题文

完形填空。

O. Henry was a pen name used by an American  1  of short stories. His  2  name was William Sydney Porter. He was  3  in North Carolina in 1862.        4  a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he tried to teach  5  everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different  6 . He first worked on newspaper, and then had a job in a  7 . When some money went missing from the bank, O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was   8  to prison.  9   the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went to writing.      O. Henry wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because they were  10   to understand and they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader's surprise.

(     )1. A. clerk    (     )2. A. pen      (     )3. A. bore     (     )4. A. To       (     )5. A. myself   (     )6. A. food     (     )7. A. newspaper (     )8. A. send     (     )9. A. On       (     )10. A. hard    B. teacher   B. old       B. born      B. For       B. himself   B. clothes   B. hospital  B. sent      B. For       B. difficult C. writer C. first  C. bored  C. As     C. hiself C. work   C. school C. sending C. In     C. easy   D. doctor          D. real             D. boring        D. Because       D. itself      D. jobs           D. bank          D. to send    D. During      D. creative

题型：完形填空  难度：中档

答案

1-5   CDBCB       6-10   DDBDC

据专家权威分析，试题“完形填空。 O. Henry was a pen name used by an American1 of ..”主要考查你对  人物传记类阅读  等考点的理解。关于这些考点的“档案”如下：

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  人物传记的叙述线索也常常以时间为序。内容一般不是一个人的生活流水账，而是选取主人公一些重要的人生阶段或生活片段来展开叙述。
  阅读时要把握主人公在此阶段发生的事对他本身或他人有什么重要的意义和影响。