【正文】
D.Brave and careful.B.Crazy and silly.D.they were at the garageC.they were driving in the carD.She didn39。B.She told a white lie to her mother.D.C.B. Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. Start tomorrow, she said. Better yet, start today.(1)What was the weather like when the author drove to visit her daughter? A. The wonder of it would not let me go. Imagine, I said, if I39。 The first answer was: One Woman—Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain. The second was: One at a Time. The third: Started in 1958. A series of questions filled my mind. Who created such beauty? Why? How? Then we turned a er and stopped—and I gasped in amazement. She grinned. This is a detour.m used to it. About three minutes, she said, I39。 But I need you to drive me to the garage to pick up my car, Carolyn said, Could we at least do that?ll stay for lunch, but I39。 Nothing could be worth this, I thought as I inched along the dangerous highway. So here I was, reluctantly making the twohour journey through fog that hung like veils. By the time I saw how thick it was near the summit, I39。 It was rainy, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn39。8.閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中,選出最佳選項(xiàng)。故選D。 (4)考查推理判斷。s ideas of a museum.” 1978年設(shè)計(jì)了華盛頓國(guó)家美術(shù)館東館;第三段中的“Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he was thought as giving the 20th century ‘some of its most beautiful inside spaces and outside forms …”貝聿銘于1983年獲得普利茲克建筑獎(jiǎng)。 Museum in 1964 established him as a name. ”1964年,貝聿銘設(shè)計(jì)了約翰 (3)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.”中的關(guān)鍵詞talent and skill和the use of materials可知,此句字面含義為:他在使用(建筑)材料方面的才華和技藝達(dá)到了詩(shī)一般的境界,即他是應(yīng)用材料方面的專家。故選B。但最終,法國(guó)人,以及全世界,都被(他的精妙設(shè)計(jì)所)折服。 (1)考查推理判斷。He preferred western style to the east.D.Innovation was his first goal in design.B.D.b, c, a, dB.a, b, c, d Museum.b. Study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.c. Design the National Gallery of Art.d He gets inspiration from poetry in designing.(3)What39。He is skilled in writing poems.C.It changed the function of the Louvre Museum.(2)What can we learn from the underlined sentence in paragraph 4? A.It was a success.C. Stylistic originality is not my purpose, he said. I want to find the originality in the time, the place and the problem.(1)What can we learn about the result of redevelopment of the Louvre Museum? A. Though known as a modernist, and notable for his forms based on arrangements of simple geometric (幾何的) shapes, he once urged Chinese architects to look more to their architectural tradition rather than designing in a western style.s ideas of a museum. The site was an odd trapezoid (梯形) shape. Pei39。 Designing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library amp。 Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French—and everyone else—were won over. Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he was thought as giving the 20th century some of its most beautiful inside spaces and outside forms … His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry. . Pei, the ChineseAmerican, who was regarded as one of the last great modernist architects, has died at the age of 102.7.閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中,選出最佳選項(xiàng)。所以本文主要是告訴讀者Johnson編纂詞典的故事,故選D。 (4)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“This need to fix the English language is best illustrated (描述) in the making of The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.”及最后一段中的Samuel Johnson為詞典編纂所作的努力可以推斷出,Samuel Johnson使得英語(yǔ)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化。故選C。 (2)考查詞義猜測(cè)。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 introduce how Johnson plete his dictionary.【答案】 (1)D(2)C(3)A(4)D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文,講述了Johnson編纂詞典的故事。To encourage people to work on a project.C.He plained of working conditions.(4)What is the purpose of this passage? A.He cared about authority a lot.C.He standardized English.D.A maker of dictionaries.B.A publisher.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. Johnson changed all that, but the task was not an easy one. Renting a house at 17 Gough Square, Johnson began working in the worst of conditions. Supported only by his publisher, Johnson worked on the Dictionary with five assistants. Compared to the French Academy39。 During the period from 1660 through 1800, Great Britain became the world39。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及句義猜測(cè)和推理判斷兩個(gè)題型的考查,是一篇故事類閱讀,要求考生根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系,進(jìn)行分析,推理,從而選出正確答案。t picked up the phone.可知作者慶幸她的朋友沒(méi)有接她的電話。 (4)考查推理判斷。 (3)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的‘Why do