【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 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，介紹了對于怎樣慶祝新年這個問題，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劃：我為改變而活。由此可知，作者不在乎“新年愿望”是因為他的生活方式使他時刻準(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，我們又能像一個小家庭了；以及第四段中的“It was different, but one thing stayed very much the sameI felt at home again and we felt like a family again.”這是不同的，但有一件事是非常相同的——我感覺像回到了家，我們感覺像一個家庭。由此推斷出，作者試圖通過他在愛爾蘭和巴塞羅那的經(jīng)歷表達(dá)和朋友呆在一起讓人有回家的感覺，故選C。 （4）考查主旨大意。第三段中的“New Year39。s Eve has bee my time to reconnect with the friends that makes me feel at home.”除夕已經(jīng)成為我和朋友們重新聯(lián)系的時間，這讓我感到賓至如歸。是全文的主題句，結(jié)合全文內(nèi)容，可知這篇文章主要講了對于怎樣慶祝新年這個問題，作者的答案是和朋友一起度過，故選A。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，代詞指代，推理判斷和主旨大意四個題型的考查，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 things to happen.（1）What is said about the two deceased elderly women?