【正文】 her family when she is at the age of 91. She hopes to use the language at next year39。s Olympic Games in Tokyo. Takamizawa was one of the more than 200, 00 people who requested to volunteer for Tokyo39。s 2020 Games. English is not required for service, but it is a useful skill for volunteers to have. But Takamizawa had not been able to learn the language when she was young. Takamizawa said that she was in high school when World War Two started. She said, In my second year there, English was banned because it was the enemy language. Takamizawa said her grandchildren helped persuade her that she was not too old to learn. When I talked to my grandchildren about my wish, they said, 39。It39。s not too late. We will teach you one word a day39。 . Natsuko is Takamizawa39。s granddaughter and main English teacher. Natsuko sends a new English word to her grandmother39。s phone every day. They also often work together directly on phrases that Takamizawa will need for the Olympics. Wele to Tokyo, this is the Olympic stadium, how can I help you? Takamizawa answers when asked to say an English phrase she has learned. Natsuko explains that she wanted to give her grandmother something to enjoy. I can clearly see her English is getting better. It39。s my joy now. The EF English Proficiency Index is a measure of the level of English spoken in a country. Japan ranks 49th among countries where English is not the first language. This situation is slowly changing as younger generations wele English. However, Takamizawa believes real change will not happen unless Japanese people bee more open to the rest of the world. With around 500 days to go until the games begin, the whole Takamizawa family is ready to wele the world to Tokyo.（1）Why couldn39。t Takamizawa learn English when she was young? A.Because English was useless.B.Because she was too young to learn English.C.Because English was forbidden to learn.D.Because she was unwilling to learn English.（2）What can we know from the third paragraph? A.Takamizawa gets strong support from her family.B.Takamizawa39。s grandchildren love her a lot.C.Natsuko is Takamizawa39。s granddaughter and only English teacher.D.Natsuko teaches Takamizawa English mainly by talking with her.（3）What does the underlined phrase This situation in Paragraph 4 refer to? A.English is not the first language in Japan.B.The level of English spoken in Japan is relatively low.C.Younger generations in Japan wele English.D.Japanese people bee open to the rest of the world.（4）What is the main idea of the passage? A.Where there is a will, there is a way.B.It is never too late to learn.C.The early bird catches the worm.D.Two heads are better than one.【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）B（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，日本91歲的奶奶Takamizawa為了做好迎接在東京舉行的2020奧運會的志愿工作，在孫輩的鼓勵和幫助下開始學習英語。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“But Takamizawa had not been able to learn the language when she was young. Takamizawa said that she was in high school when World War Two started. She said, ‘In my second year there, English was banned because it was the enemy language.’”可知，是在她高中二年級時第二次世界大戰(zhàn)大戰(zhàn)爆發(fā)了，而英語因為是敵人的語言被禁止了，故選C。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的”Takamizawa said her grandchildren helped persuade her that she was not too old to learn. ‘When I talked to my grandchildren about my wish, they said, ‘It39。s not too late. We will teach you one word a day39。 ”.可知她的孫輩說服并且?guī)椭龑W習英語，因此推斷她從家人那里得到很大的支持。故選A。 （3）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第四段中的“Japan ranks 49th among countries where English is not the first language.” 在英語不是第一語言的國家中，日本排名第49位?？芍癟his situation”指的是在日本人的英語水平相對較低，故選B。 （4）考查主旨大意。文章主要介紹了日本91歲的奶奶Takamizawa在孫輩的鼓勵和幫助下學習英語，從她身上體現(xiàn)了“活到老，學到老”的精神，故選B。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 WISH YOU WERE MORE CREATIVE? I want to ask you a favor. I have a pair of pants. Tell me: How many different ways can I put a pair of pants to use? Now imagine you39。re an architect. Same question. Now imagine you39。re Bill Gates. A scuba diver. A medieval knight. You still have the pants. What alternative uses e to mind? What you just practicedthe conscious act of wearing another selfis an exercise that, according to psychiatrist SriniPillay, MD, is essential to being creative. One great irony (諷刺) about our collective addiction to creativity is that we tend to frame it in uncreative ways. That is to say, most of us marry creativity to our concept of self: Either we39。re creative or we aren39。t, without much of a middle ground. I39。m just not a creative person! a discouraged student might say in art class, while another might blame her talent at painting for her difficulties in math, making a ment I39。m very rightbrained. , an assistant professor at Harvard University, has spent years overturning these ideas. He believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to challenge the stereotyped (陳詞濫調(diào)的) advice that urges you to believe in yourself. In fact, you should do the opposite: Believe you are someone else. He points to a study showing the impact of stereotype on one39。s behavior. The authors, psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college student subjects into two groups, instructing one group to think of themselves as eccentric poets and the other to imagine they were rigid librarians. The researchers then presented them all with ordinary objects, including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to e up with as many different uses as possible for each one. The former group came up with the widest range of ideas, whereas the latter had the fewest. These results suggest that creativity is not an individual characteristic but a product of context and perspective. Everyone can be creative, as long as he or she feels like a creative person. Dr. Pillay39。s work takes this a step further: He argues that simply identifying yourself as creative is less powerful than taking