【正文】 D.He puts up an advertisement.C.He means what he says.D.C.B.ve learned to appreciate live theatre, and the effort that every person in the show, both onstage and offstage, puts into it.（1）How did the author feel about being in the project? A. there is no one who isn39。 While I had really interesting characters, and the plays were funny and such a great experience to act in, I really love the Senior Play Project for the people. I worked with 12 other seniors who not only loved what they were doing, but offered help and advice throughout my entire learning process.s tough political races. He39。 My first character is a man named Roger who is a senior advisor to a presidential candidate in a play called The Spot. He39。t particularly difficult, more to see who may be a better fit tor certain roles. We were told our roles in the various plays, and started to work immediately.s extremely difficult to find the time to be a part of any production. For me, it was a onceinalifetime opportunity to try acting through the Senior Play Project.7．閱讀理解 可知選B。 （4）考查主旨大意，縱觀全文可知。ve made it my mission to do my part in sharing stories with students, teachers, and parents about our need for character and sympathy.I work in schools nationwide speaking about sympathy, kindness, empathy (同理心) and love. ”以及最后一段中的“ （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第五段中的“ ”可知作者對Helga哭泣時來來往往的人漠不關心的態(tài)度印象深刻，受到了觸動，故選C。ll never forget about Helga39。 （1）考查推理判斷。Practising Kindness on the Plane【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）D（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者乘飛機時和女乘客 Helga 坐在了一起，Helga講述了關于她的父親死亡時，她在 Making Kindness NormalC.He is a promoter of a good cause.（4）What can be a suitable title for the text? A.He used to be a school teacher.C.Biggest surprise to others.（3）What can we know about the author? A.Unexpected way to do things.C.s death.（2）Which can best explain the underlined part default setting in paragraph 5? A.Helga couldn39。Helga had no one to talk to on her flight to Arizona.C.s anxiety over her father39。s story? A.ve made it my mission to do my part in sharing stories with students, teachers, and parents about our need for character and sympathy. I39。m reminded all the time that, for many of us, kindness is not usually our default setting. We spend so much time worrying about our problems, our lives, our insecurities, getting to our flight so we walk by or ignore people in need of help. Kindness isn39。s story. For 2 hours she sat and wept while thousands walked to and fro in the airport. Helga looked at me and said, Houston, not a single person stopped and asked if I was okay that day. It was that day that I realized how much we need each other. It was that day I realized that kindness isn39。 When she arrived at the airport in Arizona, she walked to the nearest wall, sat down, and cried. And here is the part I39。s health was on the decline. Later her father39。 Hi, my name is Helga!6．閱讀理解 白蘭度過了這一段痛苦，來到市場西端的一個刑臺前，可推知選D。 （4）考查推理判斷。 （3）考查推理判斷。內心感受，每邁出一步都感受到一陣巨痛，似乎她的心給拋在街上，任憑他”人吐唾沫和踩踏。 （2）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第二段中的“A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, …ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to ….”可知，人們充滿了好奇并且急不可待。She would receive serious punishment.【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，摘自名著《紅字》，描述了Hester Prynne被當做異教徒押赴刑場時的情節(jié)片段。She would give a public speech.C.She would be set free.Hester Prynne was thrown into the street for people to step on.D.The prison was really far from the marketplace.B.D.C.B.They like Hester Prynne and her baby very much.（2）What does the underlined word thronged in paragraph 3 mean? A.They were full of curiosity and eagerness.C.s earliest church, and appeared to be a fixture there.（1）What can we know about the schoolboys? A.s experience, however, it might be considered to be a rather long journey。 A lane was at once opened through the crowd. Led by the beadle （獄吏），and attended by an irregular procession of seriouslooking men and unkindlooking women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a halfholiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face, and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the shameful letter on her breast.s name! cried he. Open a text。5．閱讀理解 故選D。他還在全國范圍內發(fā)表演講，闡述讓低收入學生更容易接受和負擔得起高等教育的必要性。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Under Bacow39。故選A?？芍?，Bacow earned a reputation for shaking up a sleepy university that was being overshadowed by its peers in Boston.“Bacow因改變了一所沉睡的在波士頓的其他大學面前黯然失色的大學而贏得了聲譽。 （3）考查詞義猜測。可知，Bacow的父親擅長電子產品。 （2）考查推理判斷。s journey had reflected the power of college education to transform generations and the opportunities that have historically been available in the United States.”他的家庭經歷反映了大學教育改變幾代人的力量，以及美國歷史上一直存在的機遇。 （1）考查推理判斷。Bacow39。s leadership in Tufts.s family.C.B.How to be admitted to Harvard University.D.C.B.s father came to the . after World War II broke out.（3）The underlined word shaking up in paragraph 5 probably means ________. A.s father was good at working with electronics.D.s mother stimulated his interest in science.C.The fellow townspeople of Bacow were all killed besides his mother.B.few opportunities were available when his father came into the countryD.college education is out of reach to many AmericansB. Under Bacow39。 academic ambitions. He raised more than $20 million for faculty recruitment, attracting upanding professors by offering junior faculty perks (福利), such as long academic leaves that they couldn39。 Bacow has spent most of his professional career at MIT, Harvard and Tufts. He was a professor of environmental studies at MIT, a