【正文】 0。 The National Association of Friends of the Siesta wants to bring Spain back to their traditional roots. They are doing this by having the siesta petition. They set up the petition to reward the best sleepers with money. Actually, they were paid to sleep. There are really health benefits to a midday nap. We could all learn from this tradition. It39。s a much better way to get more energy than drinking a cup of coffee. It is also believed that a nap, and in fact a good night39。s sleep, can help reduce heart disease. The more rested we are, the less stress we feel with daytoday life.（1）The underlined word siesta here probably means ________. A.oversleepB.night sleepC.a short sleep after supperD.a short sleep after lunch（2）In what situation did the petition take place? A.In a noisy place.B.In a quiet place.C.In a fortable place.D.In a familiar place.（3）When the petitors went to sleep, they could ________. A.have their own bedsB.use nothing to cover their eyesC.have doctors to help themD.use something to help them sleep（4）The petition is held because the Association wants to ________. A.know if people still know the traditional habitB.call on people to have their traditional habitC.do some research on how people sleepD.give people money in this way【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）D（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了一次“午睡比賽”。午睡比賽在一家超市舉行，有很多購物者、尖叫的嬰兒、說話的聲音和腳步聲，以分散競爭對手午飯后睡覺時的注意力。舉辦這項比賽是因為協(xié)會想要號召人們養(yǎng)成他們的傳統(tǒng)習慣。 （1）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第四段中的“The siesta is a tradition in Spain that many feel is being forgotten. It used to be that people would take a brief nap after lunch every day. ”午睡是西班牙的一項傳統(tǒng)，許多人覺得這項傳統(tǒng)正在被遺忘。過去，人們每天午飯后都會小睡一會兒。由此可知第一段中的劃線詞的意思是“午飯后的短睡”。故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“It39。s amazing that any of those people would fall asleep in the middle of such a busy place, while on couches that they are not used to.”令人驚訝的是，盡管在他們不習慣的沙發(fā)上，這些人中的任何一個會在這么繁忙的地方睡著?？芍?，比賽是在嘈雜的地方進行的。故選A。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“They hugged pillows or soft toy bears. They covered their eyes with sleep masks, too. Whatever it took to help them fall asleep fast and stay asleep. ”他們抱著枕頭或柔軟的玩具熊。他們也用睡眠面罩蒙住眼睛。無論如何要幫助他們快速入睡并保持睡眠?？芍攨①愓呷ニ瘯r，他們可以用一些東西來幫助他們?nèi)胨９蔬xD。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第五段中的“The National Association of Friends of the Siesta wants to bring Spain back to their traditional roots. ”National Association of Friends of the Siesta希望讓西班牙回歸傳統(tǒng)?！笨芍e辦這項比賽是因為協(xié)會想要號召人們養(yǎng)成他們的傳統(tǒng)習慣。故選B。 【點評】本題考點涉及詞義猜測和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。 . Pei, the ChineseAmerican, who was regarded as one of the last great modernist architects, has died at the age of 102. Although he worked mostly in the United States, Pei will always be remembered for a European project: His redevelopment of the Louvre Museum in Paris in the 1980s. He gave us the glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard, along with three smaller pyramids and a vast subterranean (地下的) addition to the museum entrance. Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French—and everyone else—were won over. Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he was thought as giving the 20th century some of its most beautiful inside spaces and outside forms … His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry. After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Pei set up his own architectural practice in New York in 1955. Designing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library amp。 Museum in 1964 established him as a name. His East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1978 changed people39。s ideas of a museum. The site was an odd trapezoid (梯形) shape. Pei39。s solution was to cut it in two. The resulting building was dramatic, light and elegant—one of the first crowdpleasing cathedrals of modern art. Though known as a modernist, and notable for his forms based on arrangements of simple geometric (幾何的) shapes, he once urged Chinese architects to look more to their architectural tradition rather than designing in a western style. In person, . Pei was goodhumored, charming and unusually modest. His working process was evolutionary, but innovation (創(chuàng)新) was never an intended goal. Stylistic originality is not my purpose, he said. I want to find the originality in the time, the place and the problem.（1）What can we learn about the result of redevelopment of the Louvre Museum? A.It was criticized by the French.B.It was a success.C.It made the Louvre Museum looks strange.D.It changed the function of the Louvre Museum.（2）What can we learn from the underlined sentence in paragraph 4? A.He is a master in applying materials.B.He is skilled in writing poems.C.He often bines poetry and construction.D.He gets inspiration from poetry in designing.（3）What39。s the correct order of the following events? a. Design the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library amp。 Museum.b. Study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.c. Design the National Gallery of Art.d Win the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize.A.a, b, c, dB.b, a, c, dC.b, c, a, dD.d, a, c, d（4）What can we learn about . Pei? A.Innovation was his first goal in design.B.He was talented and serious.C.He preferred western style to the east.D.He liked simple geometric shapes.【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇人物介紹，介紹了享譽世界最后的現(xiàn)代主義建筑大師——貝聿銘。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French—and everyone else—were won over. ”貝聿銘是盧浮宮悠久歷史上的第一位外國建筑師，最初他的設(shè)計遭到強烈反對。但最終，法國人，以及全世界，都被（他的精妙設(shè)計所）折服。從而可以推測，羅浮宮博物館重建非常成功。故選B。 （2）考查句義猜測。根據(jù)第三段中的“His talent