【正文】 r a few miles, then following the highway as it swung east a little before meeting Route 20. Turning into the sun, he began the long, winding drive through the Cascades. He liked this country and felt unpressed stopping now and then to make notes about interesting possibilities for future expeditions or to shoot what he called memory snapshots. The purpose of these causal photographs was to remind him of places he might want to visit again and approach more seriously. In later afternoon he turned north at Spokane, picking up . Route 2, which would take him halfway across the northern United States to Duluth, Minnesota. He wished for the thousandth time in his life that he had a dog, a golden retriever, maybe, for travels like this and to keep him pany at home. But he was frequently away。 overseas much of the time and it would not be fair to the animal. Still, he thought about it anyway. In a few years he would be getting too old for the hard fieldwork. I must get a dog then. He said to himself. Drives like this always put him into a sentimental mood. The dog was part of it. Robert Kincaid was alone as it39。s possible to be—an only child, parents both dead, distant relatives who had lost track of him and he of them, no close friends. He thought about Marian. She had left him nine years ago after five years of marriage. He was fiftytwo now, that would make her just under forty. Marian had dreams of being a musician, a folksinger. She knew all of the Weavers39。 songs and sang them pretty well in the coffeehouse of Seattle. When he was home in the old days, he drove her to the shows and sat in the audience while she sang. His long absences—two or three months sometimes—were hard on the marriage. He knew that. She was aware of what he did when they decided to get married, and both of them had a vague sense that it could all be handled somehow. It couldn39。t when he came from photographing a story in Iceland and she was gone. The note read, Robert, it didn39。t work out. I left you the Harmony guitar. Stay in touch. He didn39。t stay in touch. Neither did she. He signed the divorce papers when they arrived a year later and caught a plane for Australia the next day. She had asked for nothing except her freedom.（1）Which route is the right one taken by Kincaid? A.Bellingham—Washington 11—Puget Sound— Route 20— Route 2—DuluthB.. Route 2—Bellingham—Washington 11—Puget Sound— Route 20—DuluthC.. Route 2— Route 20—Duluth –Bellingham—Washington 11D.Bellingham—Washington 11—. Route 2— Route 20—Duluth（2）Which statement is true according to the passage? A.Kincaid39。s parents were dead and he only kept in touch with some distant relatives.B.Kincaid would have had a dog if he hadn39。t been away from home too much.C.Kincaid used to have a golden retriever.D.Kincaid needed a dog in doing his hard fieldwork.（3）Why did Kincaid stop to take photos while driving? A.To write memory snapshotsB.To remind himself of places he might want to visit again.C.To avoid forgetting the way back.D.To shoot beautiful scenery along the road.（4）What can you know about Marian? A.She died after five years of marriage.B.She was older than Kincaid.C.She could sing very well and earned big money.D.She was not a professional pop singer.（5）We can draw a conclusion from the passage that ________. A.Marian knew what would happen before she married KincaidB.Kincaid thought his absence would be a problem when he married MarianC.It turned out that Marian could not stand Kincaid39。s absence and left himD.After Marian left him, they still kept in touch with each other【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）B（4）D（5）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了Kincaid自駕旅行的始末及他在旅途中對(duì)自身往事的回憶。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“Through the streets of Bellingham he went…the coast of Puget Sound…h(huán)ighway…before meeting Route 20”及第二段中的“he turned north at Spokane，picking up Route 2…to Duluth,Minnesota.” 可知Kincaid所走的路線(xiàn)是從Bellingham出發(fā) – Washington 11 – Puget Sound – Route 20 – Route 2 – 到Duluth結(jié)束?？芍xA。（2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“he wished…that he had a dog…but he was frequently away”可知如果他不太經(jīng)常離開(kāi)家，他會(huì)養(yǎng)只狗。故選B。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“The purpose of these casual photographs was to remind him of places he might want to visit again and approach more seriously”。停下來(lái)拍照是為了提醒他自己他想再來(lái)觀光的地方。故選B。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。結(jié)合第五段中的“Marain had dreams of being a musician，a knew all of the Weavers’ songs and sang them pretty well in the coffeehouse of Seattle.”Marain夢(mèng)想成為名音樂(lè)家，一名鄉(xiāng)村歌手。她會(huì)所有Weavers的歌曲，而且她經(jīng)常在西雅圖的咖啡屋里唱那些歌，唱得非常好。可知她不是專(zhuān)業(yè)的流行歌手。故選D。 （5）根據(jù)細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第六段中的“she was note read,Robert,it didn’t work…”Marain在決定結(jié)婚前清楚知道Kincaid做什么，他們都要不清晰的感覺(jué)，那些在一定程度上是可以解決的?？墒荕arain離開(kāi)了，那些是不起作用的。由此得知Marain受不了Kincaid長(zhǎng)期不在她身邊而離開(kāi)他?？芍xC。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解題型的考查，是一篇故事類(lèi)閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并結(jié)合題目要求，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 This year marks the 170th anniversary of Paul Gauguin39。s birth. He lived for just 54 years but he packed his brief life with activity. The French painter spent his early childhood in Peru before returning to France. As an adult, he continued to travel a lot. Most famously, he spent much of the last decade of his life in Tahiti, an island in southern Pacific Ocean. Indeed, Gauguin is best known for his colorful paintings of Tahitians and their culture. The restlessness of this great painter has been normal among modern artists since the middle of the 19th century. They39。re never satisfied for long with a certain style or way of life. Once something bees conventional, it39。s turned down. The artistic culture that Gauguin developed from was that of Impressionism (印象派). Painters like Claude Monet had wanted to paint how they saw the world, not how their teachers taught them it should be seen. Gauguin, and similar artists like his friend Vincent van Gogh, moved even further away from respectable art than the Impressionists. For them, it was not simply a matter of seeing the world differently, but feeling and thinking about it differently, too. Gauguin saw, felt and thought differently from most members of European society. He thought that European culture was too fancy and not spontaneous. This is why he turned to the traditions of other pa