一道英语阅读理解Charlie is a teacher and his wife, Maria is an artis

一道英语阅读理解
Charlie is a teacher and his wife, Maria is an artist. Charlie has no imagination well perhaps a little whereas Maria has the richest imagination you could think of.
The night before last, shortly before the longest day of the year, Charlie was sitting in a deckchair enjoying the warm summer air when he felt something touch his shoulder; it was Maria’s hand and he could tell immediately she was a little worried about something. He had noticed this mood a hundred times before.He asked her what the matter was and she replied that there was a strange thing on the jacket that was hanging in the bedroom. They had both lived in the West Indies and had seen a lot of strange creatures in their house before. But now they were living in England and so Charlie just laughed and said he would have a look at the “thing”.
He left the garden and made his way to the bedroom. He could see a jacket hanging in the bedroom and went up to it to have a closer look at the thing. The moment he touched it, the thing sprang into life. Now Charlie experiences fear like the rest of us but when this creatures opened its wings, he jumped out of his skin and ran screaming from the room like a small child doing about 100 miles an hour.
For a moment the next-door neighbours thought that Charlie was murdering his wife because of the noise they could hear. In fact the bat was the one that was frightened and flew from one side to the other.
Eventually Charlie managed to trap the bat in a box and went out into the front garden catching the box as if it had a bomb inside it, to let the bat fly. Eventually Maria asked Charlie if he had found out what the thing was. “Oh, nothing to worry about”, he said casually(随便地) hoping that the terror could not be seen in his eyes, “it was just a bat”.
1.The best title for the passage would be______.
A. Charlie the Brave
B. Charlie and Maria
C. A Frightening Experience
D. A Bat Caused Terror
2.Which of the following is True according to the passage?
A. Maria and his husband had quarreled with each other
B. Charlie thought his wife was too nervous
C. Charlie had never seen any strange creatures
D. Now they were living in the West Indies
3.The underlined expression “jumped out of his skin” in the second paragraph probably means_____.
A. was very frightened B. stood up C. took off his clothes D. was very excited
4. How did Charlie deal with the bat finally?
A. Charlie killed it B. It was seriously injured C. It was set free D. It was cared for
5. We can know, by inferrence, that_______.
A. the next-door neighbours would report to the police about Charlie murdering his wife
B. the bat wouldn’t come to Charlie’s room again because it was frightened
C. Charlie was afraid that his wife would make fun of him if she knew the truth
D. Maria heard her husband screaming downstairs and became frightened

1.A 主旨大意题。本文讲了Charlie害怕蝙蝠，在房间里尖叫着乱跑，但他又怕妻子笑话他胆小的故事。文章最后一段也形象地表明了Charlie的害怕，所以用Charlie the Brave作为标题，具有讽刺味道。
2.B 正误判断题。由第二段中 “…and he could tell immediately she was a little worried about something. He
had noticed this mood a hundred
times before.”可知B项表述正确,符合题意。其他三项文中均不符合文意。
3.A词义猜测题。根据上句 “experiences fear”和下句的 “ran screaming from the room like a
small child doing about 100 miles an
hour.”可以推出本短语的意思为“害怕的；恐惧的”。
4.C细节理解题。由最后一段中“Eventually Charlie managed to trap… to let the bat fly”可知C项为正确答案。
5.C 推理判断题。由文章最后一句 “Oh, nothing to worry about”, he said casually(随便地) hoping that theterror could not be seen in his eyes, “it was just a bat”.可以推出他恐怕妻子看出他的恐惧，才有意这样说的，以免他妻子会嘲笑他。故C项为正确答案。