【正文】 A.Hopeful. The store manager, Brian Alvarado, told The Independent, Whenever a disaster occurs, nobody should just feel forlorn. Instead，we should take positive action to save ourselves and help others. Our acts of kindness will make a big difference.（1）What did the bakery store workers do after flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey? A.故選C。故選B。Rose would trade in the clay bike for a real oneC.they decided to make one for her（2）Why did Dad make the clay bicycle? A.故選B。故選C。s suggestion.Her performance.Surprised.She uses finger puppets to make her voice heard.B.t like (me gusta, no me gusta) and shouting out which animals are big (grande) or small (pequeno). For the past few months, my threeyearold daughter has spent an hour every week learning a foreign language. She walks into a small room in a local school, where she and a handful of three and fouryearold spend the next hour dancing to “La Vaca Lola”, a song about a Spanish cow, creating finger puppets(木偶) to voice what they like and don39。 The wish to enroll(使……加入) her in language lessons came, like most things, gradually and then in a sudden rush. In my day job, I read and edit stories about the Chinese economy. For a long time, I felt that it would be good for her to learn another language but I had no great plan as to when.s daughter from the first paragraph? A.B.To prepare her for the ing school education.To develop her interest in singing.（4）What made the author decide to enroll her daughter in Spanish lessons? A.The nursery worker39。根據(jù)第一段中的“She walks into a small room in a local school, where she and a handful of three and fouryearold spend the next hour dancing to La Vaca Lola”可知，她和幾個(gè)4歲大的孩子在一起通過唱歌跳舞學(xué)西班牙語。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的it seemed obvious that if my daughter was to have any kind of future, she would have to learn another language.可知，作者認(rèn)為自己的女兒若想有一個(gè)美好的未來就必須掌握一門外語。 She looked at me and then at her dad and said, so does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?t have time to do any shoppingD.s father was an artist with special skillsB.t mention it ，作者夫妻倆認(rèn)為Rose買自行車的愿望褪去了，所以沒給她買。At that moment, we would have moved heaven and earth to buy her every bicycle on the planet!”作者夫婦愿意竭盡全力給Rose買自行車可推知：這對(duì)父母親為女兒的行為而感到并覺得自豪。B.The staff in the bakery sent enough flour to emergency centers.D.故選A。 （4）考查主旨大意。s leader. Language itself became submitted to rules during this period. 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. Guides to the English language had been in existence before Johnson began his project in 1746. These, however, were often little more than lists of hard words. When definitions of mon words were supplied, they were often unhelpful. For example, a horse was defined in an early dictionary as a beast well known. How many passages were used? According to Johnson39。B.A biographer.To discuss the problems of dictionaries.B.根據(jù)最后一段中的“How many words were defined by the lexicographer?”中的關(guān)鍵詞defined及聯(lián)系前后句，可以猜測出這里lexicographer指的是詞典編纂者。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(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。 After the failure of his Philadelphia store, Milton headed for Denver, where he learned the art of making caramels(焦糖). Then in Denver, Milton once again attempted to open his own candymaking businesses, in Chicago, New Orleans, and New York City. Finally, in 1886, he went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he raised the money necessary to try again. This pany— the Lancaster Caramel Company—established Milton39。the site of the exposition is now a branch of the Hershey Chocolate Company.（2）According to the passage, Milton Hershey sold his caramel pany in _______. A.C.Chocolate had never been manufactured in the United States before Milton Hershey did it.D. （1）考查推理判斷。s Chocolate公司的產(chǎn)品，故選B。 Nine years ago, a few days before Christmas, I was a director at a pany in San Francisco, and I was called into a meeting that was already in progress. That meeting turned out to be my exit interview. I was 64 years old at the time. It wasn39。m delighted and proud to share with you that our ine has doubled every year and we have no debt. Meanwhile, I have a wonderful partner, and we39。 So I want to do something about that in a few years. I want us to start talking more about people who don39。B.To build a munity for senior entrepreneurs.【答案】 （1）A（2）A（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了64歲的作者退休后開創(chuàng)了自己的事業(yè)，成為一位老年企業(yè)家的故事。m delighted and proud to share with you that our ine has doubled every year and we have no debt. Meanwhile, I have a wonderful partner, and we39。 Being fond of animals, I knew I wanted the pig. I just had to figure out how to make it happen. I lived in a twobedroom singlelevel house in Georgetwon, Ontario. It39。s arrival changed our lives. A few weeks later, we decided to stop eating bacon. We figured it was our turn to try to change the world for other animals. A few months later, we moved to a farm where we cared for abandoned animals—so far, six rabbits, six goats, two sheep, one horse, three cows and three chickens.（1）Who does the underlined phrase my lifelong partner in Paragraph 2 refer to? A.To please her to accept the pig.B.She quarreled with Steve.D.根據(jù)第三段中的“When I got home with the pig, I hid her in the bedroom, and began to prepare a dinner for Alisha—her favourite bacon cheeseburgers.”可知，當(dāng)我?guī)е∝i回到家，我把她藏在臥室里，開始為Alisha準(zhǔn)備晚餐——她最喜歡的培根芝士漢堡?？芍?，Alisha看到小豬時(shí)她愣住了。 s wedding, he received a package in his mail. And guess what? There was his wallet! Surprisingly, the wallet was not the only thing that was inside the package. It also had a handwritten note for Hunter which turned out to be a bonus! The piece of paper read,160