【正文】 hour work at the office makes relaxed afterhours dating(約會) difficult.”可知12小時的工作使得人們約會變得很困難，繁忙的工作花費(fèi)了人們太多的精力。故選B。(4)考查主旨大意。文章主要分析現(xiàn)在的人們?yōu)槭裁春茈y找到生活伴侶，其原因可能主要是對對方的期望過高以及經(jīng)濟(jì)壓力較大的現(xiàn)實(shí)。故選C?！军c(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇社會現(xiàn)象類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 This is my origin story: when I was a teenager I wrote terrible poetry. Like really bad. Worse than yours, I bet. A lot of it about how every little thing reminds me that we39。re all going to die one day. I wrote collections and collections of these poems, thinking one day I would have my moment. I named one collection, ironically, The Eternal Optimist. In 1996, I found an advert for the International Poetry Competition. I was 16 years old and ready for my poetry to be released on the world. Not only was it a petition with a cash prize, but it was poetry, which I wrote, and international. This was my ticket to being worldfamous. I submitted a poem called Trail of Thought. If you ever wrote bad poetry as a teenager, you39。ll have written something like it. In the poem, I went for a walk and noticed small poignant(辛酸的) things in nature, and each one reminded me that we were all going to die one day. I filled out the form, printed off the poem and sent it off, fingers crossed. I waited to hear back I carried on writing, I probably finished another collection. Then I got a letter from the International Society of Poets. I opened the envelope carefully, just in case a prizewinning cheque fell out I hadn39。t won. But, they liked my poem enough to include it in their anthology(詩選), Awaken to a Dream. I closed my eyes, I wanted to scream with happiness. I was going to be a published poet. All I had to do in order to be published was accept the terms and pay 163。 45（plus 163。 5 p amp。 p）for an anthology. If I didn39。t buy a copy of the anthology, my poem wouldn39。t be included. I had to convince my mum, who thought my writing a meaningless pastime, to part with 163。 50. She even asked the question: “Why do you have to pay to be in this book?” Nevertheless, she wrote a cheque for 163。 50 and I returned it with my letter of agreement. I was 16 and about to be a published poet. This was what it had all been about. This is what it had all been leading to. The months waiting for the anthology were a torture. I hit some sort of writer39。s block, I couldn39。t write anything. It was almost as if, now I was published, it mattered more what I mitted to page and I didn39。t want to write anything down unless it was good enough to go into an anthology like Awaken to a Dream. The book arrived through the post. Here it was. The first thing I had ever been published in a book called Awaken to a Dream, featuring a blistering take on the mundanity(世俗) of mortality by yours truly. I opened the package to find a book, containing my work. The first thing that struck me about the book was that it was bigger than A4. And it was thick. And on each page was a poem, next to another poem, next to another. The type was small and the paper thin enough to trace with. With three or four poems per page and more than 700 pages, I had a sinking realization. This was a scam, an illegal trick for making money. If each poem had cost the author 163。 45, they were sitting on a fortune. I felt ashamed. Everyone who had submitted something to the International Poetry Competition had fallen for the same hustle（忙碌）as me. I couldn39。t bring myself to show my mum. And she never asked to see it. Perhaps she thought if the price of me learning a lesson was 163。50 we didn39。t really have, then so be it. But that stayed with me, that moment of realization. Because I determined to keep writing and ensure that my precious words always found a home worthy of them. Or at least that39。s how, more than 20 years later, I justify falling for a scam. Because your first time being published should be special, and if I don39。t convince myself that there was a reason for my first poem being in a vanity(無價值) book, then what good was it in the first place? And, strangely, someone is selling this book on Amazon at the moment. I wonder how many other writers who went on to do more stuff are in there.（1）What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 1 mean? A.The author was sure he was going to die like everyone else.B.The author was optimistic about the publication of his poetry.C.The author was worried the tragedies in the poetry would happen to him.D.The author was considering writing positive poems instead of terrible ones.（2）When the author received the letter from the organizing mittee, he felt ________. A.upsetB.calmC.excitedD.surprised（3）While waiting for the anthology, the author ________. A.reflected on what he had written aboutB.set a higher criterion for his future worksC.felt too miserable to write anything moreD.wondered what future was in store for him（4）The author realized the anthology was a trick from the fact that ________. A.the poems were of poor qualityB.the organizers just made a quick profitC.he was charged higher than othersD.the content was carelessly edited（5）The passage is mainly about ________. A.why the author fell for the trick of a poetry petitionB.what it took for a poetry enthusiast to be a published writerC.how a terrible teenage poem taught the author a lifelong lessonD.whether poetry enthusiasts could guard against tricks targeted at them（6）How did the author feel about the scam at the end of the story? A.He laughs best who laughs last.B.A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.C.Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.D.Follow your own course, and let people talk.【答案】（1）B（2）C（3）B（4）B（5）C（6）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了作者第一次發(fā)表詩歌上當(dāng)受騙的經(jīng)歷，以及帶給作者的經(jīng)驗(yàn)教訓(xùn)。(1)考查句義猜測。根據(jù)第一段中的“I named one collection, ironically, The Eternal Optimist.”可知，作者將自己寫的一本詩集命名為“The Eternal Optimist”，可以推知，作者寫