Shundagarh is a village on India’s east-facing coast. It is a village of simple mud and grass houses built on the beach just above the waterline. The Khadra Hills rise immediately behind the village, to a height of one hundred and fifty meters. A simple, good-hearted old man, whose name was Jalpur, farmed two small fields on the very edge of these hills, overlooking Shundgarh. From his fields he could see the fishing boats that traveled up and down the coast. He could see the children playing on the sand; their mothers washing clothes on the flat stones where the Shiva River flowed into the see; and their fathers landing the latest catch or repairing nets and telling stories that had no end.
All Jalpur owned in the world were the clothes he wore day in and day out, the miserable hut that he slept in at night, a few tools and cooking pots—and his fields. The corn that he grew was all that made life possible. If the weather was kind and the harvest was good, Jalpur could live happily enough—not well, but happily. When the sun was fierce, and there was little or no rain, then he came close to the line between a life which was too hard, and death itself.
Last year the weather had been so kind, and the harvest promised to be so good, that Jalpur had been wondering whether he could sell all that he had and live with his son farther up the coast. He had been thinking about doing this for some years. It was his dearest wish to spend his last days with his son and his wife and children. But he would go only if he could give; he would not go if it meant taking food out the mouths of his grandchildren. He would rather die hungry than do this.
On the day on which Jalpur decided that he would harvest his com, sell it, and move up the coast, he looked out to sea and saw a huge wave, several kilometers out, advancing on the coast and on the village of Shundagarh. Within ten minutes everyone in Shundagarh would be drowned. Jalpur would have shouted, but the people were too far away to hear. He would have run down the hill, but he was too old to run. He was prepared to anything to save the people of Shundagarh, so he did the only thing that he could do: he set fire to his corn. In a matter of seconds the flames were rising high and smoke was rising higher. Within a minute the people of Shundagarh were racing up the hill to see what had happened. There, in the middle of his blackened cornfield, they found Jalpur; and there they buried him.
On his grave, they wrote the words: here lies Jalpur, a man who gave, living; a man who died, giving.
1. Why didn’t Jalpur live well?
2. What was Jalpur’s dearest wish?
3. Why did Jalpur need money?
4. Which of the following statements is true?
5. The villagers were thankful to Jaipur because he had ________.
问题1选项
A.He didn’t work hard.
B.He had too many children to feed.
C.He depended on good weather and harvest to survival.
D.The villagers kept taking his corn.
问题2选项
A.To move away from his son.
B.To take a vacation up the coast.
C.To make a great deal of money in order to live an easy life.
D.To spend his last days with his son.
问题3选项
A.His son charged him rent.
B.He wanted to buy his son a new house.
C.He wanted to bring presents to his grandchildren.
D.He didn’t want his son’s family to go hungry just because of him.
问题4选项
A.He lay dead in the middle of his blackened cornfield.
B.The villagers gave him corn to replace his burnt harvest.
C.The villagers paid him for the damage.
