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A.Hurt.(2)Who helped Dubois take up hiphop? A.He himself.s Scott Simon.Daniels set up accounts for Dubois.B.B.也就是說他是自學(xué)嘻哈音樂的,故選B。s poems praise the United States and its democracy. The poet expressed his love for America and its people in many ways. Experts today praise Leaves of Grass as a major literary work. In eighteen seventythree, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke. He spent the last years of his life in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life. He died in eighteen ninetytwo. Some critics say Walt Whitman was a spokesman for democracy. Others say he was not a spokesman for anything. Instead, they simply call him a great poet.(1)What can we know about Whitman? A.t famous then.D.B.Published.Walt Whitman—a Great SoldierB.Walt Whitman的詩贊美美國及其民主?!笨芍?,人們不接受Walt Whitman的詩集,可推知denounced可能是“指責(zé),批評”之意,選A。s disease on May 15, 1886 that Emily Dickinson enjoyed recognition for her poetic acplishment. A limited volume of her works appeared in1890, but it was Thomas H. Johnson39。s poems? A.s PoemsC.約翰遜發(fā)表了她完整的詩作,使她的作品獲得了真正的好評。s works have greatly influenced and continue to influence modern poetry. ”無疑,狄金森的作品對現(xiàn)代詩歌產(chǎn)生了很大的影響,并在繼續(xù)影響。 Among the discoveries experts have made are cave paintings showing ancient techniques of pottery making and wine production and paintings showing ancient weaving machines and then toothbrushes! The paintings also give some evidence of the lifestyle at the time with, for example, pictures of people boiling milk over 1,000 years ago. Experts believe that there is more evidence to be found, but even now the caves are a wonderful natural museum. If the walls and ceilings of the caves were all put together they would form a tapestry 20 kilometers long and 2 meters high!Because they would be given lots of money for the discovery.(2)The Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City______. A.Modern CountriesD. (4)考查推理判斷。s modern biographer Walter Jackson Bate, the original total number could have been over 240,000. How many words were defined by the lexicographer? Over 40,000 words appeared in two large books in April of 1755. Did Johnson fully understand the huge task he was undertaking when he began? As he told his contemporary biographer James Boswell, I knew very well what I was undertaking and very well how to do it — and have done it very well.(1)What is the problem of early English dictionaries? A.They list just a few foreign words.C.D.D.To encourage people to work on a project.C.故選C。8.閱讀理解 The volunteers in Kingston work from a dedicated officea small room in one of the buildings on the hospital grounds, where a Christmas tree decorated with baubles (小飾物) bearing the faces of volunteers sits in the corner. All the volunteers e and gather here, it gets very busy at times, smiles Nicola Hutin, 67, a discharge support volunteer. A mother of two, and grandmother of four, she was a membership coordinator (協(xié)調(diào)員) for a trade association until she retired, and has since volunteered at the hospital one morning a week for 18 months.(1)What can we learn about dining panions? A.She believes helping patients with meals is to free up the munity.(3)What does a discharge volunteer do for the patients? A.Ring to check their health condition.(4)Which of the following can best describe the theme of the text? A.Many hands make light work.C.t focus on eating. 我們的許多病人都是老年人,可能會被醫(yī)院嘈雜繁忙的環(huán)境所迷惑,因此不會集中精力吃飯。They are great assistants for doctors.C. Violette, a retired library manager, has been helping out for six years. It makes me feel a bit more plete, she says simply. Helping with the meals frees up the nurses to get on with other things. I believe in being a part of the munity and this hospital is part of my munity.根據(jù)第一段中的“This need to fix the English language is best illustrated (描述) in the making of The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.”及最后一段中的Samuel Johnson為詞典編纂所作的努力可以推斷出,Samuel Johnson使得英語標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化。To introduce how Johnson plete his dictionary.【答案】 (1)D(2)C(3)A(4)D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文,講述了Johnson編纂詞典的故事。He standardized English.A publisher. Johnson changed all that, but the task was not an easy one. Renting a house at 17 Gough Square, Johnson began working in the worst of conditions. Supported only by his publisher, Johnson worked on the Dictionary with five assistants. Compared to the French Academy39。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查,是一篇故事類閱讀,要求考生準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息,并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理,從而選出正確答案。 (1)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。B.weaving machines and toothbrushesC.have been there for at most 1,600 yearsC. (4)考查主旨大意。 (2)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s Being World FamousD.They make much difference to modern poetry.C.D.C.B.s works have greatly influenced and continue to influence modern poetry. In her time, her writing style was unique given that it included the use of dashes and capitalized nouns. None of her works rhymed, and she used unusual parisons when referring to events and situations. This unconventional method of writing has made her one of the most innovative poets of the 19th century.(1)Which of the following best explains acclaim underlined in the first paragraph? A. It was during her college years that Emily started writing. Some of her poems were published with the help of her female friends. However, the first serious attempt at having her poems published failed for her being rejected by The Atlantic magazine. This led the selfconscious poetess to believe that the public would never care for her works, and thus she never attempted to have any of her works published again. After the Civil War, Dickinson withdrew from society and had little contact outside of Amherst.縱觀全文可知,本文講述了美國著名作家Walt Whitman以及他的代表作《草葉集》,并圍繞《草葉集》的開始不被接受到最后的大受歡迎展開,故選C??芍xD。Walt Whitman and Leaves of Gra