A
After a few moments, my passenger started a conversation. It began ordinarily enough: “How do you like driving a cab?”
“It’s OK,” I said. “I make a living and meet interesting people sometimes. How about you? His reply intrigued me.
“I would not change jobs even if I could make twice as much money doing something else.”
I’d never heard that before. “What do you do?’’
“I’m in the neurology department at New York Hospital.”
Then I decided to ask for this man’s help. We were not far from the airport.
“Could I ask a big favor of you? I have a son, 15, a good kid. He wants a job, but a 15-year-old can’t get hired unless his old man knows someone who owns a business, and I don’t.” I paused. “Is there any possibility that you could get him some kind of summer job?”
He didn’t respond for a while. Finally, he said: “Well, the medical students have a summer research project. Maybe he could fit in. Have him send me his school record.”I tore off a piece of my brown lunch bag, and he scribbled his name on it and paid me. It was the last time I ever saw him.
After I nagged, yelled, and finally threatened to cut off his pocket money, my son Robbie sent off his grades to the guy the next morning.
Two weeks later, when I arrived home from work, my son was beaming. He handed me a letter from my passenger, saying he was to call my passenger’s secretary for an interview.
Robbie got the job. He did minor tasks, unpaid, but he fit in well. The following summer, he worked at the hospital again with more responsibility. As high school graduation neared, Dr Plum was kind enough to write letters of recommendation for Robbie and he was accepted by Brown University. Finally, Dr Robert Stern, the son of a taxicab driver, became OB-GYN chief president at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
Some might call it fate, and I guess it was. But it shows that something as ordinary as a taxi ride can change your life.
1. What does the underlined word “intrigued” in the second paragraph mean?
A. interested
B. confused
C. benefited
D. challenged
2. After the author got the passenger’s name, he ___________.
A. found that his son got the summer job immediately.
B. found his son wasn’t interested in getting a summer job.
C. had difficulty persuading his son to send his school record.
D. asked for his help more than once.
3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?
A. The author loves his job and devotes himself to it.
B. Robbie was very eager to work at New York Hospital.
C. The small summer job led to Robbie’s career.
D. Dr. Plum promised to help the author without hesitation.
4. The author develops the article mainly by________.
A. providing examples
B. following the natural time order
C. making comparisons
D. presenting causes and effects
【答案】1. A 2. C 3. C 4. B
【解析】
【分析】
本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲了作者是一名出租车司机，对于一次搭载乘客的经历记忆犹新。因为普普通通的一次经历，却帮助作者的儿子成为了一家医院的主治医生。
【1题详解】
词义猜测题。根据下文I’d never heard that before. “What do you do?’’ 可知他的回答让我感兴趣。A. interested感兴趣的；B. confused困惑的；C. benefited受益的；D. challenged挑战，故选A。
【2题详解】
推理判断题。答案定位在倒数第四段After I nagged, yelled, and finally threatened to cut off his pocket money, my son Robbie sent off his grades to the guy the next morning.可知经过我唠叨，大喊，并最终威胁中断他的零花钱，我的儿子Robbie才把他的成绩寄出去，由此推断出劝说他的儿子邮寄学校成绩非常困难，故选C。
【3题详解】
推理判断题。根据倒数第二段Finally, Dr Robert Stern, the son of a taxicab driver, became OB-GYN chief president at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.可知这份暑期小工作却成就了Robbie的事业，故选C。
【4题详解】
推理判断题。本文作者是一名出租车司机，对于一次搭载乘客的经历记忆犹新。因为普普通通的一次经历，却帮助作者的儿子成为了一家医院的主治医生。这篇文章是按着正常的时间顺序发展的，故选B。
【点睛】抓住特定信息进行逆向或正向推理做此类试题要善于抓住某一段话中的关键信息，即某些关键词或短语去分析、推理、判断，利用逆向思维或正面推理，从而推断出这句话所隐含的深层含义。小题3根据倒数第二段Finally, Dr Robert Stern, the son of a taxicab driver, became OB-GYN chief president at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.可知这份暑期小工作却成就了Robbie的事业，故选C。
