【正文】 g around, Skaar noticed a small workroom. It seemed to have cleaner air. So they crowded there. That helped for a while, but in time even the workroom was filled with deadly smoke. Hopeless, they tried to break the windows, but the glass was not breakable. Everything they threw at it just bounced back. Defeated, they struggled back to the workroom. They felt weak and dizzy. Soon Skaar found Oksas had passed out. Skaar and Oksas knew they were lucky to be alive. Sunday is my birthday, Skaar told a reporter. She would be turning 29, but she knew she had already got the best present possible—the gift of life.（1）What did Skaar and Oksas do when they were stopped by the fire? A.B.they waited where they were.they rushed back and shut the door.（2）The following helped Skaar and Oksas survive the fire except . A.shutting the door and keeping the smoke out with a jacketC.D.s action in the fire? A.she was cleverer than Oksas.C.D.（1）考查細節(jié)理解。他們趕緊跑回去關上門，用她的夾克填滿了門底部的空隙，把煙擋在外面。（2）考查細節(jié)理解。（3）考查推理判斷。故選D。3．閱讀理解t use their legs even when they went on holiday.seye view of the world. When you travel by car or train, an unclear picture of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, especially, are mixed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. The typical twentiethcentury traveler is the man who always says I39。ve been theremeaning, I drove through it at100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.people prefer cars, buses and trainspeople use their legs less and lessC.D.the modern means of transportation.B.seye view of the world.C.D.appreciating beautiful sceneryB.focusing on the next destinationD.Modern transportation devices have replaced legs.Traveling makes the world a small place.C.s history develops very fast.The best way to travel is on foot.【答案】（1）B（2）D（3）C（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，由于種種現(xiàn)代化交通設施，人們不需用腳走路，甚至也不需要用眼看風景，出門就坐汽車、公交車、地鐵、飛機……作者建議最佳的旅游方法是徒步——經歷現(xiàn)實。根據(jù)第一段中的“When the time es for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label‘Legless Man’. Histories of the time will go something like this:in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. And the surprising thing is that they didn39。故選B。根據(jù)第二段中的“The future history books might also record that we were deprived (剝奪) of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird39。故選D。根據(jù)第三段中的“When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place.”可知，我們知道高速旅行意味著關注下一個目的地。（4）考查推理判斷。故選D。4．閱讀理解 To revive (復興)literature in the era of fast news and smartphone addiction, Short Edition, a French publisher of shortform literature, has set up more than 30 story dispensers (分發(fā)機)in the USA in the past years to deliver fiction at the push of a button at restaurants, universities and government offices. Everything old is new again, said Andrew Nurkin, the director of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which is one of the libraries that set up the dispensers. We want people to be easily exposed to literature. We want to advance literacy among children and inspire their creativity. s how a dispenser works: It has three buttons on top indicating choices for stories that can be read in one minute, three minutes or five minutes. When a button is pushed, a short story is printed. The stories are free. They are chosen from a puter category of more than 100,000 original submissions by writers whose works have been evaluated by Short Edition39。s fiction or romance. Short Edition gets stories for its category by holding writing contests. s smartphone addiction. reduce the financial stress of libraries. make people have access to literature. advertise the network literature.（4）What is the best title for the text? Reading: a Virtual Tour Edition, a French Publisher Old Will Be Popular Again of Literature, at the Push of a Button【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）C（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，人們可以通過多種途徑讀到小說，例如書籍、雜志等。這樣人們能更容易地接觸文學，以此提高孩子們的讀寫能力并激發(fā)他們的創(chuàng)造力。根據(jù)第五段中的“when a button is pushed, a short story is printed”可知，按下按鈕，就會打印出一篇短篇小說，因此小說在形式上是簡短的。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。賓夕法尼亞州立大學的校園里有一臺小說分發(fā)機。在洛杉磯國際機場也將有更多的小說分發(fā)機。故選A。根據(jù)第四段中的“We want people to be easily exposed to literature. We want to advance literacy among children and inspire their creativity.”可知，Andrew Nurkin說：“我們希望人們能夠很容易地接觸到文學。”因此，在Andrew Nurkin看來，設置小說分發(fā)機的主要目的是使人們有機會接觸文學。 （4）考查主旨大意。故選D。5．閱讀理解 A study by a UK market research organization, suggests that over 542,000 Brits went vegan during the previous decade, an increase of 360%. And the main force behind this increase was those aged 1534 years old — 42% of recent vegans fall under that age range. One reason could be that many young people want to protect the environment, as less meat consumption is known to be beneficial to the environment. Global meat manufacturing is believed to cause 18% of the world39。s cars, trains and planes bined. Another reason is that many of today39。s wrong to kill animals to be used as food. Social media is also believed to have given rise to the increase in veganism. Platforms such as Facebook allow young vegans to connect with each other much easier, while others such as Instagram have led to the creation of “vegan celebrities (名人)”, who share lips on vegan lifestyles.s health. “A strict vegan diet makes it difficult to get some minerals an