2018年成人学位英语考试：阅读理解练习（四）
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I was only eight years old when the Second World War ended, but I can still remember something about the victory celebrations in the small town where I liveD.(76) We had not suffered much from the war there, though like most children of my age, I was used to seeing bombed houses in the streets and the enormous army lorries passing through. But both at home and at school I had become accustomed to the phrases "before the war" and "when the war's over. Before the war," apparently, things had been better, though I was too young to understand why, except there had been no bombs then, and people had eaten things like ice cream and bananas, which I had only heard of. When the war was over, we would go back to London, but this meant very little to me. I did not remember what London was like.
What I remember now about VE Day was the afternoon and the evening. It was a fine May Day. I remember coming home at about five o'clock. My father and mother came in about an hour later. After dinner I said I wanted to see the bonfire ( 篝火), so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street. The bonfire was very high, and some people had collected some old clothes to dress the unmistakable figure with the moustache (小胡子 ) they had put on top of it. Just as we arrived, they set light to it. The flames rose and soon covered the "guy." Everyone was cheering and shouting, and an old woman came out of her house with two chairs and threw them on the fire to keep the fire going.
I stood beside my father until the fire started to go down, not knowing what to say. He said nothing either. He had fought in the First World War and may have been remembering the end of that. At last he said, "Well, that's it, son. Let's hope that this time it really will be the last one."
(1)Where did the narrator live before the Second World War ?
A.In a small city.
B.In London.
C.In Europe.
D.In the countryside.
参考答案：B
解题思路：本文作者主要回忆了第二次世界大战结束时的情景，并且提到了战前和战后的区别， 也提到了当时人们是怎样庆祝胜利结束的。文章第一段最后提到战争结束后他们将要返回London，可知以前他们住在London。
(2)What kind of food had the narrator certainly not tasted during the war ?
A.Bread.
B.Butter.
C.Ice cream.
D.Bones.
参考答案：C
解题思路：文章第一段后面提到战前人们吃ice cream和bananas，而作者只听说过这些东西，因此可知答案应该选C。
(3)The unmistakable figure with the moustache most probably represents __________
A.someone who died in the First World War
B.someone who had won the war
C.an imaginary figure
D.the most hated person in the war--Hitler
参考答案：D
解题思路：通过对第二次世界大战的常识以及第二段倒数第二句可以知道应该选D。
(4)The narrator's father
A.had fought in the Second World War
B.may have suffered much during the previous war
C.helped build a bonfire on VE Day
D.added something to the fire to keep it going too
参考答案：B
解题思路：文章最后一段提到作者的父亲参加过第一次世界大战，因此排除A。C、D选项文章中没有提到，因此选B。
(5)By saying "Let's hope that this time it really will be the last one", the father meant that
A.he hoped there would be no more wars in the world
B.he wished the Second World War had not happened
C.he hoped people would build more bonfires
D.he wished people would learn many lessons from the war
参考答案：A
解题思路：通过文意可以了解到作者的父亲是希望以后不会再有战争。所以选A。
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