【正文】 考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。help their kids have a better educationD.It is a waste of timeD.s volunteering in South Africa for a year? A.for lack of moneyB.They are well –knownB. I wonder why the college cheating scandal happened and I think it boils down to this: Parents want to create a fort zone for their kids. Of course, we want the best for our kids but sometimes we forget that real growth doesn39。t afford to send her back to school for her junior year at Fordham University. We decided the best choice for our family would be for Casey to sit out a year. We promised that we would get her back the following year. Casey decided to spend the year volunteering in South Africa On Sept 30, 2017, we put our oldest child on a plane halfway around the world. Casey worked as a tutor teaching kids math, English and music in Johannesburg. We did get Casey back in school in time. When she returned to the campus, she studied harder. She isn39。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查閱讀理解。故選A。通過(guò)第三段最后一句Typically, the original message has ，信息原始的意思已經(jīng)改變了。 （2）推理判斷題。Passive learning is not found among scholars.【答案】 （1）C（2）D（3）A（4）B 【解析】【分析】短文大意：本文主要主要介紹了被動(dòng)獲得知識(shí)所存在的一個(gè)嚴(yán)重的問(wèn)題——被告知的可能是謠言。B.Active learning is less important.To show that a message may be changed when being passed on.B.C.Doing scientific reasoning（2）What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 2 refers to? A.Visiting an exhibition通讀全文可知,本文主要講述了作者從初步了解到親身體驗(yàn)沙發(fā)沖浪這種旅游模式——在旅游時(shí),由一個(gè)陌生的當(dāng)?shù)厝颂峁┟赓M(fèi)吃住并擔(dān)當(dāng)導(dǎo)游,基于相互信任共同趣味建立起來(lái)的一種旅游模式,再到得出感悟的全過(guò)程。根據(jù)第三段中的He was a live wire, giving me an effusive wele and hiking with me to his apartment, where he showed me the sleeper sofa, served me tea, and engaged me in warm conversations. He also handed me a key to e and go as I pleased. 可知,他對(duì)作者非常熱情并且非常信任,像朋友一樣對(duì)待作者,故 選C 。A Plan for Couch Surfing【答案】 （1）C（2）C（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文,作者從初步了解到親身體驗(yàn)沙發(fā)沖浪這種旅游模式（在旅游時(shí),由一個(gè)陌生的當(dāng)?shù)厝颂峁┟赓M(fèi)吃住并擔(dān)當(dāng)導(dǎo)游,基于相互信任和共同趣味建立起來(lái)的一種旅游模式）,再到得出感悟的全過(guò)程。B.Travel on Trust and CouchesTo exchange houses for a short time.C.He saw off the author at the train station.（3）Why did people offer couch surfing to strangers? A.He treated the author as a friend.D.Relaxed.ve always wanted to explore. I would couch surf at every stop there.s home for one or two nights? Give me a break.3．閱讀理解 （3）考查主旨大意。s delivered.“使人生氣的不是消息。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。我想用花生醬和三明治打他的臉。 （1）考查推理判斷。Delivering bad news properly is important in munication.B.was reminded of the cruel pharaohC. Had my neighbor told me of the uping rainstorm with sympathy, I would have appreciated his warning. Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said, Oh, that39。re tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isn39。t get the job takes on a sympathetic tone. Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling of the receiver. It39。 Shades of that spirit spread over today39?？v觀全文可知，,作者提到無(wú)現(xiàn)金支付即電子支付的好處,也提到電子支付引起的擔(dān)憂,對(duì)待電子支付是客觀的,故選C。大多數(shù)金融公司都渴望放棄它,或者以高昂的費(fèi)用勸阻老式客戶。故選C。故選D?？偟膩?lái)說(shuō),無(wú)現(xiàn)金經(jīng)濟(jì)的未來(lái)是個(gè)好消息,但是對(duì)于電子支付人們也有一些擔(dān)憂。C.. A.s attitude towards digitalized payment is younger consumers are short of money to live their digital livesB.that cash is still king across the worldC.get rid of the sideeffects of cashC. Yet set against these benefits are a couple of worries. Electronic payment systems may risk technical failures, power failure and cyberattacks. In a cashless economy the poor, the elderly and country folk may be left behind. And a digital system could let governments watch over people39。 For the past 3,000 years, when people thought of money they thought of cash. Over the past decade, however, digital payments have taken off— tapping your plastic on a terminal or swiping a smartphone has bee normal. Now this revolution is about to turn cash into an endangered species in some rich economies. That will make the economy more efficient—but it also causes new problems that could hold back the transition(轉(zhuǎn)型). Countries are removing cash at varying speeds. In Sweden the number of retail cash transaction per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years. America is perhaps a decade behind. Outside the rich world, cash is still king. But even there its leading role is being challenged. In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.dematerialize moneyB.the differences between developed and developing countriesB.. A.financial firms want to abandon oldfashioned customers（4）The author39。negativeindifferent【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，富裕國(guó)家正在減少現(xiàn)金支付,現(xiàn)金正在因?yàn)樾枨蟮仍蛳?。結(jié)合上下文,可知某些富裕國(guó)家比如瑞典正在減少現(xiàn)金支付,推廣不用紙幣或硬幣的支付方式,也就是電子支付方式。瑞典和中國(guó)的共同點(diǎn)是現(xiàn)金支付減少,電子支付比例上升,由此可推斷作者提到瑞典和中國(guó)是為了說(shuō)明數(shù)字支付正成為一種不可阻擋的趨勢(shì)。運(yùn)行現(xiàn)金經(jīng)濟(jì)背后的基礎(chǔ)架構(gòu)需要付出高昂的成本,這些基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施包括自動(dòng)取款機(jī),載有紙幣的貨車,接受硬幣的出納員。 （4）考查推理判斷。s delivered. Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and big winners do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn39。 Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you39。s opinion, his neighbor was friendlywarmheartednot consideratenot helpful（2）From Paragraph 3, we learn that the writer was mad at the sales agentB.s head that night（3）What is the main idea of the text? A.Learning ancient traditions can be useful.【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者通過(guò)在生活中的自身經(jīng)歷來(lái)說(shuō)明好消息能使人高興，壞消息使人氣氛，而每個(gè)人偏偏時(shí)不時(shí)地給出壞消息，所以傳遞壞消息的方式很重要。天氣預(yù)報(bào)員說(shuō)要下雨了。故選C。s the unsympathetic attitude with which it39。故選A。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，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。 A while back I caught a news report on something called couch surfing‖ and the network of trusting souls who make this phenomenon possible. They offer to put up travelers free of charge and help them