【正文】 e it again to follow and record the storm and I really learned a lot these days. Although it39。s dangerous, I love my job as not many people would go into the eye of an intense storm.（1）We can know from the passage that “Rita” is ________. A.a petB.a stormC.a friend of the authorD.a citizen in Houston（2）What can we infer from the passage? A.The author was a storm chaser.B.The storm lasted for at least a week.C.The author didn39。t like Houston at all.D.Houston was very badly damaged by the storm.（3）How did the author probably feel after the storm? A.Anxious.B.Disappointed.C.Satisfied.D.Scared.（4）What is the passage mainly about? A.Ways to survive in a storm.B.The weather changes in Houston.C.The author39。s experience in the storm.D.Damages caused by the storm in Houston.【答案】（1）B（2）A（3）C（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文。這篇文章描述了作者親身經(jīng)歷的一場風(fēng)暴Rita，作者對于自己能夠追逐并且記錄這場風(fēng)暴，感覺非常驕傲。盡管非常危險(xiǎn)，但是作者非常熱愛自己的這份工作。(1)推理判斷題。由第二段Besides, I didn39。t sleep well for all these days, but I felt more relaxed since the weather report said Rita was leaving. What39。s more, I was luckier than those people who had lost their homes or even worse, lost their lives because of ，天氣預(yù)報(bào)報(bào)道Rita離開了，它讓許多人們失去了家園，甚至失去了生命。結(jié)合第一段中I took a pressure reading from the weather station: 947mb, which let me know exactly where I was—in the eye of the ，Rita”是一次風(fēng)暴，選B。(2)推理判斷題。由第三段However, I came across another storm chaser (追逐者) who had 45 gallons of ，作者是一位風(fēng)暴追逐者，選A。(3)推理判斷題。由最后一段All in all, when I came back home, I was proud that I finally made it again to follow and record the storm and I really learned a lot these days. Although it39。s dangerous, I love my job as not many people would go into the eye of an intense ，在這次風(fēng)暴之后，作者感覺很滿意，故選C。(4)主旨大意題。這篇文章描述了作者親身經(jīng)歷的一場風(fēng)暴Rita，作者對于自己能夠追逐并且記錄這場風(fēng)暴，感覺非常驕傲。盡管非常危險(xiǎn)，但是作者非常熱愛自己的這份工作，故選C。【點(diǎn)評】寫作意圖、目的、態(tài)度推斷題作者的語氣態(tài)度往往不會直接寫在文章里，只能通過細(xì)讀文章，從作者的選詞及其修飾手段中體會出來。詢問寫作目的的題，選項(xiàng)里常出現(xiàn)的詞是：explain(解釋), prove (證明), persuade(勸說), advise(勸告), ment(評論), praise(贊揚(yáng)), criticize(批評), entertain(娛樂), demonstrate(舉例說明), argue(辯論), tell(講述), analyze(分析)等。詢問語氣態(tài)度的題，選項(xiàng)里常出現(xiàn)的詞是：neutral(中立的), sympathetic(同情的), satisfied(滿意的), friendly(友好的), enthusiastic(熱情的), subjective(主觀的), objective(客觀的), matteroffact(實(shí)事求是的), pessimistic(悲觀的), optimistic(樂觀的), critical(批評的), doubtful(懷疑的), hostile(敵對的), indifferent(冷淡的), disappointed(失望的)。8．閱讀理解 Science is finally beginning to embrace animals who were, for a long time, considered secondclass citizens. As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend die. Pigs respond meaningful to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O39。s. Then the team switched from reallife objects to Tshirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the Oshirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a twodimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat of reasoning. I39。ve been guilty of prejudiced expectations, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes outthink and outfeel other animals. They39。re other primates(靈長目動物), after all, animals from our own mammalian(哺乳動物的) class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social panions. Longterm studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure kin laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks. Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will the new science of food animals bring an ethical (倫理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science? Animal activists are already there, of course, mitted to not eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attention to the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us to make changes in who we eat?（1）According to Annie Potts, hens have the ability of_____________. A.interactionB.analysisC.creationD.abstraction（2）The research into pigs shows that pigs___________. A.learn letters quicklyB.have a good eyesightC.can build up a good relationshipD.can apply knowledge to new situations（3）Paragraph 4 is mainly about________. A.the similarities between mammals and humansB.the necessity of longterm studies on mammalsC.a change in people39。s attitudes towards animalsD.a discovery of how animals exp