【正文】 。B.Lamps.C.Food.D.Clothes.（2）Why did Neeta Bhasin set up the Times Square event? A.To make the American culture richer.B.To create a new business for the firm.C.To make Indian culture better known in the US.D.To show the achievements of Indian immigrants.（3）What do we know about Diwali? A.It is held in autumn in India.B.It lasts five days in America.C.It has been held for 40 years in America.D.It happens from November 10th to January 7th in India.（4）What is the main idea of the text? A.Diwali is mainly celebrated in Disney Parks.B.Many American cities pete to hold Diwali.C.Indian Holiday Diwali lights up America, too.D.Diwali has bee the most important holiday in India.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）A（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，Diwali在印度語中意為排燈節(jié)。它是印度最重要的節(jié)日。越來越多的美國人慶祝印度的Diwali。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段中的“Celebrations include lighting oil lamps or candles called ‘diyas’.”可知，the Indian holiday Diwali的主要標志是Lamps。故選B。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Neeta Bhasin created the Times Square event. She said Indian immigrants have found great success in America. But, she said, many Americans still do not know much about India.”可知，Neeta Bhasin成立了the Times Square的活動是為了讓印度文化在美國更廣為人知。故選C。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段中的“In India, Diwali is a fiveday harvest festival held just before the Hindu New Year. The exact dates change from year to year but Diwali is always in the fall.”可知，Diwali在印度的秋天舉行。故選A。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第一段中的“More and more people in America are celebrating the Indian holiday Diwali. Diwali is Hindi for ‘row of lights’. It is the most important holiday in India.”可知，Indian Holiday Diwali也照亮了美國。它在美國越來越受歡迎。故選C。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，概括歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．The passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. In a career that lasted more than half a century, Tom Wolfe wrote fiction and nonfiction bestsellers including The Electric KoolAid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Along the way, he created a new type of journalism and coined phrases that became part of the American vocabulary. Wolfe began working as a newspaper reporter, first for The Washington Post, then the New York Herald Tribune. He developed a literary style in nonfiction that became known as the New Journalism. I39。ve always agreed on a theoretical level that the techniques for fiction and nonfiction are interchangeable, he said. The things that work in nonfiction would work in fiction, and vice versa. When Tom Wolfe39。s voice broke into the world of nonfiction, it was a time when a lot of writers, and a lot of artists in general, were turning inwards, says Lev Grossman, book critic for Time magazine. Wolfe didn39。t do that. Wolfe turned outwards. He was a guy who was interested in other people. Wolfe was interested in how they thought, how they did things and how the things they did affected the world around them. In 1979, Wolfe published The Right Stuff, an account of the military test pilots who became America39。s first astronauts. Four years later, the book was adapted as a feature film. The Right Stuff was the book for me, says Grossman. It reminded me, in case I39。d forgotten, that the world is an incredible place. In The Right Stuff, Wolfe popularized the phrase pushing the envelope. In a New York magazine article, Wolfe described the 1970s as The 39。Me39。 Decade. Grossman says these phrases became part of the American idiom because they were accurate. He was an enormously forceful observer, and he was not afraid of making strong claims about what was happening in reality, Grossman says. He did it well and people heard him. And they repeated what he said because he was right. All those words started a revolution in nonfiction that is still going on.（1）The New Journalism is a style of journalism that . A.changes its news writing techniques frequentlyB.popularizes new American idioms in a literary wayC.bines novelistic techniques with traditional reportingD.reports various news events from a theoretical perspective（2）It can be learned from the passage that The Right Stuff . A.is a film directed by Lev GrossmanB.is an influential book by Tom WolfeC.accounts for popular American phrasesD.deals with incredible places in the world（3）According to the passage, Tom Wolfe . A.was good at reporting news from a realistic perspectiveB.preferred making claims about events to writing booksC.was fond of menting on other people39。s thoughtsD.liked analyzing social problems from the outside（4）Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A.Tom Wolfe: A Professional Phrase CoinerB.Tom Wolfe: A Forceful Observer and NovelistC.Tom Wolfe: A Theoretical Creator in LiteratureD.Tom Wolfe: An Innovative Journalist and Writer【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了Tom Wolfe，一位富有創(chuàng)新的記者和作家。他將小說技巧與傳統(tǒng)報道相結(jié)合創(chuàng)造出了一種非虛構(gòu)文學風格，被稱為新新聞。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“He developed a literary style in nonfiction that became known as the ‘New Journalism.’‘I39。ve always agreed on a theoretical level that the techniques for fiction and nonfiction are interchangeable,’可知他將小說和非小說的技巧結(jié)合形成了一種新的文體。即新新聞是一種將小說手法與傳統(tǒng)報道相結(jié)合的新聞文體，故選C。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。倒數(shù)第二段中的“In The Right Stuff, Wolfe popularized the phrase ’pushing the envelope.’In a New York magazine article, Wolfe described the 1970s as ‘The 39。Me39。 Decade.’可知在The Right Stuff書中，Wolfe普及了短語推信封。在紐約雜志的一篇文章中，Wolfe將20世紀70年代描述為自我的十年。即可知The Right Stuff是Tom Wolfe寫的一本很有影響力的書，故選B。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的He was an enormously forceful observer, and he was not afraid of making