【正文】 He recalled that the petition deadline was merely a week away. But he still had not even started on his piece. He looked at the brochure again. WRITING COMPETITION! the title read. His mom had encouraged him to enter the writing petition, and now he was taking it on as his personal task for the holidays.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容為一枚象征著關(guān)愛(ài)的硬幣為中心，故選C。根據(jù)最后一段中的“I went home and remembered a little wallet I had that I39。根據(jù)第一段中的“This would mean that she always felt that she was protected and would always have money if she really needed it.”可知作者父親給她母親的一枚硬幣代表了父親對(duì)母親的愛(ài)和關(guān)心，故選C。作者想起了自己一直放在錢包里的皇冠硬幣，它如同護(hù)身符一樣讓作者衣食無(wú)憂。A crown coinB.s friend was not touched by her story.D.The author became rich all of a sudden.B.In the pocket of her raincoat.s friend keep the $100 dollarbill? A.His pity and protection for her.C.s father mean to her mother? A. Last week she looked pale and unwell, very depressed and hopeless. I then thought about how the crown, a reminder of another39。7．閱讀理解 （4）考查推理判斷。故選D。故選A。He was easygoing.【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）D（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了Sam如何救助一只鴿子。He was warmhearted.He was clever.He was brave.B.She was surprised.（2）Why was the pigeon moving in circles? A. They put its foot in the warm water bath and got rid of its waste. Immediately the pigeon erupted in a bomb of feathers and began flying.（1）How did the author feel about the knocks? A.s a bird. Just leave it on the stairs, and let nature take its course. Sam didn39。wet nest of its own waste, which had then dried on its foot, preventing it from flying away. The pigeon moved in a few more circles. Sam bent to take another look. Mervin said, All right, then. and walked away.s stuck to his foot.It had rained for five days, and the bird was young. It could have been sheltering in a t flying away. It was stamping in circles. As Sam bent to look, Mervin coughed, Number two.s in trouble. our previous door in the suburbs rarely so. Sam has a fulltime job and cannot spend his days answering requests to fix leaking baths or carry cash to the bank.閱讀全文可知，文章主要介紹了Samuel Johnson在惡劣的條件下編纂詞典的。 （3）考查推理判斷。故選D。To persuade people to buy the new dictionary.D.D.He gained much financial support.An assistant.（3）What can we infer about Samuel Johnson from the text? A.They add no more than some big words.（2）What does the underlined word lexicographer in paragraph 4 refer to? A.They simply give some translations.They only offer simple pictures.可知作者從她的旅行中得到的好處是一路上她遇到了很多人，故選D。根據(jù)最后一段中的“I may have set off alone each time but I39。由此可知，文“The greatest gift of solo travel has been those I39?？芍?，關(guān)于她第一次獨(dú)自旅行，作者說(shuō)她不得不選擇自己去，故選B。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段中的“She announced by letter two days before our departure that she would be leaving me halfway at Vienna. It was too late by then to rope in another friend, so it was either to go home after Vienna, or keep going by myself. I kept going. I got on trains by myself, checked into hostels by myself and found my way around by myself.”在我們動(dòng)身的前兩天，她寫信通知我，她將在維也納中途離開(kāi)我。根據(jù)第一段“For years, decades in fact, I39。D.B.Travelling alone.Group Travel.B.D.People39。s response.ve met along the way. I may have set off alone each time but I39。 When I got back to Ireland after that trip, I felt proud of myself. I had done something I had assumed would be hard, and it had turned out to be not hard at all.根據(jù)最后一段中的“ therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her suffering, and came to a sort of scaffold （刑臺(tái)），at the western end of the marketplace ”因此，海絲特因此可知此時(shí)，人群在大街上聚集，故選A。故選B。D.B.The scaffold is at the eastern end of the marketplace.C.They were happy for having a oneday holiday.D. for, though her manner was proud, she perhaps underwent an extreme pain from every footstep of those who thronged to see her, as if her heart had been thrown into the street for them all to step upon. In our nature, however, there is a condition that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present suffering, but chiefly by the pain that rankles （使痛心）after it. With almost a calm manner, therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her suffering, and came to a sort of scaffold （刑臺(tái)），at the western end of the marketplace. It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston39。 and, I promise you, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child, may have a fair sight of her brave clothing, from this time till an hour past noon. A blessing on the moral Colony of the Massachusetts, where immorality is dragged out into the sunshine! Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet （鮮紅色的；罪孽深重的）letter in the marketplace!ve lost it. ”在失去前你不知道你得到了什么可推斷，智者告訴作者要珍惜現(xiàn)在所擁有的。故選A。故選B。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第七段中的“And each time they do, they bee a little less subtle, until we can39。根據(jù)第六段中的“My answer to my own question was easy”我自己對(duì)自己?jiǎn)栴}的答案是簡(jiǎn)單的，同時(shí)前一句作者也提出了自己的問(wèn)題：為什么他會(huì)停下給我說(shuō)他的觀點(diǎn)。根據(jù)第五段中的“that I39。這位智者停下來(lái)給作者說(shuō)“在失去前你不知道你得到了什么”。Continue walking up to the top of the mountain.B.Is a miracle significant to us?C.what the Asian man said was abundant in the philosophy of lifeD.Sufficient.（4）The author viewed the meet with the Asian man as a miracle in his life in that ________. A.C.Why did the Asian man go to the mountain?C.It was a holy place for a religious person to head for.C.s okay as well. It seems that our miracles have a way of ing back to us again and again. And each time they do, they bee a little less subtle, until we can39。 That moment in my life was a small miracle. The reason is less about what the man said and more about the timing and the context. The year was 1989, and the Cold War was drawing to a close. what the man on the trail couldn39。t know what you have lost until you39。d spent the day at St