【正文】 last day in Paris, I confidently said, Bonjour Monsieur, as I passed the little store down the street. I guess the best part about going on exchange in Paris is falling in love with the city in your own way. And I know mine is unique and special to me, my own little pieces of Paris.（1）What does the underlined word ecstasy in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A.B.C.D.An exchange student39。B.An exchange program.D.Enjoying coffee in his spare time.Greeting people in French in the street.C.D.The friendly people he met in Paris.B.The academic achievement he made in his study.D. （1）考查詞義猜測。由此推知，劃線詞的意思是“快樂，幸福”。 （2）考查主旨大意。從第二段到最后，文章詳細敘述了作者在巴黎的所見所聞，內(nèi)心感受等。故選A。根據(jù)第四段中的“The one thing that reading a book or talking to someone cannot do is to provide you with the experience of wandering Paris on foot. I discovered some of my favorite places in Paris by wandering”可知，讀書以及和人交談無法提供步行在巴黎閑逛帶給你的體驗。由此可知，除了讀書，作者最珍惜的經(jīng)歷是在巴黎閑逛。 （4）考查推理判斷。“The best part about going on exchange in Paris is falling in love with the city in your own unique way. Everyone39。而從上文可知，他在巴黎體驗到了不同的風(fēng)土人情，不同的文化。 【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷，詞義猜測和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 For years, decades in fact, I39。 You39。 Why is it that a woman travelling alone, as I have often done for months at a time, is perceived to be brave, whereas men who travel alone are entirely unremarkable?You are only brave when you are afraid of something but still do it anyway. I have never been afraid of travelling alone. When I got back to Ireland after that trip, I felt proud of myself. I had done something I had assumed would be hard, and it had turned out to be not hard at all.ve met along the way. I may have set off alone each time but I39。People39。B.s response.People39。D.s criticism.（2）What does the author say about her first time to travel alone? A.B.It was harder than expected.She set off all alone.（3）What do the underlined words solo travel Group Travel.Travelling with friends.Travelling alone.Travelling with music.（4）How has the author benefited from her travel? A.B.She has received a great many gifts.D.作者從中收獲了很多。根據(jù)第一段“For years, decades in fact, I39。故選B。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段中的“She announced by letter two days before our departure that she would be leaving me halfway at Vienna. It was too late by then to rope in another friend, so it was either to go home after Vienna, or keep going by myself. I kept going. I got on trains by myself, checked into hostels by myself and found my way around by myself.”在我們動身的前兩天，她寫信通知我，她將在維也納中途離開我。我繼續(xù)?？芍P(guān)于她第一次獨自旅行，作者說她不得不選擇自己去，故選B。根據(jù)最后一段中的“That was three decades ago, and since then I have travelled all over the world, usually on my own. I still do what I did then, which is to keep a diary.”那是30年前的事了，從那時起，我周游世界，通常是獨自一人。由此可知，文“The greatest gift of solo travel has been those I39。 solo travel 的意思是獨自旅行，故選C。根據(jù)最后一段中的“I may have set off alone each time but I39。我在尼泊爾加德滿都遇見了我的丈夫。可知作者從她的旅行中得到的好處是一路上她遇到了很多人，故選D。4．閱讀理解 s why the story about the guys in the bakery caught my eyes.t sit there feeling sorry for themselves. They used their time wisely after flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. While they were waiting for the eventual rescue that came on Monday morning, four decided to make as many loaves of bread as possible for their munity. The store manager, Brian Alvarado, told The Independent, Whenever a disaster occurs, nobody should just feel forlorn. Instead，we should take positive action to save ourselves and help others. Our acts of kindness will make a big difference.（1）What did the bakery store workers do after flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey? A.They managed to live by selling more bread in the store.C.t escape from the store.D.Fortunate.Hopeful.Shallow.Desperate.（3）What can we infer from the text? A.Hurricane Harvey caused a power failure in Houston.C.The author preferred to write stories about people facing disasters.（4）What can be the best title for the text? A.Wait for the Eventual Rescue in a Big DisasterC.Bake Bread to Make a Difference in Face of Hurricane Harvey【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，Hurricane Harvey到來時面包店繼續(xù)烤面包所產(chǎn)生的意義。根據(jù)第三段中的“They took advantage of their emergency power supply to bake bread. They used more than 4,200 pounds of flour to create hundreds of loaves and sheets of sweet bread.”可知，Hurricane Harvey引發(fā)洪水后，面包店的工作人員自愿為他們的社區(qū)做面包。 （2）考查詞義猜測。由Instead可知與前句構(gòu)成轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，再由positive可推知劃線詞的意思是令人絕望的。 （3）考查推理判斷。故選B。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Whenever a disaster occurs, nobody should just feel forlorn. Instead, we should take positive action to save ourselves and help others. Our acts of kindness will make a big difference.”可知，文章講述的是Hurricane Harvey到來時面包店繼續(xù)烤面包所產(chǎn)生的意義。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測，推理判斷和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 During the period from 1660 through 1800, Great Britain became the world39。 Johnson changed all that, but the task was not an easy one. Renting a house at 17 Gough Square, Johnson began working in the worst of conditions. Supported only by his publisher, Johnson worked on the Dictionary with five assistants. Compared to the French Academy39。s dictionary was pleted by very few people very quickly.Balanced on a chair with only three legs, Johnson sat against a wall in a room filled with books. Johnson would read widely from these books, mark passages illustrating the use of a particular word, and give the books to his assistants so that they could copy the passages on slips of paper. These slips were then stuck to eighty large notebooks under the key words that Johnson had selected. Fixing the word by this method, Johnson could record a word，s usage and its definition.s modern biographer Walter Jackson Bate,