【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 indicating choices for stories that can be read in one minute, three minutes or five minutes. When a button is pushed, a short story is printed. The stories are free. They are chosen from a puter category of more than 100,000 original submissions by writers whose works have been evaluated by Short Edition39。s judges, and transmitted over a mobile network. Offerings can be tailored to specific interests, like children39。s fiction or romance. Short Edition gets stories for its category by holding writing contests. Short Edition set up its first booth in 2016 and has 150 machines worldwide. The idea is to make people happy, said Kristan Leroy, director of Short Edition, There is too much unhappiness today.（1）What do we know about the stories sent by dispensers? are expensive. are short in form. can be read on smartphones. are mainly taken from magazine literature.（2）Where can you find the popularity of story dispensers in America? paragraph 3. paragraph 4. paragraph 5. paragraph 6.（3）Which is the main purpose of setting up the dispensers according to Andrew Nurkin? get rid of people39。s smartphone addiction. reduce the financial stress of libraries. make people have access to literature. advertise the network literature.（4）What is the best title for the text? Reading: a Virtual Tour Edition, a French Publisher Old Will Be Popular Again of Literature, at the Push of a Button【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）C（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，人們可以通過多種途徑讀到小說，例如書籍、雜志等。為了能夠在快新聞時代和智能手機成癮的時代復(fù)興文學(xué)，法國文學(xué)出版商Short Edition過去幾年在美國建立了30多個小說分發(fā)機，在餐廳，大學(xué)和政府辦公室只需按一下按鈕即可以閱讀小說。這樣人們能更容易地接觸文學(xué)，以此提高孩子們的讀寫能力并激發(fā)他們的創(chuàng)造力。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段中的“when a button is pushed, a short story is printed”可知，按下按鈕，就會打印出一篇短篇小說，因此小說在形式上是簡短的。故選B。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“he …placed a dispenser at his Cafe Zoetrope in San Francisco. Last month public libraries in some other cities announced they would be setting them up, too. There is one on the campus at Penn State. A few can be found in downtown West Palm Beach, Fla. And Short Edition plans to announce more, including at the Los Angeles International Airport.”可知，在舊金山的Cafe Zoetrope有一臺小說分發(fā)機，其他一些城市的公共圖書館也宣布將安裝小說分發(fā)機。賓夕法尼亞州立大學(xué)的校園里有一臺小說分發(fā)機。在佛羅里達州有一些小說分發(fā)機。在洛杉磯國際機場也將有更多的小說分發(fā)機。因此在第3段中可以看出小說分發(fā)機在美國受人歡迎。故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“We want people to be easily exposed to literature. We want to advance literacy among children and inspire their creativity.”可知，Andrew Nurkin說：“我們希望人們能夠很容易地接觸到文學(xué)。我們希望提高孩子們的讀寫能力并激發(fā)他們的創(chuàng)造力?！币虼?，在Andrew Nurkin看來，設(shè)置小說分發(fā)機的主要目的是使人們有機會接觸文學(xué)。故案選C。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第一段中的“Stories are shared in many ways. They are described…”可知，文章提出的話題是閱讀小說；第二段中的“Short Edition… has set up more than 30 story dispensers in the USA in the past years to deliver fiction at the push of a button at restaurants, universities and government offices.”可知，法國文學(xué)出版商Short Edition過去幾年在美國建立了30多個小說分發(fā)機，在餐廳，大學(xué)和政府辦公室只需按一下按鈕即可以閱讀小說。故選D。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和主旨大意兩個題型的考查，是一篇科技類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 When you go to the doctor, you like to e away with a prescription．It makes you feel better to know you will get some medicine. But the doctor knows that medicine is not always needed. Sometimes all a sick person needs is some reassurance that all will be well. In such cases the doctor may prescribe a placebo. A placebo is a sugar pill, a harmless shot, or ail empty capsule. Even though they have no medicine in them, these things seem to make people well. The patient thinks it is medicine and begins to get better. How does this happen? The study of the placebo opens up new knowledge about the way the human body can heal itself. It is as if there was a doctor in each of us. The doctor will heal the body for us if we let it. But it is not yet known just how the placebo works to heal the body. Some people say it works because the human mind fools itself. These people say that if the mind is fooled into thinking it got medicine, then it will act as if it did, and the body will feel better. Placebos do not always work. The success of this treatment seems to rest a lot with the relationship between the patient and the doctor. If the patient has a lot of trust in the doctor and if the doctor really wants to help the patient, then the placebo is more likely to work. So in a way, the doctor is the most powerful placebo of all. A placebo can also have bad effects. If patients expect a bad reaction to medicine, then they will also show a bad reaction to the placebo. This would seem to show that a lot of how you react to medicine is in your mind rather than in your body. Some doctors still think that if the placebo can have bad effects it should never be used. They think there is still not enough known about it. The strange power of the placebo does seem to suggest that the human mind is stronger than we think it is. There are people who say you can heal your body by using your mind. And the interesting thing is that even people who swear this is not possible have been healed by a placebo．（1）What do we know about placebo according to the passage? A.It contains some sort of medicine.B.It won39。t function if you are negative about medicine.C.People who don39。t believe placebo can39。t be healed by it.D.Patients and doctors know clearly how it helps to heal the body.（2）Why is the doctor sometimes the most powerful placebo? A.The patient needs help badly．B.The patient believes in the doctor．C.The doctor knows better about your body．D.The doctor has carefully studied medicine．（3）What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to? A.The placebo.B.The bad effect.C.The body.D.The medicine.（4）What is the passage mainly about? A.Placebo：Work on Your MindB.Placebo：The Most Powerful MedicineC.Placebo：The Best DoctorD.Placebo：Heal Your Body【答案】（1）A（2）B（