【正文】 ur legs hurt is more intangible (無形的) than weight loss or fitness. Many runners bee interested in times. They try to break the 40minute barrier for the 10K, or run under four hours for the marathon. Yet, really, these times are almost meaningless. And as soon as they are achieved, another target is thrown out almost immediately. The times are only the carrots we put in front of ourselves. But why do we put them there in the first place? Nobody ever gives a wise answer Deep down, we all know the answer. Running brings us joy. Watch small children when they are excited, at play, and mostly they can39。t stop running. There39。s a great moment in The Catcher in the Rye when Holden Caulfield, caught in the uneasy space between childhood and adulthood, is walking across his school grounds one evening and he suddenly starts to run. “I don39。t ever know what I was running for一I guess I just felt like it,” he says. This will to run is born. In fact, humans may well have evolved (進(jìn)化) the way we did because of our ability to run. As children, and even adolescents, we can respond to this natural call to run whenever the feeling takes us. As we run, we begin to sense that childish joy, which is born to live a wilder existence. As we run, the layers of responsibility and identity we have gathered in our lives, father, mother, lawyer, teacher, all fall away, leaving us with the raw human being. If we push on, running harder, deeper into the loneliness, further away from the world and the structure of our lives, we begin to feel strangely excited, separated yet at the same time connected, to ourselves. With nothing but our own two legs moving us, we begin to get a sense of who, or what, we really are. After a long run, everything seems right in the world. Everything is at peace. To experience this is a powerful feeling, strong enough to have us ing back, again and again, for more.（1）Why does the author think setting time goals is almost meaningless? those time goals can39。 t be achieved. those time goals can be achieved easily people will be very proud once the time goals are achieved. there will always be a new time goal once the former one is achieved.（2）The author mentions the reasons for running EXCEPT___________. ourselves away from responsibility weight and keeping fit us joy and peace in mind（3）Which of the following words can best describe the author39。s attitude towards running? ....（4）What does the underlined word this in the last paragraph probably mean? the 40 minute barrier for the 10K. under four hours for the Marathon. separated from the world after running everything is right after a long run.（5）What may be the best tile of this passage ? to Keep Fit to Break Records to Be the Real You to Bee an Adult【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）C（4）D（5）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，通過英國眾多的長跑者引出本文的主題，跑步不僅能減肥，健康，更多的意義在于挑戰(zhàn)自我，凈化心靈，給我們帶來快樂、興奮、平靜。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“these times are almost meaningless. And as soon as they are achieved, another target is thrown out almost immediately.”可知作者認(rèn)為不斷設(shè)立新目標(biāo)幾乎毫無意義，因為一旦目標(biāo)實現(xiàn)，就會馬上設(shè)立下一個新目標(biāo)。故選D。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“some people run to lose weight, or to get fit.”告訴我們一些人跑步是為了減肥或保持健康；第四段中的“Many runners bee interested in times. And as soon as they are achieved, another target is thrown out almost immediately.”可知一些跑步的人不斷為自己設(shè)立目標(biāo)，不斷超越目標(biāo)，挑戰(zhàn)自我；第六段中的“Running brings us joy.”和最后一段中的“After a long run, everything seems right in the world. Everything is at peace.”可知跑步能給人帶來快樂和平靜。選項中A、C、D都已涉及，只有B項文中沒提到，且B項是錯誤說法，故選B。 （3）考查推理判斷。作者列舉了人們跑步的原因，介紹了跑步的好處。根據(jù)第六段中的“Running brings us joy. ”；第八段中的“As we run, we begin to sense that childish joy.”；以及“ As we run, the layers of responsibility and identity we have gathered in our lives, father, mother, lawyer, teacher, all fall away, leaving us with the raw human being. ”；第九段中的“we begin to feel strangely excited, separated yet at the same time connected, to ourselves. After a long run, everything seems right in the world. Everything is at peace.”可知作者認(rèn)為跑步能給我們帶來快樂、興奮、平靜，讓我們拋棄雜念，變成純粹的自己，作者對跑步是支持的，故選C。 （4）考查代詞指代。最后一段介紹了跑步能給我們帶來快樂、興奮和平靜。根據(jù)“After a long run, everything seems right in the world. Everything is at peace.”長跑之后，世界上一切似乎都是對的。一切都很平靜。所以句中To experience this中的this指的就是長跑之后的這種體驗，一切都對，一切平靜。故選D。 （5）考查主旨大意。文章通過英國眾多的長跑者引出本文的主題，跑步不僅能減肥，健康，更多的意義在于挑戰(zhàn)自我，凈化心靈，給我們帶來快樂、興奮、平靜。Running to Be the Real You表達(dá)了跑步深層的意義，適合作為標(biāo)題，故選C。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷，代詞指代和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇健康類閱讀，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．閱讀理解 For a generation now, school reform has meant what students must be taught and carried out by standardized(標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化的)tests. Here39。s a thought experiment. Suppose that next year almost every student passed the tests. What would the reaction be from people? Would they shake their heads in respect and say, Damn, those teachers must be good!? Of course not. Such remarkable success would be used as evidence that the tests were too easy and it needs to raise standards. High standards really means standards that all students will never be able to meet. My little thought experiment uncovers a truth that we have been taught to respond with doubt whenever all members of any group are successful. In America, success doesn39。t count unless it is got by only a few. Consider widespread plaints about grade inflation(膨脹) in higher education. Many people don39。t even bother to stress that grades have risen over time. They simply point to how many students get A39。s right now. The goal, in other words, isn39。t to do well but to defeat other people who are also trying to do well. Grades in testing should be used to announce who39。s beating whom. A school39。s final task, apparently, is not to help everyone learn but to prepare the game so that there will always be losers. This makes no sense in any situation. Perhaps, for example, we can defend rating states or nations based on the quality of their air, health care or schools, but ranking them is foolish. School testing r