高三英语阅读理解(带详解)

I watched from a distance as the homeless man quarreled with those who did not leave

money for him – the majority.

I walked up to him and right on queue he asked me for a quarter. “I’ll give you a quarter if you tell me your story.” He laughed, “You’ll give me a quarter for my story?” I lay the qu front of him and corrected myself –“Nah, here’s

the quarter but it would be nice to hear your

story.” I followed his eyes to the quarter and for a brief moment I saw a glimmer of reflection. I

sat down next to him and waited.

I was a sniper(狙击手)and was supposed to shoot down the

“I was in the army,” he said. “

carefully to his grizzly voice as he went deeper into the story.

enemy from the distance.” I listened

He wore dirty old torn clothes and smelled like a dead rat left in a mouse trap. He told me how he

used to hunt with his family and was really good at it. He had his own way of respecting animals

by not wasting what he killed for food and not killing more than he needed. When the army came

knocking on his door, he felt pride and joined up. All those years of polishing his hunting skills

could now serve a larger purpose—to defend us from the bad guys. He set out to fight in Iraq.

It wasn’t long before he realized his ideals and expectations were just a shadow of the truth.

He became disillusioned with the killings, which he felt were of innocent people. “I was a sniper but I never really killed anyone,” he said. “One day I had to do it. They asked me to shoot this

lady from the distance. I saw kids near that lady and my hands were on the trigger (扳机). Man, I

was tearing up ... I couldn’t

do it. She wasn’t doing anything to anyone and she was with the

kids—I couldn’t see through my tears. It just didn’t make any sense to me.”

The story goes on as he describes eventually being put into prison for 180 days for refusing

to follow orders. He told me how he was black listed so that he couldn’t get a job. All the rights we take for granted were taken away from him. Why? Here was a man who was being

punished—and for what? For refusing to kill the lady? For being a hero? “I have no regrets,”　

anyone

the homeless man said. “I may be homeless now, but I never killed that lady. I never killed

He

in the army. It didn’t feel right. I didn’t go there to do that. I went there to save people.”　

okay. But I wouldn’t be able to live with

continued, “I can live with being homeless—that’s

killing innocent people.”

On that lonely Friday night, I met a hero. It just never occurred to me that a hero could be a

smelly old man left on streets.

1. It can be learned from the passage that the homeless man_______. （）

A. never killed animals

B. had a strong respect for life

C. deserved the punishment he received

D. felt guilty about disobeying the order