at the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly, I was looking at the Milky Way stretching like a silk scarf across the sky and wondering how many stars it contained. ”
My Family and Other Animals is quite difficult to classify, being one part travel, one part autobiography, one part natural history, and one part comedy, with a thread of descriptive language running throughout that sometimes rais it nearly to poetry.
As a real delight to read, it’s the perfect literary escapism for any adult or older teenager who is currently walking down a tough road in life.
4. Which word best describes Durrell’s life in Corfu?
A. Risky. B. Busy. C. Tough. D. Diver.
5. What does the underlined ntence mean in paragraph 2?
A. I introduced my family by mistake.
B. I shouldn’t have introduced my family.
C. I couldn’t help introducing my family.
D. I gave wrong information about my family.
6. What are paragraph 4 and 5 mainly about?
A. The book’s writing feature.
B. Durrell’s rich imagination.
C. Some interesting plots of the book.
D. Some vivid descriptions of the island.
7. What is the purpo of this text?
A. To share an experience.
B. To recommend a book.
C. To introduce a writing style.
D. To describe an unusual place.
【2023广东梅州一模】When my son first began competing in school chess tournaments, I often chatted with other parents. Occasionally, I would ask if they played chess themlves. Normally, the reply was no. When I volunteered that I was learning to play, their tone was cheerfully joking, “Good luck with that!”If this game is so good, why are adults ignoring it? Seeing someone playing smart phone games, I preferred to say, “Why are you having your kids do chess while you play?”
Sure, we parents had work to do, work that helped pay for the lessons our kids were enjoying. But I was also wondering if we were nding an unnoticeable message that learning was for the young. During one tournament, I saw a group of parents playing che
ss! Just then, a group of kids pasd me “Why are adults learning chess?” One asked, in an apparently joking tone.
I was tired of sitting on the sidelines. I wanted in, and that is why I got a membership card and started throwing mylf in.“Early on,I was nervous, even the master can sometimes play badly, ” as one Grandmaster put it “a fan never” . And a fan I was. It was three hours of concentration and thinking with my phone off. It felt like a gym where I was trained to solve problems with focus, memory, logic, and occasional headaches. And of cour hours of abnce of digital devices would never be no good for thinking sharply.
Being a beginner can be hard at any age, but it gets harder when you are older. The phra “adult beginner”has an fairly gentle pity. It implies the learning of something that you should have perhaps already leaned.
4. What can we learn about other parents from their remarks?
A. They were ignoring other learners.
B. They agreed on the idea of learning chess.
C. They gave congratulations to the adult lessons.
D. They thought it odd for an adult to learn chess.
5. How did the child in the cond paragraph perceive adults learning chess?
A. Laughable. B. Imaginable. C. Understandable. D. Sensible.
6. What do the underlined words “sitting on the sidelines” mean in Paragraph 3?
A. Not being noticed. B. Not being involved.
C. Expressing confusing ideas. D. Following what others do.
7. What did the writer think of his experience of leaning to play chess?
