【文章內容簡介】 the moral Colony of the Massachusetts, where immorality is dragged out into the sunshine! Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet （鮮紅色的；罪孽深重的）letter in the marketplace! A lane was at once opened through the crowd. Led by the beadle （獄吏），and attended by an irregular procession of seriouslooking men and unkindlooking women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a halfholiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face, and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the shameful letter on her breast. It was no great distance, in those days, from the prisondoor to the marketplace. Measured by the prisoner39。s experience, however, it might be considered to be a rather long journey。 for, though her manner was proud, she perhaps underwent an extreme pain from every footstep of those who thronged to see her, as if her heart had been thrown into the street for them all to step upon. In our nature, however, there is a condition that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present suffering, but chiefly by the pain that rankles （使痛心）after it. With almost a calm manner, therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her suffering, and came to a sort of scaffold （刑臺），at the western end of the marketplace. It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston39。s earliest church, and appeared to be a fixture there.（1）What can we know about the schoolboys? A.They knew a little of the matter.B.They were full of curiosity and eagerness.C.They were happy for having a oneday holiday.D.They like Hester Prynne and her baby very much.（2）What does the underlined word thronged in paragraph 3 mean? A.Gathered.B.Happened.C.Pretended.D.Regretted.（3）What can we know from paragraph 3? A.The prison was really far from the marketplace.B.The scaffold is at the eastern end of the marketplace.C.Hester Prynne was thrown into the street for people to step on.D.The sufferer mainly knows the intensity of the pain after the suffering.（4）What would probably happen to Hester Prynne according to the text? A.She would be set free.B.She would give a public speech.C.She would put on a performance.D.She would receive serious punishment.【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，摘自名著《紅字》，描述了Hester Prynne被當做異教徒押赴刑場時的情節(jié)片段。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, …ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to ….”可知，人們充滿了好奇并且急不可待。故選B。 （2）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)最后一段中的“though her manner was proud, she perhaps underwent an extreme pain from every footstep of those who thronged to see her, as if her heart had been thrown into the street for them all to step 的內心感受，每邁出一步都感受到一陣巨痛，似乎她的心給拋在街上，任憑他”人吐唾沫和踩踏。因此可知此時，人群在大街上聚集，故選A。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“In our nature, however, there is a condition that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present suffering, but chiefly by the pain that rankles (使痛心)after it.”可知，人們對痛苦的感知往往后知后覺，故選D。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“ therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her suffering, and came to a sort of scaffold （刑臺），at the western end of the marketplace ”因此，海絲特白蘭度過了這一段痛苦，來到市場西端的一個刑臺前，可推知選D。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關系，進行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 For years, decades in fact, I39。ve puzzled over the response most people have when I tell them I mostly travel alone. You39。re so brave! Why is it that a woman travelling alone, as I have often done for months at a time, is perceived to be brave, whereas men who travel alone are entirely unremarkable?You are only brave when you are afraid of something but still do it anyway. I have never been afraid of travelling alone. The first time I travelled alone was when I was 19. I was due to travel in Europe with a friend at the end of the summer. She announced by letter two days before our departure that she would be leaving me halfway at Vienna. It was too late by then to rope in another friend, so it was either to go home after Vienna, or keep going by myself. I kept going. I got on trains by myself, checked into hostels by myself and found my way around by myself. It was weird at first, but later I stopped worrying about it. When I got back to Ireland after that trip, I felt proud of myself. I had done something I had assumed would be hard, and it had turned out to be not hard at all. That was three decades ago, and since then I have travelled all over the world, usually on my own. I still do what I did then, which is to keep a diary. The greatest gift of solo travel has been those I39。ve met along the way. I may have set off alone each time but I39。ve encountered many people who became important to me. I met my husband in Kathmandu, Nepal. I met lifelong friends in Australia, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, India, Indonesia and many other places.（1）What makes the author puzzled when she tells people of her experience? A.People39。s disbelief.B.People39。s response.C.People39。s approval.D.People39。s criticism.（2）What does the author say about her first time to travel alone? A.It was a trip by design.B.She had to choose to go by herself.C.It was harder than expected.D.She set off all alone.（3）What do the underlined words solo travel in the last paragraph mean? A.Group