【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 west price they could find with the possibility of winning a $50 cash prize. However, the task was controlled, and all participants were told (by a puter) that the lowest price was $ less than their reported price. Consequently, no participant won the cash prize. When the results were announced, some participants were asked to focus on their emotional response, and others on their cognitive (認(rèn)知的) response. During the next similar task, participants who focused on their emotional response to failure made more effort than those who focused on a cognitive response. Everybody has their own unique challenges, responsibilities, duties, and projects, but these findings are related to all of us. Your personal failure may be a cake that fails to rise, a presentation that goes wrong, or a deadline that gets missed—it doesn39。t matter. What matters is how you react to it. Instead of thinking about the failure, let yourself feel bad about it. Then follow this advice on how to bounce back after your failure.（1）What39。s the relationship between failure and success? promises success. is the key to success. does damage to success. failure is good for success.（2）Why does the writer support beating oneself up when failing? 39。s a wellmeaning suggestion for failure.39。s been proved by the study of a university. emotional is good for his future success. can make people less emotional about failure.（3）Which can be the best title for the passage? Failure Is a Cake That Fails to Appear Most Productive Way to Handle Any Failure Methods to Change Failure into Success Reason Why Failure Is the Mother of Success【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B 【解析】【分析】這是一篇說明文。文章向讀者傳達(dá)了失敗乃是人生不可避免的一部分，但是如何處理失敗是很重要的。每次失敗后，我們應(yīng)該自責(zé)，自責(zé)能讓我們下次做得更好。 （1）推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段中的we39。re told over and over again that no great success was ever achieved without failure以及“One of life39。s most important lessons, therefore, has to be how to handle failure best.（人生中很重要的一課是學(xué)會(huì)如何最好地處理失敗）”可知，好好處理的失敗對(duì)成功是好的。故選D。 （2）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第二段中的“we absolutely should be beating ourselves up when we fail（當(dāng)我們失敗的時(shí)候我們應(yīng)該自責(zé)）”與“the more emotional a person39。s response is to failure, the more likely they are to achieve better results the next time they deal with a related task（一個(gè)人對(duì)失敗的情緒越大，下次他遇到相關(guān)的任務(wù)取得更好的結(jié)果的可能越大）”可知，對(duì)失敗有情緒對(duì)將來的成功是很重要的。故選C。 （3）主旨大意題。這是一篇說明文，根據(jù)文章第一段中的最后一句“One of life39。s most important lessons, therefore, has to be how to handle failure best.（人生中很重要的一課是學(xué)會(huì)如何最好地處理失?。笨芍?，本文是教給大家如何有效地面對(duì)失敗。故選B。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查閱讀理解。涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解題，推理判斷題和主旨大意題。細(xì)節(jié)理解題要注意根據(jù)題目和文章的關(guān)鍵詞在文章中尋找答案。推理判斷題要注意聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出所需信息，主旨大意題要注意找文章的主題句或主題段落，聯(lián)系上下文，從而判斷出文章的主題。5．閱讀短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 For the past two years I have been travelling and living abroad. Home has bee more of a feeling than a place. I feel at home when I am with my family in London, but I also feel at home in Italy with friends I love. Home is no longer a picture of a house with a front door and some windows. It is more plicated than that. This is one of the reasons that celebrating the new year has bee very important for me. I do not care about New Year39。s resolutions (愿望)—living abroad has made me constantly reconsider what kind of person I want to be and how I will live my life, so I don39。t feel the need to plan for change: I live for change. New Year39。s Eve has bee my time to reconnect with the friends that makes me feel at home. Every year we try to reunite wherever we are and remember the time when we knew each other so well that we felt like a family. It is a moment to reconnect and get to know each other again. Last year, we travelled to a cottage in Ireland where we had no internet and no neighbours. In the middle of the countryside, away from our big and constantly changing lives, we were able to bee like a little family again. This year, we went to Barcelona. It was a very big change. We were surrounded by culture and life and joy. There were bars and parties. It was different, but one thing stayed very much the sameI felt at home again and we felt like a family again. A lot of people feel that New Year39。s Eve cannot live up to expectations. Ideas such as the New Year39。s kiss and resolutions create a lot of pressure for people to have a night to remember, a night that will change their lives and perhaps make the next year one worth living. I think those people are missing the point. If Christmas is about family, why can39。t New Year be about friends?（1）What does the underlined word It in Paragraph I probably mean? A.FamilyB.Living abroadC.HomeD.Staying with friends（2）Why doesn39。t the author care about New Year39。s resolutions? A.New Year39。s resolutions cannot be reached.B.His lifestyle makes him always ready for change.C.It39。s meaningless to make any big changes in life.D.Making New Year39。s resolutions creates much pressure.（3）What does the author try to convey through his experiences in Ireland and Barcelona? A.Life is peaceful and enjoyable.B.Living abroad is a happy experience.C.Staying with friends makes one feel at home.D.Travelling abroad enriches one39。s life experience.（4）Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A.New Year39。s Celebration: How?B.True Friendship: What?C.Living Abroad: Comfortable or Complicated?D.Change: Plan it or Make it?【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，介紹了對(duì)于怎樣慶祝新年這個(gè)問題，作者的答案是和朋友一起度過。 （1）考查代詞指代。根據(jù)第一段中的“Home is no longer a picture of a house with a front door and some windows.”家不再是一幅有前門和一些窗戶的房子的圖畫。由此可知，下文的意思是家比這更復(fù)雜。It指代上文提到的“家”，故選C。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“I do not care about‘New Year39。s resolutions’—living abroad has made me constantly reconsider what kind of person I want to be and how I will live my life, so I don39。t feel the need to plan for change: I live for change.”我不在乎“新年愿望”——在國(guó)外生活讓我不斷地重新考慮我想成為什么樣的人，我將如何生活，所以我覺得沒有必要為改變做計(jì)劃：我為改變而活。由此可知，作者不在乎“新年愿望”是因?yàn)樗纳罘绞绞顾麜r(shí)刻準(zhǔn)備著改變，故選B。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“In the middle of the countryside, away from our big and constantly changing lives, we were able to bee like a little family ，遠(yuǎn)離我們不斷變化的大生活，我們又能像一個(gè)小家庭了；以及第四段中