【正文】 ked up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked lightheartedly out of the door, piic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, Oh, boy, bad day for a piic. The weatherman says it39。 Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus. As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Greyhound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile, Oh, that bus left five minutes ago. Dreams of headcutting!s not the news that makes someone angry. It39。s delivered. Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and big winners do it with the proper attitude. A doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring way. A boss informing an employee he didn39。 Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you39。t ready yet? When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter merrily told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist (拳頭) right on their unsympathetic faces.s all right. I39。s opinion, his neighbor was friendlywarmheartednot consideratenot helpful（2）From Paragraph 3, we learn that the writer was mad at the sales agentB.wished that the sales agent would have had dreamsD.s head that night（3）What is the main idea of the text? A.Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.C.Learning ancient traditions can be useful.【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者通過在生活中的自身經(jīng)歷來說明好消息能使人高興，壞消息使人氣氛，而每個人偏偏時不時地給出壞消息，所以傳遞壞消息的方式很重要。根據(jù)第二段中的”As we walked lightheartedly out of the door, piic basket in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said, ‘Oh, boy, bad day for a piic. The weatherman says it39。天氣預(yù)報員說要下雨了。不是因為他愚蠢的天氣預(yù)報，而是因為他的微笑。故選C。根據(jù)第四段中的”It39。s the unsympathetic attitude with which it39。而是傳遞出的一種冷漠的態(tài)度。故選A。根據(jù)第四段中的”Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and big winners do it with the proper attitude.“每個人偏偏時不時地給出壞消息，而大贏家則以正確的態(tài)度來做這件事。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，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。 We talk a lot in the . about success. Success is the dream and the end point. And not by coincidence the idea that hard work leads to personal success is as American as apple pie.t go our way. We39。t, as a society, have as much to say here. d feel better equipped to deal with uncertainty if we talked about it more. I had so fully bought into the belief that with enough effort, I could control what happened in my life. I actually caught myself thinking I could work my way out of my cancer. As it turns out, cancer doesn39。s work.t just a feelgood exercise. For example, technology and medicine have progressed to the point that many patients are living longer than they would have even a decade ago. These are achievements worth celebrating. And yet I wonder if the focus on success is sometimes misguided here as well. If it is one reason why we tend to pursue expensive endoflife treatments, they often acplish little other than to make a patient39。 My hope here is to make a case for thinking about meaning, in the same way we think about pursuing success. In that spirit, I39。Success is the dream.Success lies in hard work.C.Failure is always avoidable.（2）What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 3 probably refer to? A.B.C.D.live as long as possibleB.make great progress in medicineget expensive endoflife treatments（4）What can we learn from the last paragraph? A.We can benefit from some unlucky things.C.Personally there are different meanings in life.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】短文大意：在美國人們經(jīng)常談?wù)摮晒?。美國人認為努力工作就能獲得個人成功每個人都能在不同的事物中找到意義。根據(jù)第一段中的And not by coincidence the idea that hard work leads to personal success is as American as apple 。 （2）推理判斷題。d feel better equipped to deal with uncertainty if we talked about it more. 可知我們會感覺更好地準備好應(yīng)對不確定性，如果我們更多地談?wù)撍９蔬xC。根據(jù)第四段中的The fact is that, when asked, many patients would rather focus on living meaningfully in their final ，在生命的最后幾天，許多病人實際上更專注于有意義的生活，故選B。根據(jù)最后一段The diversity in their responses reflects the fact that there are no right or wrong answers here. We each can find meaning in different ，關(guān)于人生意義的回答，沒有對或錯的答案，每個人都能在不同的事物中找到意義，故選D。本文涉及細節(jié)理解題和推理判斷題。5．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. t know what it was. A Westernstyle conversation between two people is like a game of tennis. If I introduce a topic, a conversational ball, I expect you to hit it back. If you agree with me, I don39。t expect you always to agree. I am just as happy if you question me, or challenge me, or pletely disagree with me. Whether you agree or disagree, your response will return the ball to me.s like bowling. You wait for your turn. And you always know your place in line. It depends on such things as whether you are older or younger, a close friend or a relative stranger to the previous speaker, in a senior or junior position, and so on. Then, after everyone is sure that you have pletely finished your turn, the next person in line steps up to the same starting line, with a different ball. He doesn39。 If you have been trained all your life to play one game, it is no simple matter to switch to another, even if you know the rules. Knowing the rules is not at all the same thing as playing the game.（1）The author makes all of the following arguments EXCEPT that _____. A.westernstyle conversations are like tennis or volleyballC.westernstyle conversations are longer than Japanesestyle conversations（2）The author39。instructB.jokeD.people talk differently in Japan than in the WestB.s important to take part in conversationsC.it39。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。s like bowling. You wait for your turn.”可知，日式的談話不像打網(wǎng)球或排球，而像打保齡球，你需要等著輪到你，由此可知，日式的談話比西式的時間要長，故選D。根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知，作者結(jié)合自己的切身經(jīng)歷告訴我們?nèi)帐降恼勗捄臀魇降恼勗挼牟煌?，由此可知，作者?