【正文】 Wisconsin. One year, when Kristi was working shifts at General Motors, I played in 1,400 games, peting four nights a week and 40 out of 52 weekends. My team won over 1,000 games. Success on the volleyball court, but a huge loss in my relationship with my Kristi.t the most important thing to me, but I missed out on a lot of relationship building time. My life is so much richer now that I am not a slave to that drive to be the best player I could be.（1）Which of the following could be the best title for the passage? A.The Way of Keeping Balance in LifeC.Holding On to What Is Important（2）The author tells the story about the boy and the vase to show ______. A.we need to drop the unimportant things in our lifeC.money is not the most important for us（3）Why did the boy get his hand stuck in the vase? A.He didn39。He was afraid to break the vase.D.The author had his relationship with Kristi improved.B.t regret what he had done.C.Kristi left the author in the end.【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）A（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者由一個小男孩抓著硬幣的手卡在花瓶里拿不出來這個故事引發(fā)了對生活的思考——要抓住生活中真正重要的東西，放開不重要的東西。根據(jù)第三段中的“I used to hold on to things in my life that I thought were so important to me.”可知，作者由一個小男孩抓著硬幣的手卡在花瓶里拿不出來這個故事引發(fā)了對生活的思考——要抓住生活中真正重要的東西，放開不重要的東西，故選D。根據(jù)第二段中的“But once he opened his hand, it came out of the vase easily.”可知，一旦他放下手中的硬幣，他的手很容易就能從花瓶里拿出來；再根據(jù)第三段中的“I used to hold on to things in my life that I thought were so important to me.”可知，作者聯(lián)想到自己曾經(jīng)抓住自認為是重要的東西不放手，可知，作者用這個故事告訴我們需要放下生活中不重要的東西，故選B。根據(jù)第二段中的“The boy had had a coin in his hand all the time and was holding it securely in his tight little fist.”可知，男孩的手卡在花瓶里拿不出來是因為他手里攥著一個硬幣，故選A。根據(jù)最后一段中的“My life is so much richer now that I am not a slave to that drive to be the best player I could be.”可知，現(xiàn)在作者的生活豐富多了，不再是那種想成為最好球員的欲望的奴隸，他與妻子克里斯蒂之間的關(guān)系一定會有了改善，故選A。7．閱讀理解 telling us to eat more of certain foods of not to do certain things. Is there any truth in these teachings? Some of them agree with present medical thinking, but others have not passed the test of time. Unfortunately, not all of Mom39。 Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don39。 tales. After much of this knowledge has been accumulated (積累) from thousands of years of experience in family health care. We should respect this body of knowledge even as we search for clear scientific support to prove it true or false.（1）Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? A.Carrots prevent people from catching colds.C.Sticky sweets tend to damage our teeth.（2）According to the passage, what does the underlined phrase hold water mean? A.B.C.D. tales? A.Because it is scientifically supported.C. experience.D.s attitude toward old wives39。SubjectiveB.DissatisfiedD.本文客觀評價了保持身體健康的 老人言的正確性。由第三自然段的最后一句 Sticky sweets made with grains tend to cause more problems than sweets made with simple sugars. 用谷物制成的粘性糖果比用單糖制成的糖果容易引起更多的問題。 （2）詞義猜測題。故選A。根據(jù)最后一段 there is still a lot of truth in the old wives39。它是基于多年的經(jīng)驗。 （4）推理判斷題。 【點評】考查閱讀理解。8．閱讀理解 s richest man might seem to have it all, but Bill Gates has one regret. The selfmade billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages. He said, I took Latin and Greek in high school and got As and I guess it helps my vocabulary. I keep hoping to get time to study one of these—probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for a while but didn39。 Gates, who is worth $ billion, praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for surprising an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Chinese and did a Q amp。t it? he said.t the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language. He also showed his habits at home and personal insights. He also admitted that he would pick up a $100 bill if he found it on the street. When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way, the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break. Don39。An Interview with Bill GatesB.Bill Gates39。The Richest Billionaire（2）The underlined part in paragraph 8 may actually mean that _______. A.food and clothing are basic needs for people39。he never cares about buying food and clothingD.t spend much money on food and clothes（3）What advice did Bill Gates give? A.B.Avoid staying up too late.Pick up the $100 bills in the streets.（4）Which of the following is true according to the passage? A.Bill Gates was good at learning languages in high school.C.Bill Gates39。蓋茨認為自己不懂外語是人生的一個遺憾。根據(jù)第一段中的“The world39。蓋茨似乎擁有一切，但他有一個遺憾。是全文的主題句，可知這篇文章主要講了比爾 （2）考查推理判斷。由此推斷出上文的意思是他在食物和衣服上花的錢不多，故選D。根據(jù)最后一段中的“ When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way, the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break.”當(dāng)被問及人生的教訓(xùn)時，這位億萬富翁表示，他仍在努力改掉熬夜的習(xí)慣。蓋茨的建議是避免熬夜太晚，故選C。根據(jù)第三段中的“I took Latin and Greek in high school and got As and I guess it helps my vocabulary.”我在高中的時候?qū)W過拉丁語和希臘語，拿到了A，我想這對我的詞匯量有幫助。蓋茨在高中時很擅長學(xué)習(xí)語言，故選B。9．閱讀理解 Tristan Miller studied more than 10,000 puns in one research project. The pun is a kind of joke that uses a word with two meanings. For example, you could say, “Balloons do not like pop music. The word pop can be a way of saying popular music。Allison Bishop is a puter scientist and she also performs standup edy. She explained that machines are trained to look for patterns. Comedy, on the other hand, relies on things that stay close to a pattern, but not pletely within it. To be funny, humor should also not be predictable, Bishop said. This is a great challenge for a machine to recognize and understand what is funny. t be replaced by a machine, she added. s Miller says there are good reasons to keep trying to teach humor to robots. It could make machines mor