【正文】 ree years.B. the town soon even had a zoo. Today, a visit to the area reveals the Hershey Medical Center, Milton Hershey School, and Hershey39。 Milton Hershey returned to the village where he had been born, in the heart of dairy country, and opened his chocolate manufacturing plant. With access to all the fresh milk he needed, he began producing the finest milk chocolate. The plant that opened in a small Pennsylvania village in 1905 is today the largest chocolate factory in the world. The sweets created at this facility are favorites around the world.s reputation as a master candy maker. at that point, he was apprenticed(做學(xué)徒) to a printer in a nearby town. After a while, he left the printing business and was apprenticed to a Lancaster, Pennsylvania candy maker. And at the age of eighteen, he opened his own candy store in Philadelphia. In spite of his talents as a candy maker, the shop failed after six years.5．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. 所以本文主要是告訴讀者Johnson編纂詞典的故事，故選D。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“This need to fix the English language is best illustrated (描述) in the making of The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.”及最后一段中的Samuel Johnson為詞典編纂所作的努力可以推斷出，Samuel Johnson使得英語(yǔ)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化。故選C。 （2）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第一段中的“These, however, were often little more than lists of hard words”可知，早期英語(yǔ)詞典的問(wèn)題是只是增加了一些難詞。To introduce how Johnson plete his dictionary.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了Johnson編纂詞典的故事。To encourage people to work on a project.C.He plained of working conditions.（4）What is the purpose of this passage? A.He cared about authority a lot.C.He standardized English.D.A maker of dictionaries.B.A publisher.D.They list just a few foreign words.C.s modern biographer Walter Jackson Bate, the original total number could have been over 240,000. How many words were defined by the lexicographer? Over 40,000 words appeared in two large books in April of 1755. Did Johnson fully understand the huge task he was undertaking when he began? As he told his contemporary biographer James Boswell, I knew very well what I was undertaking and very well how to do it — and have done it very well.（1）What is the problem of early English dictionaries? A.s dictionary was pleted by very few people very quickly.Balanced on a chair with only three legs, Johnson sat against a wall in a room filled with books. Johnson would read widely from these books, mark passages illustrating the use of a particular word, and give the books to his assistants so that they could copy the passages on slips of paper. These slips were then stuck to eighty large notebooks under the key words that Johnson had selected. Fixing the word by this method, Johnson could record a word，s usage and its definition. Johnson changed all that, but the task was not an easy one. Renting a house at 17 Gough Square, Johnson began working in the worst of conditions. Supported only by his publisher, Johnson worked on the Dictionary with five assistants. Compared to the French Academy39。 During the period from 1660 through 1800, Great Britain became the world39。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測(cè)，推理判斷和主旨大意四個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇故事類(lèi)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。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Whenever a disaster occurs, nobody should just feel forlorn. Instead, we should take positive action to save ourselves and help others. Our acts of kindness will make a big difference.”可知，文章講述的是Hurricane Harvey到來(lái)時(shí)面包店繼續(xù)烤面包所產(chǎn)生的意義。故選B。 （3）考查推理判斷。由Instead可知與前句構(gòu)成轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，再由positive可推知?jiǎng)澗€詞的意思是令人絕望的。 （2）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第三段中的“They took advantage of their emergency power supply to bake bread. They used more than 4,200 pounds of flour to create hundreds of loaves and sheets of sweet bread.”可知，Hurricane Harvey引發(fā)洪水后，面包店的工作人員自愿為他們的社區(qū)做面包。Bake Bread to Make a Difference in Face of Hurricane Harvey【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，Hurricane Harvey到來(lái)時(shí)面包店繼續(xù)烤面包所產(chǎn)生的意義。Wait for the Eventual Rescue in a Big DisasterC.The author preferred to write stories about people facing disasters.（4）What can be the best title for the text? A.Hurricane Harvey caused a power failure in Houston.C.Desperate.（3）What can we infer from the text? A.Shallow.Hopeful.Fortunate.t escape from the store.D.They managed to live by selling more bread in the store.C. The store manager, Brian Alvarado, told The Independent, Whenever a disaster occurs, nobody should just feel forlorn. Instead，we should take positive action to save ourselves and help others. Our acts of kindness will make a big difference.（1）What did the bakery store workers do after flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey? A.t sit there feeling sorry for themselves. They used their time wisely after flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. While they were waiting for the eventual rescue that came on Monday morning, four decided to make as many loaves of bread as possible for their munity.s why the story about the guys in the bakery caught my eyes.3．閱讀理解 故選C。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的We could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child可推知，作者夫妻因?yàn)闆](méi)有幫女兒實(shí)現(xiàn)圣誕節(jié)的愿望而內(nèi)疚，為了不讓Rose失望，決定做一個(gè)黏土自行車(chē)模型先送給Rose，之后Rose可以用它來(lái)兌換一輛真正的自行車(chē)。故選B。根據(jù)第二段中的As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle seemed to fadeor so we thought, as she didn39。愿望，爸爸決定給她做個(gè)粘土的自行車(chē)讓她去換個(gè)新的，但是Rose決定保留這個(gè)粘土自行車(chē)，不要新的自行車(chē)。Rose was a thoughtful and independent girl【答案】 （1）B（2）B（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，Rose希望圣誕節(jié)收到一輛自行車(chē)。Rose would trade in the clay bike for a real oneC.Rose39。He thought his daughter would like it.D.He didn39。they decided to make one for her（2）Why did Dad make the clay bicycle? A.they didn39。they had bought many other wonderful things for herB.s parents didn39。d rather keep this than get a real bike. Beaming