【正文】 s great to see a young student wanting to spend her time on something meaningful. This is what we should all work towards, Kate said. Kate, Miriam39。 Miriam is working to make money for Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. She asked her friends to give money to the park rather than giving her birthday gifts. Last year, Miriam created a program called They Deserve（應(yīng)得） to Be Free after seeing how young elephants are abused in Thailand. She learned how people take a baby elephant, don39。 A few months after visiting Africa, Miriam watched How I Became an Elephant, a film about the mistreatment of elephants in Thailand, and a young girl39。s 9th birthday two years ago, her aunt, who lives in Kenya（肯尼亞）, gave money to a group that cares for elephants to celebrate Miriam39。10．閱讀理解 【點(diǎn)評】考查閱讀理解。由文章內(nèi)容可知Gertrude是一個友善明智的人。根據(jù) His wife recently passed away. He is very sad. 可知Barry很悲傷，但是他的鄰居 Gertrude，通過讓Barry忙碌起來的方式，讓Barry忘記自己的悲痛，因此sorrow意為“悲傷”故選C。根據(jù)I want you to fix this fence for me；Do you think you could paint it for me?以及He even helps repairing her ，籬笆以及在籬笆上畫畫，但是沒有買檸檬水，故選D。根據(jù)Still, he knows she is a nice woman, and he respects her. He agrees to help her at ，故選D。friendly but selfish【答案】 （1）D（2）D（3）C（4）C 【解析】【分析】文章大意：文章中介紹了一個叫巴里的男子喪妻，非常難過，他的鄰居是一位老太太，為了讓他從痛苦中解脫出來，就讓巴里為她干一些家務(wù)活，通過不斷地干活與交流，巴里從悲傷中解脫出來，同時感受到到鄰居的愛心與良苦用心。C.kind but rude喜悅（4）From the text, we can learn that Gertrude is ________. A.悲傷遺憾憤怒D.paint the fenceB.repair the doorBecause he respects her.（2）Barry does a lot for Gertrude, but he doesn39。Because he has some free time.C. He finally realizes that she has never been rude. She is really very wise. He knows that simply getting busy with something can take sorrow away. He helps her, but she truly saves him.（1）Why does Barry agree to help Gertrude to fix the fence? A.s lemonade and encouragement are wonderful. He feels proud of the beautiful fence he is making. Barry cannot believe his ears. Doesn39。 Barry works for days. Gertrude brings him lemonade while he works. When he finishes, he smiles for the first time in months. Hello, Barry! Just look at this fence. It is broken. You are a strong man, and you have some free time. I want you to fix this fence for me, Gertrude says. Barry39。9．閱讀理解 【點(diǎn)評】考查閱讀理解。根據(jù)When the puppet was finished, the priest silently walked into the emperor39。s wife. The emperor was no longer sad他作為皇帝的妻子講了一些精彩的故事，皇帝不再悲傷可知，牧師通過扮演木偶而講述了皇帝的妻子讓皇帝不難過 ， 故選B。 （3）細(xì)節(jié)題。洋娃娃在墻上畫了跳舞的影子。 （2）細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)He spent more and more time in his garden, and less and less time caring for the needs of his people. Everyone in the kingdom was ，越來越少的時間照顧他的人民的需要。The clay.【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文講述了皮影戲的來歷。C.The candle.s wife.（4）Which of the following is NOT needed to play a shadow puppet? A.s wife.D.s wife had told by playing the puppet.C.s attention.B.From the dance.（3）What did the priest do to make the emperor NOT sad? A.From the shadow of dolls.From the wall.From the curtain.s wife died.D.t hear the stories any more.C.Because the emperor was too sad to care about his country.B. The emperor did not even notice the curtain at first. The dancing shadow drew his eyes. As the priest moved the puppet behind the curtain, he told wonderful stories as the emperor39。s garden, carrying his puppet, a candle and a curtain. He placed the curtain near the emperor39。 The priest made a puppet（木偶）out of bits of clay（黏土）.He painted the puppet to look somewhat like the emperor39。 One day, a priest（牧師）passed when some children were playing with their dolls. The dolls made dancing shadows on the wall. This gave the priest an idea. He knew the stories the emperor39。8．閱讀理解 根據(jù)最后一段，園丁告訴農(nóng)民樹不結(jié)果的原因，故選D，給他上了一課。故選C。（4）細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段可知，兩年樹沒有結(jié)果實(shí)；農(nóng)民很生氣，給哥哥打電話說他哥哥騙他?！币虼诉xB。（2）詞義猜測。（1）細(xì)節(jié)理解。The gardener taught the farmer a lesson.【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）C（4）C（5）D 【解析】【分析】農(nóng)民從城里的園丁那里移植了一棵蘋果樹，把它種在他的谷倉后面，三年了，果樹沒有長出像園丁說的那樣的果子。The gardener took the tree to the roadside.C.The farmer thought his brother gave him a useless tree.（5）What do you know from the end of the story?A.No flowers, fruit or leaves were on the apple tree. s brother had a garden full of the finest fruit trees.B.Why the farmer called his brother.（4）Which of the following is NOT true?A.What kind of man the farmer was.B.What happened to the apple tree.D.C.B.near his house（2）The underlined word ripe means __________ in Chinese.A.C.on the hill The gardener laughed and said, See where the tree was planted, it has no sun or warmth. How could you expect flowers and fruit?（1）From the passage, we can see the farmer planted the apple treeA. If I plant it on the hill, he said to himself, the wind might catch it and shake down the delicious fruit before it is ripe. If I plant it close to the road, passersby will see it and take away the applesbut if I plant it too near the door of my house, my children may pick the fruit. So, after he had thought the matter over, he planted the tree behind his barn （谷倉）. Then the gardener called his workmen and ordered them to take up the tree and carry it to his brother39。 Look, my brother, said the gardener. I will give you an apple tree, the best from my garden, and you, and your children, and your children39。7．根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容出選擇正確答案。 【點(diǎn)評】考查閱讀理解。t always clear. Dali, another surrealist artist, painted pictures that looked like dreams. 他們工作的意義或主題并不總是清楚的。 （4）細(xì)節(jié)題。 （3）細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù) After a long time, Picasso39。 有時他使用很多藍(lán)色，后來，他使用了更多的紅色和粉色，可知一幅紅色和藍(lán)色的畫，沒有清晰的主題最像抽象藝術(shù) ， 故選D。 （1）推理題。Magritte39。Dali was interested in dreams.C.By painting in red and pink colours.（4）Which of the following is NOT true? A.By painting with a lot of symbols.B.By using strong colours.He went from using red colours to using blue colours.D.It became more ab