专题23 名著节选

2023中考英语阅读理解专项练习（常考+热门话题）

专题23 名著节选

一、阅读单选

（2022·江苏省淮阴中学开明分校二模）“That Tom is going to make a lot of trouble. He kept putting cotton into Martha’s sack（麻袋）,” Sambo told Legree that night.

“Then we’ll have to give him a lesson.” said Legree. 

Slowly the tired slaves（奴隶）came into the room for the weighing of the sacks. First Legree weighed Tom’s sack, and it was enough. Martha’s sack was next. The weight was enough, but Legree shouted at her.

“You lazy animal! This is not enough! Stay here and wait.” He finished weighing all the other sacks, and then turned to Tom.

“Come here,” said Legree, “I want to give you a better job than picking cotton, and you can start tonight: take this woman and whip（鞭打） her — you know how.”

“I’m sorry, Master,” said Tom. “I can’t do it.”

Legree whipped Tom across his face and then hit him with his fists many times.

“There!” he said. “Now will you tell me you can’t do it ?”

“Yes, Master,” said Tom, with blood running down his face. “I will work night and day, but I will never whip another person”.

“I bought you, and you’re mine, body and soul（灵魂）.” he said, kicking Tom.

“My soul isn’t yours! You can’t buy it!”

“We’ll see,” said Legree, “Sambo, Quimbo, give this dog, a lesson.”

It was late at night, and Tom lay bleeding alone, among pieces of broken machinery. He heard a noise.

“Who’s there? Please, give me some water!”

It was Cassy. She helped him drink and then she cleaned his wounds and put something soft under his head. Tom felt better.

—Adapted from Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1．Legree asked Tom to whip Martha because ________.

A．Martha refused his order B．Martha picked enough cotton

C．he wanted to give Tom a lesson D．Martha was a slave

2．What did Tom mean by saying “My soul isn’t yours! You can’t buy it!”?

A．You can’t ask me to do everything! B．You can’t afford to buy my soul!

C．You can’t hurt my feelings! D．You can’t be my master!

3．Which of the following words can best describe Tom?

A．Helpful and brave. B．Silly but confident. C．Clever and loyal. D．Careful but rude.

4．The story is organized in order of ________.

A．size B．space C．time D．logic（逻辑）

（2022·江苏·连云港市新海初级中学三模）As we walked down the shore, Ben Gunn told his story. “I was alone here for years,” he said. “One day, I found the skeleton. I saw it was pointing to a tree. I dug around that tree and found the treasure. I was living in a cave, so I took the treasure to the cave. This morning, when Long John Silver and his men came to look for the treasure, I showed myself to one of them. He thought I was a ghost.” Ben laughed. “He ran off, and this gave me the time to get back to the squire (乡绅) and the doctor. They were waiting at the cave.”

“Now I know,” I said to the doctor, “why you gave the map to Silver.”

“It was useless by then,” the doctor said. “There was no buried treasure. Ben Gunn had it. My plan was to get Long John Silver and his men away from the stockade (栅栏). We could then get some stores from it.”

When we got back to the cave, the squire was waiting for us.

“Three of the mutineers (反叛者) got away,” the doctor told him. “But if we hurry, we can get to the boat before them. They ran back to the stockade on the other side of the island. We are nearer to the boat than they are.”

I went to the cave. The captain was lying inside it next to the treasure—a pile of gold coins.

“Hello, Jim,” he said. “I am pleased to see you. But I don’t think you or I will be going to see again.”

That night, the captain died. We carried the treasure down to the boat. We lit a fire on the shore and had a fine meal together. We were not afraid of the three mutineers. We had pistols (手枪). They had none. There were more of us than of them.

The next morning, we went in the boat towards the Hispaniola. We didn’t care about the three men. We left them on the island.

I will not tell you about the journey home. Nothing important happened. But as soon as we got to Bristol, Long John Silver ran away. He took some of the gold with him. None of us cared. We were pleased to see the back of him. We each shared the treasure and used it in a different way.

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