【正文】 the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone es to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not pletely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.（1）What is said about the two deceased elderly women? lived out a natural life. died of exhaustion after the long plane ride. weren39。 There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds. s dead.s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It39。s my fault that she died. At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, If only I hadn39。 I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals for two elderly women in my munity. Both had died full of years, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon. 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，代詞指代，推理判斷和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。s Eve has bee my time to reconnect with the friends that makes me feel at home.”除夕已經(jīng)成為我和朋友們重新聯(lián)系的時間，這讓我感到賓至如歸。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第三段中的“In the middle of the countryside, away from our big and constantly changing lives, we were able to bee like a little family ，遠(yuǎn)離我們不斷變化的大生活，我們又能像一個小家庭了；以及第四段中的“It was different, but one thing stayed very much the sameI felt at home again and we felt like a family again.”這是不同的，但有一件事是非常相同的——我感覺像回到了家，我們感覺像一個家庭。由此可知，作者不在乎“新年愿望”是因?yàn)樗纳罘绞绞顾麜r刻準(zhǔn)備著改變，故選B。s resolutions’—living abroad has made me constantly reconsider what kind of person I want to be and how I will live my life, so I don39。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。由此可知，下文的意思是家比這更復(fù)雜。 （1）考查代詞指代。Living Abroad: Comfortable or Complicated?D.s Celebration: How?B.s life experience.（4）Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A.Staying with friends makes one feel at home.D.Life is peaceful and enjoyable.B.Making New Year39。It39。s resolutions cannot be reached.B.s resolutions? A.Staying with friends（2）Why doesn39。C.Living abroadt New Year be about friends?（1）What does the underlined word It in Paragraph I probably mean? A.s Eve cannot live up to expectations. Ideas such as the New Year39。 This year, we went to Barcelona. It was a very big change. We were surrounded by culture and life and joy. There were bars and parties. It was different, but one thing stayed very much the sameI felt at home again and we felt like a family again. New Year39。s resolutions (愿望)—living abroad has made me constantly reconsider what kind of person I want to be and how I will live my life, so I don39。 For the past two years I have been travelling and living abroad. Home has bee more of a feeling than a place. I feel at home when I am with my family in London, but I also feel at home in Italy with friends I love. Home is no longer a picture of a house with a front door and some windows. It is more plicated than that.4．閱讀短文，從每題所給的四個選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。根據(jù)最后一段中的“My life is so much richer now that I am not a slave to that drive to be the best player I could be.”可知，現(xiàn)在作者的生活豐富多了，不再是那種想成為最好球員的欲望的奴隸，他與妻子克里斯蒂之間的關(guān)系一定會有了改善，故選A。根據(jù)第二段中的“The boy had had a coin in his hand all the time and was holding it securely in his tight little fist.”可知，男孩的手卡在花瓶里拿不出來是因?yàn)樗掷镞粋€硬幣，故選A。根據(jù)第二段中的“But once he opened his hand, it came out of the vase easily.”可知，一旦他放下手中的硬幣，他的手很容易就能從花瓶里拿出來；再根據(jù)第三段中的“I used to hold on to things in my life that I thought were so important to me.”可知，作者聯(lián)想到自己曾經(jīng)抓住自認(rèn)為是重要的東西不放手，可知，作者用這個故事告訴我們需要放下生活中不重要的東西，故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“I used to hold on to things in my life that I thought were so important to me.”可知，作者由一個小男孩抓著硬幣的手卡在花瓶里拿不出來這個故事引發(fā)了對生活的思考——要抓住生活中真正重要的東西，放開不重要的東西，故選D。Kristi left the author in the end.【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）A（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者由一個小男孩抓著硬幣的手卡在花瓶里拿不出來這個故事引發(fā)了對生活的思考——要抓住生活中真正重要的東西，放開不重要的東西。t regret what he had done.C.The author had his relationship with Kristi improved.B.He was afraid to break the vase.D.He didn39。money is not the most important for us（3）Why did the boy get his hand stuck in the vase? A.we need to drop the unimportant things in our lifeC.Holding On to What Is Important（2）The author tells the story about the boy and the vase to show ______. A.The Way of Keeping Balance in LifeC.t the most important thing to me, but I missed out on a lot of relationship building time. My life is so much richer now that I am not a slave to that drive to be the best player I could be.（1）Which of the following could be the best title for the passage? A. I used to hold on to things in my life that I thought were so important to me. Early in my marriage, all I cared about was being the best volleyball player in the state of Wisconsin. One year, when Kristi was working shifts at General Motors, I played in 1,400 games, peting four nights a week and 40 out of 52 weekends. My team won over 1,000 games. Success on the volleyball court, but a huge loss in my relationship with my Kristi. The boy had had a coin in his hand all the time and was holding it securely in his tight little fist. And he wasn39。m doing, and then pull! But Dad, said the boy, if I do that, I39。s hand might be cut in the process. Yet he knew that if all else failed, there would be no other alternative. So he said to the boy, Now, let39。3．閱讀理解 故選B?？芍髡邔戇@篇文章的目的是勸說人們面對挑戰(zhàn)或失敗時要大膽去對應(yīng)，保持積極的心態(tài)。這意味著它將花費(fèi)更長的時間。畢竟，只有經(jīng)歷