【正文】 ness from a plete stranger that made us realize how special Newfoundland really was.”取而代之，是一個(gè)陌生人的善意之舉讓我意識(shí)到紐芬蘭的真正特別之處。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。Next year, there39。 Dumbfounded, my husband and I just smiled in disbelief.d heard us discussing different routes, then asked if we39。 Our generosity and hospitality (好客), he replied in a strong local accent. Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, someone will stop to help. People here are kind like that.His answer lingered in my mind during that ride with my husband and teenage kids, as we headed out to explore on the first day of our vacation. Why not? She insisted. You need a car to get to know all these places.t matter, she continued with absolute determination.s car.ll meet then?（1）What problem did the author39。 （2）考查詞義猜測(cè)。 （4）考查推理判斷。2．閱讀理解 Bly, whose name was Elizabeth Corcoran, had to work to make her way in the world. Different from many women of the time, however, she refused to let the working world scare her away. Her first big opportunity as a reporter came in 1885 after she wrote an angry letter denouncing the Pittsburgh Dispatch for an article it had run criticizing women forced to work outside the home. The interested and excited editor hired Bly for her spirit, and soon she was investigating the situations of female factory workers. Bly cared less about their jobs than their lives after workD.Questioning.Daring and practical.Acute and confident.C. （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段中的She quickly became famous for undercover stories about women in a mental hospital.她很快因?yàn)榻衣毒癫≡号缘墓适露暣笳瘢┛芍?Bly是因?yàn)閳?bào)道女性故事而出名的。 Though digital restoration is a painstaking process, mending irreplaceable family pictures means the world to victims like Emily Lancaster, 71, who took out piles of ruined photo albums after Katrina, never thinking the mess could be saved. But she just couldn39。 operating costs are covered by donations. It39。quit their jobs in 2006spent four days mending the photosSceptical.（4）What is the best title for the passage? A.D.s blog about the experience, and soon Operation Photo Rescue, as it came to be known, had s from hundreds of volunteers, including photographers and restoration experts, eager to help.“后來(lái)被稱(chēng)為照片救援行動(dòng)的網(wǎng)站，收到了數(shù)百名志愿者的電子郵件，其中包括攝影師和修復(fù)專(zhuān)家，他們都渴望提供幫助，可知，他們的行動(dòng)鼓舞了其他的志愿者加入。根據(jù)最后一段中的It39。d least expect. They can e to us as a great change in our physical reality or as a simple coincidence in our lives. Sometimes they39。 On a cold January afternoon in 1989, I was hiking up the trail that leads to the top of Egypt39。d seen. Rather than the hightech fabrics and styles that had been the norm, this man was wearing traditional Egyptian clothing. He wore a tattered, rustcolored galabia and obviously old and thicksoled sandals that were covered in dust. What made his appearance so odd, though, was that the man didn39。 I had to ask myself what the chances were of an Asian man dressed in an Egyptian galabia ing down from the top of this historic mountain just when I was walking up, stopping before me, and offering his wisdom, seemingly from out of nowhere. My answer to my own question was easy: the odds were slim to none! In a meet that lasted less than two minutes on a mountain halfway around the world from my home, a total stranger had brought clarity and the hint of a warning, regarding the huge changes that I would make within a matter of days. In my way of thinking, that39。re everywhere and occur every day for different reasons, in response to the different needs that we may have in the moment. Our job may be less about questioning the extraordinary things that happen in our daily lives and more about accepting the gifts they bring.（1）Why did the author make a pilgrimage to Mt Horeb in Egypt? A.What was the probability that others told us the right words?（3）Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word subtle in paragraph 7? A.Can you recognize a miracle?Try to have a hearttoheart conversation with the Asian man.D.故選C。Until后的從句可以看出奇跡每次變得會(huì)更加明顯，不是像之前那么微妙。根據(jù)最后一段，針對(duì)我們當(dāng)下不同的需求，奇跡時(shí)時(shí)處處都以不同原因存在著。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測(cè)，推理判斷和主旨大意四個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇故事類(lèi)閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 Bacow, the former president of Tufts University, has taken over Harvard at a time when higher education is under attack for being financially out of reach to many Americans. But Bacow said his family39。 As the Tufts president, Bacow traveled around the country, reaching out to alumni (校友), and he urged his faculty and deans to do the same, in an effort to boost donations to finance Tufts39。his family changed their fate due to college educationC.Bacow39。The history of Bacow39。s way to individual success.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇名人傳記，講述了Bacow的個(gè)人成功之路。故選C。s leadership, Tufts spent millions on labs and libraries. He also made addresses nationally about the need to make higher education more accessible and affordable to lowine students.”在Bacow的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下，Tufts花了數(shù)百萬(wàn)美元在實(shí)驗(yàn)室和圖書(shū)館上。 In the nineteenth century, one of America39。s greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman39。He is the first great poet in the USAC.Accused.Walt Whitman and Leaves of GrassD.可知選D。縱觀全文可知，本文講述了美國(guó)著名作家Walt Whitman以及他的代表作《草葉集》，并圍繞《草葉集》的開(kāi)始不被接受到最后的大受歡迎展開(kāi)，故選C。 We can understand, then, why Chinese historians were so excited when they found cave paintings which show ancient science. They found these paintings in the worldrenowned Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City, in Northwest China39。t be possible to travel back in timethat only happens in filmsbut visiting these caves would be the nearest experience you could get to travelling back in time.（1）Why were Chinese historians excited when they found cave paintings showing ancient sci