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had agreed to provide a legal framework for taxiordering apps. Both Uber and Didi weled the decision. The new rules took effect last November and could, among other things, forbid such platforms to operate below cost.(1)According to the second paragraph, what can we know? A.Being successful is about listening to your head and following your heart.B.The deal would make the mobile transportation industry grow much faster.C.Didi Chuxing had learnt more in China than Uber over the past two years.D.Mr. Cheng would be working as a member of the board of Uber as planned.(2)What is the best title of the passage? A.Uber sold Chinese business to Didi ChuxingB.Using Didi Chuxing brings more subsidiesC.Listen to your head and follow your heartD.The new rules took effect last November(3)What is the impact of the fierce petition between Uber and Didi? A.Uber dominated the Chinese market with an 87% share.B.China provided a legal framework for taxiordering apps.C.Funding their Chinese dreams became expensive for Uber.D.Chinese search engine Baidu became an investor of Uber39。s.(4)The passage is probably taken from a website about ________. A.appsB.politicsC.economyD.technology【答案】(1)D(2)A(3)C(4)C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇新聞報(bào)道,優(yōu)步將中國(guó)業(yè)務(wù)出售給滴滴出行。(1)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“As part of the deal, Mr. Cheng would join the board of Uber, while Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick would also join Didi39。s board.”可知,Mr. Cheng將按計(jì)劃擔(dān)任優(yōu)步董事會(huì)成員。故選D。(2)考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第一段中的“Taxibooking app Uber agreed to sell its business in China to Didi Chuxing. The two firms had been fierce petitors, but Didi Chuxing had controlled the Chinese market with an 87% share.”可知,優(yōu)步將中國(guó)業(yè)務(wù)出售給滴滴出行。故選A。(3)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“Funding their Chinese dreams was being too expensive for Uber,”可知, 優(yōu)步和滴滴之間激烈競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)優(yōu)步來說,為他們的中國(guó)夢(mèng)提供資金變得很昂貴。故選C。(4)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“Taxibooking app Uber agreed to sell its business in China to Didi Chuxing. The two firms had been fierce petitors, but Didi Chuxing had controlled the Chinese market with an 87% share.”可推知這篇文章很可能來自一個(gè)網(wǎng)址的“經(jīng)濟(jì)欄目”。故選C?!军c(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解,推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查,是一篇新聞報(bào)道,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(shī)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(jià)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 underl