【正文】 ult to others. The more difficult the problem was, the more they saw it as a challenge. Exploring the unknown was such a joy for then that Orville once said, I can remember when Wilbur and I could hardly wait for the morning to e to get at something that interested us. That39。 Putting their gift to work, the boys entered the printing business soon after high school. Orville designed and then built a printing press（印刷機）for this enterprise. At first, they did contract printing for other people, and soon one of their customers during the early 1890s was Father Milton39。 Branching out into other areas, they also opened a bicycle business. Bicycling was the fastest growing sport in the country at that time, and their repair shop soon led them into building bicycles of their own design, often with tools of their own construction, such as the lathe（車床）driven by a onecylinder gasoline engine built by Orville. The bicycle shop would provide the livelihood（生計）that would allow them to carry out their experiments on airplanes. （1）What may inspire Wilbur and Orville Wright to be keen on flight in childhood？ A.Their interest in duplicating toys.（2）What kind of children were the Wright brothers？ A.Stubborn but careful（3）What business did Wilbur and Orville enter shortly after high school？ A.The bicycle business.（4）What will possibly be discussed following this text？ A.How the two brothers began to invent planes.【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，介紹了 萊特兄弟是怎樣的發(fā)明飛機的過程。奧維爾后來發(fā)現(xiàn)他和威爾伯對飛行第一次興趣是從他們小時候開始的，由于他們的父親從鄉(xiāng)村給他們帶回家的，用橡皮筋為動力的直升機玩具，可知選C。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段中的“The bicycle shop would provide the livelihood（生計）that would allow them to carry out their experiments on airplanes”自行車店將提供生計 ，允許他們在飛機上進行實驗 ，可知選D。t use the technology we had. We had to take notes as the teacher spoke.s still fourth period.t so bad.（1）The author attended an American high school because _______. A.he had been longing to leave his homeland（2）What do we know about the author39。He got the Course Requirements sheet from his classmate.D.PuzzledExcited【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者從印度來到美國，在美國上高中。故選B。t use the technology we had”以及第六段中的“I felt lucky because we didn39。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。選C。 He recalled that the petition deadline was merely a week away. But he still had not even started on his piece. He looked at the brochure again. WRITING COMPETITION! the title read. His mom had encouraged him to enter the writing petition, and now he was taking it on as his personal task for the holidays. Then he heard the call of his mother saying time for bed. He continued writing the piece, ignoring her. He had to make up for the time he had lost thinking about a topic to write.His own interest.D.His friends assisted him.Because he was terribly lazy.Because he didn39。250.C. （1）考查細節(jié)理解。他缺乏想象力，不幸的是，想象力是寫作的關(guān)鍵。這一次，他想出了一個新穎而富有想象力的故事。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。 When Katie Stagliano was 9 years old, she was given a class project to grow her first cabbage from just one seed. She took it home and planted it in her home garden. It didn39。 She began to realize that gardening and helping people is what she likes to do most. So, she decided to start her first garden on a plot of land donated by her school.s Krops with the help of her family friends.t even e close to the other amazing part. She has raised over 200,000 dollars! And there are over 100 Katie39。She thinks gardening is cool.She hopes to earn more money.s Krops.Katie39。D. （2）考查細節(jié)理解。 （4）考查段落大意。再根據(jù)本段中的“Her goal now? To get 500 gardens across all 50 states.”可知，本段講述了的慈善事業(yè)的成就以及未來的目標，故選C。 A friend recently fell on hard times, partly through external (外部的) circumstances and partly through poor planning. Friends and I have loaned her money, paid her bills, given her food, and even tried to teach her budget techniques, but none of them has been a solution. She has just slipped deeper and deeper into financial trouble and depression.s care and love had protected me, so I went to the bank for a $ 100 dollarbill.t have a wallet, so she put the money in a little pencil case where she kept her coins. She immediately felt better—I feel rich, and thank you for being a good friend, she said, and we were both a bit teary.d never used, and thought, I39。His pity and protection for her.C.In the back of her wallet.B.The author became rich all of a sudden.B.s friend was not touched by her story.D.B.A hard life作者結(jié)婚時，丈夫也送她一枚王冠硬幣，然后作者又運用這枚王冠硬幣的影響（代表了另一個人的關(guān)心和愛），送給一個經(jīng)濟困難的朋友，并把一張百元紙幣放在錢包里保護她。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的so she put the money in a little pencil case where she kept her coins可知，作者的朋友把那張100美元紙幣放在了小文具盒里，故選B。ll give that to my friend.可知，作者將會把那個自己從未用過的小錢包送給朋友，故選B。7．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。 We39。 When the officers opened the envelope, they found a brief letter, along with a $5 bill, and a parking ticket dating all the way back to 1974. The note read, Dear PD, I39。 Michael Combs, the Police Chief of the Minersville Police Department, stated in an interview that the same ticket would cost about $20 if it were given today. Combs went on to share that the original ticket from 1974 was given to a vehicle that had an Ohio license plate.He lives in Wayward Road, Anytown California.B.s real name indeed.（2）Why didn39。t find it until almost half a century later.C.A strong sense of guilt.B.Police Chief of the Minersville Police Department Shares a StoryB. （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Because there was no system for tracking tickets given to outofstate cars back then, ‘Dave’ could have gotten away with never paying the $2 fine．”可知，Dave直到最近才付停車費是因為拖延。罪惡感驅(qū)使Dave終于付了停車費。故選B。 There are really health benefits to a midday nap. We could all learn from this tradition. It39。In a noisy place.