【正文】 much do we know about Dave? A.He lives in Wayward Road, Anytown California.B.The police are trying to find out more about him.C.His car probably came from Ohio at that time.D.Dave is of course the man39。s real name indeed.（2）Why didn39。t Dave pay for the parking ticket until recently? A.He pletely forgot about it in the past 44 years.B.He didn39。t find it until almost half a century later.C.He failed to find out who he should pay the money to.D.He didn39。t pay for it just because of procrastination.（3）What drove Dave to pay for the parking ticket at last? A.A strong sense of guilt.B.Fear of being tracked by the police.C.Worry about being fined more.D.Sudden change of his financial situation.（4）Which of the following can be the best title? A.Police Chief of the Minersville Police Department Shares a StoryB.Mysterious Procrastinator Finally Pays 44YearOld Parking TicketC.Unusual Letter Comes from Wayward Road Anytown CaliforniaD.Parking Ticket Carried Around for Almost Half a Century from Ohio【答案】 （1）C（2）D（3）A（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，一位神秘的拖延者終于支付了44年的停車罰單。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“Combs went on to share that the original ticket from 1974 was given to a vehicle that had an Ohio license plate．”可知，Dave的車可能來自俄亥俄州。故選C。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Because there was no system for tracking tickets given to outofstate cars back then, ‘Dave’ could have gotten away with never paying the $2 fine．”可知，Dave直到最近才付停車費(fèi)是因?yàn)橥涎?。故選D。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段中的“But apparently, guilt got the best of him, and he decided to finally cough up the money more than 40 years past its due date．”可知，一種強(qiáng)烈 的罪惡感驅(qū)使Dave終于付了停車費(fèi)。故選A。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第一段中的“But one man, from California by reasonable assumption, who goes by Dave, recently took procrastination (拖延) one step further, by paying a parking ticket almost a halfcentury after it was given．”可知，本文講述的是一位神秘的拖延者終于支付了44年的停車罰單。故選B。 【點(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，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 . Pei, the ChineseAmerican, who was regarded as one of the last great modernist architects, has died at the age of 102. Although he worked mostly in the United States, Pei will always be remembered for a European project: His redevelopment of the Louvre Museum in Paris in the 1980s. He gave us the glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard, along with three smaller pyramids and a vast subterranean (地下的) addition to the museum entrance. Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French—and everyone else—were won over. Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he was thought as giving the 20th century some of its most beautiful inside spaces and outside forms … His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry. After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Pei set up his own architectural practice in New York in 1955. Designing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library amp。 Museum in 1964 established him as a name. His East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1978 changed people39。s ideas of a museum. The site was an odd trapezoid (梯形) shape. Pei39。s solution was to cut it in two. The resulting building was dramatic, light and elegant—one of the first crowdpleasing cathedrals of modern art. Though known as a modernist, and notable for his forms based on arrangements of simple geometric (幾何的) shapes, he once urged Chinese architects to look more to their architectural tradition rather than designing in a western style. In person, . Pei was goodhumored, charming and unusually modest. His working process was evolutionary, but innovation (創(chuàng)新) was never an intended goal. Stylistic originality is not my purpose, he said. I want to find the originality in the time, the place and the problem.（1）What can we learn about the result of redevelopment of the Louvre Museum? A.It was criticized by the French.B.It was a success.C.It made the Louvre Museum looks strange.D.It changed the function of the Louvre Museum.（2）What can we learn from the underlined sentence in paragraph 4? A.He is a master in applying materials.B.He is skilled in writing poems.C.He often bines poetry and construction.D.He gets inspiration from poetry in designing.（3）What39。s the correct order of the following events? a. Design the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library amp。 Museum.b. Study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.c. Design the National Gallery of Art.d Win the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize.A.a, b, c, dB.b, a, c, dC.b, c, a, dD.d, a, c, d（4）What can we learn about . Pei? A.Innovation was his first goal in design.B.He was talented and serious.C.He preferred western style to the east.D.He liked simple geometric shapes.【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇人物介紹，介紹了享譽(yù)世界最后的現(xiàn)代主義建筑大師——貝聿銘。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French—and everyone else—were won over. ”貝聿銘是盧浮宮悠久歷史上的第一位外國建筑師，最初他的設(shè)計遭到強(qiáng)烈反對。但最終，法國人，以及全世界，都被（他的精妙設(shè)計所）折服。從而可以推測，羅浮宮博物館重建非常成功。故選B。 （2）考查句義猜測。根據(jù)第三段中的“His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.”中的關(guān)鍵詞talent and skill和the use of materials可知，此句字面含義為：他在使用（建筑）材料方面的才華和技藝達(dá)到了詩一般的境界，即他是應(yīng)用材料方面的專家。故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Pei set up his own architectural practice in New York in ，1955年，貝聿銘在麻省理工學(xué)院和哈佛大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)建筑學(xué)；第五段中的“Designing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library amp。 Museum in 1964 established him as a nam