“Dad,” I say one day …..take a trip. Why don’t you fly and meet me?”
My father had just reired……….. His job filled his day, his thought, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.
My father sees me drfting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.
He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.
“ What is our first stop?” asks my father.
“What time is it?”
“Still don’t have a watch?”
Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of little boy.
“Unbelievable,” he says, “How was this done?”
A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.
We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything?
No directions, …… I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.
The next day we’re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.
“Did you ever travel with your dad? I ask.
“Only once,” he says. “ I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other---but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”>
The kast sebtebce----it’s probably the same thing I’s say about my father. And what I’d want my child to say about me.
In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I’ve never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world, I can keep traveling, I realize--- and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.
Weeks after our trip, I call my father.
“The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he says.” We have got to take another trip like that sometime.
I tell him I’ve learn decided to settle down, and I’m wearing a watch.
小题1:We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father _________.
A．followed the fashion
B．got bored with his job
C．was unhappy with……
D．liked the author’s collection of stamps小题2: What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore?
A．His father is interested in sculpture
B．His father is as innocent as a little boy
C．He should learn sculpture in the future
D．He should pursue a specific aim in life.小题3:From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author________.
A．wants his children to learn from their grandfather
B．comes to understand what parental love means
C．learns how to communicate with his father
D．hopes to give whatever he can to his father小题4:What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?
A．The call solves their disagreements
B．The Swiss watch has drawn them closer
C．They decide to learn photography together.
D．They begin to change their attitudes to life小题5:What could be the best title for the passage?
A．Love Nature, Love Life
B．A Son Lost in Adventure
C．A Journey with Dad
D．The Art of Travel
小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:C
【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。叙述了作者的父亲在退休前一直忙于工作，没有时间走出去旅行，而儿子平时整天我所事事。在儿子的请求下，父子两个进行了一次旅行，通过这次旅行两人都改变了对人生的观点。
小题1:C. 考查细节理解。我们从2、3段能够了解到关于父亲的什么。根据My father sees me driffing aimlessly,nothing to show for my 33 years.可知父亲对作者的生活方式不满，故选C。
小题2:D. 考查判断推理。作者在Mount Rushmore意识到什么？根据I realize—and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.可以推知作者意识到自己应该有自己的人生目标了，故选D。
小题3:B. 考查句意理解。从划线的句子我们看到作者的什么情况。根据划线的句子的内容可知作者想说的关于父亲的话，和作者的孩子说的关于作者的话内容是一样的。可知这里指的是作者慢慢地理解了父母对孩子的爱。故选B。
小题4:D. 考查判断推理。从故事的结尾可以推出作者和父亲怎样了。根据最后的几句父亲和作者的话，父亲要改变以前的做法，想要在将来的某个时候继续旅行，作者决定安顿下来，不再无所事事，所以可推出他们通过这次旅行都改变了各自的人生观点，故选D。
小题5:C. 考查文章标题。这篇文章的标题是什么？根据短文的内容可知主要叙述的是作者和父亲的一次旅行经历。故选C。选项A爱自然、爱生活，这个标题太大，不符合原文；选项B，只提到了儿子的探险，有点片面，故排除B；选项D旅行艺术，短文中没有提到这方面的内容，故排除D。