【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 gave clothing and medicine. Farmers gave food. Families gave money. Even school children gave away their pocket money. All the things were then taken to France by ship. By 1949, the French had begun to recover （恢復(fù)） from the war. The Merci Train was their way of saying thank you to America. French people had filled the boxcars with gifts. Most of them were personal, like handmade toys, children39。s drawings, or postcards. But the boxcars themselves were perhaps the most meaningful of the gifts. On each car, the French people had painted the pictures of all their 40 provinces, with an American eagle on the front. The boxcars were taken to each state of America, where they were warmly greeted. Now many of the states still keep their boxcars. Gifts sent by the French people can still be seen in some museums. The Merci Train came out of the war, but it now reminds the world that countries can also work together in peace.（1）Many people crowded at New York Harbor on February 3rd, 1949 to ________. A.wele the Merci TrainB.meet their familiesC.have a big partyD.start a trip by ship（2）In 1947, a train stopped in cities across America in order to ________. A.give away clothing and foodB.get more soldiers for the warC.collect things to help French peopleD.show exhibitions from the museums（3）The underlined word them in Paragraph 3 refers to （指） ________. A.the American peopleB.the French peopleC.the boxcarsD.the gifts（4）The passage is mainly about ________. A.the story of the Merci TrainB.the history of World War ⅡC.gifts that American people likedD.American museums where the boxcars were kept【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】大意：短文主要介紹了來自法國的Merci Train的故事。 （1）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段 Many people were there to greet a ship from France. 很多人在那里歡迎一艘來自法國的船，可知這一天人們聚集在紐約港是為了歡迎Merci Train。故選A。 （2）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段 All the things were then taken to France by ship. 所有的東西通過船被帶到法國，可知火車在美國的每個(gè)城市停留是為了收集物資幫助法國人民。故選C。 （3）代詞辨析題。根據(jù)上文 French people had filled the boxcars with gifts. 法國人用禮物填滿了火車車廂，可知?jiǎng)澗€代詞them指代的是上文的gifts“禮物”。故選D。 （4）主旨大意題。通讀全文可知，短文主要介紹了來自法國的Merci Train的故事。故選A。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查閱讀理解。本文涉及細(xì)節(jié)題、代詞辨析題和主旨題三種常考題型，細(xì)節(jié)題要注意從文中尋找答案；代詞辨析題需要聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出代詞指代的內(nèi)容；主旨題需要通讀全文，了解大意之后找出中心思想。6．閱讀理解 What do you think will happen when the traditional culture meet modern technology? Yes, the words bee lively characters at once. How happy it is to enjoy these Chinese cartoons! Ma Liang is a poor boy who loves painting. He always uses his magic brush to fight against the bad people in the village. The cartoon The Magic Brush came out in 1955. A group of tadpoles（蝌蚪）are born. They try to find their mother that they have never seen. The story is very easy, but it needs plex technology to show the artistic style of ink（水墨）painting. Little Tadpole Looking for Mom was watched in 1961 first. The Monkey King：Uproar in Heaven（19611964）is China39。s first color cartoon. It is from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. It39。s successful. Not only we but also many westerners like the monkey Sun Wukong. To beat two bad persons, an old man grows 7 calabashes（葫蘆）, and they change into 7 boys. They try their best to beat the bad. Calabash Brothers（1986）is a masterpiece（杰作）of Chinese papercutting art. （1）_______shows the artistic style of ink painting. A.The Magic BrushB.Little Tadpole looking for MomC.Calabash BrothersD.The Monkey King：Uproar in Heaven（2）The underlined word plex in the passage means _________in Chinese . A.重復(fù)的B.復(fù)雜的C.雜亂的D.冗長(zhǎng)的（3）Which is true according to the passage? A.The Monkey King is from a Chinese novel.B.Ma Liang punished the villagers with his brush.C.Calabash Brothers is from Chinese painting art.D.Little Tadpole Looking for Mom came out in 1964.【答案】 （1）B（2）B（3）A 【解析】【分析】短文大意:本文是文化類閱讀，介紹了四個(gè)不同風(fēng)格的藝術(shù)形象：神筆馬良、小蝌蚪找媽媽、美猴王和葫蘆兄弟，說明傳統(tǒng)文化與現(xiàn)代技術(shù)相結(jié)合，能夠讓簡(jiǎn)單的文字變成生動(dòng)的人物形象。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)The story is very easy, but it needs plex technology to show the artistic style of ink painting它需要復(fù)雜的技術(shù)展示水墨畫的藝術(shù)風(fēng)格，故選B。 （2）考查詞意猜測(cè)題。but但是，表轉(zhuǎn)折；根據(jù)The story is very easy,可知畫技很復(fù)雜，故選B。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。A. The Monkey King is from a Chinese novel美猴王來自中國小說?？芍猅he Monkey King is from a Chinese novel說法正確，故選A。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】此題考查閱讀理解。這篇短文內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)單，容易理解。我們分析問題后，根據(jù)文章的細(xì)節(jié)直接找出細(xì)節(jié)理解問題的答案。對(duì)于詞意猜測(cè)題，要根據(jù)上下文的聯(lián)系確定。7．閱讀理解 What! You too? I thought I was the only one. Have you ever said this to someone? If so, you may have ended up being friends with this person. It seemed that similarity often helps form friendships. The Greek philosopher（哲學(xué)家） Aristotle once said, Some define（下定義） friendship as a matter of similarity. They say that we love those who are like ourselves. Now, there is some science behind this idea. Scientists from University of California said friends have similar brains, Scientific American reported. The scientists invited 42 university students to take part in an experiment. Each student watched the same set of videos, which included a edy, a discussion and a soccer match. Meanwhile, scientists studied their brains and recorded their brain activity. According to their study, friends who watched the same video clips reacted in similar ways. Similar parts of their brains lit up while watching the videos, especially parts that were connected with motivation（動(dòng)力）， learning and memory. However, people who weren39。t friends had different reactions to the same clips. Having close friends whose brains react like ours may be rewarding because it makes one39。s won values, opinions, and interests strength, scientist Carolyn Parkinson told Business Insider. But brain similarity is not the only thing that can result in friendship. Scientists from the University of Leipzig, Germany, found that friendship is also based on how physically close you are to someone. They did an experiment with firstyear college stude