Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alo

Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy – five, he gave $ 60,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s ground.

As a result of his kindness, he became famous. Many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

【小题1】Johnson became a rich man through _______.

A．doing business

B．making whisky

C．cheating

D．buying and selling land

【小题2】The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson _______.

A．had many children in the school	B．was a strange old man
C．was very fond of children	D．was very kind

【小题3】Many people wrote to Johnson to find out _______.

A．what kind of whisky he had

B．how to live longer

C．how to become wealthy

D．in which part of the neck to have an injection

【小题4】When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that _______.

A．he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening

B．he needn’t an injection in the neck

C．a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well

D．there was something wrong with his neck

试题答案

【小题1】A

【小题2】D

【小题3】B

【小题4】A

解析试题分析:有钱而古怪的Johnson在他七十五岁的时候给当地小学捐钱去购置设备和用地，他因此而出名了。然后每天都有很多人来拜访他。当一名记者问到他是如何保持健康的时候，他幽默的把每天喝的一杯威士忌酒说成了每晚注射的针剂，于是人们纷纷写信寻问针剂的情况。

【小题1】A细节理解题。根据文章第一段 He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries.可知Johnson是通过做生意成为有钱人的，答案选A.

【小题2】D推理判断题。根据情理可知只有善良、有爱心的人才会做慈善，给学校捐钱，而且根据文章第二段首句As a result of his kindness也可以证明他是善良的，所以D选项正确。

【小题3】B推理判断题。从文章内容可知当记者问Johnson如何在七十五岁的时候仍然能够保持健康的原因时，他幽默的把每天喝一杯威士忌酒说成了“I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,”，由此推断人们给他写信问他“daily injection”的情况，实际上是问他如何才能长寿，故答案选B。

【小题4】A细节理解题。根据文章第二段“I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.可知当Johnson提到“an injection in my neck”实际上是指每晚喝的威士忌酒，故答案选A。

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