【正文】 up a sleepy university that was being overshadowed by its peers in Boston.“Bacow因改變了一所沉睡的在波士頓的其他大學(xué)面前黯然失色的大學(xué)而贏得了聲譽(yù)?！蓖浦?jiǎng)澗€詞的意思是“使……恢復(fù)”。故選A。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Under Bacow39。s leadership, Tufts spent millions on labs and libraries. He also made addresses nationally about the need to make higher education more accessible and affordable to lowine students.”在Bacow的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下，Tufts花了數(shù)百萬(wàn)美元在實(shí)驗(yàn)室和圖書館上。他還在全國(guó)范圍內(nèi)發(fā)表演講，闡述讓低收入學(xué)生更容易接受和負(fù)擔(dān)得起高等教育的必要性?！北疚闹v述的是Bacow的個(gè)人成功之路。故選D。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及推理判斷，詞義猜測(cè)和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇人物類閱讀，要求考生根據(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。6．閱讀理解 In the nineteenth century, one of America39。s greatest writers, Walt Whitman, helped people learn to value poetry. Whitman created a new kind of poetry. Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in New York City. During his long life, he watched America grow from a young nation to the strongest industrial power in the world. As a young man, Whitman worked as a school teacher, a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was thirtysix years old when he published his first book of poetry in eighteen fiftyfive. He called it Leaves of Grass. It had only twelve poems. The poems are written in free verse. The lines do not follow any set form. Some lines are short. Some are long. The words at the end of each line do not have a similar sound. They do not rhyme. One of America39。s greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman39。s work. But most other poets and writers said nothing and even denounced it. Most readers also rejected Whitman39。s poems. The new form of his poetry surprised many people. Even his own brother told Whitman that he should stop writing poetry. But Whitman had many things to say. And he continued to say them. Readers began to understand that America had a great new poetic voice. Walt Whitman39。s poems praise the United States and its democracy. The poet expressed his love for America and its people in many ways. Experts today praise Leaves of Grass as a major literary work. In eighteen seventythree, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke. He spent the last years of his life in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life. He died in eighteen ninetytwo. Some critics say Walt Whitman was a spokesman for democracy. Others say he was not a spokesman for anything. Instead, they simply call him a great poet.（1）What can we know about Whitman? A.His poems have the same rhyme.B.He is the first great poet in the USAC.He helped people to create new poems.D.His poems show his love for his country.（2）Why was Leaves of Grass refused at first? A.The poems are quite short.B.The form of poetry is special.C.Whitman wasn39。t famous then.D.There are only 12 poems in it.（3）What does the underlined word denounced in Paragraph 3 most probably mean? A.Accused.B.Downloaded.C.Published.D.Translated.（4）What can be a suitable title for the text? A.Walt Whitman—a Great SoldierB.Walt Whitman—an Unfortunate PoetC.Walt Whitman and Leaves of GrassD.The First and Greatest Poet in America【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）A（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇人物介紹，介紹了美國(guó)著名的詩(shī)人 Walt Whitman以及他的代表作《草葉集》。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Walt Whitman39。s poems praise the United States and its democracy. The poet expressed his love for America and its people in many ways.”Walt Whitman的詩(shī)贊美美國(guó)及其民主。這位詩(shī)人以多種方式表達(dá)了他對(duì)美國(guó)及其人民的熱愛?？芍xD。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“The new form of his poetry surprised many people.”他的新詩(shī)形式使許多人感到驚訝，故選B。 （3）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第三段中的“But most other poets and writers said nothing and even denounced it.”可知，人們不接受Walt Whitman的詩(shī)集，可推知denounced可能是“指責(zé)，批評(píng)”之意，選A。 （4）考查主旨大意?？v觀全文可知，本文講述了美國(guó)著名作家Walt Whitman以及他的代表作《草葉集》，并圍繞《草葉集》的開始不被接受到最后的大受歡迎展開，故選C。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測(cè)和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇人物類閱讀，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。7．閱讀理解 If we want to find out what kind of technology people used in the past, we normally have to rely on archaeologists to find ruined buildings and parts of tools or instruments or machines. Archaeologists then try to reconstruct, sometimes with the help of puter technology, what these ancient buildings and objects must have looked like, and how they might have been made. Sometimes historians are lucky and find an ancient document with a written description of these ancient buildings and objects. We can understand, then, why Chinese historians were so excited when they found cave paintings which show ancient science. They found these paintings in the worldrenowned Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City, in Northwest China39。s Gansu Province. There are 500 manmade caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 years. Almost all of these caves have paintings on their ceilings or walls and they date from the 4th to 14th centuries. Wang Jinyu is an expert on these cave paintings (also called frescoes) and he says: We discovered frescoes containing scientific and technological content in almost all of the caves which have frescoes. What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipment and medical sciences. Among the discoveries experts have made are cave paintings showing ancient techniques of pottery making and wine production and paintings showing ancient weaving machines and then toothbrushes! The paintings also give some evidence of the lifestyle at the time with, for example, pictures of people boiling milk over 1,000 years ago. Experts believe that there is more evidence to be found, but even now the caves are a wonderful natural museum. If the walls and ceilings of the caves were all put together they would form a tapestry 20 kilometers long and 2 meters high! It won39。t be possible to travel back in timethat only happens in filmsbut visiting these caves would be the nearest experience you could get to travelling back in time.（1）Why were Chinese historians excited when they found cave paintings showing ancient sc