【正文】 ve done.m delighted and proud to share with you that our ine has doubled every year and we have no debt. Meanwhile, I have a wonderful partner, and we39。 So, 40 plus years of employment was over. I had a good reputation and background. Retirement was not a choice for me. I wanted to do something. And then an idea came into my mind, born from my concern for our environment. I wanted to build my own business, designing and producing biodegradable(可生物降解的)packaging from waste. This is called clean technology, and it was really meaningful to me. It could help reduce billions of pounds of singleuse plastic packaging wasted each year. Nine years ago, a few days before Christmas, I was a director at a pany in San Francisco, and I was called into a meeting that was already in progress. That meeting turned out to be my exit interview. I was 64 years old at the time. It wasn39。 根據(jù)最后一段中的“The bicycle shop would provide the livelihood（生計）that would allow them to carry out their experiments on airplanes”自行車店將提供生計 ，允許他們在飛機(jī)上進(jìn)行實驗 ，可知選D。 故選B。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“They were just crazy about these things for the reasons that they did not yet understand”他們只是因為他們還不明白的原因 而對這些事情瘋狂 ；和第三段中的“Both boys loved to solve problems that seemed difficult to others. The more difficult the problem was，the more they saw it as a challenge”兩個男孩都喜歡解決別人覺得困難的問題。奧維爾后來發(fā)現(xiàn)他和威爾伯對飛行第一次興趣是從他們小時候開始的，由于他們的父親從鄉(xiāng)村給他們帶回家的，用橡皮筋為動力的直升機(jī)玩具，可知選C。根據(jù)第二段中的“Orville would discover in later years that he and Wilbur39。How the two brothers began to invent planes.【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，介紹了 萊特兄弟是怎樣的發(fā)明飛機(jī)的過程。What trouble they would meet in their business.C.The bicycle business.（4）What will possibly be discussed following this text？ A.The printing business.C.Stubborn but careful（3）What business did Wilbur and Orville enter shortly after high school？ A.Quiet and modes.C.Their interest in duplicating toys.（2）What kind of children were the Wright brothers？ A.Their wishes to travel by plane.C. Branching out into other areas, they also opened a bicycle business. Bicycling was the fastest growing sport in the country at that time, and their repair shop soon led them into building bicycles of their own design, often with tools of their own construction, such as the lathe（車床）driven by a onecylinder gasoline engine built by Orville. The bicycle shop would provide the livelihood（生計）that would allow them to carry out their experiments on airplanes. （1）What may inspire Wilbur and Orville Wright to be keen on flight in childhood？ A. Putting their gift to work, the boys entered the printing business soon after high school. Orville designed and then built a printing press（印刷機(jī)）for this enterprise. At first, they did contract printing for other people, and soon one of their customers during the early 1890s was Father Milton39。 Both boys loved to solve problems that seemed difficult to others. The more difficult the problem was, the more they saw it as a challenge. Exploring the unknown was such a joy for then that Orville once said, I can remember when Wilbur and I could hardly wait for the morning to e to get at something that interested us. That39。 Orville would discover in later years that he and Wilbur39。7．閱讀理解 故選D。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第二段中的“When the staff at a Mexican bakery chain in Houston were trapped inside the building for two days,”可知，Hurricane Harvey造成休斯敦停電。故選D。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Instead，we should take positive action to save ourselves and help others.”相反,我們應(yīng)該采取積極的行動來拯救自己和幫助別人。故選A。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。All Kinds of Disasters Caused by Hurricane Harvey in HoustonD.A Popular Mexican Bakery Chain in HoustonB.The staff in the bakery sent enough flour to emergency centers.D.Alvarado organized his workers to bake much bread.B.D.C.B.They ate nothing but to wait for their munity to rescue them.（2）Which of the following best explains forlorn underlined in the last paragraph? A.They felt sorry that they couldn39。They volunteered to make bread for their munity.B. The flood water rose in the street outside. They took advantage of their emergency power supply to bake bread. They used more than 4,200 pounds of flour to create hundreds of loaves and sheets of sweet bread. Although the water kept rising, they continued baking to help more people. By the time the owner managed to get to them, they had made so much bread that we took the loaves to loads of emergency centers across the city for people affected by the floods. When the staff at a Mexican bakery chain in Houston were trapped inside the building for two days, they didn39。 Recently whenever I turned on my puter or my mobile phone, news about the great effect of Hurricane Harvey on thousands of people caught my eyes. We saw many unfortunate events. However, there were also the bright news that confirmed the goodness of mankind. As a journalist, I wrote many human interesting stories during my career. That39。 【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。m hooked, and want to give it another go. I39。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第四段中的“I recalled overhearing people talking about how they kept swimming through the pain, so I tried. But it didn39。根據(jù)第二段中的“There seemed to be a mix of openwater enthusiasts alongside plete beginners—which is precisely the aim of the swims, to get as many people as possible pleting their own challenge. The oldest woman peting was 77, taking part in the twomile race, alongside a man who last year had swum in every onemile race.”可知，參賽者包括天然水域游泳的愛好者，也包括初學(xué)者，也有很多人完成自己的挑戰(zhàn)，這里面就有77歲參加2英里游泳的老人，也有去年參加一英里的男子，故可知，該比賽參與者范圍很廣，故選C。根據(jù)第一段中的“But I, along with 10,000 others, was about to plete the challenge.”可知，我馬上和其他10000名游泳者完成這項挑戰(zhàn)，故可知，他們很堅定要完成這項運動，故選D。 （1）考查推理判斷。D.Her eagerness to repeat the experience.B.Her confidence in her own ability.it would have