【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 God knows when to send a special gift of encouragement at just the right time! It might be in a dream, a lost letter, a memory, or something found that we39。d forgotten about. My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. And summer after summer I enjoyed staying with my grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town where they lived. People knew everyone, their children, their pets, their ancestors. Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting …She would make sandwiches and we39。d have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them. She loved knitting sweaters as well as making beautiful quilts　for her grandchildren. I remember the small thimble ( 頂 針 ) she would place on her finger while doing her needlework. A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth for her new residence in Heaven, I bid farewell to my loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change! We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there was no card from Grandma. She39。d never forgotten my birthday! On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened and made me feel as if she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow。 it was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam (縫) that I carefully opened, and, to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble! How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her! Not realizing k had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing h into that little pillow that I just happened to fluff (抖松), to place on my bedspread (床罩) that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others Id collected over the years. What a precious memory of a very special lady who, somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing her thimble into my pillow. I heated the kettle and made some tea, using my best china, as Grandma always did, and then enjoyed my tea and Grandma39。s thimble. What a wonderful birthday that was!（1）In the author39。s memory, what would her grandmother do? A.She would make sandwiches and hamburgers for her family.B.She would wear a thimble for needlework every day.C.She would make beautiful quilts for money.D.She would look after the flowers in the garden.（2）What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 4 refer to? A.The modern world39。s fastchanging life.B.The fact that the grandmother had passed away.C.The author39。s missing her grandmother.D.The love the author got from her grandmother.（3）How did the author feel when she found the thimble? A.Surprised.B.Regretful.C.Guilty.D.Lonely.（4）Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? A.Grandma39。s ThimbleB.Grandma39。s Life StoryC.The Joy of Finding Something LostD.The Importance of Putting Things Away【答案】（1）D（2）C（3）A（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者通過祖母生活的點滴及她的銀頂針對作者的影響，表達了作者和祖母之間濃濃的親情。（1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“She would make sandwiches and we39。d have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them.”可知，在作者的記憶中，她的祖母會照看花園里的花。故選D。（2）考查代詞指代。根據(jù)第四段中的“I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there was no card from Grandma. She39。d never forgotten my birthday! ”我非常想念她，但我大部分時間都是在我生日那天注意到的，因為奶奶沒有卡片。她永遠不會忘記我的生日！由此可知it指“作者想念她的祖母?！惫蔬xC。（3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第五段中的“to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble!”可知，當她發(fā)現(xiàn)頂針時，她感到驚喜。故選A。（4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)最后一段中的“I heated the kettle and made some tea, using my best china, as Grandma always did, and then enjoyed my tea and Grandma39。s thimble. What a wonderful birthday that was!”可知，本文主題是奶奶的Thimble。故選A?！军c評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，代詞指代，推理判斷和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 When I was three years old, I couldn39。t speak. It was a strange reality that none of the doctors I visited could understand. One day, I was shadowing(跟隨)my mother. She found herself looking in a mirror, and through it our eyes met. She began to speak to me through the reflection, and I slowly began to mimic(模仿)her mouth39。s movements until I formed a word. It turned out I39。m deaf in my left ear, and have a slight problem in my right. Being hard of hearing has been difficult, but I39。ve never lived in a state of selfhating sorrow. Imagine being able to shut out all sound as you lay your head down to sleep by simply rolling over onto one side. That39。s my reality when I sleep on my good ear, and it makes me feel like a superhero sometimes. People call my deaf side my bad ear, but when I wear my hearing aid, I have access to a range of features that some other deaf people don39。t. In cinemas, for example, with one click of a button I can enjoy a whole film as though it were whispered to me from the mouths of the actors. Owning a hearing aid hasn39。t always felt good, however. On the first day I got my aid, when I was eight, I took it to school for showandtell. As I explained how it worked to my classmates, a boy yelled out, Aren39。t those for old men? At that moment, I felt different. It took me a long time to get over that sense of being so unlike my peers. But it39。s not just school kids who can make us deaf and hardofhearing people feel like burdens. Every video on social media that lacks subtitles(字幕), for example, means an entire munity of deaf people is unable to enjoy it. Completely deaf people are excluded from enjoying many movies too, as subtitles in cinemas are almost impossible to find. And with hearing aids costing around $2,500 each, it can be hard for many people to afford to be able to listen to the things that others take for granted. As for me, I can listen to music, enjoy films,