【正文】 hers and I hurried back to my house in no time. I walked in with a big smile on my face just in time for dinner. The dirt road give way to a rock one and then a paved one, yet there was still neither a car nor a house in sight. My legs were getting tired. I noticed that the sun was starting to go down and I grew scared. I didn39。4．閱讀理解 根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知，作者結(jié)合自己的切身經(jīng)歷告訴我們?nèi)帐降恼勗捄臀魇降恼勗挼牟煌?，由此可知，作者寫這篇文章的目的就是為了給大家一些指導(dǎo)，注意與來自另一個國家的人交談時談話方式的差異，故選A。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s important to take part in conversationsC.D.instructwesternstyle conversations are like tennis or volleyballC.s like bowling. You wait for your turn. And you always know your place in line. It depends on such things as whether you are older or younger, a close friend or a relative stranger to the previous speaker, in a senior or junior position, and so on.t expect you always to agree. I am just as happy if you question me, or challenge me, or pletely disagree with me. Whether you agree or disagree, your response will return the ball to me.t know what it was.3．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. 可知作者認(rèn)為Stevenson只關(guān)注到了片面的，故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s near miss made the news because she blamed it on he GPS(導(dǎo)航儀). 可知Ceely認(rèn)為事故發(fā)生的原因是GPS沒有指出那個路口。The relationship between humans and technology.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）A（5）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者講述了一起交通事故，司機(jī)沒有看到火車路口導(dǎo)致了一起事故，司機(jī)卻將責(zé)任歸咎到自己的導(dǎo)航儀沒有路口提示上。wellbased（5）What is the real concern of the writer of this article? A.puzzlingreasonableonesidedGPS error is not the only cause for Ceely39。Modern technology is what we can39。C.t tell her about the crossing.（2）The phrase near miss (Paragraph 2) can best be replaced by ________. A.She was not familiar with the road.B. The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and plex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for a wiser use of technology. both show a small rise in some parts of the country. He says that once again not all new locks have proved reliable, Perhaps, but maybe it39。 Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely39。 Ceely39。 One evening in February 2007, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. That39。2．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。根據(jù)第二段中的“The boy had had a coin in his hand all the time and was holding it securely in his tight little fist.”可知，男孩的手卡在花瓶里拿不出來是因?yàn)樗掷镞粋€硬幣，故選A。根據(jù)第三段中的“I used to hold on to things in my life that I thought were so important to me.”可知，作者由一個小男孩抓著硬幣的手卡在花瓶里拿不出來這個故事引發(fā)了對生活的思考——要抓住生活中真正重要的東西，放開不重要的東西，故選D。t regret what he had done.C.He was afraid to break the vase.D.money is not the most important for us（3）Why did the boy get his hand stuck in the vase? A.Holding On to What Is Important（2）The author tells the story about the boy and the vase to show ______. A.t the most important thing to me, but I missed out on a lot of relationship building time. My life is so much richer now that I am not a slave to that drive to be the best player I could be.（1）Which of the following could be the best title for the passage? A. I used to hold on to things in my life that I thought were so important to me. Early in my marriage, all I cared about was being the best volleyball player in the state of Wisconsin. One year, when Kristi was working shifts at General Motors, I played in 1,400 games, peting four nights a week and 40 out of 52 weekends. My team won over 1,000 games. Success on the volleyball court, but a huge loss in my relationship with my Kristi. The boy had had a coin in his hand all the time and was holding it securely in his tight little fist. And he wasn39。m doing, and then pull! But Dad, said the boy, if I do that, I39。s make one more try. Open your hand and stretch your fingers out straight, like I39。 When I finally let go, I looked back at what I had done and was ashamed. Not only did I show my wife she wasn39。My Dream of Being the Best Volleyball PlayerD.a little boy may do something sillyD.t know how to stretch his fingers.C.The author didn39。 （1）考查主旨大意。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)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。t say.s a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat puterbased locking systems for cars. He offers two independent sets of figures on car theft。 If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortings of our machines. After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably been fooling us for just a. s long.（1）What did Paula Ceely think was the cause of her accident? A.Her GPS device didn39。heavy lossbig mistake（3）Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with? A.Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.D.s argument is ________. A.B.C.D.The shortings of digital devices we use.D.根據(jù)第二段中的Ceely39。根據(jù)第一段可知Ceely的車被卡在鐵路上并且被火車撞飛了，而她自己則死里逃生，文章用near miss來形容這個事故，由此可推斷narrow escape 最符合文意，即Ceely很驚險地逃生了，故選C。根據(jù)第四段中的 The problem with his argument in the book is that it39。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和主旨大意三個題型的考查，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。 After I was married and had lived in Japan for while, my Japanese gradually improved to the point where I could take part in simple conversations with my husband and his friends and family. And I began to notice that often, when I joined in, the others would look surprised, and the conversational topic would e to a stop. After this happe