【正文】 . But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register（收款機(jī)）with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash, had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the next day.t help staring at him. I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if fortune had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn39。 Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. If anything, he looked more pitiable, “Charge it to me,” was all he said.promised to obey the store rulesB.forgot to take his credit card with himcould not afford anything more expensive（2）Which of the following best describes the old gentleman? A.B.Poor and lonely.Hurt and disappointed.（3）Why did the author refuse the old gentle man39。He considered the old man dishonest.B.He wanted to keep his present job.D.Obeying the rules means more than passion.B.Experience is better gained through practice.D. （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 （2）考查推理判斷。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.”可知，商店的規(guī)定不允許先拿貨后付錢，作者想保住這份工作所以不敢違反規(guī)定，故選C。根據(jù)第一段中的“Compassion（同情）is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate passion into action. ”可知，同情是我們內(nèi)心幫助別人的愿望，通過努力，我們可以把它轉(zhuǎn)化為行動(dòng)，也就是說作者從這個(gè)經(jīng)歷中學(xué)到了同情意味著以某種方式幫助別人，故選D。7．閱讀理解 however, they were excellent. Working with them as they improved taught me new ways to show forgiveness, understanding, and patience. When David came in for the interview, he hardly said a word. I told him what we did at the bicycle shop and showed him around. I told David to keep showing up because the number one thing an employer wanted in an associate was dependability. David was very quiet (he was evaluated as a slow learner in school).Every ten days or so, for weeks after the interview, David walked into the bicycle shop and stood by the front door. He never said a word, just stood by the door. David worked for my bicycle shop for eighteen years. He came to work every day thirty minutes early. He could talk。t talk, but he really shows you how to operate a lawn mower!”（1）The author gave David an interview to find a person who is reliablegive him some practiceC.show sympathy for him（2）The author finally hired David because he needed someone who was willing to work thenB.David kept showing upD.. A.David has had his character changed through workC.the author prefers David to be more outgoing【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，David是作者的一位雇員,雖然他不善言辭,但勤懇踏實(shí)的工作態(tài)度贏得了顧客的贊美。在跟他們一起工作的日子里,作者學(xué)會(huì)了寬恕、理解和耐心。根據(jù)第二中的“He requested that I give David an interview just for practice.”可知,他要求作者給David進(jìn)行一次面試,僅僅只是為了練習(xí)。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。這時(shí)作者正好看到David進(jìn)來,于是叫他過來幫忙。故選A。根據(jù)最后一段可知，David在作者的店里勤勤懇懇工作了十八年,還受到了顧客的贊揚(yáng)。故選C。8．閱讀理解 WISH YOU WERE MORE CREATIVE?re an architect. Same question. Now imagine you39。 What you just practicedthe conscious act of wearing another selfis an exercise that, according to psychiatrist SriniPillay, MD, is essential to being creative.re creative or we aren39。m just not a creative person! a discouraged student might say in art class, while another might blame her talent at painting for her difficulties in math, making a ment I39。 , an assistant professor at Harvard University, has spent years overturning these ideas. He believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to challenge the stereotyped (陳詞濫調(diào)的) advice that urges you to believe in yourself. In fact, you should do the opposite: Believe you are someone else.s behavior. The authors, psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college student subjects into two groups, instructing one group to think of themselves as eccentric poets and the other to imagine they were rigid librarians. The researchers then presented them all with ordinary objects, including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to e up with as many different uses as possible for each one. The former group came up with the widest range of ideas, whereas the latter had the fewest. Dr. Pillay39。re not focused on a specific task or thought. Most people spend nearly half of their days in a state of unfocus. This doesn39。 it makes us human.re making yourself more creative, and you39。d otherwise feel guilty about.（1）What39。To lead in the topic.To make a parison.C.D. A.librarians are more creative than poetsC.D.it is an act of unconscious focuscertain brain areas begin to act togetherC.all actors employ this technique（4）If you want to be more creative, you are supposed to . A.believe in your own talentC.D.173。 （1）考查推理判斷。173。173。這說明作者在第一段問這些問題就是為了引出下文中的創(chuàng)造力話題， 故選A。根據(jù)第六段”These results suggest that creativity is not an individual characteristic but a‘product of context and perspective’. Everyone can be creative, as long as he or she feels like a creative person.“可知Denis Dumas 和Kevin Dunbar的研究結(jié)果表明創(chuàng)造力不是個(gè)體特征，而是環(huán)境和視角的產(chǎn)物。也就是說一個(gè)人的創(chuàng)造力是取決于自己的。 （3）考查推理判斷。re not focused on a specific task or thought.“可知據(jù)皮萊博士說，心理萬圣節(jié)之所以有效，是因?yàn)樗且环N有意識(shí)的分散注意力的行為，當(dāng)你不專注于某一特定任務(wù)或思想時(shí)，大腦中一系列區(qū)域就起作用。 （4）考查推理判斷。由此推斷所以要變得有創(chuàng)造力的話，要想象自己有一個(gè)全新的身份，也就是把自己想象成另外一個(gè)人。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。 Over the past five years researchers in artificial intelligence have bee the rock stars of the technology world. A branch of AI known as deep learning, which uses neural(神經(jīng)的) networks to scan through large volumes of data looking for patterns, has proven so useful that skilled practitioners can mand high sixfigure salaries to build software for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.16