【正文】 y I saw the finishing post, and I just concentrated on getting there—still onelegged. My finishing time was 38 minutes 25 seconds but that didn39。m hooked, and want to give it another go. I39。Scared of the most challenging race.B.Concerned about the other swimmers in the race.D.To stress the importance of the race.B.To show the wide range of the participants.D.the race would cause breathing problemsB.it was really necessary to prepare for tough swimsD. advice（4）What does the author talk about in the last paragraph? A.Her pride in having swum so quickly.C.Her surprise at having managed to finish.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者講述了參加一英里的天然水域游泳的經(jīng)歷，最終成功到達(dá)終點(diǎn)線。 （2）考查推理判斷。 （3）考查推理判斷。t work. I began to feel the entire leg tight and painful.”可知，我想起了那些人提及的克服水中抽筋的技巧，但是沒有作用，我感覺整條腿開始緊張?zhí)弁?，故可知，這次比賽比她想象的要艱難，故選B。根據(jù)最后一段中的“I39。ve already signed up for my next openwater swim.”可知，我被吸引住了，想要再嘗試一次，準(zhǔn)備好為下一次游泳比賽報(bào)名，故可知，作者為完成比賽而感到興奮，也喜歡上了這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)，故選C。3．閱讀理解 Hello?m so sorry I39。 Connie Chung was one of the only four women anchors（主播）to make it into the club of major evening network television news. For almost an hour we talked about the industry. When I asked if she ever had an instructor throughout her trials, she turned around and offered to instruct me. When I asked why she decided to do it, she simply replied, Because you39。 That afternoon I rushed home and told my mother what had happened. Without looking up, she just said Good for you. Hearing this, I felt a sense of loss. Until then I had been searching for something that I would never get—that sense of love and acceptance in a house full of negativity（消極）. Then radio became my way of connecting with others. My ability to book highlevel guests and celebrities（名人）was gradually recognized and eventually all the words of encouragement from past guests and colleagues helped me to rebuild my confidence levels. I can do this, I kept telling myself, and pushed even harder to find my next aim. I may not have started life surrounded by positivity but I surely feel that I am surrounded by it now. It39。He was preparing for a show.B.He was waiting to be interviewed.D.s mother react when told about Connie39。She felt excited.B.t believe it.C.She didn39。To broaden his view.To escape punishment.C.D.The Strength of PositivityMy Goal in CareerC.D. （1）考查推理判斷。故選A。根據(jù)第五段中的Without looking up, she just said 39。可知，當(dāng)被告知Connie的決定時(shí)，作者的媽媽對作者將接受Connie Chung指導(dǎo)的事情沒有當(dāng)回事。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。故選C。文章主要講述了作者在主持節(jié)目過程中遇到的一些朋友和導(dǎo)師，他們積極樂觀的態(tài)度以及對作者的信任，給作者帶來了力量，讓作者也變得更加積極主動(dòng)，從而邁向一個(gè)接一個(gè)的目標(biāo)。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(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。 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, the original total number could have been over 240,000. How many words were defined by the lexicographer? Over 40,000 words appeared in two large books in April of 1755. Did Johnson fully understand the huge task he was undertaking when he began? As he told his contemporary biographer James Boswell, I knew very well what I was undertaking and very well how to do it — and have done it very well.（1）What is the problem of early English dictionaries? A.They list just a few foreign words.C.D.A publisher.B.A maker of dictionaries.D.He standardized English.He cared about authority a lot.C.He plained of working conditions.（4）What is the purpose of this passage? A.To encourage people to work on a project.C.To introduce how Johnson plete his dictionary.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了Johnson編纂詞典的故事。根據(jù)第一段中的“These, however, were often little more than lists of hard words”可知，早期英語詞典的問題是只是增加了一些難詞。 （2）考查詞義猜測。故選C。根據(jù)第一段中的“This need to fix the English language is best illustrated (描述) in the making of The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.”及最后一段中的Samuel Johnson為詞典編纂所作的努力可以推斷出，Samuel Johnson使得英語標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化。 （4）考查推理判斷。所以本文主要是告訴讀者Johnson編纂詞典的故事，故選D。5．閱讀理解 He recalled that the petition deadline was merely a week away. But he still had not even started on his piece. He looked at the brochure again. WRITING COMPETITION! the title read. His mom had encouraged him to enter the writing petition, and now he was taking it on as his personal task for the holidays. Suddenly, he had a brainwave. This time, he came up with an original and imaginative story. Then he heard the call of his mother saying time for bed. He continued writing the piece, ignoring her. He had to make up for the time he had lost thinking about a topic to write. Perfect, he thought, just under the word limit. He knew this was the story that would win.A new puter.B.His own interest.D.s advice.（2）How did the boy finish his earlier writing? A.He copied others39。His friends assisted him.D.Because he was terribly lazy.Because he didn39。Because he wasn39。Beca