【正文】 ake a huge difference in someone39。 The Salvation Army needs bell ringers for its annual Red Kettle Christmas Campaign. Two hour shifts begin on and run Mondays through Saturdays. Volunteers can contact Jim Evers at jimevers or at 7640962, or sign up online at .縱觀全文可知，這是一篇新聞報道，故選B。s main entrance, past some fully submerged passages”離山洞的主要入口不止四公里，經(jīng)過一些完全淹沒的通道，可知submerged識“淹沒”之意，故選A。（1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。B. A.batassociated（3）Which is true about the caves and the trapped people? with animalswild and dangerousunder the waterPain in the head and musclesLacking body waters main entrance, past some fully submerged passages—and the fact they have been swimming out wearing full scuba face masks, it seems unlikely that they were living with bats in the cave or breathed in batassociated bacteria during their rescue, several infectious disease experts said. It39。 The next step is to make sure those kids and their families are safe, because living in a cave provides a different environment, which might contain animals that could transmit…disease, said the local hospital. The boys and their family members have been told to watch for symptoms such as headache, nausea(反胃), muscle pain or difficulty breathing, the reports added.【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，選出正確答案。故選D。故選A。根據(jù)第二段中的“Our house at Montclair, New Jersey, was a sort of school for scientific management and the removal of wasted motions — or ‘motion study,’ as Dad and Mother named it.”可知，作者的家被認(rèn)為是一種學(xué)校是因為孩子們被教導(dǎo)如何在里面工作得很好。D.B.t shave with two razors.To manage the big family effectively.C.s daily activities recorded.（2）What is the purpose of signing the charts? A.The children were taught how to work well in it.C.It had a team of twelve children there. Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could determine how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Each child who wanted extra pocket money put forward an offer saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract(合約).選項C. The secret lives of passwords.“密碼里的人生秘密”為短文的最佳標(biāo)題。故選D。根據(jù)第四段中的“Cortni Kerr, a running partner of mine, found her role model and began using ‘Wwssdol9’, which stood for ‘What would Sheryl Sandberg do’plus 39。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。The 4622 that my wife used in her passwords was not just the address of her father39。s book Lean in: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, Cortni Kerr, a running partner of mine, found her role model and began using Wwssdol9, which stood for What would Sheryl Sandberg do plus 19 for the year (2019) of the password39。Sometimes the passwords were playful. Several people said they used incorrect for theirs so that when they forgot it, the software automatically promoted them with the right one (your password is incorrect). （4）考查寫作意圖?？芍犉鹘o他的日常生活帶來了方便，故選C。描述，可知作者的聽力障礙讓他有機(jī)會經(jīng)歷了一些特殊的事情，故選B。s attitude toward his life？ ....（4）What is the author39。m deaf, but I can still hear everything. I39。 It turned out I39。One day, I was shadowing(跟隨)my mother. She found herself looking in a mirror, and through it our eyes met. She began to speak to me through the reflection, and I slowly began to mimic(模仿)her mouth39。When I was three years old, I couldn39。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇科技類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，概括歸納，從而選出正確答案。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)最后一段中的“The next step in the research will be to test RAS39。Older adults have benefited from RAS.【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了一款由美國華盛頓州立大學(xué)的科學(xué)家們研發(fā)的機(jī)器人，可以幫助那些癡呆或有身體缺陷的老年人在家里過上自立的生活。Smart Home Tests first elderCare robot.C.D.Optimistic.s Minor39。B.Through their daily activities.（2）What can we know about RAS? A.B. While we are still in an early stage of development, our initial results with RAS have been promising, Minor said. The next step in the research will be to test RAS39。 A robot created by Washington State University (WSU) scientists could help elderly people with dementia (癡呆) and other limitations live independently in their own homes.【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測，推理判斷和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇科普類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。故選B。他們也被仔細(xì)地埋葬了，證據(jù)表明他們是被主人重視的。故選C。D.The earliest domestic dog in the Americas.Indifferent.B.D.trainedD.About 9500 years. A third dog from another Illinois site called Stilwell II was older still, at 10,190 years old. That makes it the oldest known domesticated dog in the Americas. The team concluded that all three dogs were domesticated as they skeletons were plete and unskinned, and so hadn39。t know if dogs were part of the first waves of immigration to the Americas says Luc Janssens of Ghent University in Belgium. It could be so, but no archaeological bones have yet been found. It is overwhelmingly probable that some of the early settlers did bring dogs to the Americas, but they may not have had the time or the spiritual pulsion to bury them, says Pat Shipman of Pennsylvania State University.（1）How old is the oldest known domestic dog in the Americas7 A.About 10,100 years.boughtC.C.Unconfident.（4）What is the main topic of this passage? A.How dogs were domesticated in the Americas.根據(jù)第二段中的“A third dog from another Illinois site called Stilwell II was older still, at 10,190 years old. That makes it the oldest known domesticated dog in the Americas.”可知，美洲最古老的家犬有10,190年。t been butchered for food. They had also been carefully buried, evidence they were valued by their owners. ”研究小組得出的結(jié)論是，這三種狗都是被馴化的，因為它們的骨骼是完整的，沒有皮膚的，所以沒有被宰殺作為食物。根據(jù)第二段中的“It is unclear why it took so long for tame dogs to arrive in the Americas, given that they were domesticated at least 14,000 years ago in Eurasia.”可知，對到達(dá)美洲的馴服的狗態(tài)度是不確定。故選A。 The Robot Activity Support System or RAS, uses sens