【正文】 s reputation as a master candy maker. at that point, he was apprenticed(做學(xué)徒) to a printer in a nearby town. After a while, he left the printing business and was apprenticed to a Lancaster, Pennsylvania candy maker. And at the age of eighteen, he opened his own candy store in Philadelphia. In spite of his talents as a candy maker, the shop failed after six years.8．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. 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。 根據(jù)最后一段中的“The bicycle shop would provide the livelihood（生計(jì)）that would allow them to carry out their experiments on airplanes”自行車店將提供生計(jì) ，允許他們?cè)陲w機(jī)上進(jìn)行實(shí)驗(yàn) ，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?yàn)樗麄冞€不明白的原因 而對(duì)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(gè)男孩都喜歡解決別人覺(jué)得困難的問(wèn)題。奧維爾后來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)他和威爾伯對(duì)飛行第一次興趣是從他們小時(shí)候開(kāi)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(dòng)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(guò)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(jì)）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。6．閱讀理解 狄金森以及她的作品，故選D。 （4）考查主旨大意。s works have greatly influenced and continue to influence modern poetry. ”無(wú)疑，狄金森的作品對(duì)現(xiàn)代詩(shī)歌產(chǎn)生了很大的影響，并在繼續(xù)影響。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。She had the privilege of being educated at some of the most outstanding women schools in her time and devoted herself to reading all kinds of books. （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。約翰遜發(fā)表了她完整的詩(shī)作，使她的作品獲得了真正的好評(píng)。s release of her plete body of poetry that made her works receive real acclaim.”是托馬斯狄金森以及她的作品，她的詩(shī)絕大多數(shù)是在她死后才出版，并被世人所知，名氣極大。s Being World FamousD.s PoemsC.s FailureB.They rhyme well and include many parisons.（4）What can be the best title for the text? A.They make much difference to modern poetry.C.s poems? A.She spent much time on politics and education.D.She studied in good schools.B.D.C.B.s works have greatly influenced and continue to influence