【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 out one39。s work. We might also make wiser decisions — this isn39。t just a feelgood exercise. For example, technology and medicine have progressed to the point that many patients are living longer than they would have even a decade ago. These are achievements worth celebrating. And yet I wonder if the focus on success is sometimes misguided here as well. If it is one reason why we tend to pursue expensive endoflife treatments, they often acplish little other than to make a patient39。s final days painful and frightening. The fact is that, when asked, many patients would rather focus on living meaningfully in their final days. My hope here is to make a case for thinking about meaning, in the same way we think about pursuing success. In that spirit, I39。ve asked several people, each of whom has met misfortune, how they find meaning in their lives. The diversity in their responses reflects the fact that there are no right or wrong answers here. We each can find meaning in different things.（1）What is the typical American idea? A.Success is the dream.B.Success lies in hard work.C.Apple pie is the best food.D.Failure is always avoidable.（2）What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 3 probably refer to? A.Equipment.B.Culture.C.Uncertainty.D.Belief.（3）In their final days many patients actually want to______. A.live as long as possibleB.live a more meaningful lifeC.make great progress in medicineD.get expensive endoflife treatments（4）What can we learn from the last paragraph? A.The author thinks pursuing success is wrong.B.We can benefit from some unlucky things.C.We can find the same meaning in our life.D.Personally there are different meanings in life.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】短文大意：在美國人們經(jīng)常談?wù)摮晒?。成功是夢想，是終點。美國人認(rèn)為努力工作就能獲得個人成功每個人都能在不同的事物中找到意義。 （1）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中的And not by coincidence the idea that hard work leads to personal success is as American as apple 。故選B。 （2）推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段中的We39。d feel better equipped to deal with uncertainty if we talked about it more. 可知我們會感覺更好地準(zhǔn)備好應(yīng)對不確定性，如果我們更多地談?wù)撍?。可推斷，it指代的是不確定性。故選C。 （3）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段中的The fact is that, when asked, many patients would rather focus on living meaningfully in their final ，在生命的最后幾天，許多病人實際上更專注于有意義的生活，故選B。 （4）推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段The diversity in their responses reflects the fact that there are no right or wrong answers here. We each can find meaning in different ，關(guān)于人生意義的回答，沒有對或錯的答案，每個人都能在不同的事物中找到意義，故選D。 【點評】考查閱讀理解。本文涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解題和推理判斷題。細(xì)節(jié)理解題要注意從文中尋找答案；推理判斷題需要聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出需要的信息。5．閱讀理解 My mother has a dining table which sits right in the middle of her dining room. It was once buried beneath piles of papers—magazines, articles, copies of schedules for vacations she took back in the 1990s, and baby pictures of grand children who are now paying off their college loans. My brother Ross and I recently flew to New York to visit my mother. Mom, why don39。t we go through all that stuff? Ross said. No. Don39。t touch it! My mother said. The next afternoon, when she couldn39。t find a bill she needed, Ross suggested it might be put somewhere in the dining room and that we find it together. Besides, he said, all those papers are clearly stressing you 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