【正文】 Journey of Edward Tulane （《愛德華的奇妙之旅》） is a 2006 novel written by Kate DiCamillo. The book is about an unusual journey of a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. He travels from one place to another, meeting many people. During his journey, he learns to love and finally finds love again. This book is popular nowadays and was mentioned many times in the famous South Korean TV series My love from the Star （《來自星星的你》）. The warm and sweet story will surely make you understand more about love.（1）Jenny introduced some interesting children39。s story books to . A.encourage students to read moreB.encourage students to write moreC.show off the books she has readD.make money by selling books（2）The underlined word praise properly means in Chinese. A.欺騙B.批評(píng)C.贊揚(yáng)D.攻擊（3）Which statement is TRUE according to the passage? A.The three books mentioned in the passage are popular today.B.The writers of the three books are all Americans.C.When Charlotte39。s Web came out, it was only popular with adults.D.My Love from the Star is a famous Chinese TV series.【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）A 【解析】【分析】文章大意：珍妮為鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生閱讀更多書籍，決定在校報(bào)上介紹一些世界名著，其中包括《小王子》、《夏洛特的網(wǎng)》和《愛德華的奇妙之旅》。老師在簡介中分別介紹了三本小說的作者、故事大意和它們的流行（受歡迎）程度。 （1）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中的Jenny wanted to encourage students to read more famous books，so she decided to put an introduction to some interesting children39。s story books in the school newspaper可知，珍妮想鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生閱讀名著，于是決定在校報(bào)上刊登一些名著的簡介。由此可知珍妮向?qū)W生介紹兒童讀物的目的是鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生多讀書。故選A。 （2）詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)文中的When Wilbur is in danger of being killed for his meat by the farmer，Charlotte writes messages to praise Wilbur in her web and saves him可知，當(dāng)威爾伯面臨被殺的危險(xiǎn)時(shí)，夏洛特在自己的網(wǎng)上寫信稱贊威爾伯，并拯救了他，故知praise的意思是贊揚(yáng)。故選C。 （3）細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。根據(jù)整篇文章內(nèi)容及其第二段句子The book is really popular throughout the world. 這本書在世界各地很受歡迎．和第三段句子 it is still very popular today. 今天仍然是非常受歡迎的。和第四段句子This book is popular nowadays. 這本書現(xiàn)在很流行。可知這篇文章中提到的三本書今天仍很受歡迎，故選A。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查任務(wù)型閱讀，關(guān)鍵在看懂文章，然后根據(jù)題目要求作答，注意盡量用文章的語言填寫答案。在文章中找不到答案時(shí)，要完全理解句子，根據(jù)同義詞，句型轉(zhuǎn)換的方式找到可以替換文章中的單詞，短語或者句子的詞。二、中考英語完形填空（含答案詳細(xì)解析）9．閱讀下列短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的三個(gè)或四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 A group of boys gathered around a tree. What a tall tree! they said to each other. It would be 1 to climb to the top! The group of boys then decided to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree 2 . Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking on at their children as they 3 . One of the climbers was an 8yearold boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. Nobody thought he would 4 the petition. Then the game started. All of the boys tried their best to climb as 5 as they could. Although they all made it halfway up the tree before David did, he reached the top of the tree fastest 6 . His mother was proud to see this. She asked him, David, how did you 7 to reach the top of the tree so quickly? It was easy, David said. The other children kept looking down as they climbed. When they realized how high they were, they got scared（恐懼的） and were afraid of 8 down. I, however, looked only 9 . When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top. It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without looking back, we are more likely to reach our goals（目標(biāo)）.1. A. usefulB. possibleC. crazyD. exciting2. A. lastB. finallyC. firstD. really3. A. studiedB. playedC. jumpedD. discussed4. A. winB. enterC. likeD. hold5. A. wellB. safelyC. carefullyD. high6. A. as wellB. in the endC. as usualD. in time7. A. manageB. hopeC. imagineD. agree8. A. lookingB. climbingC. fallingD. going9. A. downB. overC. outD. up【答案】 （1）D；（2）C；（3）B；（4）A；（5）D；（6）B；（7）A；（8）C；（9）D； 【解析】【分析】本文講述了男孩們爬樹比賽，結(jié)果是最矮的那個(gè)贏了，我們得到一個(gè)生活道理， 如果我們不回頭繼續(xù)前進(jìn)，我們就更有可能達(dá)到目標(biāo)。 （1）句意： 爬到山頂會(huì)很興奮的！ A有用的，B可能的，C瘋狂的，D興奮的，根據(jù) What a tall tree，可知征服一棵高樹是很興奮的事情 ， 故選D。 （2）句意：然后，這群男孩決定玩一個(gè)游戲，看誰能先爬到樹頂上。A最后的，B最終，C最先，D真的，根據(jù) who could climb to the top of the tree，可知是比最先爬到樹頂 ， 故選C。 （3）句意：當(dāng)他們玩時(shí)，他們的母親坐在不遠(yuǎn)處，看著他們的孩子。A學(xué)習(xí)，B玩耍，C跳，D討論，根據(jù) play a game，可知是玩耍 ， 故選B。 （4）句意：沒人認(rèn)為他會(huì)贏得比賽。A贏，B進(jìn)入，C喜歡，D舉辦，根據(jù) the petition，可知比賽是贏得 ， 故選A。 （5）句意：所有的男孩都盡力爬得更高。A好地，B安全地，C仔細(xì)地，D高地，根據(jù) best to climb ， 可知爬樹是在比高，故選D。 （6）句意：雖然在半路上他們都比大衛(wèi)快，但他最后還是最快到達(dá)了樹頂。A也，B最終，C像往常一樣，D及時(shí)，根據(jù) Although they all made it halfway up the tree可知，主句是最終表示前后的轉(zhuǎn)折 ， 故選B。 （7）句意：大衛(wèi)，你怎么這么快就爬到樹頂了？A處理，B希望，C想象，D同意，manage to do，固定搭配，設(shè)法做，故選A。 （8）句意：當(dāng)他們意識(shí)到自己有多高時(shí)，他們會(huì)害怕，害怕摔倒。A看，B爬，C落下，D去，根據(jù) they got scared（恐懼的） and were afraid of，可知在高處是怕跌落 ， 故選C。 （9）句意：但是，我只是抬頭看。A向下，B通過，C離開，D向下，根據(jù) down. I, however ， 可知up與down對(duì)比，故選D。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查詞匯在篇章中的運(yùn)用能力，答題時(shí)首先要跳過空格通讀文章掌握其大意，然后細(xì)讀文章字斟句酌逐一作答，注意考慮句型、語法、搭配、語境等因素。最后通讀一遍檢查驗(yàn)證。10．完形填空 Shirley Temple was born in 1928 in California. She was a very lovely little girl 1 blonds curly hair （金色卷發(fā)）. She was also a good actress. At the age of three, Shirley was 2 films and soon became a famous film star. When she was six years old, she made some successful films. 3 the time she was eight years old, she was making $500,000 a year. The people who made the films 4 her Little Miss Miracle. In the 1930s, life was 5 in the USA. Many people didn39。t have jobs, but 6 of poor people paid money to go to the cinemas to 7 Shirley Temple. People felt happy 8 she sang and danced. Mothers wanted their daughters to have curly hair like Shirley Temple. Little girls played with Shirley Temple dolls. 9 loved little Shirley. People sent her presents. On her eighth birthday, she got 1,000 cakes. Her fans sent her 5,000 10 a week. But her mother didn39。t spoil（溺愛） her. Little Shirley only got $ a week and had to eat the spinach（菠菜）.1. A. likeB. withC. ofD. about2. A. teachingB. studyingC. makingD. watching3. A. ByB. WithC. BeforeD. Since4. A. saidB. calledC. toldD. spoke5. A. difficultB. happyC. easyD. popular6. A. millionB. hundredC. billionD. thousands7. A. visitB. learnC. watchD. call8. A. whenB. thoughC. because