【正文】 nder incubators, prompting the mothers to lay another set of eggs in the wild. Professor Carl Jones won the 2016 Indianapolis Prize the highest accolade in the field of animal conservation for his 40 years of work in Mauritius, where he saved an endangered kestrel from being the next Great Auk.2．閱讀理解 故選C。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Even small acts of kindness can change someone39。故選B。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。因此推斷參加志愿活動給“我”提供了表達(dá)善意的機(jī)會，讓“我”感覺到生活有更大的意義。根據(jù)第二段中的“But by starting to do volunteer work when I was 14, I turned my problem into a passion for helping others. The opportunity to practice kindness in the face of so much anger made me feel like my life had a greater purpose.”可知，但是在我14歲的時候開始做志愿者工作，我把我的問題變成了幫助別人的熱情。故選C。 （1）考查推理判斷。 to bullies bravely. positive changes in their lives. others with kindness in daily life. to care more about others39。 lives better. helped to shape his dream career.（3）Why did the author choose writing as his job? was inspired by his teacher. could pass positive energy to readers. wanted to share his school experiences. found he had a talent for writing.（4）What does the author suggest readers do in the last paragraph? 39。s life. You never know what someone else is going through. But by practicing daily kindness, you bee an architect of positive change.（1）What was the author39。 After surviving terrible experiences at school and at home, I made a choice to take the optimistic, positive road in the next steps of my journey. My dream career, one I thought was only possible for the authors I loved, is what I am doing now. I have been a fulltime author of teen novels since 2007 and am grateful for this amazing opportunity to reach out to readers every single day. But by starting to do volunteer work when I was 14, I turned my problem into a passion for helping others. The opportunity to practice kindness made me feel like my life had a greater purpose. The more positive energy I shared, the more kindness and appreciation I received. I realized that my purpose in life would be to reach out to people, specifically teenagers, and help them feel less alone. （英語）高考英語閱讀理解(人物故事)技巧小結(jié)及練習(xí)題一、高中英語閱讀理解人物故事類1．閱讀理解 When I was 12 years old, I already knew that my teen years were going to be the worst years of my life. I was a total outsider, bullied (欺凌) at school. I felt pletely alone in my small town. Books were my true friends back then. I was so thankful that the authors wrote those books. The kindness they offered me with their books saved my life. One of my biggest dreams was to bee an author so I could write books that would help other teenagers the way those books helped me. Kindness saved me when I needed help the most. Even small acts of kindness can change someone39。s life like when he was 12? ....（2）How did the volunteer work benefit the author? made him popular in his town. helped him find the meaning of life. helped him understand others39。no39。 feelings.【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者講述了自己參加志愿活動的經(jīng)歷，告訴人們：一次小善舉也可能改變一個人的一生。根據(jù)第一段中的“When I was 12 years old, I already knew that my teen years were going to be the worst years of my life.”可知，十二歲時，“我”就意識到青少年時期是“我”一生中最糟糕的階段；以及“I was a total outsider, bullied at school”，“我”覺得自己是局外人，說明此時的生活是不如意的。 （2）考查推理判斷。面對如此多的憤怒，我有機(jī)會實踐仁慈，這讓我覺得我的生活有一個更大的目標(biāo)。故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“The kindness they offered me with their books saved my life. One of my biggest dreams was to bee an author so I could write books that would help other teenagers the way those books helped me.”可知，書中作者的善意拯救了“我”的生活，“我”最大的夢想就是成為一名作家，可以寫書去幫助其他的青少年，把善意傳遞給他們。 （4）考查推理判斷。s life. You never know what someone else is going through. But by practicing daily kindness, you bee an architect of positive change.”可知，作者在提醒我們注意善意的力量，一次小善舉也可能改變一個人的一生，平時以善意待人，會讓人們成為積極改變的締造者。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(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。 A biologist once criticized for stealing eggs from the nests of the rarest bird in the world has been awarded the Nobel Prize of conservation after his methods saved nine species from extinction. When the 61yearold first travelled to the east African island in the 1970s, he was told to close down a project to save the Mauritius kestrel. At the time there were just four left in the wild, making it the rarest bird on Earth. However, he stayed, using the techniques of captive breeding (人工繁殖), which involved snatching eggs from the birds39。 A decade later, the number of Mauritius kestrels had soared to over 300 and today there are around 400 in the wild. The biologist has also been necessary in efforts to bring other rare species back from the edge of extinction, including the pink pigeon, echo parakeet and Rodrigues warbler.172,000) prize at a ceremony in London.As a young man in my 20s, I certainly didn39。 Prof Jones has devoted his whole life to his work, only being a father for the first time eight years ago, at 53. He said receiving the prize was particularly important to him, because it proved that his work to save birds was right.（1）What does the underlined word accolade mean in Paragraph 2? A.levelC.research（2）According to the passage, Great Auk is ________. A.an extinct birdC.a fierce bird（3）What can we know from the figures in Paragraph 4? A.The wild environment for kestrel has changed a lot.C.It39。 idea of taking eggs from the birds39。was proved of no usewas widely acceptedC.D.Carl Jones 通過人工繁殖的方式是瀕臨滅絕的鳥類的數(shù)量逐漸增加，并且因此獲得了2016年的印第安的波利斯獎。第二段中的“for his 40 years of work in Mauritius, where he saved an endangered kestrel from being the next Great Auk.”是對前面句子的補(bǔ)充說明，再由“won the 2016 Indianapolis Prize”可推知，這里的accolade與獲獎有關(guān)，故選C。根據(jù)第二段中的“where he saved an endangered kestrel from being the next Great Auk”可知，他保護(hù)了瀕臨滅絕的紅隼，使他免于遭受