【正文】 shocked parents often ask their child after a confrontational(沖突) moment is, Where did you get this attitude from? I know you hate to admit it, but I get much of my determined and strongwilled nature from you.s hard dealing with the teenage anxiety and the everchanging moods that e with raising a child. But you should also marvel at the fact that I39。m healthy and happy.t be long before someone would stop me to ask whether I was my mother39。 Your mom is Melissa, they39。 No one says, I know you39。s daughter because of your eyes and nose. It39。s nothing wrong with having attitude.s what keeps us from being mentally oppressed and defeated. Attitude is a nonviolent form of protection and confrontationwhere would we be in the world without this tool? Surely not where we are. When I39。ll tell them it39。 I39。ll tell them about you.Love,Malahni（1）In this letter, Malahni mainly expressed her to her mother. （2）People recognized Malahni as Melissa39。 . traits（3）The underlined word defies in the 4th paragraph most probably means . to obey with pride in to understand（4）Malahni can be a woman . to be oppressed and defeated to get along with a positive attitude towards life violent confrontation【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）A（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了作者母親對(duì)于作者的人生態(tài)度的影響。根據(jù)第一段中的“I know you hate to admit it, but I get much of my determined and strongwilled nature from you.”我知道你不愿意承認(rèn)這一點(diǎn)，但我從你身上學(xué)到了很多我的堅(jiān)強(qiáng)意志；以及倒數(shù)第二段中的“When I39。ll tell them it39。我會(huì)告訴他們是因?yàn)槟?。故選B。根據(jù)第五段中的“It39。s nothing wrong with having attitude.”是性格特征讓他們達(dá)成了共識(shí)。態(tài)度并沒(méi)有錯(cuò)。故選C。根據(jù)第四段中的“parents feel much hurt when their child talks back or”可知父母在他們的孩子頂嘴或反抗他們時(shí)感到很受傷，故劃線單詞意思為“反抗；拒絕服從”故選A。根據(jù)第二段中的“But you should also marvel at the fact that I39。m healthy and happy.”但你也應(yīng)該驚訝于我已經(jīng)走了這么遠(yuǎn)，我很健康，很快樂(lè)。故選C。3．閱讀理解 ve probably heard about the you39。re anything special, because you39。s egopuncturing (傷自尊的) words. But lost in the uproar (喧囂)was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether they39。s not just privileged highschool students: we all tend to view ourselves as above average.s often exactly when we39。re not good at what they do, and their very clumsiness prevents them from recognizing how bad they are.s study, subjects scoring at the bottom on tests of logic, grammar and humor extremely overestimated39。 their talents. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile (百分位數(shù)) they guessed they were in the 62nd. What these individuals lacked (in addition 9 clear logic, proper grammar and a sense of humor) was meta cognitive skill the capacity to monitor how well they39。s a paradox here, the authors note: The skills that lead to petence in a particular domain are often the very same skills necessary to evaluate petence in that field? In other words, to get better at judging how well we39。 There are a couple of ways out of this double bind. First, we can learn to make honest parisons with others. Train yourself to recognize excellence, even when you yourself don39。re doing, but just what it is that you39。 If we adopt these strategies — and most importantly, teach them to our children — they won39。re special. They39。. requirement is set up for young people to get better always tend to consider ourselves to be privileged don39。t know how to assess their abilities realistically（2）We can infer from the passage that those highscoring students how to cultivate clear logic and proper grammar to be very petent in their highscoring fields39。t know how well they perform due to their strict selfjudgement（3）The strategies of being special suggest that s Admit That We Are Not That Special or Not? Teach Kids To Figure It Out The Truth: Kids Overestimate their Talents【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）A（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，是特殊或者不是？我們要教會(huì)孩子理解它。想要變得特別，我們需要對(duì)自己誠(chéng)實(shí)和他人對(duì)我們的誠(chéng)實(shí)。根據(jù)第一段中的“But lost in the uproar （喧囂）was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether they39。故選D。根據(jù)第二段中的“suffer from a “dual burden: they39。由此可推斷，得高分的學(xué)生擅長(zhǎng)自己所作的。 （3）考查推理判斷。re doing, but just what it is that you39。由此可推測(cè)變得特別的策略表明我們需要對(duì)自己誠(chéng)實(shí)，也需要?jiǎng)e人對(duì)我們誠(chéng)實(shí)。 （4）考查主旨大意。t need parents, or a mencement (畢業(yè)典禮)speaker, to tell them that they39。ll already know that they are, or have a plan to get that way.”可知教會(huì)了孩子文中提到的策略，孩子就可以知道他們自己是否特別，或者已經(jīng)在變得特別的路上。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，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。 The arts, especially music, should be part of every school39。 Music not only makes children better students, but also gives them something positive to do. In a music program, children can be part of a band instead of joining a gang(團(tuán)伙). Parents can enjoy listening to their children39。 Music builds selfconfidence, too. It gives children a sense of achievement and success. Making music is something for them to be proud of, and it lets kids practice performing in front of an audience. Music gives children an opportunity for selfexpression, and that helps develop their selfconfidence.s selfconfidence（4）What39。s selfconfidence. makes students much smarter. music and making music.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文介紹了音樂(lè)在學(xué)生的成長(zhǎng)過(guò)程中不容忽視的作用，應(yīng)該被列為學(xué)校里的一門(mén)必修課程．音樂(lè)不但能夠提高學(xué)生們的注意力和服從指揮的能力，而且也能讓學(xué)生發(fā)揮想象力，培養(yǎng)他們的創(chuàng)造能力。根據(jù)第一段中的“They could improve their classroom skills”和“Making music also lets children use their imagination”可知，音樂(lè)通過(guò)提高學(xué)生的課堂技能和發(fā)揮他們的想象力，使其更加聰明。 （2）考查詞義猜測(cè)。s music instead of seeing them glued to a puter or TV screen.”家長(zhǎng)們能享受孩子們的音樂(lè)，而不是看他們不愿離開(kāi)電腦或電視。故選C。 根據(jù)第三段中的“Music builds selfconfidence, too.”音樂(lè)也建立自信可知, 故選D。 第一段中的“The arts, especially music, should be part of every school39。根據(jù)概括標(biāo)題需遵循“征對(duì)性、概括性、醒目性”的原則可知A為最佳答案，故選A。5．閱讀理解 A 15second video of a game went on Chinese social media. In the video, players wearing VR(虛擬) headsets saw four different types of trash can in front of them, and had to thro