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e my screen saver with her photo would appear. Each time I would e back from eating lunch alone. In my mind, I wrote Forgive her every day. One month later, my dear Exchange server asked me yet again to reset my password. I thought about the next thing that I had to get done. I quit smoking overnight. This password was a painful one to type during that month, but doing it helped me to yell at myself in my mind as I typed that statement. It motivated me to follow my monthly goal. Guess where I went three months later: Thailand.s sometimes difficult to e up with your next goal, keeping at it brings great results. Forgiveh3r To my exwife, who started it all. Save4tripthailand it worked. Sleepbefore12 it worked. Nodrinking2months it worked. I feel better. MovEtogeth3r it worked. And the one for last month: Save4ring Yep. Life is gonna change again soon.(1)The underlined word furious in the third paragraph is closest in the meaning to ______. A.doubtfulC.angry(2)Why did he decide to use Forgiveh3ras his password? A.Because he hoped his wife would forgive him.C.Because his former boss told him to use it to change his life.(3)What can we learn from the password Save4ringfor last month? A.He will soon ask his girl friend to marry him.C.He will be reminded to save his password.(4)What might be the best title for the passage? A.Why I Changed My Password.C.How I Followed My Monthly Goal.【答案】 (1)D(2)C(3)B(4)A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文,作者公司電腦每個(gè)月都要換一次密碼,這讓作者很生氣,特別是作者剛剛離婚,心情沮喪,但是前老板的話讓作者意識(shí)到可以用設(shè)置密碼提醒自己去達(dá)成一些目標(biāo),這樣做效果真地很好。根據(jù)第三段中的“What didn39。畫線的不可能是沮喪,I was deeply depressed這里提到的是沮喪。t mean anything to the empty input field with a pulsating cursor”這里指的是生氣。 (2)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。t let myself be a victim of my recent breakup and that I was strong enough to do something about it. ”我的密碼成了指示符。用這個(gè)密碼因?yàn)樗M芴嵝阉獔?jiān)強(qiáng)。 (3)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)選項(xiàng)A. 他每周都會(huì)給他媽媽打電話;選項(xiàng)B他很快就會(huì)向他的女朋友求婚。這件事不可能發(fā)生的;選項(xiàng)D他會(huì)被提醒保存密碼。故選B。根據(jù)第六段“My password became the indicator. My password reminded me that I shouldn39。故選A。6.閱讀理解 Professor Carl Jones won the 2016 Indianapolis Prize the highest accolade in the field of animal conservation for his 40 years of work in Mauritius, where he saved an endangered kestrel from being the next Great Auk. nests and hatching(孵化)them under incubators, prompting the mothers to lay another set of eggs in the wild. Prof Jones was awarded the $250,000 (163。t enjoy the stress and the tension of the criticism I received, reflecting on the start of his career, he said the Maurutius kestrel project had been seen as a dead loss at the time. In the 1970s there was fierce opposition to the captive breeding techniques, with critics arguing that they were too risky and took the emphasis off breeding in the wild.returnB.honorD.an endangered birdB.a popular birdD.Taking eggs from the nests has worked well.B.Kestrel has adapted to the life in the wild.D.s difficult to protect kestrel.(4)Prof Jones39。 nests ________. A.B.was promoted officiallywas criticized by some people【答案】 (1)C(2)B(3)A(4)D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文,介紹了生物學(xué)家 (1)考查詞義猜測(cè)。 (2)考查推理判斷。 (3)考查推理判斷。”可知紅隼的數(shù)量已經(jīng)開始增加了,所以推斷出人工繁殖的方法很有效,故選A。根據(jù)第一段“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.”;以及倒數(shù)第二段中的“In the 1970s there was fierce opposition to the captive breeding techniques, with critics arguing that they were too risky and took the emphasis off breeding in the wild.”可知 Jones 教授從稀有鳥類的巢穴中取出鳥蛋的行為被一些人批評(píng),故選D。7.閱讀理解 ll save kids all over the world.re all human. And we all just want a chance: a chance at life, a chance in education, a chance at a future, really. And at CLF, our mission is to impact as many lives as possible, but it starts with just one.t have to be rich to help others. You don39。t even have to be collegeeducated. But it starts with your neighbor, the person right next to you, the person sitting next to you in class, the kid down the block in your neighborhood. You just do whatever you can to help in any way that you can. And today, I want to challenge each of you to make a mitment to help one person, one organization, one situation that touches your heart. My grandmother always used to say, If you39。s plenty to share.(1)What did the author want to do at a young age? A.B.C.D.A sixyearold kid39。B.s death of cancer.C. inspiration for it.Other organizations39。A chance.B.A task.D.Do little things to help those around them.B.Challenge their friends to offer help.Do charity work when you are rich.【答案】 (1)D(2)B(3)B(4)A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文,作者(蕾哈娜)年少時(shí)立志長大幫助遭受痛苦的孩子們。 (1)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 (2)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。故選B。根據(jù)第二段中的And at , our mission is to impact as many lives as possible, but it starts with just one.可知,該組織的使命是影響盡可能多的生命,但是這需要從影響一個(gè)生命開始。故選B。根據(jù)最后一段中的But it starts with your neighbor.. in your neighborhood.和You just do whatever you can to help in any way that you can, And today, I want to challenge each of you to make a mitment to help one person, one organization, one situation that touches your heart.可知,作者建議人們做力所能及的事來幫助周圍的人。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解,代詞指代和推理判斷三個(gè)題型的考查,是一篇故事類閱讀,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。 t see the black smoke or flames shooting from the windows of his neighbors39。s when he saw two women and a girl panicstricken on their doorway.s in there! one of the women cried. Though the fire department had been called, Surrell, then 64, instinctively ran inside. The baby was 8yearold Tiara, the woman39。 Entering the burning house was like running into a bucket of black paint, Surrell says. The thick smoke caused him to struggle blindly around, burned his eyes, and mad