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         We called her the "Lemon Lady" because of the sour-puss face she always presented to the public
    and because she grew the finest lemons we had ever seen, on two huge trees in her front garden. We
    often wondered why she looked so sour and how she grew such lemons -but we could find out nothing
    about her. She was an old lady - at least 70 years of age, at a guess, perhaps more.
         One day we answered an advertisement for a flat to rent, as we had been asked to leave ours as
    soon as we could, and when we went to the address given, it was the house of the Lemon Lady.
    She didn't "unfreeze" during the whole of our interview. She said the flat would not be ready for
    occupation for about a month; that she had 45 names on her list and might add more before she would
    select the people to suit her best. She was just firm and austere, and I gathered that we were not likely
    to be the ones selected.
         As my husband and I were leaving, I said, "How do you grow those wonderful lemons?" She gave
    a wintry smile, which transformed her whole expression and made her look sweet and somehow pitiful.
         "I do grow nice lemons," she replied. We went on to tell her how much we had always admired them
    every time we had passed, and she opened up and told us quite a lot about this fruit. "You know the
    general theory of pruning(修剪), I suppose?" She asked.
         "Oh," said my husband, "I understand about pruning fruit trees and roses, but you must not prune
    lemons, or so I understand." He added these last words when he saw from the Lemon Lady's expression
     that he had said the wrong thing.
         "No," said the Lemon Lady, "you must not prune lemons unless you want them to grow like mine.
    What is the reason for pruning?"
         "Well, to cut off dead or diseased wood; to prevent one branch chafing another; to let the sunlight
    into the center of the bush and to promote the growth of the more virile buds."
         "Very nicely put," said the Lemon Lady. "And why do you think that lemons are better with dead
    or diseased wood on them; why should you not let sunlight into them; why should allowing many sickly
    buds to develop make it a healthier tree?"
         "I hadn't thought about it at all," confessed my husband rather shamefacedly, as he prides himself on
    being an original thinker, and here he was allowing an old lady to out-think him. "Everyone here said you
    mustn't prune lemons, so I thought it must be right."
         We thanked her for the information and left, on much better terms with her than we would have ever
    thought possible. We even felt quite a degree of affection towards her.
         In the course of the next three weeks we saw several places that might have been to let but which for
    various reasons we could not get. Eventually we got a place that suited us very well and I returned to tell
    the Lemon Lady that we would not be needing her flat.
         She was very nice and gave me afternoon tea. She said in her precise and careful style, "I'm glad you
    have a house for the sake of your little boy, because a flat is no place for a child, especially a boy. But
    for my own sake, I'm very sorry. I had decided to let you have the flat because I think we could have
    got on very well together and because you liked my lemons."
         As I left, she handed me a bag with two huge lemons in it. They were the most magnificent I have
    ever seen. As I looked back from the gate and saw her sweet smile, I wondered why we had called
    her the Lemon Lady.
         As my husband said to me afterwards, "No one could do anything so well as she grew those lemons,
    without being very proud of the accomplishment, and our touching on them was a good point in
    psychology."  We have used that idea to good effect several times since then.
         At the house we did rent was a dying old lemon tree. My husband shook his head sadly as he gazed
    at it. "Too late for treatment, I'm afraid," he said, but he set to and pruned it ruthlessly. We were in that
    house for four years and from the second year onward, we each had the juice of a lemon every morning,
    and when we left we took with us two 60-pound cases of lemons from the tree, and after we left a friend wrote and asked why we hadn't picked the lemons before we left.
         We still call her the Lemon Lady, but the term is now one of pure affection.   (825 words)


    1. How did the Lemon Lady make the couple aware of the necessity of pruning the lemon tree?
    A. By asking questions
    B. By giving examples
    C. By explaining details
    D. By Comparing lemons with other fruit trees
    2. What do the underlined words "that idea" in the last but two paragraphs refer to?
    A. touching of lemons
    B. being proud of the accomplishment
    C. being proud
    本题信息:2012年浙江省模拟题英语阅读理解难度较难 来源:刘鸿娟
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1、抓住文章的6个要素:
阅读时要学会从事情本身的发展去理解故事情节而不要只看事件在文中出现的先后顺序。因此,无论是顺叙还是倒叙,阅读此类文章时,必须要找到它结构中的5个W(when, where, who, why, what)和1个H(how),不过不是每篇都会完整地交待六个要素。毫无疑问,寻出这些元素是能够正确快速解题的一个先决条件。
2、注意作者的议论和抒情:
高考英语阅读理解故事类文章常伴随着作者思想情感的流露和表达,因此议论和抒情往往夹杂其中。行文时或按事情发生发展的先后时间进行或按事情发生发展的地点来转换,也可能按事情发展的阶段来布局。在引出话题,讲完一件事情后,作者往往会表达个人感悟或提出建议等。这些体现作者观点或思想的语句在阅读时可以划线,它们往往体现文章中心或者写作意图,属于必考点,所以要仔细体会。
3、结合前两点归纳文章中心,把握作者态度:
故事类文章是通过记叙一件事来表达中心思想的,它是文章的灵魂。归纳文章中心思想时,尤其要分析文章的结尾,因为很多文章卒章显志,用简短的议论、抒情揭示文章中心;文章中议论抒情的句子往往与中心密切相关;也有的文章需要在结合概括各段大意的基础上归纳中心。另外,叙述一件事必有其目的,或阐明某一观点,或赞美某种品德,或抨击某种陋习,这就要求我们在阅读时,通过对细节(第1点中的六要素)的理解,把握作者的态度。
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