Unit 3 life in the future using language课时作业

第一节　阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

　　请阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Every man wants his son to be somewhat of a clone，not in features but in footsteps.As he grows you also age，and your ambitions become more unachievable. You begin to realize that your boy，in your footsteps，could probably accomplish what you hoped for. But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.

　　My son Jody has hated school since day one in kindergarten. Science projects waited until the last moment. Book reports weren't written until the final threat.

　　I've been a newspaperman all my adult life. My daughter is a university graduate working toward her master's degree in English. But Jody? When he entered the tenth grade he became a "vo­tech" student(技校学生)．They're called "motorheads" by the rest of the student body.

　　When a secretary in my office first called him "motorhead"，I was shocked."Hey，he's a good kid，" I wanted to say."And smart，really."

　　I learned later that motorheads are，indeed，different. They usually have dirty hands and wear dirty work clothes. And they don't often make school honor rolls.

　　But being the parent of a motorhead is itself an experience in education. We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have. I began to learn this when I had my car crashed. The cost to repair it was estimated at 800."Hey，I can fix it，" said Jody. I doubted it，but let him go ahead，for I had nothing to lose.

　　My son，with other motorheads，fixed the car. They got parts from a junkyard，and ability from vo­tech classes. The cost was 25 instead of 800.

　　Since that first repair job，a broken air­conditioner，a non­functioning washer and a non­toasting toaster have been fixed. Neighbors and co­workers trust their car repairs to him.

　　These kids are happiest when doing repairs. They joke and laugh and are living in their own relaxed world. And their minds are bright despite their dirty hands and clothes.

　　I have learned a lot from my motorhead: publishers need printers，engineers need mechanics，and architects need builders. Most importantly，I have learned that fathers don't need clones in footsteps or anywhere else.

　　My son may never make the school honor roll. But he made mine.

语篇解读　这是一篇记叙文。作者一开始希望自己的儿子能效仿他，完成他没有实现的目标。但是儿子学习成绩不理想，只上了技校。一次作者的车坏了，儿子及其同学帮助他修好了车，让作者改变了自己的看法。