【正文】 understanding idioms sometimes. are the hardest part of learning a language. can guess the meaning of an idiom from the words in it.【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，習(xí)語是學(xué)習(xí)語言最困難的部分之一，作者列舉了五個(gè)常見習(xí)語的用法。t worry. Let39。s a piece of cake.（2）How should you respond when you hear your deskmate say, I am feeling under the weather. A.What39。 All in all, learning a new language can be challenging. It39。 This is perhaps one of the most confusing yet wellknown English idioms. If someone says this to you, do not take offence or think they are threatening you。 I don39。s a piece of cake (Meaning: it39。, but if your English teacher asks you why you haven39。I39。 Yes, it39。m feeling under the weather (Meaning: I39。 This might be something your teacher says to you if you score badly in an exam or if you misbehave in class. You can also use it to talk about people in general. For example, if your friend is being mean or nasty for no reason, then you can tell them that they need to get their act together.⒉Pull yourself together (Meaning: calm down)t know, an idiom is a phrase which has a meaning, but the meaning is not clear from the words themselves. If you translate an idiom word for word, it sometimes makes no sense at all. They are like puzzles and even native speakers can get confused when someone uses a phrase that they39。3．閱讀理解 故選D。 （5）考查推理判斷。Move around, look at the world around you and forget your work for a while. Let your body get some exercise.“可知，我們?cè)谏⒉綍r(shí)要暫時(shí)忘記工作，關(guān)注周圍的世界，讓身體動(dòng)起來。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的”Music has the power to take you into a new world, away from your worries. Taking a break to listen to some favorite music is also a great way to relieve stress.“可知音樂可以讓人遠(yuǎn)離擔(dān)憂，聽喜歡的音樂也是一種緩解壓力的方式，即音樂可以令人放松并且緩解壓力。故選C。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的”To relieve (緩解）stress and lighten your mind, you must first understand the nature of stress and the reasons why it builds up.“可知，想要緩解思想上的壓力，我們首先要明白壓力的特征和它產(chǎn)生的原因。d better talk to those who ________. free of job stress enough time to talk to you the same sufferings change your job（3）listening to some music can __________. you improve your taste of music your relationship with others you feel more tired of your job you relax and forget work stress（4）When taking a walk to relieve work stress, you should _________. problems at work at the same time your mind at peace and do some exercise new friends with strangers as you walk to a quiet place as far away as possible（5）The author of this passage may be ________. researcher who studies music of working under pressure person who is trying to find a job in dealing with work stress【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）D（4）B（5）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了一些可以緩解工作壓力的方法。D.find a good adviser to talk toB. If you keep thinking about nothing other than work all the time, there is bound to be stress. So, throw away your thoughts about work after you leave your office and get a life beyond it. Have a life beyond the workplace, and you can relax after work.（1）We can learn from the first paragraph that to relieve stress, we should _________. A. If there is a park around, go and have a walk there. You can eat some snacks sitting on the grass. Move around, look at the world around you and forget your work for a while. Let your body get some exercise. A walk works as it also clears your thoughts. You can listen to music while going on a walk. Music has the power to take you into a new world, away from your worries. Taking a break to listen to some favorite music is also a great way to relieve stress. Talking to others helps relieve work stress especially when you and the person you talk to are in the same boat and under the same work stress. Your worries will be divided! If you are your own boss, you need some good advisers around you, who know your trouble and talk sense. If there is no such persons at your workplace, let there be one at home, who is a friend, a family member or a guide that you can talk to. Working with a stressed mind is like swimming with a jacket on, while a mind free from work stress is light like the wind and it can help you acplish your daily tasks easily. To relieve (緩解)stress and lighten your mind, you must first understand the nature of stress and the reasons why it builds up. Then you can easily beat stress. 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，句義猜測和推理判斷三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時(shí)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。最后一段介紹了三種情形，所以接下來討論的該是解決的方法了。根據(jù)由最后一段中的“In this article, I39。選C。t matter what the topic is –politics. The laws of physics ,or the proper way to break an egg –the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong , for both wish to be considered an authority—someone who actually knows something — and （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。劃線句子意為:青少年也正好是同樣的方式看待的，只是正好相反的，也就是在孩子們看來，斗爭的原因完全是他們的父母蠻不講理。 point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents39。 （2）考查句義猜測。根據(jù)第一段中的“Like a border conflict between neighboring countries ,the parentteen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?”可知和鄰國之間的邊界紛爭一樣，兩代人之間的戰(zhàn)爭是關(guān)于界限的：我所能控制的和你所做的之間的界限。Neither can be put to an end.（2）What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean? teens blame their parents for starting the conflict. teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict. teens accuse their parents of misleading them. teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents.（3）Parents and teens want to be right because they want to__________. orders to the other more than the other respect from the other the other to behave properly（4）What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows? for the parentteen conflicts of the parentteen war to the parentteen problems of the parentteen relationship【答案】