【正文】 。故選C。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第八段中的“Then he went to the garage and emptied the cardboard box containing our imported camping mats. He returned with the gray pigeon in the box. He showed the bird to our children and they decided to keep it”可知，他把紙板箱倒空并用紙箱把鴿子帶回來養(yǎng)，所以推斷出Sam用紙板箱做鳥巢。故選D。根據(jù)第六段中的“It could have been sheltering in a wet nest of its own waste, which had then dried on its foot, preventing it from flying away”可知，鴿子棲身在自己糞便的濕窩里，其糞便在腳上晾干了，阻止它飛走。故選A。根據(jù)第一段中的“ Don39。He was easygoing.【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）D（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了Sam如何救助一只鴿子。He was warmhearted.He was clever.He was brave.D.Wash camping mats.B.It was trapped by its waste.（3）What did Sam use the cardboard box to do? A.It was badly injured.C.She was surprised.（2）Why was the pigeon moving in circles? A.C.She was frightened. They put its foot in the warm water bath and got rid of its waste. Immediately the pigeon erupted in a bomb of feathers and began flying.（1）How did the author feel about the knocks? A.s a bird. Just leave it on the stairs, and let nature take its course. Sam didn39。wet nest of its own waste, which had then dried on its foot, preventing it from flying away. The pigeon moved in a few more circles. Sam bent to take another look. Mervin said, All right, then. and walked away.s stuck to his foot.It had rained for five days, and the bird was young. It could have been sheltering in a t flying away. It was stamping in circles. As Sam bent to look, Mervin coughed, Number two.s in trouble. There39。 our previous door in the suburbs rarely so. Sam has a fulltime job and cannot spend his days answering requests to fix leaking baths or carry cash to the bank. Don39。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及句義猜測和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，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 don39。t pick up and I had no other way to reach her.可知作者被朋友放鴿子了，被放鴿子肯定是失望的，故選C。 （1）考查句義猜測。The author considered it the best decision of her life to travel on her own.【答案】 （1）C（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者原本與朋友約好去旅游，卻被放了鴿子，她決定一個人去。The author gathered the courage to be a fulltime backpack traveler.C.Most of the backpackers became the author39。she ought to stay away from the backpackersD.she would get along with the backpackersB.Homeless but lighthearted.（3）The author39。Warmhearted and trustworthy.B.Courageous but disrespectful.D.nervous of meeting strangersC.t picked up the phone.（1）By My stomach was in knots (in paragraph 1), the author most likely means that she was ______. A.ve backpacked alone across South Africa, skydived from 12,000 feet in New Zealand and even moved across the . with no job lined up. It seemed risky to travel with strangers, but my instinct said yes. For the next two weeks, I explored Israel with the backpackers and learned to trust my instincts in all types of new and interesting situations. When they hook a ride, I took the bus, but when they wanted to steal into the King David Hotel39。 Why don39。 questions—where was I going and why was I traveling alone? My plan was to travel with a friend of a friend, I explained, but when I called her that morning, she didn39。7．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. 縱觀全文可知，本文介紹了科學(xué)家們在中國甘肅敦煌莫高窟的洞穴中發(fā)現(xiàn)了反映古代科學(xué)的壁畫，這屬于科學(xué)范疇，因此文章最有可能出自科學(xué)雜志，故選D。根據(jù)第三段中的Among the discoveries experts have made are cave paintings showing ancient techniques of pottery making and wine production and paintings可知，科學(xué)家發(fā)現(xiàn)壁畫中展示了古代制陶和釀酒技術(shù)，故選A。根據(jù)第二段中的There are 500 manmade caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 years.可知，敦煌莫高窟有500個人工洞穴，故選A。根據(jù)第二段中的What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipment and medical sciences可知，這些壁畫為中國古代在數(shù)學(xué)、物理、化學(xué)、天文，地理、建筑以及農(nóng)學(xué)等領(lǐng)域的科技發(fā)明提供了證據(jù)，由此可知科學(xué)家們對此感到很興奮的原因是他們可以通過這些壁畫了解古代的科學(xué)，故選C。Popular Science【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了科學(xué)家們在中國甘肅的敦煌莫高窟的洞穴中發(fā)現(xiàn)了反映古代科學(xué)的壁畫。C.Business Worldarchitecture and weaving（4）The article is more likely to be selected from the magazine ______. A.boiling milk over 1,000 years agoB.pottery making and wine productionhelp us to know little about ancient scienceD.have 500 manmade cavesB.Because they could learn about ancient science through them.D.Because they had rarely seen cave paintings.B. It won39。s Gansu Province. There are 500 manmade caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 years. Almost all of these caves have paintings on their ceilings or walls and they date from the 4th to 14th centuries. Wang Jinyu is an expert on these cave paintings (also called frescoes) and he says: We discovered frescoes containing scientific and technological content in almost all of the caves which have frescoes. What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipment and medical sciences. If we want to find out what kind of technology people used in the past, we normally have to rely on archaeologists to find ruined buildings and parts of tools or instruments or machines. Archaeologists then try to reconstruct, sometimes with the help of puter technology, what these ancient buildings and objects must have looked like, and how they might have been made. Sometimes historians are lucky and