【正文】 ed flooding back and the car bookings picked up, five times over.s viewpoint is ________. A.providing explanationsC.D.UnconfidentB.NervousD.get rid ofsmooth awaymake less forcefulimprove on（4）The author39。informpersuadedescribeentertain【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者的教授曾經(jīng)說(shuō)過(guò)，任何害怕失敗和害怕面對(duì)挑戰(zhàn)的人永遠(yuǎn)都不會(huì)嘗到成功的滋味。 （1）考查推理判斷。下文主要通過(guò)自己的親身經(jīng)歷闡述了自己的觀點(diǎn)，即通過(guò)舉例說(shuō)明的方式。 （2）考查推理判斷。我想過(guò)逃跑；以及第五段中的“I felt I made a wrong decision to move there. I was now ready to face failure.”我覺(jué)得搬到那里去是一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤的決定?？芍?dāng)伊拉克和科威特之間的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)爆發(fā)時(shí)，作者感到?jīng)]有信心。 （3）考查詞義猜測(cè)。故可推測(cè)劃線(xiàn)短語(yǔ)意思為削弱，與C選項(xiàng)含義接近。 （4）考查推理判斷。畢竟，只有經(jīng)歷才能使人堅(jiān)強(qiáng)。這意味著它將花費(fèi)更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間?？芍髡邔?xiě)這篇文章的目的是勸說(shuō)人們面對(duì)挑戰(zhàn)或失敗時(shí)要大膽去對(duì)應(yīng)，保持積極的心態(tài)。故選B。3．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 One evening in February 2007, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. That39。 Ceely39。 Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely39。s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyboards.s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A mapmaker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the GPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn39。 It39。 both show a small rise in some parts of the country. He says that once again not all new locks have proved reliable, Perhaps, but maybe it39。 The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and plex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for a wiser use of technology.She was not familiar with the road.B.The railway workers failed to give the signal.D.t tell her about the crossing.（2）The phrase near miss (Paragraph 2) can best be replaced by ________. A.B.C.D.Modern technology is what we can39。Digtal technology often falls short of our expectation.C.GPS error is not the only cause for Ceely39。s opinion, Stevenson39。onesidedreasonablepuzzlingwellbased（5）What is the real concern of the writer of this article? A.The human unawareness of technical problems.C.The relationship between humans and technology.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）A（5）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者講述了一起交通事故，司機(jī)沒(méi)有看到火車(chē)路口導(dǎo)致了一起事故，司機(jī)卻將責(zé)任歸咎到自己的導(dǎo)航儀沒(méi)有路口提示上。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s near miss made the news because she blamed it on he GPS(導(dǎo)航儀). 可知Ceely認(rèn)為事故發(fā)生的原因是GPS沒(méi)有指出那個(gè)路口。 （2）考查詞義猜測(cè)。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 （4）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. 可知作者認(rèn)為Stevenson只關(guān)注到了片面的，故選A。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and plex. 可知作者在討論完Ceely這起事故后，在最后兩段將討論延伸到了人與科技的關(guān)系上，因此作者實(shí)際關(guān)心的內(nèi)容是人與科技的關(guān)系，故選D。4．閱讀理解 My brother Ross and I recently flew to New York to visit my mother. Mom, why don39。t touch it! My mother said. The next afternoon, when she couldn39。 On our last night there, my mother walked up to us with a small pile of unopened mails, which she had collected at the western edge of the dining table, and said, Help me go through these. Sure, I said. When we had succeeded in separating wheat from chaff (谷殼), I asked, Would you want to deal with another little pile of papers?walking into the dining room the way an animal manager might be while entering a cage with tigers in it. Ross and I came in behind her and suddenly he reached for a pile of the papers on one side of the table. No! my mother said sharply. Let39。s where the older stuff is. Finally, we threw 95 percent of the stuff into paper shopping bags. Then I asked what she wanted us to do with them, she surprised us all by saying, Put them in the incinerator (垃圾焚化爐).To burn them.B.To collect them together.D.angryB.impatientD.s the author39。s cleaning up the dining table? A.B.C.D.The precious mailA visit to my motherC.D.受母親清理餐桌的啟示，作者回到家之后也對(duì)自己的東西進(jìn)行歸類(lèi)清理，自此作者覺(jué)得生活更加簡(jiǎn)易了。根據(jù)第三段中的“help me go through these …When we had succeeded in separating wheat from chaff”從麥殼中分離出麥子即：挑出有用的，扔掉無(wú)用的，可知，母親要求孩子們查看郵件并從這些郵件中挑出重要的郵件。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。故選D。根據(jù)最后一段中的“When I returned home , inspired by the visit to my mother , I sorted out my own accumulated piles of papers , sold or gave away half of my possessions…”可知，作者受母親清理餐桌行為動(dòng)作的影響，回家之后也對(duì)自己的物品進(jìn)行了歸類(lèi)清理。故選A。故選D。5．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 How39。s important to take time and accept the present blessings (恩賜) in your life.s in my life to be grateful for as Thanksgiving approaches.re especially thankful for.m going to recite lots of things, including that I39。 It is so much to be grateful for. I feel I am the luckiest woman alive. It39。ll be able to spot something in your life. I hope yet you will savor (體味) and appreciate it.t take the day for granted. Just be in the moment. We suggest that you verbally give thanks to your parents, no matter what conditions your aging parents may be in now. Do what you can to be tuned in to what you need as well as what your family needs.（1）What39。Why I39。B.How to increase happiness quotient?D.creatediscoverdoaffect（3）From the author39。she lives a happy lifeB.she had an unfortunate lifeD. （1）考查主旨大意。s important to take time and accept the present blessings (恩賜) in your life.可知，如果要提高自己的幸福指數(shù)，接受現(xiàn)在生活中的恩賜很重要，由此可知，本文講述的是如何提高幸福指數(shù)，故選C。根據(jù)第五段中的something in your life. I hope yet you will savor (體味) and appreciate it.可知，我希望你能發(fā)現(xiàn)生活中的某些東西，我希望你能體會(huì)和欣賞它，由此可知畫(huà)線(xiàn)詞詞義為“發(fā)現(xiàn)”，故選B。根據(jù)第四段中的I39。m grateful for my health,