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top process took him only three seconds, while the toptobottom took seven. He even used two shaving brushes to make his face smooth enough, because he found that by so doing he could cut seventeen seconds off his shaving time. For a while he tried shaving with two razors, but he finally gave that up.t the injured throat that really bothered him. It was the two minutes.(1)Why was the author39。It had a team of twelve children there.The children were taught how to work well in it.C.D.s daily activities recorded.(2)What is the purpose of signing the charts? A.To manage the big family effectively.C.To remind the children to obey the rules.(3)What did the father plain about one morning? A.His bleeding throat bothered him.C.t shave with two razors.He failed to cut short his shaving time.(4)We can we infer from the text? A.B.s management.C.D.s work was to teach the children at home.【答案】(1)B(2)A(3)D(4)B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文,作者父親有一套嚴(yán)格有效的管理教育子女的方法,使作者感到自豪。根據(jù)第二段中的“Our house at Montclair, New Jersey, was a sort of school for scientific management and the removal of wasted motions — or ‘motion study,’ as Dad and Mother named it.”可知,作者的家被認(rèn)為是一種學(xué)校是因?yàn)楹⒆觽儽唤虒?dǎo)如何在里面工作得很好。(2)考查推理判斷。故選A。根據(jù)最后一段中的“‘I can save fortyfour seconds,’ he plained, ‘but I wasted two minutes this morning putting this bandage on my throat.’ It wasn39。故選D。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“It was strict management, all right. Yes, at home or on the job, Dad was always the efficiency expert. He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the bottomtotop process took him only three seconds, while the toptobottom took seven.”可知,作者以他父親的管理而自豪。【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及推理判斷題型的考查,是一篇故事類(lèi)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,選出正確答案。 Dutch beachber (海灘拾荒者) Wim Kruiswijk has accumulated a collection of 1,200 messagesinbottles over the course of nearly 4 decades and has responded to almost all of them,t stopped looking for them since. In the early years, Kruiswijk would find as many as 50 bottles a year, but since 2000 that has slowed to around 2030 finds, mainly due to beach cleaning efforts. He believes that the rise of the Internet has also played a role in the diminishing number of messages in bottles, telling Dutch newssite PZC, “I used to get a response at half the bottle messages that I answered. Now that39。 many people want 39。.” In the past bottles have also been used to send distress messages from sailors in trouble. They also have been used for memorial tributes, or to send loved ones39。Kruiswijk found secrets hidden in drift bottles.What made Kruiswijk bee a beachber.C.D.Satisfied.Asionished.Frightened.Disappointed.(3)Why do Kruiswijk find fewer drift bottles than before? A.B.Drift bottles appearing on the beach are cleared up rapidly.Fewer people are interested in Kruiswijk39。s the purpose of Theophrastus using the bottles? A.B.To study ocean currents.To send a message to his loved person.【答案】(1)C(2)B(3)C(4)C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇新聞報(bào)道,漂流瓶是一個(gè)長(zhǎng)期存在的人類(lèi)傳統(tǒng),一直被用于發(fā)送遇險(xiǎn)信息,紀(jì)念親人或發(fā)邀請(qǐng)函,還用于幫助研究人員進(jìn)行洋流的研究。第二段主要講述了68歲的Kruiswijk的不尋常的愛(ài)好始于1983,當(dāng)他在當(dāng)?shù)氐暮┌l(fā)現(xiàn)三個(gè)有信件和回信地址的漂流瓶,他給每個(gè)漂流瓶留的地址都寫(xiě)了回信,卻驚訝地收到了每個(gè)人的回復(fù)。由此可知本段主要描寫(xiě)了Kruiswijk如何養(yǎng)成了收集漂流瓶的嗜好。(2)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。surprised“驚訝的”,與asionished是同義詞。(3)考查推理判斷。故選C。根據(jù)第五段中的“the time of the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, about 310 BC, who used the bottles to study water currents. Scientists still apply the method to this day, as a means to help researchers develop ocean circulation maps, and to crowdsource scientific studies of ocean currents.”可知,在公元前310年的希臘哲學(xué)家西奧弗拉特斯時(shí)期,用瓶子來(lái)研究海洋水流,而且科學(xué)家現(xiàn)在仍在用?!军c(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解,推理判斷和段落大意三個(gè)題型的考查,是一篇新聞報(bào)道,考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息,并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行分析,推理,概括和歸納,從而選出正確答案。ll be blind by the time you39。s Hospital predicted. Your blood sugars are much too high. It consumed me. No matter where I was or what I was doing, it was overhead like a dark cloud, waiting for just the right opportunity to break open and destroy my world. When I was twentyone, my right eye went blind. Precisely three months after my twentyfifth birthday, I had a massive hemorrhage (大出血) in my left eye because of an accident. For the next twenty years, vision came and went. I went through many eye operations in an attempt to keep my vision. But after one final operation, I lost the battle and all remaining vision. And I buried all dreams of painting.Jaws and WindowEyes are leading software for the blind, my instructor told me. You can use the Internet, and Microsoft with all its tools and features. It39。 For the next several years, I learned that when one door closes, another door opens. There are plenty of choices available for the blind and visually impaired through the gift of technology. Not only do I have a speaking puter, but I have a speaking watch, alarm clock and calculator.(1)What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 1 refer to? A.B.Consuming too much sugarD.s hospital.(2)What happened when the author was 25 years old? A.B.He injured one of his eyes.D.A special course.A meaningful eventC.D.No pain, no gain.B.Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.Be optimistic in the face of life39。作者的左眼失明,右眼視力嚴(yán)重受損,但作者沒(méi)有氣餒,“一個(gè)特殊的課程” 給作者帶來(lái)了一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。(1)考查代詞指代。(2)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。故選C。根據(jù)第四段中的“Desperate, I enrolled in (注冊(cè)) a sixteenweek program for the blind and visually impaired (損傷的). I learned personal adjustment and the use of a puter with adaptive software. A whole new world opened up to me through this program.”可知,“一個(gè)特殊的課程” 給作者帶來(lái)了一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。(4)考查主旨大意?!惫蔬xD。6.閱讀下列短文,從短文后每題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中,選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 Youth football team members rescued more than two weeks after sudden flooding trapped them in a cave in Thailand are now being well