【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 isn39。t it? he said. This isn39。t the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language. He also showed his habits at home and personal insights. Last February, Gates said he likes to do the dishes himself—to his own special standards every night and also told the interviewer that his wife, Melinda, would likely want Samuel L. Jackson to play her husband in a biopic(傳記片). He also admitted that he would pick up a $100 bill if he found it on the street. As he took the top spot on Forbes(福布斯) 28th Annual Billionaires list last year for the fourth time, he said he is pretty basic when it es to spending on clothes and food, but that he enjoys investing in shoes and rackets(球拍) when he plays tennis. When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way, the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break. Don39。t stay up too late even if the book is really exciting. You will regret it in the morning. Pam is still working on this problem, he said.（1）Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? A.An Interview with Bill GatesB.How Bill Gates SucceededC.Bill Gates39。 RegretD.The Richest Billionaire（2）The underlined part in paragraph 8 may actually mean that _______. A.it is important to lay a good foundation of lifeB.food and clothing are basic needs for people39。s lifeC.he never cares about buying food and clothingD.he doesn39。t spend much money on food and clothes（3）What advice did Bill Gates give? A.Do the dishes yourself at home.B.Be a good language learner.C.Avoid staying up too late.D.Pick up the $100 bills in the streets.（4）Which of the following is true according to the passage? A.Bill Gates is also the founder of Facebook.B.Bill Gates was good at learning languages in high school.C.Bill Gates topped the list of Forbes 28 times.D.Bill Gates39。 wife wants Samuel to play a game with Gates.【答案】 （1）C（2）D（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，白手起家的億萬富翁比爾蓋茨認(rèn)為自己不懂外語是人生的一個(gè)遺憾。 （1）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第一段中的“The world39。s richest man might seem to have it all, but Bill Gates has one regret. The selfmade billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages.”世界首富比爾蓋茨似乎擁有一切，但他有一個(gè)遺憾。這位白手起家的億萬富翁說，他覺得自己不懂外語很愚蠢。是全文的主題句，可知這篇文章主要講了比爾蓋茨的遺憾，故選C。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第八段中的“but that he enjoys investing in shoes and rackets(球拍) when he plays tennis.”但他喜歡在打網(wǎng)球時(shí)，投資買鞋和球拍。由此推斷出上文的意思是他在食物和衣服上花的錢不多，故選D。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“ When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way, the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break.”當(dāng)被問及人生的教訓(xùn)時(shí)，這位億萬富翁表示，他仍在努力改掉熬夜的習(xí)慣。由此可知，比爾蓋茨的建議是避免熬夜太晚，故選C。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“I took Latin and Greek in high school and got As and I guess it helps my vocabulary.”我在高中的時(shí)候?qū)W過拉丁語和希臘語，拿到了A，我想這對(duì)我的詞匯量有幫助。由此推斷出比爾蓋茨在高中時(shí)很擅長學(xué)習(xí)語言，故選B。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及推理判斷和主旨大意兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，概括歸納，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? lived out a natural life. died of exhaustion after the long plane ride. weren39。t used to the change in weather. died due to lack of care by family members.（2）The author had to conduct the two women39。s funerals probably because . wanted to fort the two families was an official from the munity had great pity for the deceased was minister of the local church（3）People feel guilty for the death of their loved