【正文】 aining, I added a stone to your backpacks. Whenever you talked about something with positive thinking, I took out a stone. And now look at your backpacks.”s backpack was half empty.題目設計較為簡單，可以通過題目在文章中定位找到正確答案。根據(jù)My mother wrote my host mom an and told her about my hard birth so they would understand可知作者的母親在郵件中告訴她的寄宿家庭的媽媽她出生的時候難產(chǎn)。Only the writer made a speech in front of about 100 people.Excitedt know much about my disability. “I hobble a little, but I don39。2．閱讀下列短文，從下面每小題的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出最佳選項。所給選項中D項與該詞詞義相近。t know much about goal setting then. I didn39。He is ready for the next goal.questionedTo make his teacher pay attention to him.didn39。B.s time to get kicking with my next goal. And by writing this, I know I39。t use any goal tracking（跟蹤） tools, either. All I knew was that I had to go to university. There was no other way that I could give myself. To go through my lecture（演講） notes, I didn39。t really like much then.sat at the table and set life goals again（2）When the author first started to get goals for himself, he . A.learned a lot from a selfimprovement book（3）Why did the author stay back late after school? A.D.B.根據(jù)第二段中的”I laughed at the silly mistakes I made as I looked through the papers.“可知，故選B。故選A。m getting closer“可知，作者已經(jīng)為下一個目標做好了準備。 My year in Vermont was the best thing I39。B.By boats mom tell the host mom in the ?A.s daily lifeC.D.C.Unsatisfied（4）What can we know from the passage?A.⑴細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段 My year in Vermont was the best thing I39。 “Your negative thoughts are just like stones. You carry them in your mind just like those stones in your backpacks. The more negative thoughts you have, the heavier your mind will be,” said our uncle.To the seaside.He thought his uncle had found better stones.C.C.The negative thoughts.（4）What can we know from the passage?A.從To our surprise, he also took some stones out from them. But we thought he had just found better 。 Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be connected with changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.At the age of 20.Getting Older Means Getting HappierD.根據(jù)文中語句as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their feelings. So they spend less time thinking about bad ，隨著年齡的增長，人們的幸福感越來越強，對生活的態(tài)度越來越積極。5．閱讀理解 B. （2）細節(jié)理解題，根據(jù) When you do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it. It isn39。 In one experiment, scientists told young children that they could either have a marshmallow （圓形軟糖） now, or two marshmallows in 15 minutes. Waiting obviously needed more willpower. Scientists then continued studying the children as they grew up. They wanted to see if some children always had stronger willpower. They also wanted to see how having stronger willpower affected their lives. prove that girls have weak willpowerB.You should have a goal every day.D.根據(jù)It isn39。s sleep and by eating ，不能過度使用，故選A。 And when it happens, it39。It39。B.But the door of every station was always closed（4）What39。D.t going my way. Don39。ve had. 可知主旨大意是一切都會好的，故選B。One day, I called to wish her a happy New Year. She spoke into the phone excitedly, “Happy New Year to you and your family, Michael. Thank you for everything you39。D.He worked very hard on maths.C.play an interesting game with Mrs. PillarC.根據(jù)故選A。 A week later, the owner of the ship received a bill from the old man for $ 10,000.ExcitedC.Putting the effort in the right place is more important.D. . A.Interested（2）After pulling out a small hammer, the old man本文作者講述初中老師皮勒夫人幫助自己，后來他又幫助皮勒夫人的故事。故選B。Kindness Makes Wonders【答案】（1）C（2）B（3）D（4）A（5）D 【解析】【分析】大意：本文作者講述初中老師皮勒夫人幫助自己，后來他又幫助皮勒夫人的故事。D.B.模糊的C.ve done for me.”As year went by, I always kept in touch with Mrs. Pillar. Unluckily, one day my parents told me that Mrs. Pillar had been in hospital because she suffered a stroke（中風）.首先閱讀全文，掌握大意，然后根據(jù)每個問題在文章中找到依據(jù)，鎖定正確答案。母親的意思是通過努力好運一定回來，故選B。（1）細節(jié)理解題。Mother39。But I lost my way every timeYou should trust your mother.（3）The underlined sentence But I got turned down every time. means ______. A.Because he didn39。ve had. At that moment I knew what just she meant.（1）Why didn39。 I felt really down. Your luck will change, mom said to me. Dad lent me the car to help me to look for my job. I tried another radio station in Iowa. But the owner, a nice man, told me he had already had someone.t got enough experience. Get some work with a small station and work your way up, she said.t going my way.根據(jù)全文可知講的是毅力的重要性和怎樣讓毅力變得更強。 （2）推測題。How willpower and muscles are similar and how they can be trained.B.B.show that cheesecake is especially attractive to girlsD. Saying no starts small故答案是B。everything can always bring happinessD.you have no chance to challenge youthose who have cars（2）When you do something wrong, . A. Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy because you have something else that can39。 （4）標題理解歸納題。 （1）細節(jié)理解題。control their behaviors betterB.At the age of 25. The study also showed that men and women have similar feeling patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.結合句意可知them在此處指的是消極的思想，故選D。Wilson and his sister did a great job for their uncle.C.The backpacks.He thought he had talked about something positive.（3）What does the underlined word “them” refer to in the passage?A.C.t. You did,” he said. “You didn39。 When we returned to the house, we were very tire