【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 dered 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?qū)頃谩?（1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)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(dān)心作者這一代人的未來，故選D 。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)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(dān)心的，因而C項正確．聽著他們的談話，開始擔(dān)心我父親描述的未來，故選C。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)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?jīng)歷的事情得出結(jié)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?qū)頃茫芍谋咀詈脴祟}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(jù)上下文進行推理，歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 WISH YOU WERE MORE CREATIVE? I want to ask you a favor. I have a pair of pants. Tell me: How many different ways can I put a pair of pants to use? Now imagine you39。re an architect. Same question. Now imagine you39。re Bill Gates. A scuba diver. A medieval knight. You still have the pants. What alternative uses e to mind? What you just practicedthe conscious act of wearing another selfis an exercise that, according to psychiatrist SriniPillay, MD, is essential to being creative. One great irony (諷刺) about our collective addiction to creativity is that we tend to frame it in uncreative ways. That is to say, most of us marry creativity to our concept of self: Either we39。re creative or we aren39。t, without much of a middle ground. I39。m just not a creative person! a discouraged student might say in art class, while another might blame her talent at painting for her difficulties in math, making a ment I39。m very rightbrained. , an assistant professor at Harvard University, has spent years overturning these ideas. He believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to challenge the stereotyped (陳詞濫調(diào)的) advice that urges you to believe in yourself. In fact, you should do the opposite: Believe you are someone else. He points to a study showing the impact of stereotype on one39。s behavior. The authors, psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college student subjects into two groups, instructing one group to think of themselves as eccentric poets and the other to imagine they were rigid librarians. The researchers then presented them all with ordinary objects, including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to e up with as many different uses as possible for each one. The former group came up with the widest range of ideas, whereas the latter had the fewest. These results suggest that creativity is not an individual characteristic but a product of context and perspective. Everyone can be creative, as long as he or she feels like a creative person. Dr. Pillay39。s work takes this a step further: He argues that simply identifying yourself as creative is less powerful than taking the brave, creative step of imagining you are somebody else. This exercise, which he calls psychological Halloweenism, refers to the conscious action of wearing another self. An actor may employ this technique to get into character, but anyone can use it. According to Dr. Pillay, it works because it is an act of conscious unfocus, a collection of brain regions that spring into action when you39。re not focused on a specific task or thought. Most people spend nearly half of their days in a state of unfocus. This doesn39。t make us lazy。 it makes us human. Imagining yourself in a new situation, or an entirely new identity, never felt so productive. You39。re making yourself more creative, and you39。re giving yourself permission to do something you39。d otherwise feel guilty about.（1）What39。s the function of the questions in paragraph 1? A.To lead in the topic.B.To make a parison.C.To state an opinion.D.To ask a favor.（2）The study led by Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar proves A.creativity is an individual characteristicB.160