【正文】 poet expressed his love for America and its people in many ways. Experts today praise Leaves of Grass as a major literary work. In eighteen seventythree, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke. He spent the last years of his life in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life. He died in eighteen ninetytwo. Some critics say Walt Whitman was a spokesman for democracy. Others say he was not a spokesman for anything. Instead, they simply call him a great poet.（1）What can we know about Whitman? A.s poems. The new form of his poetry surprised many people. Even his own brother told Whitman that he should stop writing poetry. But Whitman had many things to say. And he continued to say them. Readers began to understand that America had a great new poetic voice.s greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman39。 Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in New York City. During his long life, he watched America grow from a young nation to the strongest industrial power in the world. As a young man, Whitman worked as a school teacher, a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was thirtysix years old when he published his first book of poetry in eighteen fiftyfive. He called it Leaves of Grass. It had only twelve poems. The poems are written in free verse. The lines do not follow any set form. Some lines are short. Some are long. The words at the end of each line do not have a similar sound. They do not rhyme. In the nineteenth century, one of America39。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，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 great to be able to give people some of their history back, says Rebecca. One person told me that thanks to us, her grandmother got to see her photos again before she passed away. Moments like that remind me why I do this.可知，通過照片修復(fù)，他們讓很多人丟失的記憶得到恢復(fù)，同時，也贏得了人們的肯定。 （4）考查主旨大意。從而可以推斷出，艾米麗最初對能夠修復(fù)照片是懷疑的。根據(jù)第三段中的’I didn39。故選B。根據(jù)第二段中的”It just so happened that a popular website linked to Dave39。故選B。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。A Lucky Couple【答案】 （1）B（2）B（3）D（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，攝影記者麗貝卡塞爾和編輯戴夫Saving MemoriesB.Surviving HurricanesD.Satisfied.B.Excited.D.inspired volunteers to join themC.. A.cover Hurricane Katrina（2）From Paragraph 2, we know that Dave and Rebecca set up shop in Pass ChristianB.. A.s great to be able to give people some of their history back, says Rebecca. One person told me that thanks to us, her grandmother got to see her photos again before she passed away. Moments like that remind me why I do this.（1）When Rebecca took the picture of the New Orleans couple, she decided to In the five years since Katrina, Operation Photo Rescue has collected thousands of pictures ruined by floods, hurricanes and tornadoes. Volunteers make copy runs to disaster areas across the country to gather damaged photos from survivors。ve lost. I39。t bear to part with a few treasured pictures, including a portrait of her father, who had passed away, and a photo of her husband as a boy. Then she heard about Operation Photo Rescue. I didn39。s blog about the experience, and soon Operation Photo Rescue, as it came to be known, had s from hundreds of volunteers, including photographers and restoration experts, eager to help. Three months after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Rebecca Sell, then 24, a photojournalist for Fredericksburg photographed a New Orleans couple worriedly examining waterspotted photo albums. As she took the photo, something within her clicked. I told them I could take the ruined pictures, copy them and give them digitally restored (修復(fù)) photos, she recalls. Although a bit sceptical, the couple agreed. Rebecca took their photos home, restored them and took them to the couple at their temporary home. It felt so good to be able to do that for them, says Rebecca. 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。誰知道到時候我們又會遇到什么樣的善意之舉呢？可知，作者將還會去紐芬蘭島旅行，期待那里人們的熱情。ll be taking our summer vacation. Who knows what act of kindness we39?？v觀全文可知，陌生人的善良和熱情好客給作者留下了最深刻印象，且根據(jù)最后一段“Next year, there39。故選D。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“Instead, it was the act of kindness from a plete stranger that made us realize how special Newfoundland really was.”取而代之，是一個陌生人的善意之舉讓我意識到紐芬蘭的真正特別之處。故選A。根據(jù)第十二段中的“my husband and I just smiled in disbelief”我丈夫和我只是不相信地笑著，可知，當(dāng)Alma提出讓作者一家開自己的車去旅行的時候，作者和丈夫很驚詫。故選D。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。t have a car.（2）The underlined word dumbfounded in Paragraph 12 is closest in meaning to ______. （3）What impressed the author most during her stay in Newfoundland? talkative cab driver. whales swimming. beautiful scenery of the island. help from an enthusiastic stranger.（4）What can we infer about the author from the last paragraph? is looking forward to meeting Alma once more. expects to visit Newfoundland again. hasn39。s family have in Newfoundland? couldn39。ll be taking our summer vacation. Who knows what act of kindness we39。Next year, there39。 t the groups of whales we saw, or the vast areas of woodland, that made this place so memorable. We spent the rest of our vacation discovering different areas of this beautiful island.Forty minutes of talking later, my family climbed into Alma39。Stunned, I looked over at her friend, who shrugged and said, That39。That doesn39。But you don39。 Dumbfounded, my husband and I just smiled in disbelief. I explained that there were no cars available during our week on the island, so we had to rely on cabs instead. They looked to be in their 40s, and were both enthusiastic to share their local expertise.d heard us discussing different routes, then asked if we39。 Our teenagers hurried ahead, and as we walked