【正文】 to find out who the young man was. Within hours, Gilleece got a text from 17yearold Rivers Prather, who said he39。 s every step in the bar. Within minutes, a young man approached the bar, put something in his pocket, and walked off.Gilleece, 42, didn39。t find her wallet. She didn39。A call came into Jimmy Gilleece39。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇環(huán)保類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。援救那些鳥兒，對(duì)于鳥兒來說也要遭受痛苦，而看到它們的死去也是很殘忍的。根據(jù)第五段中的“while release rates may be improving, there is little evidence of better medium or longterm survival和rescue efforts will continue in large part because the public demands that Euthanasia is a difficult thing to do, especially for people who have built their lives around saving animals ”可知，一方面雖然釋放率在提高，但是幾乎沒有證據(jù)表明被釋放的鳥兒生存狀況更好；另一方面，救援工作仍將繼續(xù)，因?yàn)榘矘匪朗且患щy的事情，特別是對(duì)于那些從事拯救動(dòng)物的工作的人來說。故選C。工人們對(duì)獲救的鳥兒做血液測(cè)試，那些身上滿是石油或看起來不會(huì)活下來的鳥兒立刻被放棄了。t look like they39。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)這些數(shù)據(jù)可知，被浸在石油中的鳥兒即使獲救，他們的存活率也很低。根據(jù)第三段中的“Of the thousands of birds that were rescued from the Prestige oil spill off the coast of Spain in 2002, only 600 were released into the wild。因此，科學(xué)家們懷疑自己在救鳥兒時(shí)作的努力可能是白費(fèi)了，故選C。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。但是科學(xué)家們質(zhì)疑救援工作是否值得。 suffering while seeing them die is cruel.【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）C（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，在石油泄露事件中，有很多鳥兒在石油中被粘住，遭受苦難。 rescue remain a controversial problem? birds39。And so far, while release rates may be improving, there is little evidence of better medium or longterm survival, especially for the moredifficulttosave species. There still aren39。t look like they39。 most of the rest died after just a few days in captivity. Clean bird feathers repel water (防水) and regulate body temperature while dirty ones don39。 Is it worth the effort? Some scientists aren39。 Rescue workers had collected 820 birds from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the majority of them already dead. The current spill promises to be the largest in US history, and as cleanup efforts stretch across the summer, it39?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及推理判斷和主旨大意兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，考生需要根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，概括歸納，從而選出正確答案。本文是圍繞禁止給小費(fèi)這一事件寫的，Restaurants39。根據(jù)第一段中的“Danny Meyer, …… has announced that he plans to gradually stop tipping at the pany39。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Rather, Union Square Hospitality Group means to raise menu prices enough to fully cover the cost of a meal.”可知Union Square Hospitality Group打算提高菜單價(jià)格，這樣顧客就會(huì)為飯菜多支付錢，故選D。這些都會(huì)擾亂飯店的管理，故選A。s pay in the hands of customers has a feeling of classism (階級(jí)歧視)．This fails in practice because humans turn out to be pretty arbitrary (隨意的) about their tipping behavior.”和“All of this doesn39。（2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, is about to join their ranks and has announced that he plans to gradually stop tipping at the pany39。Tips on running restaurants successfully.【答案】（1）B（2）A（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，介紹了強(qiáng)迫服務(wù)員和侍者靠顧客的小費(fèi)，而不是正常的工資維持生計(jì)是一種毫無意義、粗魯、獨(dú)特的美國(guó)風(fēng)俗，過去幾年，一些進(jìn)步的餐館老板試圖消除這種風(fēng)俗。The popularity of notipping restaurants.B.Restaurants39。D.Its cooks earn much more than its servers.C.Tipping will bring customers a sense of satisfaction.（3）What can we know about Union Square Hospitality group? A.s enthusiasm for work.Tipping will guarantee diners high quality service.C. management.Doubtful.（2）What can be inferred from Paragraph 2? A.C.Supportive.s attitude towards stopping tipping? A. bills. Rather, Union Square Hospitality Group means to raise menu prices enough to fully cover the cost of a meal. If Meyer manages to move away from tipping at all without hurting his profits, it would almost certainly set the stage for others to follow suit.（1）What39。s move is that, unlike some restaurant owners who have taken an antitipping stand, he won39。 Tipping is also very unfair to kitchen staff. The law allows restaurants to divide tips between frontofthehouse workers like waiters, hosts, hostesses, and bartenders (調(diào)酒師), but not cooks. This creates a system in which the people serving the food in a restaurant can earn more than the people preparing it.s pay in the hands of customers has a feeling of classism (階級(jí)歧視). And in theory, handing restaurant customers the power to tip is at least supposed to motivate better service. This fails in practice because humans turn out to be pretty arbitrary (隨意的) about their tipping behavior. Research has shown that the amount diners tip has very little to do with their level of satisfaction. All of this doesn39。 What, exactly, is wrong with tipping? As Brian Palmer has explained, more or less it39。 Forcing waiters and waitresses to survive on tips from customers rather than normal wages is a pointless, crude, and unique American custom that, in the past several years, a handful of progressive restaurant owners have attempted to do away with. Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, is about to join their ranks and has announced that he plans to gradually stop tipping at the pany39?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及詞義猜測(cè)和推理判斷兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇生活類閱讀，要求考生根據(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。劃線詞語所在的句子指每個(gè)人都知道故事會(huì)讓對(duì)話變得生動(dòng)有趣，“juiceup conversations”指讓對(duì)話變得生動(dòng)有趣，與B項(xiàng)同義。（4）考查詞義猜測(cè)。ll hang around and want to talk to you even more.”聽者的贊美之詞和他們有興趣想了解更多的好奇心和關(guān)注，是說者最關(guān)心的。ve never heard of that’ ‘Hmm, cool!‘ expressions are reactionary (保守的) bits of conversation that prove to the other person that you39。根據(jù)第四段中的“All of the ‘Oh! That39。故選C。re allowed to say whatever is on your mind.”可知習(xí)慣性思維讓我們表達(dá)我們內(nèi)心所想，意識(shí)到你可以說出你心里想說的話，是很有趣的。根據(jù)第三段中的“It is the reflex (習(xí)慣性思維) that allows you to say whatever goes on in your mind. It39。故選C。（1）考查推理判斷。遇到這種情況是很不舒服的。D.making conversations livelierC.s curiosity and concern.（4）What does the underlined part juiceup conversations mean? A.D.The listener39。B.avoid breaking in（3）According to the passage, what do the speakers care much about? A.be free to expressthink twicefeel nervousestablish their working relationship（2）When talk