【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 he mind and soul also demand never stopping inputs. However,information, processed and integrated (融入) into knowledge, thoughts and feelings, instead of bustle (忙碌) seems to be the right condition. Successful careers m all walks of life worldwide have proved that the soul grows in peace and talent is nurtured in loneliness. In a sense, it may be reasonable to say that Happiness tends to be shallow while loneliness involves depth. Man, in fact, needs loneliness more than happy time, and only abundant loneliness can produce quality happiness. （1）Which of the following can replace the underlined the word boisterously in paragraph l? A.surprisinglyB.sadlyC.busilyD.peacefully（2）What can we infer from the second paragraph? A.Being alone marks people depressed.B.Social intercourse improves our happiness.C.One may feel lonely even when surrounded by people.D.We should attend social intercourse to decrease our loneliness.（3）What can we know from Einstein39。s words? A.You should be successful if you spend all your time by yourself.B.You should exercise more if you want to keep your minds healthy.C.You will not bee successful if you join in more social intercourse.D.You will be more successful if you can make your lonely time meaningful.（4）Which may be the best title for this passage? A.Live on Your OwnB.Happiness and LonelinessC.The Secret of SuccessD.Practice Your Social Ability【答案】（1）C（2）C（3）D（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是議論文。主要討論了在現(xiàn)今社會中很多的社會往活動在進行中，人們看似很幸福。然而，一切都掩蓋不了人們在這些幸福場景背后倍感孤獨的社會現(xiàn)象。（1）考查詞意猜測題。根據(jù)第一段可知，如今，尤其是在中國，一切都似乎有利于社會交往，如朋友聚會、KTV、團體旅游、餐飲更緊，打牌和麻將，加上中式“過街組”?？梢圆聹y出下文：回到家中仍然忙著在微信上討論。所以劃線詞boisterously的意思是“忙的”，故選C。（2）考查推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段第一句，也是主題句However, these scenes cannot always ease a sense of lonely man in crowds.”可知，一個人就算被人包圍著也可能感到孤獨。故選C。（3）考查細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段Einstein said: “It is not your working time but your spare time that determines the possibility of whether you will be successful or not.”（ 愛因斯坦說：“不是你的工作時間，而是你的業(yè)余時間決定了你是否成功的可能性。）可知，如果你能讓寂寞的時間更有意義，你會更成功。故選D。（4）考查標題判斷題。本文主要討論了在現(xiàn)今社會中很多的社會往活動在進行中，人們看似很幸福。然而，一切都掩蓋不了人們在這些幸福場景背后倍感孤獨的社會現(xiàn)象。所以最佳標題是B. Happiness and Loneliness，故選B.【點評】尋找文章的主題句了解文章主要論題的關(guān)鍵是找到全文的主題句。主題句通常在文章首段，但是也可能在文章的末段、在文章的某一段落，或者分散在文章的各個段落中。如果每個段落都有主題句，那么把各段落的主題句的中心思想集中起來，即為全文的主題句。5．閱讀理解 Imagine a cat that does not need someone to clean up after it keeps an older person pany and helps them remember to take their medicine. That is the shared dream of the toy maker Hasbro and scientists at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The researchers received a $ 3milliondollar award from the National Science Foundation for a special project. They want to find ways to add artificial intelligence, or ., to Hasbro39。s “Joy for All” robotic The cat has already been for sale for two years. Though priced over 1000 dollars, it sold quite well. It was meant to act as a “panion” for older people. Now the project is aimed at developing additional abilities for the cat. Researchers at Brown39。s HumanityCentered Robotics Initiative are working to decide which activities older adults may need the most. They hope to make the cat perform a small number of activities very well. Such activities include finding lost objects and reminding the person to take medicine or visit their doctor. They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred dollars. It is an idea that has appealed to Jeanne Elliott. Her 93yearold mother Mary Derr lives with her in South Kingstown. Derr has dementia (癡呆). The Joy for All cat that Elliott bought this year has bee a true panion for Derr. The cat stays with Derr and keeps her calm while Elliott is at work. Elliott said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when she walks would be greater. The researchers are trying to learn how the improved cats will plete helpful activities and how they will municate. They say that they do not want a talking cat, however. Instead they are trying to design a cat that can move its head in a special way to successfully municate its message. In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly people. （1）What39。s the purpose of the project? A.To relieve the pain of the elderly.B.To promote the sales of a medicine.C.To invent a robotic cat for the elderly.D.To help make the robotic cat smarter.（2）Compared with the old model, the new robotic cat will be A.smallerB.cheaperC.more talkativeD.more expensive（3）What does Paragraph 3 intend to tell us? A.The cat gives much help to the elderly.B.The more functions of the cat, the better.C.There is no cure for dementia at present.D.Mary Derr would have died without the cat.（4）What can we infer from the last paragraph? A.A talking cat is quite popular among the elderly.B.Feelings of sadness among the elderly are unavoidable.C.Each family can afford such a cat in the future.D.The feeling of being needed is vita