【正文】 to persuade him to stay, Kate told the Daily Mail. We explained his name and that he had a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to have him.and then he started breathing. Finally, he reached for his father39。 The couple39。 We39。 Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and healthy. The couple only recently told the kids the story of their birth. Emily burst into tears, Kate said. She was really upset, and she kept hugging Jamie. This whole experience makes you cherish them more.（1）What can we learn about the newborn babies? A.s heart had stopped beating.B.The twins were born 14 weeks before the due date.D.begged the doctor to save himB.wrapped him with his blanket to keep him warmD.s the best title for the passage? A.B.The Bond Between Twins.D.而男孩的父母并沒有放棄，并在最后抱了他，結(jié)果男孩奇跡般地重新開始呼吸，并幸存了下來。根據(jù)第一段中的“Their newborn wasn39。a girl and a boy173。他們的雙胞胎173。一個(gè)女孩和一個(gè)男孩173。出生時(shí)相隔兩分鐘，早產(chǎn)了14周，每個(gè)人的體重剛剛超過兩磅。故選C。根據(jù)第五段中的“The firsttime parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible and hoped the skintoskin contact would improve his condition. They also talked to him.”第一次做父母的希望他們的兒子盡可能的溫暖，并希望這種肌膚接觸能改善他的身體狀況。可知當(dāng)這對(duì)夫婦知道他們將失去這個(gè)男孩時(shí)，他們和他交談，并與他進(jìn)行了密切的身體接觸。 （3）考查主旨大意。而男孩的父母并沒有放棄，并在最后抱了他，結(jié)果男孩奇跡般地重新開始呼吸，并幸存了下來的故事。故選B。4．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。 In the nineteenth century, one of America39。 Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in New York City. During his long life, he watched America grow from a young nation to the strongest industrial power in the world. As a young man, Whitman worked as a school teacher, a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was thirtysix years old when