【正文】 Failure is the mother of success.【答案】（1）D（2）C（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了作者克服自己的恐懼心理，在奧運奪冠后，勇敢面對記者采訪的故事。Practice makes perfect.C.she handled the balance between her career and life（4）What does the author mainly want to tell us? A.B.s expectationsShe could better express herself with body language.The author wished Boitano to win the match.（2）What is one of the reasons why the author liked skating according to the passage? A. Fear can stop you dead in your tracks. Fear can kill a dream. What are you afraid of? What scares you more than anything else? This year, walk right up to it and conquer it, step by step.（1）What information can we get from the second paragraph? A.t have to talk. I could express myself with my jump sand dances better. I didn39。ll never forget. Brian Boitano sat in front of the camera with his coach, surrounded by a group of journalist. He was talking about his career and his medal, talking to the whole world. A terrible sinking feeling went through me. I could never be in the Olympics, I thought…I could not talk in public like that. Just the idea of a press conference terrified me. That night I lay on our living room floor excitedly watching the battle between the Brians: American Brian Boitano facing Brian Orser in Canada. Both of them had been world champions. Both of them deserved to win. Naturally I was for Brian Boitano, a northern Californian like me. We had skated on the same ice. I held my breath in amazement. Boitano performed successfully. The gold medal! I jumped in the air when his score went up.s skating finals of the Winter Olympics when I was 16. Someday I39。8．閱讀理解得知本文講述了一位技藝超群的畫家完全沉浸在繪畫中的時候只看見想看見的東西。他站在那兒凝視自己創(chuàng)作的藝術(shù)珍品，不僅高聲喊道：“真的，生命就在這兒！可以推斷出這位畫家善于運用色彩，他畫什么像什么，甚至超過原樣，好像他能在畫布上展示生命。根據(jù)第二段中的“When he admired her classic beauty, it was as though he were standing in front of a work of art rather than in front of a human being to whom he had pledged his love and promised his life.”可知他稱贊她身上的古典美，就好像是站在一件藝術(shù)品前欣賞，而不是把她當(dāng)做活生生的人，當(dāng)做他發(fā)誓要終生相愛的愛人。（1）考查細節(jié)理解。畫家是一位充滿激情、既狂熱又郁郁寡歡的人。His work was more true to life than life itself.The wife loved his painting more than herself.（3）What did the artist mean by saying “This is indeed life itself!”？ A.The artist didn39。D.B. At length, as the labor drew to close, the painter became wilder in his passion for his work. He only rarely turned his eyes from the canvas to look at his wife. As he stood there gazing at his beautiful work of art, he cried with a loud voice, “This is indeed life itself!” Then he turned to his beloved and saw that she was dead!（1）In what way did the artist express his appreciation of his wife39。 One day a very skilled artist met a beautiful woman who immediately became the object of his affections. As he observed her and spoke with her, he admired her more and more. He showered her with kindness and words of praise until she consented to be his wife.【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個題型的考查，是一篇科普類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細節(jié)信息，根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，選出正確答案。故選A?！惫蔬xB。(2)考查詞義猜測。The success rate of cloning a monkey was not high.【答案】（1）B（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，科學(xué)家們利用高科技克隆猴子幫助研究人類疾病。Cloning humans is already on its way.C.New techniques seem to be pointless.To serve as a stepping stone to their reputation.C.Adding supportive evidence to it.（3）What is the scientists39。Keeping a hot topic of it.It may contribute to editing the DNAC. But the scientists involved emphasize that this is not their goal. There is now no barrier for cloning primate species, thus cloning humans is closer to reality. However, their research purpose is entirely for producing nonhuman primate models for human diseases。 pouring water on the idea that the team39。6．閱讀理解【點評】閱讀理解細節(jié)題解題技巧：1）語義轉(zhuǎn)換題跳讀查找法：根據(jù)題干內(nèi)容從原文中找到相關(guān)的句子，然后進行比較和分析，便可確定最佳答案。有些人甚至無法生存下去。而D項與題干無關(guān)。分析本段的內(nèi)容可知B項（一切都是匆匆忙忙完成的。他們匆匆忙忙的工作。根據(jù)第五段“A woman told me how much stress her friend was suffering from …”可知，這位女子說她的朋友遭受了很大的壓力。t you get your creative thoughts from the same place?”可知，作者的藝術(shù)家的朋友告訴大家。如果想治愈癥，就要放慢速度。By learning to survive.C.By pacing down.People don39。People run fast to work.D.t survive it. What39。t have enough time. We race through the days and weeks until one day we look back in amazement and ment, “My god, how the years flew by!” Then we realize the heavy price we have paid for traveling fast.t have watched the whole thing.”根據(jù)第二段中的“Replacing plastic water bottles that pollute the seas with recyclable aluminum cans should be an easy way to help the environment, right? ”用可回收的鋁罐代替污染海洋的塑料水瓶應(yīng)該是一種幫助環(huán)境的簡單方法，對嗎？文章主要說明了鋁罐代替塑料或玻璃瓶的優(yōu)勢，如鋁罐可能會減少海洋垃圾，金屬容器也比玻璃或塑料瓶輕，但它們也會給環(huán)境帶來代價，文章還說明了使用鋁罐的一些局限性。 （3）考查段落大意。故選B。s the advantage of aluminum cans? are pollutionfree. are lighter. are costeffective. are lowcarbon.（2）What is Karas39。Bottled water is a 19 billion industry. Although its use of cans is increasing, experts say cans are unlikely to pletely replace plastic bottles.ll all have to make decisions. He added, It39。 That39。 4．閱讀理解 根據(jù)最后一段中的“ Sheffield is known as the greenest city in Europe because of its 2 million trees. As a result, there ...within the city.”其中關(guān)鍵信息“ the greenest city in Europe”。（2）考查細節(jié)理解。Robin Hood is a character in Jane Eyre.【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了謝菲爾德大學(xué)的發(fā)展歷史和學(xué)院設(shè)置，同時也介紹了謝菲爾德這座城市。B.D.It has a good fame for many great graduates. Engineering。 More information 所以這篇文章最好的題目是“防止出現(xiàn)if only的情況”，故選B。根據(jù)劃線詞所在句and前后連接語意相似成分，由其前“失去一個心愛的人或物”可推知此處是指“后悔放棄一個機會”可知，foregone的意思是“放棄”，故選A。t give up an opportunity to see him.”可知，父親說在周五去看眼科醫(yī)生時經(jīng)過作者的辦公室，雖然那天是假日，但作者想到父親八十四了，自己不應(yīng)該放棄每一次見父親的機會，于是又改口說那天上班。根據(jù)第一、二段可知，作者所說的“extra minute”rule是指在遇事時多思考一分鐘，從而可以避免以后遺憾、犯錯或失望，故選D。m buying myself peace of mind and that39。s equally important to a