【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 out. However, my mother just said, Are you boys hungry? And then she seemed to have lost herself in deep thought. On our last night there, my mother walked up to us with a small pile of unopened mails, which she had collected at the western edge of the dining table, and said, Help me go through these. Sure, I said. When we had succeeded in separating wheat from chaff (谷殼), I asked, Would you want to deal with another little pile of papers? My mother led the way walking into the dining room the way an animal manager might be while entering a cage with tigers in it. Ross and I came in behind her and suddenly he reached for a pile of the papers on one side of the table. No! my mother said sharply. Let39。s start at the other end. That39。s where the older stuff is. Finally, we threw 95 percent of the stuff into paper shopping bags. Then I asked what she wanted us to do with them, she surprised us all by saying, Put them in the incinerator (垃圾焚化爐). When I returned home, inspired by the visit to my mother, I sorted out my own accumulated(累積的) piles of papers, sold or gave away half of my possessions, and moved into a smaller house. It seems that my life has been cheaper and easier since then. And it proves that a small change does make a big difference.（1）What did the mother ask her children to do with these unopened mails? A.To burn them.B.To read them for her.C.To collect them together.D.To pick out the important ones among them.（2）When the mother walked into the dining room, she was________. A.angryB.afraidC.impatientD.careful（3）What39。s the author39。s attitude towards his mother39。s cleaning up the dining table? A.Positive.B.Negative.C.Uncertain.D.Unknown.（4）What might be the best title of the passage? A.The precious mailB.A visit to my motherC.A happy family reunionD.The lesson of the dining table【答案】 （1）D（2）D（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者和哥哥在看望母親期間幫助母親清理餐桌上的資料（一向被她視為寶貝），只留下了極少的重要東西，燒掉了大部分無用的東西。受母親清理餐桌的啟示，作者回到家之后也對自己的東西進(jìn)行歸類清理，自此作者覺得生活更加簡易了。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“help me go through these …When we had succeeded in separating wheat from chaff”從麥殼中分離出麥子即：挑出有用的，扔掉無用的，可知，母親要求孩子們查看郵件并從這些郵件中挑出重要的郵件。故選D。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“My mother led the way , walking into the dining room the way an animal manager might be while entering a cage with tigers in it”可知，母親就像動物管理員走進(jìn)老虎籠中一樣，那么謹(jǐn)慎的進(jìn)入餐廳。故選D。 （3）考查觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度。根據(jù)最后一段中的“When I returned home , inspired by the visit to my mother , I sorted out my own accumulated piles of papers , sold or gave away half of my possessions…”可知，作者受母親清理餐桌行為動作的影響，回家之后也對自己的物品進(jìn)行了歸類清理。故可知，作者的態(tài)度是積極的。故選A。 （4）考查主旨大意全文以餐桌清理為主線，講述了在我們的生活中要把無用之物拋棄，以使我們生活更加簡易，尤其是最后一段中的“And it proves that a small change does make a big difference可知，D項(xiàng)（有關(guān)餐桌的一課）可作本文的標(biāo)題。故選D。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，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。5．閱讀理解 I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals for two elderly women in my munity. Both had died full of years, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon. At the first home, the son of the deceased(過世的)woman said to me, If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It39。s my fault that she died. At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, If only I hadn39。t insisted on my mother39。s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It39。s my fault that she39。s dead. You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course—keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation—would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse? There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds. The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. A baby es to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone es to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not pletely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause thing