【正文】 swer. The meaning of life is different for every individual. Each person has his own purpose and distinct path, unique and separate from anyone else39。s. As you are traveling your life path, you will be presented with numerous lessons you will need to learn in order to achieve that purpose. The lessons you are presented with are specific to you。 learning these lessons is the key to discovering and achieving the meaning of your own life. As you are traveling through your lifetime, you may meet challenging lessons that others don39。t have to face, while others spend years struggling with challenges that you don39。t need to deal with. You may never know why you are blessed with a wonderful marriage, while your friends suffer painful divorces, just as you cannot be sure why you struggle financially while your peers enjoy abundance. The only thing you can count on is that you will be presented with all the lessons that you specifically need to learn. The challenge, therefore, is to arrange yourself with your own unique path by learning individual lessons. This is one of the most difficult challenges you will face in your lifetime, as sometimes your path will be different from others. But don39。t pare your path with that of people around you and focus on the differences between their lessons and yours. You need to remember that you will only face lessons that you can learn and are specific to your own growth. Our sense of fairness is the expectation of equality. Life is not, in fact, fair, and you may indeed have a more difficult life path than others around you, deserved or not. Everyone39。s circumstances are unique, and everyone needs to handle his or her own circumstances differently. （1）According to the passage, how can the meaning of your life be realized? A.Gathering different opinions from othersB.Taking the distinct path from others.C.Learning the lessons presented to you.D.Doing the different things from others.（2）From the passage we can conclude . A.everyone has his own track to followB.unexpected things usually happen to the peersC.a painful divorce must lie in financial problemsD.a wealthy man must have a wonderful marriage（3）In your lifetime, the lessons you are faced with . A.are beyond your powerB.keep you from growthC.limit your developmentD.help you with your success（4）Which of the following is TRUE? A.All things should be equal and justice to everybody.B.You should learn to deal with specific problems differently from others.C.One has to fix his mind on unfairness of circumstances.D.You can plain life is unfair whenever possible.（5）Life is called a full–time school, because . A.it is full of all lessons to learnB.you have plenty of time to learn lessonsC.you meet with specific lessons every dayD.you can learn many things helpful to you【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）D（4）B（5）C 【解析】【分析】短文大意：每個(gè)人的生活都不一樣，所面臨的人生難題也不一樣。只有當(dāng)我們學(xué)會(huì)了這些人生課題，我們才可以理解生活的意義，取得成功。 （1）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段最后一句The lessons you are presented with are specific to you。 learning these lessons is the key to discovering and achieving the meaning of your own life. 可知我們想要實(shí)現(xiàn)自己生活的意義，就要學(xué)會(huì)呈現(xiàn)在你面前的種種課題。故C項(xiàng)正確。 （2）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段第一句Each person has his own purpose and distinct path, unique and separate from anyone else39。s. 可知每個(gè)人都有自己的生活目的，都有不同于他人的人生道路。故A項(xiàng)正確。 （3）推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段最后一句The only thing you can count on is that you will be presented with all the lessons that you specifically need to learn. 可知當(dāng)我們學(xué)會(huì)了所有這些教訓(xùn)，我們就能夠理解生活的意義，我們就會(huì)取得成功，故D項(xiàng)正確。 （4）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段最后一句You need to remember that you will only face lessons that you can learn and are specific to your own growth. 可知我們每個(gè)人所面臨的人生道路上的教訓(xùn)都是不一樣的，我們必須要學(xué)會(huì)處理這些與別人不一樣的問題。故B項(xiàng)正確。 （5）推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段第一句Each person has his own purpose and distinct path, unique and separate from anyone else39。s. 可知每個(gè)人都有自己的生活目的，都有不同于他人的人生道路。在生活這所學(xué)校里，我們要學(xué)會(huì)處理這些不同的問題。故C項(xiàng)正確。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查閱讀理解。本文涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解題和推理判斷題。細(xì)節(jié)題要注意從文中尋找答案；推斷題需要聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出需要的信息。9．閱讀理解 If spending is a measure of what matters, then the people of the developing world place a high value on brains. While private spending on education has not changed much in the rich world in the past ten years, in China and India it has more than doubled. Since brainpower is the primary generator of progress, this burst of enthusiasm for investing in private education is excellent news for the world. But not everybody is delighted. Because private education increases inequality, some governments are trying to stop its advance. That39。s wrong: they should wele it, and spread its benefits more widely. ① Education used to be provided by religious institutions or entrepreneurs. But when governments, starting in Prussia in the 18th century, got into the business of nationbuilding, they realized they could use education to shape young minds. As state systems grew, private schooling was left to the elite and the pious(虔誠(chéng)的). Now it is enjoying popularity again, for several reasons. Ines are rising, especially among the better off, at the same time as birth rates are falling. In China the former onechild policy means that six people—two parents and four grandparents—can pour money into educating a single child. ② All over the developing world, people want more or better education than governments provide. Where cities are growing at unmanageable speed, the private education is taking up the slack. In India the private education now educates nearly half of all children, in Pakistan more than a third, and in both countries the state education is shrinking. Even where the state does pretty well, as in East Asia, richer people still want better schooling for their children than the masses get. Thus, Vietnam, which has an outstanding stateschool system for a poor country, measured by its performance in the OECD39。s PISA test, also has the fastestgrowing private education. ③ In most way