【正文】 ng the engine s power is the reason for asking for help.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】主要講了通過(guò)講老人怎樣修好引擎的故事告訴我們努力是很重要的，但知道把努力放在生活中的哪個(gè)地方更重要。Fixing the engine of a giant ship costs too much.C.s the main idea of the text? A.D.$9996B.$put his hammer away carefully（3）According to the itemized bill, knowing where to tap costreached into his bag secretlyC. . A.D.C.B. Effort （努力） is important, but knowing where to put the effort in your life is more important.（1）How did the owner of the ship feel when the engine broke down? A. Tapping with a hammer $2 So he wrote the old man a note saying, Please send me an itemized （逐條記錄的） bill.s every move. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer （錘子）. He tapped （敲打） something gently. The engine started back up at once. He then put his hammer away carefully. The engine was fixed The engine of a giant ship broke down, so the ship lost its power. The owner of the ship was very worried. The owner of the ship was very worried. He sent for one expert after another, but none of them could figure out （弄清楚） how to fix the engine. Then an old man who had been fixing ships since he was young was brought in.本文涉及細(xì)節(jié)題、推斷題和主旨題三種?？碱}型，細(xì)節(jié)題要注意從文中尋找答案；推斷題需要聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出需要的信息；主旨題需要通讀全文，了解大意之后找出中心思想。根據(jù)全文可知主要講了機(jī)會(huì)只有一次，故選A。根據(jù)后句可知失去機(jī)會(huì)是容易的，除非我們是仔細(xì)的，所以意思是仔細(xì)的，認(rèn)真的，即careful，故選C。根據(jù)常識(shí)可知他意識(shí)到自己把溫暖的鵝卵石扔進(jìn)大海里時(shí)肯定感到后悔，regretted，故選D。根據(jù)He was used to throwing each pebble into the sea as soon as he picked it ，故選D。根據(jù)The touchstone was a small pebble（鵝卵石）that could turn any mon metal into pure ，故選B。他開(kāi)始檢測(cè)鵝卵石，每次都把涼的鵝卵石扔進(jìn)大海里，最后他撿到了一顆溫暖的鵝卵石，但是因?yàn)榱?xí)慣，他像以前一樣把石頭扔進(jìn)大海，最終才發(fā)現(xiàn)自己失去了一次機(jī)會(huì)。Where there is a will, there is a way.D.Opportunity knocks but once.B.D.C.B.s the meaning of the underlined word “vigilant” in the last paragraph? A.D.Interested.B.Excited.he was too tired to hold itD.it was coldB.that can bring you thousands of pebblesD.that you can touchB.s easy to fail to realize an opportunity when it is in hand and it39。 One day, however, about midafternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw it into the sea before he realized what he had done. He was used to throwing each pebble into the sea as soon as he picked it up. So when the one he wanted came along, he still threw it away. The writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this. The real stone would feel warn, while ordinary pebbles are cold.t very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed. It was a thin strip of vellum（羊皮紙）on which was written the secret of the Touchstone. When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book, and a poor man got it.5．閱讀所給材料，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查閱讀理解。 （4）寫作意圖題，通讀整篇文章可知，作者給女兒的信，希望女兒能享受美好的童年生活。 （2）推理判斷題，根據(jù)空前better education更好的教育，及空后的內(nèi)容stronger munities, and greater equality更強(qiáng)大的社區(qū)，更平等的社會(huì)，可推斷出此空應(yīng)該是更少的疾病，故選A。信里大致表達(dá)了讓女兒盡情美好的童年，體現(xiàn)了濃濃的父愛(ài)。D.his hope for a happy childhood of AugustB.Grow up in a world with more wealth（4）The writer wrote the letter with the main purpose of showing his_________. A.Read, run and play freelyC.Get closer to natureD.more flowersB.fewer diseases.D.C.B.re so excited to go on this adventure with you. We wish you a life of joy, love and the same hope you give us.Love,Mom and Dad（1）Who wrote the letter? A.t spend it worrying too much about future. You have got us for that, and we39。re older, so I hope you take time to smell all the flowers and put all the leaves you want in your bucket now. I hope you read your favorite Dr. Seuss books so many times you started inventing your own stories about the Viper Of VIPP. I hope you ride the carousel （旋轉(zhuǎn)木馬） with Max until you have tamed（馴服）every color horse. I hope you run as many laps（圈）around our living room and yard as you want. And then I hope you take a lot of naps. I hope you39。s important to make time to go outside and play. But rather than write about growing up, we want to talk about childhood. The world can be a serious place. That39。 When your sister was born, we wrote a letter about the world we hoped she and now you will grow up in a world with better education, ____________, stronger munities, and greater equality（平等）. We wrote that with all the progress in science and technology, 4．閱讀理解 Dear August, 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查閱讀理解。t mean we can never succeed. If we try again and again, maybe we will succeed one day.根據(jù)原文提到了 t, 可知他們認(rèn)為自己已經(jīng)被這根繩子困住了，故選B。根據(jù)原文提到了 根據(jù)原文提到了 As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break tile rope. They believe it can still hold them, so they never try to break free. 可知大象小時(shí)候被綁住，長(zhǎng)大了以后依然認(rèn)為繩子可以拴住他們，故選D。People should look after the elephants well.【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文 主要介紹了一個(gè)男人看到大象被繩子綁住了一只腳而不逃走，由此引發(fā)對(duì)人生的思考。Failure can help us succeed.C.found（3）What does the writer want to tell us? A.C.caught . A.t break it.（2）The underlined word stuck in Paragraph 3 meansD.t want to break it.Because they were too weak to break it.C.Because they liked being tied.t mean we can never succeed. If we try again and again, maybe we will succeed one day. So don39。 How many of us go through life like the elephantsholding onto the belief that we cannot do something simply because we failed at it once before? The man was surprised. These animals could break flee whenever they wanted, but because they believed they couldn39。t try to get away. Well, the trainer said, when the