【正文】 到度假的價值——認(rèn)識新事物，結(jié)識新朋友，與家人分享難忘的經(jīng)歷?？芍?，作者讓孩子參與假期計劃是為了確保孩子有一個美好的假期，并不是為了節(jié)省預(yù)算。故選D。 Not near a Smithsonian museum? Look for exhibitions and museums in your munity. Here we have listed some places to visit:B.take your pets along with youC.fill in an application form before your visit【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇應(yīng)用文，介紹了史密森尼博物館相關(guān)的信息以及游玩建議。故選D。How do you notice a child genius (天才)? Gifted children tend to share three characteristics.These are just some of the physical and emotional problems that gifted children in particular may face. （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“How do you notice a child genius?”如何發(fā)現(xiàn)天才少年，接著介紹了三項天才少年的特點；以及最后一段中的“The child geniuses who could change tomorrow39。 you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasant voice which is fully under your control。 he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings.To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor。17≈32，故選B。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。A study has been observing 5,000 gifted people since 1972. All of the children had test scores high enough to get into university when they were just 13. In adulthood, the first 1,650 people went on to publish 85 books, more than 7,500 articles. Onethird of the group earned a doctor39。Second, they are selfstarters. Srinivasa Ramanujan was building plex formula (公式) before he39。根據(jù)National Zoo所在的表格可知國家動物園的開放時間為三月15號到九月，每天的上午九點到下午六點；十月到來年的三月14號是每天上午九點到下午四點，12月25號不開。visit the zoo at weekends on June 25（3）To arrange your visit better, you can C.故D選項“作者認(rèn)識到家庭度假的價值，并將其付諸實踐。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。 When I was a boy, my parents and I traveled from New York City to the Pennsylvania countryside for a weeklong taste of rural life. We stayed in a guesthouse on a farm, joining the daily routines and eating meals with the farmer and his family. We got up early to see the cows as they were milked. I even tried my hand at milking one, and then joined the farmer as he released the cows into the field afterward. （4）考查主旨大意。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。s Celebration: How?B.Making New Year39。Staying with friends（2）Why doesn39。t New Year be about friends?（1）What does the underlined word It in Paragraph I probably mean? A.故選C。 （4）考查推理判斷。re on the receiving end. We alternate between the two based on different situations we face on a daily basis, it not an hourly one.”可知，我們根據(jù)每天面對的不同情況在兩者之間交替。be a plete matcher（5）What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A.s study focused on ________. A.people are not always givers or takersC.4．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。根據(jù)第三段中的“And that day I thought a lot about making some changes in my life, after listening to her innocent words cut me like a knife.”“我”在聽了她那些天真的話語后，就像被一把刀割了一樣。How to deal with my daughterD.the little girl doesn39。C.m going to fill the house with memories of a child and her mother, for we have only one childhood and we will never get another.（1）Who is Suzie? A.t have the time to sit and play don39。d been put there to sit alone and think. in the other a toy. I listened as she was speaking to her makebelieve little friend and I39。 （4）考查推理判斷。瑞典和中國的共同點是現(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是為了說明數(shù)字支付正成為一種不可阻擋的趨勢。indifferent【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，富裕國家正在減少現(xiàn)金支付,現(xiàn)金正在因為需求等原因消失。. A.the differences between developed and developing countriesB.dematerialize moneyB. 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. （3）考查詞義猜測。 （1）考查推理判斷。t give up an opportunity to see him. I called him and told him I had decided to go to work on my day off after all.My father is famous in our family for saying, Take the extra minute to do it right. I always try to live by the extra minute rule. When my children were young and likely to cause accidents, I always thought about what I could do to avoid an if only moment, whether it was something minor like moving a cup full of hot coffee away from the edge of a counter, or something that required a little more work such as taping padding (襯墊) onto the sharp corners of a glass coffee table.I don39。I know there will still be occasions when I have to say if only about something, but my life is definitely better because of my policy of doing everything possible to avoid that eventuality. And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule to make a personal connection, I know that I39。根據(jù)第三段中的“But then I thought about the fact that he39?？v觀全文可知，本文敘述了作者通過“extra minute”rule來避免以后說“if only”的情況。 Cash is dying out because of two forces. One is demand— younger consumers want payment systems that plug easily into their digital lives. But equally important is that suppliers such as banks and tech firms (in developed markets) and teles panies (in emerging ones) are developing fast, easytouse payment technologies from which they can pull data and pocket fees. There is a high cost to running the infrastructure behind the cash economy—ATMs, vans carrying notes, tellers who accept coins. Most financial firms are keen to abandon it, or discourage oldfashioned customers with heavy fees.promote payment without paper money or coins（2）In paragraph 3, several countries are mentioned to show China is developing faster that those developed countries in digital payment（3）Cash is disappearing largely because the infrastructure is developing at a high speed in developed marketsD.B.根據(jù)第一段中的“Rich countries are racing to dematerialise payments.”可知, 富裕國家正競相將支付非物質(zhì)化；再根據(jù)第三段中的“In Sweden the number of retail cash transa