【正文】 Born in 1890 in England, Christie was educated at home and began her writing career while working as a nurse during World War I. She went on to produce 79 novels and lots of short stories, dying at the age of 86. With her knowledge of murder, Christie could have been a teacher at police academies.s murder stories made her the world39。t think I dare look at a really horrible and damaged body, Agatha Christie once said.8．閱讀理解 t a police car. That was a Doughnut Lady.”可知有好心的警察在下雨時(shí)將她的孩子送回去了，而作者把這位好心的警察稱為甜甜圈女士，說(shuō)明在作者心中，幫助他人的人就是甜甜圈女士，故選A。根據(jù)第四段可知作者最喜歡的兩個(gè)小孩的父親來(lái)專門找到她向她表示感謝，然后她告訴這位父親她享受和孩子們?cè)谝黄鸬臅r(shí)光，這不是什么大不了的事。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。B.are curious about the happenings around（4）The passage suggests that _______. A.B.she hadn39。she hadn39。sold bus tickets to the children（2）By saying … it wasn39。s parents to pick them upB. Or the bus driver who drove my daughter to her stop at the end of the route at night but wouldn39。 So I was the Doughnut Lady. I not only received a title, but became a landmark. I want you to know I appreciate what you do for my children. I worry about them taking two buses to get home. It means a lot that they can wait here and you keep an eye on them. When they are with the doughnut lady, I know they are safe. I told him it wasn39。 I enjoyed my young friends, but it never occurred to me that I played an important role in their lives — until one afternoon when a man came and asked if I was the girl working on weekdays around four o39。clock, a group of schoolchildren would burst into the shop, and business would e to a stop. Adults would glance in, see the crowd and pass on. But I didn39。 In university I had a parttime job at a shop that sold doughnuts and coffee. Situated on a block where several buses stopped, it served the people who had a few minutes to wait for their bus. 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和段落大意兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行推理，概括，從而選出正確答案。根據(jù)最后一段中的“She has raised over 200,000 dollars! And there are over 100 Katie39。根據(jù)第二段中的“She began to realize that gardening and helping people is what she likes to do most.”可知，園藝和幫助別人是自己最喜歡做的事情，因而開(kāi)啟了她的慈善生涯，故選B。The joy of gardening and donation.【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）D（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，Katie小時(shí)候體驗(yàn)到了種植和利用種出來(lái)的作物幫助別人的樂(lè)趣，因此開(kāi)啟了她的慈善事業(yè)。s achievement and future aim.D.B.D.B.s Krops within 33 states in the United States. She loves gardening and loves inspiring other children to experience the joy of gardening as well. As of today, her first garden is still doing amazing and is even responsible for supplying over 3,000 pounds of produce donated to local charities. Her goal now? To get 500 gardens across all 50 states.（1）How did Katie deal with her first cabbage? A.t even take her long to e up and begin to grow. But as friends came over, they pointed out that it was bigger than any of theirs. And it grew so much that the cabbage ended up weighing 40 pounds! Katie then decided that she could use this cabbage to do something nice for the munity. So she took the huge cabbage to a local soup kitchen, where they used it, and cooked it with ham and rice. And because of her cabbage, 275 people were fed.6．閱讀理解 （4）考查推理判斷。故選C。根據(jù)第一段中的“These, however, were often little more than lists of hard words”可知，早期英語(yǔ)詞典的問(wèn)題是只是增加了一些難詞。To encourage people to work on a project.C.He cared about authority a lot.C.D.A maker of dictionaries.D.They list just a few foreign words.C.s modern biographer Walter Jackson Bate, the original total number could have been over 240,000. How many words were defined by the lexicographer? Over 40,000 words appeared in two large books in April of 1755. Did Johnson fully understand the huge task he was undertaking when he began? As he told his contemporary biographer James Boswell, I knew very well what I was undertaking and very well how to do it — and have done it very well.（1）What is the problem of early English dictionaries? A.s dictionary was pleted by very few people very quickly.Balanced on a chair with only three legs, Johnson sat against a wall in a room filled with books. Johnson would read widely from these books, mark passages illustrating the use of a particular word, and give the books to his assistants so that they could copy the passages on slips of paper. These slips were then stuck to eighty large notebooks under the key words that Johnson had selected. Fixing the word by this method, Johnson could record a word，s usage and its definition. （4）考查推理判斷。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。D.Modern Countrieshave paintings on their ceilings in every cave（3）Experts had discovered cave paintings showing the ancient techniques of ______. A.Because they would be given lots of money for the discovery.（2）The Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City______. A.t be possible to travel back in timethat only happens in filmsbut visiting these caves would be the nearest experience you could get to travelling back in time.（1）Why were Chinese historians excited when they found cave paintings showing ancient science? A. Among the discoveries experts have made are cave paintings showing ancient techniques of pottery making and wine production and paintings showing ancient weaving machines and then toothbrushes! The paintings also give some evidence of the lifestyle at the time with, for example, pictures of people boiling milk over 1,000 years ago. Experts believe that there is more evidence to be found, but even now the caves are a wonderful natural museum. If the walls and ceilings of the caves were all put together they would form a tapestry 20 kilometers long and 2 meters high! We can understand, then, why Chinese historians were so excited when they found cave paintings which show ancient science. They found these paintings in the worldrenowned Mogao Grottoes of Du