【正文】 day, in the spring of 2015, Royale surprised himself by saying yes. Little did I know, said Royale, that saying 39。 Then he met Bryant Carlin, a vendor (小販) for Real Change, the Seattle weekly sold on the street by vendors who are homeless or lowwage earners. He was also a skilled outdoorsman and a nature photographer who would take weekslong photographic journeys to the park. The two men connected in the fall of 2011 when Royale interviewed Carlin for a feature story in Real Change about Carlin39。t figure out why anyone would want to carry a 50pound pack into the wilderness and camp there for days, he said. It didn39。5．閱讀理解 根據(jù)最后一段中的“It goes that, ‘Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.’ Living daily life down here on the planet is so much better with this attitude!”可知，它說，“不要為將來擔心，生活在這個星球上的日常生活是如此的好，這句話表明了作者對待生活的態(tài)度是不要擔心將來，活在當下，故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“The biggest change by far and the one for which I will always be most grateful is this bigpicture perspective.”可知，作者最重要的改變是他對世界有更廣闊的看法，故選A。t take more than a minute before I had to turn it off.”以及畫線詞后的“My worldview was changed forever in a profound (深刻的) way.”可知，我的世界觀以一種深刻的方式永遠改變了，因此此處是說以我現(xiàn)在的視角，看這種新聞是我無法忍受的，所以不到一分鐘我就關(guān)掉了電視，由此可知畫線詞詞義為“接受、忍受”，故選C。 （1）考查詞義猜測。D.Live in the present moment.C.He can fly the most amazing machine by hands.（3）What attitude to life does the writer tend to have? A.t like watching TV any more.C.He has a broader view of the world.B.D.Accept.B.Access.m there in my mind and realize how many billions of these beautiful sunsets there have been and will be in the future, the cares of the world just don39。 Whenever I feel the pressure of modern life, the stress about work, or worry about the future, I remember my time in the space station. Back to seeing the sun set Or watching our galaxy rise on the horizon. Or seeing a sea of lightning flash a hundred times a second. Or simply back to floating weightlessly.t take more than a minute before I had to turn it off. It felt like my body was rejecting all this input, just as it would reject an organ donation that had the wrong blood type. All of this noise was just pletely foreign to who I was—or, more appropriately, who I had bee. A few hours before, I had been orbiting Earth, seeing our planet from space, flying the most amazing machine ever built by human hands, working with a team that was the absolute success of human. And now here in my room watching what was being sold as news, and with my newfound perspective, I just could not stomach it. My worldview was changed forever in a profound (深刻的) way. A few hours after my first mission, returning to Earth on the space shuttle Endeavour, I pleted all of my medical tests after flight, met with NASA officials, and reunited with my family. Finally, I was alone in my office room in astronaut crew quarters at the Kennedy Space Center, exhausted and ready for bed. And I did what anyone does when they return to their hotel room on a business trip: I turned on the TV. The television news started up: Such and such had happened, people were shocked, blah blah blah. Sports scores. Silly mercials. 【點評】本題考點涉及詞義猜測和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。即作者寫這篇文章的目的是說服別人。它給我們提供了一個學習的經(jīng)驗。失敗并不意味著你永遠不會成功。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Success es to the one who dares, even after failure, to think positively and look forward confidently. After all, it is only the experience that makes a man tough. Failure does not mean you will never make it. It means that it will take a little longer. It provides us with a learning experience.”成功屬于那些即使在失敗之后仍敢積極思考并充滿信心地展望未來的人。故選C。根據(jù)第四段中的“things bee difficult, and every effort seems to bring disappointment, it can be tempting to lower your expectations or even”可知當事情變得困難，每一次努力似乎都會帶來失望，它可能會降低你的期望，甚至降低你的目標和抱負。故選A。我現(xiàn)在準備好面對失敗了。根據(jù)第四段中的“I was no exception. I thought of running away.”我也不例外。故選D。一開始介紹了作者的教授提出的一個觀點，但是作者當時不以為然，直到在今后實際生活中真正遇到了失敗或挑戰(zhàn)時才認識到了教授的觀點。作者當時不以為然當，直到自己親身經(jīng)歷了失敗和挑戰(zhàn)后，作者才意識到人們面對挑戰(zhàn)或失敗時要大膽應(yīng)對，保持積極的心態(tài)。D.C.B.s purpose of writing the passage is most likely to ________. A.D.C.B.Calm（3）What does the underlined phrase water down in the 4th paragraph probably mean? A.C.Indifferentgiving examples（2）How did the author feel when the war between Iraq and Kuwait broke out? A.making parisonsB.offering analyses Success es to the one who dares, even after failure, to think positively and look forward confidently. After all, it is only the experience that makes a man tough. Failure does not mean you will never make it. It means that it will take a little longer. It provides us with a learning experience.（1）The main method the author uses to support his understanding of his professor39。 I decided to hang on, telling myself, I am not afraid of challenges and obstacles. I stayed on through months of uncertainty and insecurity. Finances ran low, and banks could not wait to get their dues. To add to all this, the banks even threatened to take all my vehicles. I felt I made a wrong decision to move there. I was now ready to face failure. As usual, things bee difficult, and every effort seems to bring disappointment, it can be tempting to lower your expectations or even water down your goals and ambitions. I was no exception. I thought of running away. I remembered the words of Thomas Edison, Many of life39。 I landed in a small city in the Middle East to set up a firm, a world－class car rental firm. Having decided on the project, I earnestly settled in preparation. With a positive mind, I told myself nothing should stop me now, and was more than keen to make it a success.3．閱讀理解 故選D。這篇文章是關(guān)于中國日報記者小鵬通過視頻和電話采訪的三名隔離回來的武漢居民。故選C。根據(jù)第五段中的“The daughter left her father a letter in which she read between the lines her guilt not being able to acpany him and her love for him.”女兒給父親留了一封信