【文章內容簡介】 rd my parents talking about my future. My dad was upset not the usual stuff that he and Mom and, I guess, a lot of parents worry about like which college I39。 m going to, how far away it is from home. Instead, he was upset about the world his generation is turning over to mine, a world he fears has a dark and difficult future if it has a future at all. There will be a disease that kills millions, a disastrous energy crisis, a horrible worldwide depression and a nuclear explosion set off in anger. As I lay on the living room couch, listening to their conversation, starting to worry about the future my father was describing, I found myself looking at some old family photos. There was a picture of my grandfather who was a member of the class of 1942, the war class. Next to his picture were photos of my great﹣grandparents. Seeing those pictures made me feel a lot better. I believe tomorrow will be better than today — that the world my generation grows into is going to get better, not worse. Those pictures helped me understand why. I considered some of the awful things my grandparents and great﹣grandparents had seen in their lifetimes: two world wars, killer flu, segregation（隔離） , a nuclear bomb. But they saw other things, too, better things: the end of two world wars, passage of the civil rights laws. I believe that my generation will see better things, too that we will witness the time when AIDS is cured and cancer is defeated. I will see things as incredible to me today as the internet to my father when he was 16.（1）Why was the author39。s dad upset on a recent night？ A.He was upset about which college for the author to go to.B.He was upset that the college is too far from the author39。s home.C.He was worried about his dark and difficult future ing soon.D.What upset him is whether there is a future for the author39。s generation.（2）What was the author39。s first reaction to his father39。s worry? A.Indifferent.B.Optimistic.C.Worried.D.Sensitive.（3）What did those photos make the author understand? A.The world was full of terrible things that could not be solved.B.Though the world was full of terrible things, it would get better.C.All those terrible things that worried the author actually didn39。t exist.D.Those pictures showed that people never worried about their future.（4）What is the best title of the article？ A.Never worry about your futureB.Tomorrow will be better than todayC.The world will never be peacefulD.All that exists will e to an end【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者從聽到父母談話，到看到照片，感悟將來會更好。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據第一段中的“a world he fears has a dark and difficult future if it has a future at all．”他害怕世界有一個黑暗而艱難的未來如果它有一個未來的話，可知在最近的一個晚上，作者的父親心煩意亂是因為擔心作者這一代人的未來，故選D 。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據第三段中的“l(fā)istening to their conversation， starting to worry about the future my father was describing．”可知作者開始時是擔心的，因而C項正確．聽著他們的談話，開始擔心我父親描述的未來，故選C。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據第三段中的“ I believe tomorrow will be better than today that the world my generation grows into is going Lo get better， not worse． Those pictures helped me understand why．”我相信明天會比今天更好﹣﹣我這一代人成長的世界會變得更好，而不是更糟。這些照片幫助我理解了為什么?？芍髡哂上容厒兘洑v的事情得出結論，未來會更美好，故選B。 （4）考查主旨大意。作者聽到父母談話，到看到照片感悟將來會更好，可知文本最好標題為B項，故選B。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和主旨大意兩個題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，并根據上下文進行推理，歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 It39。s not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we39。re doing. I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said I39。ll pencil it in my diary, and my friend said You can ink it in, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one! Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we39。d fax it immediately. Then along came , and we were soon all ing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily s. Email reminds me, of course, of my puter and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my puter I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I39。ll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don39。t bookmark。 I favorite—ing from favorite pages, so the verb es from an adjective not a noun. Now my children bought me a mobile phone, known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message for them on their phone. Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven39。t heard that verb yet, but I39。m sure I will soon. Perhaps I39。ll start using it myself!（1）I39。ll pencil it in my diary in the second paragraph probably means . was a firm arrangement prefers a pencil to a pen arrangement should be written as a diary was an uncertain arrangement（2）A website address can be easily found if it has been______. （3）Which of the following has not been used as a verb yet? （4）The best title for this passage is____. and Language. of the English language Technology and New words Verbs from Nouns【答案】 （1）D（2）A