I still remember my first day at school in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened. On my way to school I wondered what sort of questions the other boys would ask me and practiced all the answers: “I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven’t lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. It’s about thirty miles away. I came back to London two months ago.” I also wondered if it was the custom for boys to fight strangers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.
No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground, expecting someone to say “hello”, but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me but that was all.
My teacher was called Mr. Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn’t stand out there, either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr. Jones was very fond of Charles Dickens and he had decided to read aloud to us from David Copperfield, but first he asked several boys if they knew Dickens’ birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said: “Timbuktu”, and Mr. Jones went red in the face. Then he asked me. I said: “Portsmouth”, and everyone stared at me because Mr. Jones said I was right. This didn’t make me very popular, of course.
“He thinks he’s clever,” I heard Brian say.
After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian’s team, and he obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be the goalkeeper.
“He’s big enough and useless enough.” Brian said when someone asked him why he had chosen me.
I suppose Mr. Jones, who served as the judge, remembered Dickens, too, because when the game was nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and he gave them a penalty (惩罚). As the boy kicked the ball to my right, I threw myself down instinctively (本能地) and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were injured and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.
“Do you want to join my gang (帮派)?” he said.
At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.
【小题1】The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT “ ”.A．How old are you? B．Where are you from?C．Do you want to join my gang?D．When did you e back to London?【小题2】We can learn from the passage that .A．boys were usually unfriendly to new studentsB．the writer was not greeted as he expectedC．Brian praised the writer for his clevernessD．the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper【小题3】The underlined part “I didn’t stand out” in paragraph 3 means that the writer was not .A．noticeableB．weleC．importantD．foolish【小题4】The writer was offered a handkerchief because .A．he threw himself down and saved the goalB．he pushed a player on the other teamC．he was beginning to be acceptedD．he was no longer a newerC
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(答案→)C
解析：文章讲述了我来到伦敦第一天上学的故事。
【小题1】推理题。文章第一段是作者在上学之前准备回答的问题。不包括C项，C项是Brian后来问作者的，不是作者准备回答的。
【小题2】细节题。根据文章第二段后一句When a teacher called my name and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me but that was all.可知B正确。
【小题3】猜测词义题。根据本段内容可知直到这一天下午第一节课，我回答上了老师的问题，我才被别人所注意到。A正确。
【小题4】推理题。根据文章最后两行“Do you want to join my gang (帮派)?” he said.
At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.可知我已经被大家所接受。C正确。