【正文】 re creative or we aren39。 What you just practicedthe conscious act of wearing another selfis an exercise that, according to psychiatrist SriniPillay, MD, is essential to being creative.re an architect. Same question. Now imagine you39。8．閱讀理解 WISH YOU WERE MORE CREATIVE?根據(jù)第四段中的I39。s important to take time and accept the present blessings (恩賜) in your life.可知，如果要提高自己的幸福指數(shù)，接受現(xiàn)在生活中的恩賜很重要，由此可知，本文講述的是如何提高幸福指數(shù)，故選C。D.she had an unfortunate lifeaffect（3）From the author39。discoverD.How to increase happiness quotient?Why I39。 It is so much to be grateful for. I feel I am the luckiest woman alive. It39。m going to recite lots of things, including that I39。re especially thankful for.s in my life to be grateful for as Thanksgiving approaches.s important to take time and accept the present blessings (恩賜) in your life.根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and plex. 可知作者在討論完Ceely這起事故后，在最后兩段將討論延伸到了人與科技的關(guān)系上，因此作者實(shí)際關(guān)心的內(nèi)容是人與科技的關(guān)系，故選D。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 （2）考查詞義猜測(cè)。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。The human unawareness of technical problems.C.s opinion, Stevenson39。Digtal technology often falls short of our expectation.C.D.B.The railway workers failed to give the signal.D. It39。s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A mapmaker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the GPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn39。s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyboards.可知選C。故選B。因此此處fuel意為“加速”之意，故選D。 （2）考查句義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第五段中的“Winston did shine a spotlight on the woman39。Rude people can39。Pay them back by doing equally disturbing things.（4）Which of the following statement is true about the last paragraph? A.Social media may spread and cause rudeness.（3）According to the writer, how should you respond when you meet rude people? A.s rude behavior wrongly.（2）What does fueled by social media mean in Paragraph 3? A.He behaved improperly and spoke loudly on the train.C.d had enough of the woman39。 Recently, as the British doctor Robert Winston took a train from London to Manchester, he found himself being steadily angry. A woman had picked up her phone and begun a loud conversation, which would last an unbelievable hour. Furious, Winston began to tweet about the woman. He took her picture and sent it to his more than 40,000 followers.詞義猜測(cè)題應(yīng)根據(jù)上下文以及文章所表達(dá)的感情色彩推測(cè)劃線詞的含義；細(xì)節(jié)理解題要注意從文章中尋找答案；推理判斷題要仔細(xì)閱讀上下文，推測(cè)出所需信息。推斷出，與羅亞爾的旅行對(duì)卡林意味著它們幫助他感到一種歸屬感?！保┛芍?，羅亞爾認(rèn)為，是他和卡林的露營(yíng)之旅改變了他的人生軌跡。 （2）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段To Royale, the park seemed like a damp, dirty and unpleasant ，公園似乎是一個(gè)潮濕、骯臟和令人不快的地方。t so easy to leave behind.（1）What does the underlined word repellent in paragraph 1 mean? ....（2）According to Royale, what made his life course changed? first meeting with Carlin. rejection of Carlin39。 For Carlin, the trips were an opportunity to throw off the label of homeless. In Olympic National Park, sleeping outside just means you39。 That first time they met—and for years afterward—Carlin invited Royale to go camping with him. Each time, Royale said Thanks, but no thanks. Until one day, in the spring of 2015, Royale surprised himself by saying yes. Little did I know, said Royale, that saying 39。 Then he met Bryant Carlin, a vendor (小販) for Real Change, the Seattle weekly sold on the street by vendors who are homeless or lowwage earners. He was also a skilled outdoorsman and a nature photographer who would take weekslong photographic journeys to the park. The two men connected in the fall of 2011 when Royale interviewed Carlin for a feature story in Real Change about Carlin39。t figure out why anyone would want to carry a 50pound pack into the wilderness and camp there for days, he said. It didn39。4．閱讀理解 （5）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“ My dad never once said, ‘If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fisherman.’ What he said was, ‘You need to think like a fish.” Years later, with great efforts to promote longterm services to people much older and richer than me, I gradually learned what we all need is to think more like customers.’” 我爸爸從來(lái)沒有說(shuō)過，“如果你想釣一條魚，你需要像漁夫一樣思考。此外，在陽(yáng)光直射下，水通常比在陰涼處溫暖。是隨著我慢慢長(zhǎng)大，我理解了父親的話，于是我買了很多關(guān)于魚的書和參加關(guān)于魚的俱樂部和會(huì)議去了解魚的特點(diǎn)及習(xí)性，可推斷作者的父親的話的含義就是要想抓到魚就應(yīng)該多研究魚，了解魚，故選D。我通常很沮喪，不停地問他為什么。根據(jù)第一段中的“When I was nine years old, I loved to go fishing with my dad. But the only thing that wasn39。D.B.s sales ideas reasonableB. . A.in shallow water under waterside trees（4）After entering the business world, the author foundB.D.To learn fishing by himself.C.To read about fish.His father did not teach him fishing.t catch anything. I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why. He always answered, Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish. I remember being even more upset then because, I39。即作者寫這篇文章的目的是說(shuō)服別人。失敗并不意味著你永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)成功。故選C。故選A。根據(jù)第四段中的“I was no exception. I thought of running away.”我也不例外。一開始介紹了作者的教授提出的一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)，但是作者當(dāng)時(shí)不以為然，直到在今后實(shí)際生活中真正遇到了失敗或挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)才認(rèn)識(shí)到了教授的觀點(diǎn)。D.C.B.s purpose of writing the passage is most likely to ________. A.C.Calm（3）What does the underlined phrase water down in the 4th paragraph probably mean? A.C.B. Success es to the one who dares, even after failure, to think positively and look forward confidently. After all, it is only the experience that makes a man tough. Failure does not mean you will never make it. It means that it will take a little longer. It provides us with a