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Passage One

       He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of the night. I hope I do not have to fight again, he thought. I hope so much I do not have to fight again.

    But by midnight he fought and this time he knew the fight was useless. They came in a pack and he could only see the lines in the water that their fins made . He clubbed at heads and heard the jaws chop and the shaking of the skiff as they took hold below. He clubbed desperately at what he could only feel and hear and he felt something seize the club and it was gone.

    He jerked the tiller free from the rudder (舵) and beat and chopped with it, holding it in both hands and driving it down again and again. But they were up to the bow now and driving in one after the other and together, tearing off the pieces of meat that showed glowing below the sea as they turned to come once more.

    One came, finally, against the head itself and he knew that it was over. He swung the tiller across the shark's head where the jaws were caught in the heaviness of the fish's head which would not tear. He swung it once and twice and again. He heard the tiller break and he lunged at the shark with the splintered butt. He felt it go in and knowing it was sharp he drove it in again. The shark let go and rolled away. That was the last shark of the pack that came. There was nothing more for them to eat.

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1. The first paragraph shows the old man to be all of the following except ________.( C )

(a) feeling cold

(b) wounded and tired

(c) moving easily

(d) longing for his fight to be over

2. In the second paragraph, the old man was fighting ________.( B )

(a) a great fish

(b) an army of fish

(c) something he didn't know

(d) the strong current

3. The fish in paragraph three were trying to ________.( C )

(a) overturn the boat

(b) kill the man

(c) eat the meat

(d) get aboard the boat

4. Finally the last shark left because ________.( D )

(a) the other sharks were all gone

(b) it was seriously wounded

(c) the man drove it away

(d) there was no more meat left for it

5. A good title for the passage is: ________.( A )

(a) The Old Man's Fight with Sharks

(b) A Brave Fisherman

(c) A Life-and-Death Struggle

(d) Dangers at the Sea                                               TOP 

Passage Two

       Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb of Chicago. His father, a physician, was an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman who taught his son to handle a rod and a gun. Hemingway's respect for these skills and his love of the open air run through his writing. He has tried to capture the point of view, actions, feelings, and speech of men who excel in the activities he admires.

    In school Hemingway was a good student, with a wide range of interests beyond the classroom. He was known as a boxer, a football player, a member of the swimming team, and manager of the track team. For three years he played in the school orchestra. But much of his activity was connected with words, which were to be his lifelong preoccupation. First as reporter, then as editor, he gained experience on the school paper, to which he contributed articles and stories.

    When Hemingway graduated from high school in 1917, World War I was still being fought. After a few months as a reporter on the Kansas City Star, he sailed for Europe in May, 1918, as a volunteer ambulance driver and later transferred to the Italian infantry. Two weeks before his nineteenth birthday a leg wound brought him close to death. War and death have been recurrent themes in Hemingway's writing. Of war he has said, "... I thought about Tolstoi and about what a great advantage an experience of war was to a writer. It was one of the major subjects and certainly one of the hardest to write truly of ..."

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   6. According to paragraph one, Hemingway learned from his father all of the following except ________.( C )

(a) fishing

(b) hunting

(c) writing

(d) love of the open air

7. With a wide range of interests, Hemingway was nevertheless most interested in ________.( D )

(a) boxing

(b) swimming

(c) football

(d) words

8. Immediately after graduation from high school, Hemingway ________.( A )

(a) worked as a reporter for a newspaper

(b) sailed for Europe

(c) became a volunteer ambulance driver

(d) served in the Italian army

9. Hemingway thought that his experience of war was to him ________.( B )

(a) the hardest subject to write about

(b) something very useful for writing

(c) something as terrible as death

(d) like that of Tolstoi's

10. A good title for the passage is: ________.( C )

(a) Hemingway's Interest in Writing

(b) The Subjects for Hemingway's Writings

(c) The Life of Young Hemingway

(d) Hemingway's Understanding of War                                 TOP

Passage Three

       In the construction of the story the old man is seen with the boy at the beginning and at the end. For the rest of the time he is alone with the sea and its creatures. The very moving relationship between Santiago and the boy is shown through conversation that is distinguished by its tact and courtesy. The old man makes the boy feel mature and responsible. The boy, in turn, is protector as well as pupil, providing refreshment, companionship, and hope. In a sense, the child is the father of the man. Without him, however, Santiago is not achingly lonely. Like so many of Hemingway's men, he finds his mind good company. He relives his experiences and thinks about the sea, the creatures that travel under it and over it, the successes and failures of his life, and those baseball players with whose lives he feels an affinity (亲密关系).

    The sea of the story lies out beyond Havana, Cuba. It is vast, majestic, and timeless, calm for much of the year, feeling the benign influences of the trade winds and the Gulf Stream. The old man loves its beauty, power, and mystery. "He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her." Hemingway has testified to his own feeling about the timelessness and majesty of the Gulf Stream in a passage in Green Hills of Africa. The old man shares the writer's conviction that the things a man alone with the Gulf Stream finds out about it and about those that have always lived in it are permanent and of value.

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11. It can be inferred from the passage that the story ________.( B )

(a) mainly concerns the relationship between the old man and the boy

(b) shows a moving relationship between the old man and the boy

(c) is filled with vivid conversations between the old man and the boy

(d) shows how an old man overcomes loneliness with the boy's help

12. Which of the following is NOT included in the passage?  ( A )

(a) The old man is protector and instructor to the boy.

(b) The boy is the old man's close companion and his hope.

(c) The old man makes the boy feel mature and responsible

(d) In a sense, the child is the father of the old man

13. Like so many of Hemingway's men, the old man finds his mind good company. The second part of this sentence means that ________.( D )

(a) the old man finds his mind still useful

(b) the old man finds that he still has a good mind for running a company

(c) the old man's mind helps him out of loneliness

(d) the old man is always thinking and enjoys his thinking

14. In the passage, the sea is described as all the following except ________.( D )

(a) grand and timeless

(b) mysterious and powerful

(c) beautiful and vast 

(d) dark and violent

15. The second paragraph discusses ________.( D )

(a) the old man's feelings towards the sea

(b) Hemingway's feelings towards the sea

(c) the similarity between The Old Man and the Sea and Green Hills of Africa

(d) the shared feelings towards the sea by the old man and Hemingway himself                                                                     TOP