【正文】 0。B.It can promote her online sales.C.It can better her cooking skills.D.It can improve their nutrition.（4）What is the “the bigger picture” (Para. 6) that Loe wishes her children to understand? A.The knowledge about good food.B.The way to live a growourown life.C.The joy of getting in touch with foods.D.The responsibility to protect our earth【答案】（1）C（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了一個(gè)名叫Loe的女性的故事。Loe是“自己種植”現(xiàn)代生活方式的實(shí)踐者，她熱衷于自己種植香草和味道新鮮的食物，并將食物裝入密封罐中保持以保持最佳的風(fēng)味，更想通過(guò)自己的舉動(dòng)影響孩子們，讓他們意識(shí)到保護(hù)地球的責(zé)任。(1)考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第一段中的“On a mere 1/10 of an acre … and preserve much of the food they consume”可知面積并不是硬要求。Loe在那里所做的一切證明，一個(gè)大農(nóng)場(chǎng)對(duì)“自己種植”現(xiàn)代生活方式來(lái)說(shuō)并不是一個(gè)硬要求。故選C。(2)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“Start with herbs… Just a little of the herbs …”可知香草很容易生長(zhǎng)。故選B。(3)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段中的“there is a moment when it39。s bursting with its absolute peak flavor. 39。I try to keep it in a time capsule in a canning jar,39?！笨芍獙⒎N植的事物裝入密封罐中保存的好處是能夠保持最佳的風(fēng)味。故選A。(4)考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)最后一段中的“that if we don39。t take care of the earth, no one will”可知the bigger picture指的是保護(hù)地球的責(zé)任。故選D?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和詞義猜測(cè)兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行推理歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 Imagine a cat that does not need someone to clean up after it keeps an older person pany and helps them remember to take their medicine. That is the shared dream of the toy maker Hasbro and scientists at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The researchers received a $ 3milliondollar award from the National Science Foundation for a special project. They want to find ways to add artificial intelligence, or ., to Hasbro39。s “Joy for All” robotic The cat has already been for sale for two years. Though priced over 1000 dollars, it sold quite well. It was meant to act as a “panion” for older people. Now the project is aimed at developing additional abilities for the cat. Researchers at Brown39。s HumanityCentered Robotics Initiative are working to decide which activities older adults may need the most. They hope to make the cat perform a small number of activities very well. Such activities include finding lost objects and reminding the person to take medicine or visit their doctor. They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred dollars. It is an idea that has appealed to Jeanne Elliott. Her 93yearold mother Mary Derr lives with her in South Kingstown. Derr has dementia (癡呆). The Joy for All cat that Elliott bought this year has bee a true panion for Derr. The cat stays with Derr and keeps her calm while Elliott is at work. Elliott said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when she walks would be greater. The researchers are trying to learn how the improved cats will plete helpful activities and how they will municate. They say that they do not want a talking cat, however. Instead they are trying to design a cat that can move its head in a special way to successfully municate its message. In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly people. （1）What39。s the purpose of the project? A.To relieve the pain of the elderly.B.To promote the sales of a medicine.C.To invent a robotic cat for the elderly.D.To help make the robotic cat smarter.（2）Compared with the old model, the new robotic cat will be A.smallerB.cheaperC.more talkativeD.more expensive（3）What does Paragraph 3 intend to tell us? A.The cat gives much help to the elderly.B.The more functions of the cat, the better.C.There is no cure for dementia at present.D.Mary Derr would have died without the cat.（4）What can we infer from the last paragraph? A.A talking cat is quite popular among the elderly.B.Feelings of sadness among the elderly are unavoidable.C.Each family can afford such a cat in the future.D.The feeling of being needed is vital to the elderly.【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是說(shuō)明文，主要介紹新型的人工智能機(jī)器貓。機(jī)器貓會(huì)給老年人更多的幫助，同時(shí)機(jī)器貓也離不開(kāi)他們。被需要的感覺(jué)是至關(guān)重要的。他們甚至可以幫助防止老年人的孤獨(dú)和悲傷情緒。(1)目的意圖題。根據(jù)第一段第一句Imagine a cat that does not need someone to clean up after it keeps an older person pany and help them remember to take their 。故答案選D。(2)推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段最后一句They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred ，與舊模型相比新的機(jī)器貓更便宜。故答案選B。(3)段落大意題。根據(jù)第三段最后一句Elliott said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when she walks would be ，機(jī)器貓會(huì)給老年人更多的幫助。故答案選A。(4)推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段最后兩句In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly ，被需要的感覺(jué)是至關(guān)重要的。故答案選D?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】推論性考察題一般包括事實(shí)推斷、指代推斷、邏輯推斷和對(duì)作者意圖與觀點(diǎn)的推斷。常見(jiàn)的提問(wèn)方式有：①The writer believes that ＿＿＿＿.②From this passage we can guess ＿＿＿＿.③The write suggests that ＿＿＿＿。除了一般的事實(shí)題可直接從文中找出答案外，其他諸如對(duì)條件變化、因果關(guān)系以及作者意圖等較為深層的邏輯推斷題，則必須要建立在對(duì)全文的理解基礎(chǔ)上，通過(guò)文章所提供的線索，加以綜合分析，才能做出正確的推斷。9．閱讀理解 If you39。re a book lover，you have a pile of books on your bedside，or a bookshelf in your library with a“to read”sign on it．Yet you can39。t stop yourself from adding to the pile．This can lead to feelings of guilt over your new purchases．But I39。m here to tell you to stop worrying． What you have is an antilibrary ， and it39。s a very good thing．The term es from writer Umberto Eco．He is the owner of a large personal library．He separates visitors into two groups：those who react with“Wow! What a library you have! How many of these books have you read?”and the others who get th