Ⅲ. 阅读理解(每小题 2 分,满分 20 分)
A
(简版小说)Jan lies in bed, looking at the photos on her phone. She looks for a long time at the picture of her parents and then smiles when she sees the photo of Tom in the living room. Then she goes to sleep.
A loud noise wakes Jan up suddenly. She looks at the alarm clock. It’s five o’clock. Then she hears the noise again. It’s thunder. Then she hears a different noise. It’s the sound of something hitting the window. She gets up and goes to the window. She can see Tom standing outside in the rain. He’s shouting at Jan, telling her to come outside.
Jan gets dressed, puts on her anorak(夹克)and goes downstairs quietly, trying not to wake up Tom’s parents. She meets Tom outside. “What are you doing, Tom?” “The storm,” he says. “It’s the same storm as Thursday night. Let’s go to the tree. Maybe you can go home!”
Jan follows Tom down the road, then she remembers something. “The time capsule(胶囊)!”
Tom shows her the biscuit tin under his jacket. “I’ve got it.” They walk quickly back down the road past Jamie’s house and Pauly’s house. It seems so long since she arrived here in the past. And now maybe there’s the
possibility that she can return to the future. They run up the path through the trees and arrive at the place with the apple tree. “Now what do we do?” asks Jan. “I put the time capsule back where I found it and …” “And I go home.” “Yes.”
Tom uses his hands to dig a hole by the tree. He buries(埋)the time capsule and then stands up. Jan suddenly realizes something. “Tom! I want to give you something from the time capsule.” “
I don’
t want anything.
It’
s more important for you to go home.” Jan feels sad that Tom doesn’t want something to remember her. But he’s right. The important thing is to get home. “I’m never going to forget you, Tom. Thanks. You’re a real friend.” “Bye, Jan. Look for me in the future. Promise?” “I promise.”
Then he turns and runs back to the trees. Jan watches his shadow(影子)disappear into the trees. A sudden flash of lightning illuminates(照射)the scene followed by a loud crash of thunder. Jan looks around and sees her house. She’s back in the garden of her house in Hampton Street.
—From *The Time Capsule*
1. What wakes Jan up according to the passage?
A. The rain.
B. The thunder.
C. The wind.
D. The storm.
2. What does the underlined word “possibility” mean?
A. Something that you want to get.
B. A task that tests someone’s abilities.
C. The fact that someone is able to do something.
D. The fact that something might happen, but it’s not certain.
3. We can learn that Tom is a
boy from the underlined sentences.
A. brave
B. rich
C. kind
D. clever
4. What might be the CORRECT order of what happened in the story?
a. They walk along the road past their friends’ houses.
b. Jan comes back in the garden of her home by the time capsule.
c. Tom hits the window and tells Jan to come outside.
d. Jan wants to send Tom something important to remember her.
A. a-c-d-b
B. b-a-c-d
C. c-a-d-b
D. d-c-a-b
5. (语言能力
推断能力)What can we infer from the passage?
A. Jan misses her family very much.
B. Jan watches Tom’s shadow disappear into the trees.
C. Tom and Jan want to play with Jamie and Pauly.
D. A sudden flash of lightning makes Jan afraid.