【文章內容簡介】 essons. Most schools have a rugby team. Children who play for the school team are usually the sportiest kids, and are seen as brave and athletic.（1）What can be concluded from the first three paragraphs?A.Football players are not real gentlemen.B.There is a better spirit in playing rugby than football.C.Football players are not as athletic as rugby players.D.Brian Moore thinks that rules should be stricter in football.（2）According to the passage, Peter thinks ______.A.rugby players pretend to be injured when they are notB.rugby is not very popular in America and AsiaC.rugby makes people enjoy sports better than soccerD.rugby needs players39。 strong will rather than strength（3）The example of Gordon Brown is mentioned in order to .A.prove that playing rugby can earn people fameB.explain why Gordon Brown is blind in one eyeC.support the point that rugby players often get hurtD.warn teenagers against playing rugby at school（4）What can we infer from the passage?A.Teenagers will lose interest in football.B.English children have a talent for rugby.C.Playing rugby doesn39。t involve skills.D.Rugby is not suitable for everyone.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）C（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，主要介紹了英式橄欖球，并且將它與足球進行了對比。英式橄欖球是暴徒們的紳士運動，玩這項運動的人身體一定要強壯才行呢。（1）歸納總結題。前三段都在介紹英式橄欖球并且將其與足球比較，人們認為橄欖球是暴徒們的紳士運動，而足球是紳士的暴徒運動。并且說足球應該學習橄欖球。故選B（2）細節(jié)題。第四段第二句It is more enjoyable to play than soccer because you are always involved in the game玩英式橄欖球比完足球更有趣，因為你總是被卷入游戲之中的。故選C（3）細節(jié)題。倒數(shù)第二段最后一句Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is blind in one eye thanks to a rugby accident at 學校的一場橄欖球賽中瞎了一只眼睛。所以是來支持橄欖球運動會使人受傷。故選C（4）細節(jié)題。倒數(shù)第二段第二句 People who play the sport need to be tough and be prepared to get hurt. 玩這項運動的人們要強壯并且要做好受傷的準備。從這里可以得出橄欖球這項運動不適合所有人，故選D5．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（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，通過多個例子告訴我們很多名詞都已經(jīng)轉換成了動詞。說明詞匯是并不斷的在變化。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!”用鉛筆寫意為著不是最終的決定，只是臨時的決定，故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第四段中的“I favorite—ing from ‘favorite pages’, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun.”我把這些網(wǎng)站設置成我最喜歡的網(wǎng)站，通過這種方法可以讓我很快就找到這些網(wǎng)站。故選A。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“and we were soon all ing each other madly. ”；第四段中的“I favorite—ing from ‘favorite pages’, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun.”；以及最后一段中的“I can message someone”, 說明ACD都可以作為動詞，只有B項文章沒有提及可以作為動詞，故選B。 （4）考查主旨大意。本文通過多個例子告訴我們很多名詞都已經(jīng)轉換成了動詞，故選D。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。6．閱讀理解 The values of artistic works, according to cultural relativism(相對主義), are simply reflections of local social and economic conditions. Such a view, however, fails to explain the ability of some works of art to excite the human mind across cultures and through centuries. History has witnessed the endless productions of Shakespearean plays in every major language of the world. It is never rare to find that Mozart packs Japanese concert halls, as Japanese painter Hiroshige does Paris galleries, Unique works of this kind are different from today39。s popular art, even if they began as works of popular art. They have set themselves apart in their timeless appeal and will probably be enjoyed for centuries into the future. In a 1757 essay, the philosopher David Hume argued that because the general principles of taste are uniform(不變的) in human nature, the value of some works of art might be essentially permanent. He observed that Homer was still admired after two thousand years. Works of this type, he believed, spoke to deep and unvarying features of human nature and could continue to exist over centuries. Now researchers are applying scientific methods to the study of the universality of art. For example, evolutionary psychology is being used by literary scholars to explain the longlasting themes and plot devices in fiction. The structures of musical pieces are now op