【正文】 af, an interesting name and an even more interesting person. Her introduction took place about six years ago, and since then I have never met a more influential person in my life.”可知講述的是“我生命中有影響力的人”。故選C?！军c評】本題考點涉及推理判斷，詞義猜測和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇人物類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行分邏輯推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。7．閱讀理解 Dutch beachber (海灘拾荒者) Wim Kruiswijk has accumulated a collection of 1,200 messagesinbottles over the course of nearly 4 decades and has responded to almost all of them, 68yearold Kruiswijk says that his unusual hobby began in 1983 when he found three drift bottles (漂流瓶) on his local beach, each containing letters and return addresses. He wrote to all three addresses and was surprised to receive responses from each one. It was this experience that aroused his interest in hunting and collecting messages in bottles, and he hasn39。t stopped looking for them since. “I find my messages in bottles on the beach of Zandvoort, where I live, and on the Dutch Islands,” Kruiswijk recently told Great Big Story. “Messages in bottles is slow mail. It takes you days, or weeks, or months to find a bottle. ” In the early years, Kruiswijk would find as many as 50 bottles a year, but since 2000 that has slowed to around 2030 finds, mainly due to beach cleaning efforts. He believes that the rise of the Internet has also played a role in the diminishing number of messages in bottles, telling Dutch newssite PZC, “I used to get a response at half the bottle messages that I answered. Now that39。s less。 many people want 39。instant satisfaction39。.” Throwing a message in a bottle out into the sea is a longstanding human tradition dating back to the time of the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, about 310 BC，who used the bottles to study water currents. Scientists still apply the method to this day, as a means to help researchers develop ocean circulation maps, and to crowdsource scientific studies of ocean currents. In the past bottles have also been used to send distress messages from sailors in trouble. They also have been used for memorial tributes, or to send loved ones39。 ashes on a final journey. One of the more mon uses though is just to send invitations out to prospective pen pals, a quaint notion in these modern times, but, as Kruiswijk so clearly shows, an effective one.（1）What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us? A.Kruiswijk found secrets hidden in drift bottles.B.What made Kruiswijk bee a beachber.C.How Kruiswijk formed the hobby of collecting drift bottles.D.Kruiswijk liked to do some research on bottles thrown into the sea.（2）How did Kruiswijk feel the first time he received response from drift bottles? A.Satisfied.B.Asionished.C.Frightened.D.Disappointed.（3）Why do Kruiswijk find fewer drift bottles than before? A.People hate to receive messages from strangers.B.Many drift bottles have not been washed up onto the beaches.C.Drift bottles appearing on the beach are cleared up rapidly.D.Fewer people are interested in Kruiswijk39。s message in bottles.（4）What39。s the purpose of Theophrastus using the bottles? A.To ask for rescue.B.To look for a pen pal.C.To study ocean currents.D.To send a message to his loved person.【答案】（1）C（2）B（3）C（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇新聞報道，漂流瓶是一個長期存在的人類傳統(tǒng)，一直被用于發(fā)送遇險信息，紀(jì)念親人或發(fā)邀請函，還用于幫助研究人員進(jìn)行洋流的研究。(1)考查段落大意。第二段主要講述了68歲的Kruiswijk的不尋常的愛好始于1983，當(dāng)他在當(dāng)?shù)氐暮┌l(fā)現(xiàn)三個有信件和回信地址的漂流瓶，他給每個漂流瓶留的地址都寫了回信，卻驚訝地收到了每個人的回復(fù)。所以這種經(jīng)歷激起了他對瓶裝的信息的搜集。由此可知本段主要描寫了Kruiswijk如何養(yǎng)成了收集漂流瓶的嗜好。故選C。(2)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“He … was surprised to receive responses from each one”可知，當(dāng)他收到回信后他是非常驚訝的。surprised“驚訝的”，與asionished是同義詞。故選B。(3)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第四段中的“but since 2000 that has slowed to around 2030 finds, mainly due to beach cleaning efforts. He believes that the rise of the Internet has also played a role in the diminishing number of messages in bottles”可知，主要是由于清潔海灘的努力，以及互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的興起也對漂流瓶數(shù)量的減少起到了作用。故選C。(4)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段中的“the time of the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, about 310 BC, who used the bottles to study water currents. Scientists still apply the method to this day, as a means to help researchers develop ocean circulation maps, and to crowdsource scientific studies of ocean currents.”可知，在公元前310年的希臘哲學(xué)家西奧弗拉特斯時期，用瓶子來研究海洋水流，而且科學(xué)家現(xiàn)在仍在用。故選C?！军c評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和段落大意三個題型的考查，是一篇新聞報道，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 We want our children to succeed, in school and, perhaps even more importantly, in life. But the paradox(悖論) is that our children can only truly succeed if they first learn how to fail. Consider the finding that worldclass figure skaters fall over more often in practice than lowlevel figure skaters. At first sight this seems contradictory. Why are the really good skaters falling over the most? The reason is actually quite simple. Top skaters are constantly challenging themselves in practice, attempting jumps that stretch their limitations. This is why they fall over so often, but it is precisely why they learn so fast. Lowerlevel skaters have a quite different approach. They are always attempting jumps they can already do very easily, remaining within their fort zone. This is why they don39。t fall over. In a superficial sense, they look successful, because they are always on their feet. The truth, however, is that by never failing, they never progress. What is true of skating is also true of life. James Dyson worked through 5,126 failed prototypes(原型) for his dual cyclone vacuum before coining up with the design that made his fortune. These failures were essential to the pathway of learning. As Dyson put it: “You can39。t develop new technology unless you test new ideas and learn when things go wrong. Failure is essential to inven