【正文】 be from there. His answer lingered in my mind during that ride with my husband and teenage kids, as we headed out to explore on the first day of our vacation. We met Alma that same morning at the start of a long hike. They39。d like suggestions. We listened eagerly, taking mental notes, until one of the women asked, You have a car, right? Oh no, she said, you need a car. And then, as casually as if offering a piece of chewing gum (口香糖), she said: Take mine! Why not? She insisted. You need a car to get to know all these places. t even know us, I said. t matter, she continued with absolute determination. s Alma. s car. But it wasn39。Instead, it was the act of kindness from a plete stranger that made us realize how special Newfoundland really was. s no doubt where we39。ll meet then?（1）What problem did the author39。t understand the local accent. car broke down on the first day. got lost during a hike. didn39。t decided where to go next year. also wants to be kind to others during vacation.【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）D（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者最近一次去加拿大的紐芬蘭旅行時(shí)，被當(dāng)?shù)厝说臒崆楹每蜕钌钣|動(dòng)。根據(jù)第十段中的“I explained that there were no cars available during our week on the island, so we had to rely on cabs instead.”我解釋道，我們周末來島上度假?zèng)]有汽車，我們只能打出租車，可知，作者一家人在紐芬蘭島上旅行時(shí)遇到的問題是，他們沒有一輛車。 （2）考查詞義猜測(cè)。并且此處單詞與第十六段中的“stunned”呼應(yīng)。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解?？芍?，給作者留下最深刻印象的是來自一位熱心的陌生人的幫助。 （4）考查推理判斷。s no doubt where we39。ll meet then?”毫無疑問我們明年會(huì)去哪里過暑假。故選B。3．閱讀理解 d least expect. They can e to us as a great change in our physical reality or as a simple coincidence in our lives. Sometimes they39。t be missed. Other times they39。t aware, we may miss them altogether. They can e from the lips of a stranger we suddenly and mysteriously meet at just the right instant. If we listen carefully, we39。 On a cold January afternoon in 1989, I was hiking up the trail that leads to the top of Egypt39。d spent the day at St. Catherine39。d occasionally see other hikers who were ing down from a day on the mountain. While they would generally pass with simply a nod or a greeting in another language, there was one man that day who did neither.d seen. Rather than the hightech fabrics and styles that had been the norm, this man was wearing traditional Egyptian clothing. He wore a tattered, rustcolored galabia and obviously old and thicksoled sandals that were covered in dust. What made his appearance so odd, though, was that the man didn39。 As we neared one another, I was the first to speak, Hello, I said, stopping on the trail for a moment to catch my breath. Not a sound came from the man as he walked closer. I thought that maybe he hadn39。t know what you have lost until you39。 That moment in my life was a small miracle. The reason is less about what the man said and more about the timing and the context. The year was 1989, and the Cold War was drawing to a close. what the man on the trail couldn39。s mountain, that I39。 I had to ask myself what the chances were of an Asian man dressed in an Egyptian galabia ing down from the top of this historic mountain just when I was walking up, stopping before me, and offering his wisdom, seemingly from out of nowhere. My answer to my own question was easy: the odds were slim to none! In a meet that lasted less than two minutes on a mountain halfway around the world from my home, a total stranger had brought clarity and the hint of a warning, regarding the huge changes that I would make within a matter of days. In my way of thinking, that39。 I suspect that we all experience small miracles in our lives every day. Sometimes we have the wisdom and the courage to recognize them for what they are In the moments when we don39。s okay as well. It seems that our miracles have a way of ing back to us again and again. And each time they do, they bee a little less subtle, until we can39。re everywhere and occur every day for different reasons, in response to the different needs that we may have in the moment. Our job may be less about questioning the extraordinary things that happen in our daily lives and more about accepting the gifts they bring.（1）Why did the author make a pilgrimage to Mt Horeb in Egypt? A.It was a holy place for a religious person to head for.C.He waited patiently in expectation of meeting a wise person.（2）What does the underlined part my own question refer to in paragraph 6? A.Why did the Asian man go to the mountain?C.What was the probability that others told us the right words?（3）Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word subtle in paragraph 7? A.Delicate.C.Sufficient.（4）The author viewed the meet with the Asian man as a miracle in his life in that ________. A.s appearance had a deciding effect on his future lifeB.what the Asian man said was abundant in the philosophy of lifeD.Can you recognize a miracle?Is a miracle significant to us?C.D.Continue walking up to the top of the mountain.B.Try to have a hearttoheart conversation with the Asian man.D.這位智者停下來給作者說“在失去前你不知道你得到了什么”。并講述了作者通過這件事情對(duì)奇跡的思考，我們生活時(shí)時(shí)處處都存在奇跡。根據(jù)第五段中的“that I39。故選C。根據(jù)第六段中的“My answer to my own question was easy”我自己對(duì)自己?jiǎn)栴}的答案是簡(jiǎn)單的，同時(shí)前一句作者也提出了自己的問題：為什么他會(huì)停下給我說他的觀點(diǎn)。故選D。根據(jù)第七段中的“And each time they do, they bee a little less subtle, until we can39。Until后的從句可以看出奇跡每次變得會(huì)更加明顯，不是像之前那么微妙。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s a miracle.”可知，智者給作者說 的故選B。根據(jù)最后一段，針對(duì)我們當(dāng)下不同的需求，奇跡時(shí)時(shí)處處都以不同原因存在著。故選A。從智者的行為“ing down from the top of this historic mountain”下山；和智者對(duì)作者說的話“Sometimes you don39。ve lost it. ”在失去前你不知道你得到了什么可推斷，智者告訴作者要珍惜現(xiàn)在所擁有的。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測(cè)，推理判斷和主旨大意四個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，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。 It was at least two months before Christmas when nineyearold Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle.t mention it again. We bought the latest fashionable Baby Sitter39。 It was just too late, what with all the details of preparing Christma