【正文】 1000.【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，一個男孩，在媽媽的建議下，參加了寫作比賽。Because he read too many stories.（4）Which might be the maximum word limit for each entry? A.Because he wasn39。D.He copied others39。s advice.（2）How did the boy finish his earlier writing? A.B.A new puter. Perfect, he thought, just under the word limit. He knew this was the story that would win. Suddenly, he had a brainwave. This time, he came up with an original and imaginative story.8．閱讀理解 （4）考查主旨大意。即可推測幽默在生活中是很重要的，故選B。根據(jù)第二段中的“Consider the case of a young friend of mine, who hit a traffic jam on his way to work shortly after receiving an ultimatum (最后通牒) about being late on the job.”可知Brian上班遲到是因為遇到了交通阻塞，故選C。我是布萊恩。t the first time that Brian came late for work.D.tried to hold back（4）What can we learn from the text? A.C.It is important in our lives.C.D. Humor is a most effective, yet frequently neglected means of handling the difficult situations in our lives. It can be used for patching up differences, apologizing, saying no, criticizing, getting the other fellow to do what you want without his losing face. For some jobs, it39。m Brian. I39。由此可以推知，作者的焦慮最終得以緩解。故結(jié)合選項，選D。t actually want to pick a seat. In India we had fixed seats，I spent the rest of the class taking notes from the image produced by the overhead projector. In Indian schools, we didn39。根據(jù)第一段中的I had traveled… join my parents…, hoping America would help my future. My father decided that I would be better off going to school here可知，作者的父母希望美國會對作者的未來有好處，在美國上學作者會更好。D.B.He met some enthusiastic teachers and classmates.C.his mother had worked in it for 3 yearsD.t have in India either. I spotted my bus and sat down inside happily. I was thinking, today wasn39。 But the bell just rang, I said. It was noon. I was very confused about when I would have lunch. I went to my next class and the bell rang as I entered. I went through the regular process of asking the teacher if I was in the right class. She said, It39。t actually want to pick a seat. In India we had fixed seats, so I never needed to worry about that. I spent the rest of the class taking notes from the image produced by the overhead projector. In Indian schools, we didn39。6．閱讀理解 My First Day of School根據(jù)第三段中的I could not e out of the house, so I opened the window.及At that moment I pulled the curtain so strongly that I fell on the floor.可知，六歲的時候，作者被鎖在屋子里，沒能從窗戶出去，而且還弄壞了窗簾，故選D。根據(jù)第一段中的It is obvious that all of our childhood memories are not accidental.可知，我們所有的童年記憶都不是偶然的，作者就講述了一個讓自己印象深刻的童年記憶，故選B。the moment he realized his mom39。the moment he received a present from his momB.s children for toys.C.Childhood memories are always strange and inprehensible.（3）What happened to the author when he was 6 years old? A.s feelings toward childhood memories? A.s Best Friend39。s knees.（1）What is the best title for this passage? A.s friend at her place. I woke up. Mom went to work and reminded me to be nice and clean by the time she came back. I stayed with Tony, the older of the boys and suddenly somebody called him and though he was not permitted to leave me alonehe left. He said it would not be long. But it took him forever. I realized that I was alone. I could not e out of the house, so I opened the window. I was so desperate. So lonely. So betrayed. At that moment I pulled the curtain so strongly that I fell on the floor. And there I was standingone little criminaldesperate to escape and knowing that I would be punished for destroying the curtain that was not even ours.But then something changed. I stopped weeping. I looked around and realized that I was in a safe place, and that mom would e back and kiss me no matter what I had done.s best friend left to another town and asked my mom to stay at her place with me for two days in order to look after her two sons. One was a little older than I was, and the second boy appeared to be super grownup, for he was already fourteen. I always enjoyed staying at their place. It is obvious that all of our childhood memories are not accidental. When you are a child, every scent, every sound, every move, every toy, the first day of school, the first kiss, the first step… Everything together makes what is the personality of a man. All these are pieces of one whole entity. 【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，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。根據(jù)第四段中的“A decade later, the number of Mauritius kestrels had soared to over 300 and today there are around 400 in the wild.第二段中的“for his 40 years of work in Mauritius, where he saved an endangered kestrel from being the next Great Auk.”是對前面句子的補充說明，再由“won the 2016 Indianapolis Prize”可推知，這里的accolade與獲獎有關(guān)，故選C。D.was widely acceptedC.was proved of no useIt39。a fierce bird（3）What can we know from the figures in Paragraph 4? A.research（2）According to the passage, Great Auk is ________. A. Prof Jones has devoted his whole life to his work, only being a father for the first time eight years ago, at 53. He said receiving the prize was particularly important to him, because it proved that his work to save birds was right.（1）What does the underlined word accolade mean in Paragraph 2? A.172,000) prize at a ceremony in London.As a young man in my 20s, I certainly didn39。 A decade later, the number of Mauritius kestrels had soared to over 300 and today there are around 400 in the wild. The biologist has also been necessary in efforts to bring other rare species back from the edge of extinction, including the pink pigeon, echo parakeet and Rodrigues warbler. When the 61yearold first travelled to the east African island in the 1970s,