【正文】 fold （刑臺），at the western end of the marketplace ”因此，海絲特因此可知此時，人群在大街上聚集，故選A。故選B。D.B.The scaffold is at the eastern end of the marketplace.C.They were happy for having a oneday holiday.D. for, though her manner was proud, she perhaps underwent an extreme pain from every footstep of those who thronged to see her, as if her heart had been thrown into the street for them all to step upon. In our nature, however, there is a condition that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present suffering, but chiefly by the pain that rankles （使痛心）after it. With almost a calm manner, therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her suffering, and came to a sort of scaffold （刑臺），at the western end of the marketplace. It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston39。 and, I promise you, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child, may have a fair sight of her brave clothing, from this time till an hour past noon. A blessing on the moral Colony of the Massachusetts, where immorality is dragged out into the sunshine! Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet （鮮紅色的；罪孽深重的）letter in the marketplace!通過研究它們可以讓我們正確的評估過去。由此可推斷出她認為研究這些遺跡有助于把現(xiàn)代社會與過去聯(lián)系起來。根據(jù)最后一段中的“she created a gallery for the collection — a bridge between people today and those of long ago.”可知，Salima Ikram把她的發(fā)現(xiàn)進行分類之后，她為這些收藏品創(chuàng)建了一個畫廊——一座連接今天的人和很久以前的人的橋梁。treasure hunt第二段敘述了最初考古是為了尋找皇家陵墓，尋找華麗的黃金和彩繪面具來裝飾歐洲和美洲的地產(chǎn)和博物館。 （1）考查詞義猜測。后來考古學家不再只是尋寶，而是把它作為一門科學研究。value the past by studying the remains left behind by our ancestorsB.She believes that studying the remains can help modern society relate to the past.C.Animal mummies could be made into fertilizer which is very valuable.C.illustratedmodernized the rest were sold as fertilizer. One ship transported about 180,000, weighing some 38, 000 pounds, to Liverpool to be spread on the fields of England.”可知，本文講述的是去中國的一次旅行。根據(jù)最后一段中的“For me, adventure travel is a risk worth taking. Travel broadens my world and keeps me connected to nature. What39。根據(jù)第四段中的“The first real test of my travel courage came nine months after my stroke when I joined my husband, Jack, on a business trip to China.”中風九個月后，我和丈夫杰克一起去中國出差，這是對我旅行勇氣的第一次真正考驗。d have to take dangerously high levels of blood thinner (血液稀釋劑) for the rest of my life and any travel would be risky.”我的醫(yī)生告訴我，為了防止再次中風，我的余生都必須服用高劑量的危險血液稀釋劑，任何旅行都是有風險的?！笨赏浦獎澗€詞的意思是“危險的”。 （1）考查詞義猜測。Why I still travel to the wildShe recovered her courage through it.C.B.D.B. In the years since then, I39。 Before the stroke it would39。 My return to travel after my stroke came in baby steps. The first real test of my travel courage came nine months after my stroke when I joined my husband, Jack, on a business trip to China. After we39。 Friends always ask why I, a middleaged woman with no athletic talent, travel to perilous places—the jungles of Thailand or Borneo, for example, where the water is often unsafe and the food risky。（英語）高考英語閱讀理解(人物故事)常見題型及答題技巧及練習題(含答案)一、高中英語閱讀理解人物故事類1．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。Unique.Historical.It was her last adventure.B.A business trip to ChinaUnique travel experiencesC.作者講述了去中國的一次旅行。 some places where the locals are just a few generations past headhunting.“例如，泰國或婆羅洲的叢林，那里的水往往不安全，食物也很危險；有傳染病、毒蛇和野生動物的場所；有些地方的本地人剛剛過了獵頭的時代。根據(jù)第二段中的“To prevent another stroke, my doctors told me, I39。 （3）考查推理判斷。 （4）考查主旨大意。更重要的是，對旅行說“是”讓我和自己保持聯(lián)系。2．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read. t human. They were feline — ancient cats that had been mummified(木乃伊化的) and buried in holes in astonishing numbers. Not one or two here and there, reported English Illustrated Magazine, but dozens, hundreds, hundreds of thousands, a layer of them, a layer thicker than most coal joints, ten to twenty cats deep. Some of the linenwrapped cats still looked presentable, and a few even had golden faces. Village children peddled the best ones to tourists for change。 Those were the days of generously funded explorations—that dragged through acres of desert in their quest for royal tombs, and for splendid gold and painted masks to decorate the estates and museums of Europe and America. The many thousands of mummified animals that turned up at religious sites throughout Egypt were just things to be cleared away to get at the good stuff. Few people studied them, and their importance was generally unrecognized. wealth lies in the majority of details about ordinary folks—what they did, what they thought, how they prayed. And animal mummies are a big part of that.re really displays of daily life, says Egyptologist Salima Ikram. After peering beneath bandages with xrays and cataloguing her findings, she created a gallery for the collection — a bridge between people today and those of long ago. You look at these mummified animals, and suddenly you say, Oh, King SoandSo had a pet. I have a pet. And instead of being at a distance of 5,000plus years, the ancient Egyptians bee clearer and closer to us.（1）Which of the following words has the closest meaning to peddled(paragraph 1)? A.C.In the royal tombs, there were many treasures made of silver and gold.B.She wishes to establish the continuity of pets over history.B.She doubts if current society will understand the significance of Egyptian remains.（4）This article probably encourages the readers to _____________. A.bee more sensitive to the ancient lifestyle of our ancestors【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，自從1888年在埃及發(fā)現(xiàn)了貓動物的木乃伊之后，大量的皇家墓穴被挖掘，成千上萬的木乃伊被運往世界各地，以攫取物質利益。伊克拉姆所說，木乃伊的研究是現(xiàn)代社會和過去的聯(lián)系的橋梁。 （2）考查推理判斷。以及第三段中的“ In the century since then, archaeology has bee less of a （3）考查推理判斷。古埃及人與我們之間的距離不再是5000多年前的事了，而是變得更加清晰，離我們更近了。本文主要敘述了古代埃及的木乃伊展示了古代埃及人的日常生活，是了解它們的途徑，有助于在現(xiàn)代社會與