【正文】 swimming in the sea than a lake. I tried to focus on my breathing and technique, and just keep going. As I approached the 400mtogo mark my lower right leg became painful. I recalled overhearing people talking about how they kept swimming through the pain, so I tried. But it didn39。t want to stop, so I bent my right knee and just kicked with the left leg.t matter—the atmosphere was fantastic and everyone felt a sense of achievement, whatever their time. I39。ve already signed up for my next openwater swim.（1）How did the author feel before the race? A.Disappointed by the difficult conditions.C.Determined to be as tough as the people around her.（2）Why does the author mention the two people in Paragraph 2? A.To praise the experienced swimmers.C.To introduce the various events of the race.（3）The author suggests in Paragraph 4 that ______. A.the race became harder than she had expectedC.it would have been easier if she had taken others39。Her confidence in her own ability.B.Her eagerness to repeat the experience.D. （1）考查推理判斷。根據第一段中的“But I, along with 10,000 others, was about to plete the challenge.”可知，我馬上和其他10000名游泳者完成這項挑戰(zhàn)，故可知，他們很堅定要完成這項運動，故選D。根據第二段中的“There seemed to be a mix of openwater enthusiasts alongside plete beginners—which is precisely the aim of the swims, to get as many people as possible pleting their own challenge. The oldest woman peting was 77, taking part in the twomile race, alongside a man who last year had swum in every onemile race.”可知，參賽者包括天然水域游泳的愛好者，也包括初學者，也有很多人完成自己的挑戰(zhàn)，這里面就有77歲參加2英里游泳的老人，也有去年參加一英里的男子，故可知，該比賽參與者范圍很廣，故選C。根據第四段中的“I recalled overhearing people talking about how they kept swimming through the pain, so I tried. But it didn39。 （4）考查推理判斷。m hooked, and want to give it another go. I39。 【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要根據上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。 A biologist once criticized for stealing eggs from the nests of the rarest bird in the world has been awarded the Nobel Prize of conservation after his methods saved nine species from extinction. When the 61yearold first travelled to the east African island in the 1970s, he was told to close down a project to save the Mauritius kestrel. At the time there were just four left in the wild, making it the rarest bird on Earth. However, he stayed, using the techniques of captive breeding (人工繁殖), which involved snatching eggs from the birds39。 A decade later, the number of Mauritius kestrels had soared to over 300 and today there are around 400 in the wild. The biologist has also been necessary in efforts to bring other rare species back from the edge of extinction, including the pink pigeon, echo parakeet and Rodrigues warbler.172,000) prize at a ceremony in London.As a young man in my 20s, I certainly didn39。 Prof Jones has devoted his whole life to his work, only being a father for the first time eight years ago, at 53. He said receiving the prize was particularly important to him, because it proved that his work to save birds was right.（1）What does the underlined word accolade mean in Paragraph 2? A.levelC.research（2）According to the passage, Great Auk is ________. A.an extinct birdC.a fierce bird（3）What can we know from the figures in Paragraph 4? A.The wild environment for kestrel has changed a lot.C.It39。 idea of taking eggs from the birds39。was proved of no usewas widely acceptedC.D.Carl Jones 通過人工繁殖的方式是瀕臨滅絕的鳥類的數量逐漸增加，并且因此獲得了2016年的印第安的波利斯獎。第二段中的“for his 40 years of work in Mauritius, where he saved an endangered kestrel from being the next Great Auk.”是對前面句子的補充說明，再由“won the 2016 Indianapolis Prize”可推知，這里的accolade與獲獎有關，故選C。根據第二段中的“where he saved an endangered kestrel from being the next Great Auk”可知，他保護了瀕臨滅絕的紅隼，使他免于遭受Great Auk的情況，因此可知Great Auk是一種已經滅絕的鳥類，選B。根據第四段中的“A decade later, the number of Mauritius kestrels had soared to over 300 and today there are around 400 in the wild. （4）考查細節(jié)理解。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息，同時根據上下文的邏輯關系，進行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。 It is obvious that all of our childhood memories are not accidental. When you are a child, every scent, every sound, every move, every toy, the first day of school, the first kiss, the first step… Everything together makes what is the personality of a man. All these are pieces of one whole entity.s best friend left to another town and asked my mom to stay at her place with me for two days in order to look after her two sons. One was a little older than I was, and the second boy appeared to be super grownup, for he was already fourteen. I always enjoyed staying at their place.s friend at her place. I woke up. Mom went to work and reminded me to be nice and clean by the time she came back. I stayed with Tony, the older of the boys and suddenly somebody called him and though he was not permitted to leave me alonehe left. He said it would not be long. But it took him forever. I realized that I was alone. I could not e out of the house, so I opened the window. I was so desperate. So lonely. So betrayed. At that moment I pulled the curtain so strongly that I fell on the floor. And there I was standingone little criminaldesperate to escape and knowing that I would be punished for destroying the curtain that was not even ours.But then something changed. I stopped weeping. I looked around and realized that I was in a safe place, and that mom would e back and kiss me no matter what I had done.s knees.（1）What is the best title for this passage? A.A Childhood MemoryC.s Best Friend39。D.s feelings toward childhood memories? A.They make what is the personality of a man.C.Childhood memories are always strange and inprehensible.（3）What happened to the author when he was 6 years