【正文】 he now sees it as nothing short of inspiration for living her best life. To spread that message. Gallagher has gone to social media, where she shares photos of her travels across the world, but instead of simply using a geotag (地理位置標簽), she writes her location on her artificial leg before taking a picture. Now she has been taking pictures across the Continent, which show her cycling over the canal in Amsterdam relaxing on a wall overlooking the city of Barcelona, posing with a waffle in Brussels, taking in the beautiful Parthenon temple in Athens and enjoying a river ride in Budapest, all with the wellknown locations written on her artificial leg. I get a new leg every two years and I can choose the design on it. One day I had a sudden thought to get a chalkboard, Gallagher said. My mum and grandmother didn39。t like the idea, but my friends thought it was great and told me to go for it, so I did. Gallagher said people often stare when she39。s writing on her leg, but once she shares the photos, she receives only positive feedback (反饋), My leg hasn39。t stopped me from doing anything I39。ve wanted to do, she said. I don39。t know if it39。s my determination to prove to myself that I can do it, anyway, I39。ve been able to keep up with people at my age and lead a pretty great life. Gallagher shows us that you should never let anything stand in the way of your dreams. And if life gives you an artificial leg, make art.（1）What message did Gallapher want to spread in her special way? A.She enjoys her travelling across the globe.B.She suffers little from her leg39。s amputation.C.she looks on her misfortune as another form of blessing.D.She has exactly fallen in love with posting photos online.（2）What does the word which underlined in paragraph 3 refer to? A.the continentB.the picturesC.the legD.the location（3）Gallapher can best be described as ________. A.helpful and ambitiousB.friendly and generousC.determined and creativeD.independent and sensible（4）Which of the following might be the best title for the text? A.Never Too Late to shareB.A Special Artificial LegC.An Outstanding PhotographerD.Gallagher39。s Summer Holidays【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】Devon Gallagher小時因病右腿截肢，盡管有很多不便，但她認為這可以激勵她過上最好的生活。長大后Gallagher在社交媒體上分享自己環(huán)球旅行的照片，但她并沒有簡單的使用地理標簽，而是拍照前在假肢上寫下自己的位置。她的故事告訴我們不要讓任何東西擋住通往夢想的道路。 （1）細節(jié)理解題。根據第一段中Although the amputation caused inconvenience for Gallagher early on, she now sees it as nothing short of inspiration for living her best life.。盡管截肢早期給她帶來了很多不便，但她認為這可以激勵她過上最好的生活。由此可知Gallagher想以她獨特的方式表明她把自己的不幸看做是另一種幸運的形式，故選C。 （2）推理判斷題。Now she has been taking pictures across the Continent, which show her cycling over the canal in Amsterdam relaxing on a wall…現(xiàn)在她在整個大陸拍照，應該是這些照片展示了…所以which指代的是她拍的照片，故選B。 （3）推理判斷題。根據第四段One day I had a sudden thought to get a chalkboard, Gallagher said. My mum and grandmother didn39。t like the idea, but my friends thought it was great and told me to go for it, so I did.Gallagher說她媽媽和外婆都不喜歡她chalkboard的主意，但她的朋友喜歡，讓她去試試，所以她就去了，可知Gallagher很有決心。根據第二段To spread that message. Gallagher has gone to social media, where she shares photos of her travels across the world, but instead of simply using a geotag (地理位置標簽), she writes her location on her artificial leg before taking a picture。Gallagher把她的位置寫在假肢上來和大家分享可知他是一個很有創(chuàng)造性的人，故選C。 （4）主旨大意題。最后一段And if life gives you an artificial leg, make art。是本文的主題句，根據文章內容可知本文主要描述的是截肢的Gallagher在社交媒體上分享自己環(huán)球旅行的照片，但她并沒有簡單的使用地理標簽，而是拍照前在假肢上寫下自己的位置的故事。這篇文章是想通過Gallagher的一條假肢，傳達出一種樂觀向上的生活態(tài)度，故A Special Artificial Leg是最好的標題。故選A。 【點評】考查閱讀理解。本文涉及細節(jié)理解題、推理判斷題和主旨大意題三種?？碱}型，細節(jié)理解題要注意從文中尋找答案；推理判斷題需要聯(lián)系上下文以及分析特殊句式，推斷出需要的信息；主旨大意題需要通讀全文，了解大意之后找出中心思想。9．閱讀理解 A study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important. These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion(萬億)connections in the brain of a threeyearold child. Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mubaba. This is the patternABB. Another order was mubage. This is the pattern “ABC”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the ABB pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order. Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar. Position is key to language, she says. If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference: John caught the bear.39。 is very different from 39。The bear caught John.39?！?Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that language delivered by televisions, audio books, the Internet, or smartphones－no matter how educational－doesn39。t appear to be enough for children39。s brain development. They carried out a study of ninemonthold American babies. They expected the first group who39。d watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought facetoface with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies－regardless of whether they had watched the v