【正文】 s farm is a few miles to the north. I grew up there. Milking a cow, feeding the chickens and cutting firewood were daily routines. Grandpa had me carrying a broom to do snow cleaning when it was actually taller than I was. This was the work kids like me learned to do at a young age.t fair, I knew, but that was just the way it was. Luckily, I was taught at a very young age a very important lesson. I am different and that39。m unique and I matter. No one could ever take that away from me. I knew this then, and I know this now. That alone helped me through the frustrations and heartaches of normal life.t change the way they were, but I could change the way I felt. I was not going to feel bad because of their ignorance or jealousy. It wasn39。t stop them, or change the fact that these ments hurt. It did, however, give me a way to understand these people and deal with their treatment in a way that was okay for me.t change that for anything. People will always look because it is not every day that you see someone that tall. I learned that at a young age and I now try to teach my own children that they are unique and they matter. That is the message I give to you. Regardless of your race, religion, background, or circumstances ... Being different is okay.（1）The author mentioned his hometown to show us _______. A.his grandpa is strict with himC.he had to do a lot of labor work（2）The author was often teased because _______. A.B.he fought with people easilyhe didn39。s attitude towards being teased? A.He felt angry failing to change others39。He felt hurt hearing people39。He hated people39。Everything es to the man who waits.B.Speech is silver, silence is gold.Keep your head up.【答案】（1）A（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了作者從小到大由于身高的特殊性受到了很多嘲笑和欺辱，但是作者并未此而感到沮喪．反而認識到不管一個人的種族、宗教、背景或者所處的環(huán)境如何，與眾不同也是一種生活態(tài)度。根據(jù)第一段中的“ Castle Dale is a small town in central Utah”Castle Dale是“我”的家鄉(xiāng)，然后介紹了“我”在祖父的農場長大每天做了很多雜事：給奶牛擠奶，喂雞、砍柴火等；暗示出從小我來自于一個普通的家庭，并沒有表現(xiàn)出特殊的地方。（2）考查細節(jié)理解。故案選B。根據(jù)第二段中的“I am different and that39。m unique and I matter. No one could ever take that away from me. I knew this then, and I know this now. “可知“我”自小雖然與眾不同，但是從內心接受自己．以及最后一段中的“Regardless of your race, religion, background, or circumstances ... Being different is okay. ”可知，“我”走自己的路讓別人說去吧！故選A。從整篇文章內容來看，主要描述“我”從小到大由于身高的原因而與眾不同，并受到周圍人的取笑。Keep your head up．“把頭抬起來”形象描述了“我”的心理狀態(tài)，符合題意?！军c評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。 One of my first memories as a child in the 1950s was a discussion I had with my brother in our tiny bedroom in the family house in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Pluto, which famously was downgraded from a “major planet” to a “dwarf planet”（矮星） in 2006, captured our imagination because it was a mystery that could plete our picture of what it was like at the most remote corners of our solar system.s underdog discovery story is part of what makes it so attractive. Clyde Tombaugh was a Kansas farm boy who built telescopes out of spare auto parts, old farm equipment and selfground lenses. As an assistant at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh39。s founder thought existed beyond the orbit of Neptune. On February 18，1930，Tombaugh found it. Pluto was the first planet discovered by an American, and represented a moment of light in the midst of the Great Depression39。 Pluto is much more than something that is not a planet. It39。t the limit at all. We don39。Because it lost its major planet status.B.Because it was discovered by an American.D.An American Scientist: Clyde TombaughB.Pluto39。The Days I Spent with My Brother in Pennsylvania（3）What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?A.Pluto was the only planet that was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.C.s job was to build telescopes for Lowell Observatory.D.s telescopes used for searching stars were very simple.（4）What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph most probably mean?A.Pluto is much more than a planet in the solar system.C.Pluto is not a planet in the solar system, but it is more than a planet.【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】文章講述了小時候作者對冥王星的認識，以及冥王星被發(fā)現(xiàn)和被從太陽系去除的經過，更表現(xiàn)了冥王星的神秘和魅力，這使作者認識到宇宙是無窮的，也是不斷變化的，需要我們不停去探索。根據(jù)第三段Pluto, which famously was downgraded from a “major planet” to a “dwarf planet”（矮星）in 2006, captured our imagination because it was a mystery that could plete our picture of what it was like at the most remote corners of our solar system可知，在2006年冥王星被從太陽系大行星中被去除，失去了其大行星地位，故選A。文章主要講述的是冥王星的被發(fā)現(xiàn)和被從太陽系去除的經過，更表現(xiàn)了它的神秘和魅力。( 3 )推理判斷題。s dark encroachment (入侵).可知，是Clyde Tombaugh用他簡陋的儀器發(fā)現(xiàn)了冥王星，成了第一個發(fā)現(xiàn)行星的美國人，并且給黑暗的大蕭條時期帶來了一線光明。( 4 )猜測句意題。故選D。8．閱讀理解 Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mubaba. This is the patternABB. Another order was mubage. This is the pattern “ABC”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the ABB pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order. is very different from 39?！眛 appear to be enough for children39。d watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought facetoface with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies－regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio－learned nothing.（1）What makes connections in a baby39。Having a higher IQ.B.The baby39。D.Babies identify different sound patterns.B.1