D.He left the village to live with his son.
问题5选项
A.given his life in order to save theirs
B.saved their village from being drowned by the wave
C.given them many things during his life
D.given them his corn in order to save them from hunger
第1题:C
第2题:D
第3题:D
第4题:A
第5题:A
第1题:
【选项释义】
Why didn’t Jalpur live well? 为什么Jalpur过得不好？
A. He didn’t work hard. A. 他工作不努力。
B. He had too many children to feed. B. 他有太多的孩子要养活。
C. He depended on good weather and harvest to survival. C. 他靠好天气和收成生存。
D. The villagers kept taking his corn. D. 村民们不断拿走他的玉米。
【答案】C
【考查点】事实细节题。
【解题思路】根据题干信息词live可定位到第二段第二句，该处讲到“他种的玉米是他赖以生存的原因。如果天气好，收成好，Jalpur可以过得很幸福——如果（收成）不好，就不幸福”。换言之，Jalpur依靠收成生活，而收成又由天气影响，C选项恰好是此信息的同义转换，因此C选项正确。
【干扰项排除】
A选项“他工作不努力”文中没有提及，属于无中生有；
B选项“他有太多的孩子要养活”，虽然文中提到了Jalpur的孩子，但是并没有说他要养活很多孩子。该选项属于无中生有；
D选项“村民们不断拿走他的玉米”，文中提到Jalpur打算卖给村民玉米，而不是村民拿走他的玉米。该选项属于无中生有。
第2题:
【选项释义】
What was Jalpur’s dearest wish? Jalpur最大的愿望是什么？
A. To move away from his son. A. 离开他的儿子。
B. To take a vacation up the coast. B. 去海边度假。
C. To make a great deal of money in order to live an easy life. C. 为了过上舒适的生活，赚很多钱。
D. To spend his last days with his son. D. 在他儿子的陪同下度过最后的日子。
【答案】D
【考查点】事实细节题。
【解题思路】题干信息词Jalpur’s dearest wish可定位到第三段第三句，该处讲到“他最大的愿望是和他的儿子、妻子和孩子们一起度过最后的日子（It was his dearest wish to spend his last days with his son and his wife and children. ）”。因此D选项正确。
【干扰项排除】
A选项“离开他的儿子”，文中Jalpur非常想和他的儿子一起生活，所以A选项不正确属于反向干扰；
B选项“去海边度假”，文中没有提及，该选项属于无中生有；
C选项“为了过上舒适的生活，赚很多钱”，文中没有提到，属于无中生有。
第3题:
【选项释义】
Why did Jalpur need money? 为什么Jalpur需要钱？
A. His son charged him rent. A. 他儿子向他收了房租。
B. He wanted to buy his son a new house. B. 他想给儿子买栋新房子。
C. He wanted to bring presents to his grandchildren. C. 他想给他的孙子孙女们带礼物。
D. He didn't want his son’s family to go hungry just because of him. D. 他不想让他儿子的家人因为他而挨饿。
【答案】D
【考查点】事实细节题。
【解题思路】根据题干可定位到第三段最后一句，该处讲到“但是，只有在他能给予的情况下，他才愿意去。如果这意味着要抢孙辈的食物，他是不会去的。他宁愿饿死也不愿这样做”。换言之，他希望通过卖他的玉米获得收成赚取钱财之后去，他不想从自己孩子那里白白得到食物，使他们变得饥饿。比对选项，D选项恰好是此信息的同义转换，因此D选项正确。
【干扰项排除】
A选项“他儿子向他收了房租”，原文没有提到，属于无中生有；
B选项“他想给儿子买栋新房子”，原文只说Jalpur想要和儿子一起生活，并没有说买房子，该选项属于无中生有；
C选项“他想给他的孙子孙女们带礼物”，文中没有提到，该选项属于无中生有。
第4题:
【选项释义】
Which of the following statements is true? 下列哪个陈述是正确的？
A. He lay dead in the middle of his blackened cornfield. A. 他躺在烧焦的玉米地中间死去了。
B. The villagers gave him corn to replace his burnt harvest. B. 村民们给了他玉米来代替他烧坏的庄稼。
C. The villagers paid him for the damage. C. 村民们赔偿了他的损失。
D. He left the village to live with his son. D. 他离开村子和儿子住在一起。
【答案】A
【考查点】推理判断题。
【解题思路】根据倒数第二段最后一句“在他那焦黑的玉米地中央，他们找到了贾普尔；他们就把他埋在那里。”换言之，Jalpur在烧焦的玉米地中死去了。比对选项，A选项恰好是此信息的同义转换，因此A选项正确。
【干扰项排除】
B选项“村民们给了他玉米来代替他烧坏的庄稼”，文中没有提到，属于无中生有；
C选项“村民们赔偿了他的损失”，文中没有提到，属于无中生有；
D选项“他离开村子和儿子住在一起”，Jalpur最后死了，所以D选项不成立，属于无中生有。
第5题:
【选项释义】
The villagers were thankful to Jaipur because he had ________. 村民们感谢Jalpur，因为他________。
A. given his life in order to save theirs. A. 为了救他们，牺牲了自己的生命。
B. saved their village from being drowned by the wave. B. 使他们的村庄免于被海浪淹没。
C. given them many things during his life. C. 在他的一生中给了他们很多东西。
D. given them his corn in order to save them from hunger. D. 为了让他们免于饥饿，他把自己的玉米给了他们。
【答案】A
【考查点】推理判断题。
【解题思路】根据文章倒数第二段可知，几公里外的一个巨浪，正向海岸和Shundagarh村推进。十分钟之内，村庄内的所有人都会被淹死。为了救村民他点燃了他的玉米，吸引了村民的注意力，村民都跑到了山上，免于海浪吞噬。但是Jalpur死在了那里。换言之，Jalpur为了救村民牺牲自己。比对选项，A选项恰好是此信息的同义转换，因此A选项正确。
【干扰项排除】
B选项“使他们的村庄免于被海浪淹没”，Jalpur太老了不能跑下山于是点燃了玉米，火焰越燃越高，村民就冲上山去看发生了什么事。Jalpur只是救了村民的性命，村庄还是被海浪淹没。Jalpur没有办法使村庄避免被巨浪淹没。这里属于无中生有；
C选项“在他的一生中给了他们很多东西”，文中没有提到，属于无中生有；
D选项“为了让他们免于饥饿，他把自己的玉米给了他们”，Jalpur自己的温饱都难以维持更别提去帮助别人了。这里属于无中生有。
