【正文】 were a torture. I hit some sort of writer39。根據(jù)第三段中的“I closed my eyes, I wanted to scream with happiness.”可知，當(dāng)作者收到組織委員會(huì)的信的時(shí)候，他高興地想尖叫，由此可以推知，他非常興奮，故選C。故選B。(1)考查句義猜測。D.A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.C.He laughs best who laughs last.D.what it took for a poetry enthusiast to be a published writerC.why the author fell for the trick of a poetry petitionD.he was charged higher than othersB.the poems were of poor qualityD.set a higher criterion for his future worksC.reflected on what he had written aboutD.C.B.The author was considering writing positive poems instead of terrible ones.（2）When the author received the letter from the organizing mittee, he felt ________. A.The author was worried the tragedies in the poetry would happen to him.B.t convince myself that there was a reason for my first poem being in a vanity(無價(jià)值) book, then what good was it in the first place? And, strangely, someone is selling this book on Amazon at the moment. I wonder how many other writers who went on to do more stuff are in there.（1）What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 1 mean? A. But that stayed with me, that moment of realization. Because I determined to keep writing and ensure that my precious words always found a home worthy of them. Or at least that39。50 we didn39。 45, they were sitting on a fortune. I felt ashamed. Everyone who had submitted something to the International Poetry Competition had fallen for the same hustle（忙碌）as me. I couldn39。 The book arrived through the post. Here it was. The first thing I had ever been published in a book called Awaken to a Dream, featuring a blistering take on the mundanity(世俗) of mortality by yours truly. I opened the package to find a book, containing my work. The first thing that struck me about the book was that it was bigger than A4. And it was thick. And on each page was a poem, next to another poem, next to another. The type was small and the paper thin enough to trace with. With three or four poems per page and more than 700 pages, I had a sinking realization. This was a scam, an illegal trick for making money.t write anything. It was almost as if, now I was published, it mattered more what I mitted to page and I didn39。 I was 16 and about to be a published poet. This was what it had all been about. This is what it had all been leading to. The months waiting for the anthology were a torture. I hit some sort of writer39。 50. She even asked the question: “Why do you have to pay to be in this book?” Nevertheless, she wrote a cheque for 163。t buy a copy of the anthology, my poem wouldn39。 5 p amp。 All I had to do in order to be published was accept the terms and pay 163。 I filled out the form, printed off the poem and sent it off, fingers crossed. I waited to hear back I carried on writing, I probably finished another collection. Then I got a letter from the International Society of Poets. I opened the envelope carefully, just in case a prizewinning cheque fell out I hadn39。 In 1996, I found an advert for the International Poetry Competition. I was 16 years old and ready for my poetry to be released on the world. Not only was it a petition with a cash prize, but it was poetry, which I wrote, and international. This was my ticket to being worldfamous. I submitted a poem called Trail of Thought. If you ever wrote bad poetry as a teenager, you39。 This is my origin story: when I was a teenager I wrote terrible poetry. Like really bad. Worse than yours, I bet. A lot of it about how every little thing reminds me that we39?！军c(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息同時(shí)，需根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行推理，歸納，選出正確答案。(3)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。(2)考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第一段中的“but are struggling to adapt to the language and food”可知，這對雙胞胎熊貓回國后適應(yīng)語言和食物都很費(fèi)力、困難，尤其是后面的2,3,4段更細(xì)節(jié)地描述了適應(yīng)這個(gè)新環(huán)境的困難。Mei Lun is as quiet as her younger sister【答案】（1）D（2）A（3）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了在美國出生的兩只雙胞胎大熊貓回國了，但是卻不適應(yīng)國內(nèi)的飲食和語言，令飼養(yǎng)員很擔(dān)心。Mei Huan is not smarter than Mei LunB.. A.help them keep.（3）From the passage we learn that of the two sisters help them strengthen.B.help them get rid of.It39。The panda twins have been used to the new environment very quickly.B.s famously spicy cuisine.（1）Based on the passage, which statement do you think is right? A.t understand the Sichuan dialect of Chinese. Mei Lun is the livelier of the two, often jumping onto the roof and hanging upside down from a rail, but her slightly younger sister Mei Huan is calmer, preferring to sit still, observe her new environment and occasionally snack on bamboo. The zoo keeper is trying to wean them off their biscuit habit, gradually replacing the American food with Chinese bread. Mei Huan is adapting, but Mei Lun doesn39。 The 3yearold sisters, Mei Lun and Mei Huan, wens the first surviving panda twins to be born in the United States, and were returned to China from Zoo Atlanta on Nov. 5. But the pair still understand English belter than Chinese, and prefer American biscuits to Chinese bread.3．閱讀理解 getting rid of tipping適合作為標(biāo)題，故選A。s 13 restaurants.”點(diǎn)明了本文主要內(nèi)容，下文介紹了給小費(fèi)的不良影響及Danny Meyer這一舉動(dòng)的意義。（4）考查主旨大意。（3）考查推理判斷。t encourage waiters and waitresses to do anything but turn over as many tables as possible.”可知給服務(wù)員小費(fèi)有一個(gè)階級歧視的感覺，由于人類的隨意性并不能達(dá)到預(yù)期效果，起不到鼓勵(lì)服務(wù)員的作用。根據(jù)第二段中的“l(fā)eaving a waiter39。s 13 restaurants.”可知Danny Meyer宣布他計(jì)劃逐步停止在該公司13家餐廳給小費(fèi)，這表明他對停止給小費(fèi)是支持的，故選B。（1）考查推理判斷。D.Difficulties that restaurants are faced with.C. getting rid of tipping.Diners will be charged more for the dishes there.（4）What is the topic of the passage? A.Restaurant tipping has been totally banned there.B.Brian Palmer is in charge of it now.D.Tipping can arouse the staff39。B.Tipping may disturb the restaurants39。D.Objective.B.Negative.s Danny Mey