【正文】 。B.He promised to marry her.C.He centered his deep affection on her.D.He pledged his love and promised his life to her.（2）What can be inferred from the story? A.The artist loved his work more than his wife.B.The artist didn39。t really understand what is beauty.C.The wife was fooled to sacrifice for his art creation.D.The wife loved his painting more than herself.（3）What did the artist mean by saying “This is indeed life itself!”？ A.He appreciated his life of painting.B.He was grateful to his wife.C.His work was more true to life than life itself.D.His effort was really worth it.（4）What would be the best title for this passage? A.A Wellmatched CoupleB.A Devoted ArtistC.A Rare MasterpieceD.A Stupid Wife【答案】（1）A（2）A（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，有一位技藝超群的畫家遇到一位美麗的女士，頓生愛意。他關(guān)懷備至，贊不絕口，終于使她答應(yīng)嫁給他，婚后不久這位美女就發(fā)現(xiàn)，丈夫?qū)λ绱烁信d趣卻并非愛她，而是欣賞藝術(shù)。畫家是一位充滿激情、既狂熱又郁郁寡歡的人。他完全沉浸在繪畫中的時(shí)候便只看見想看見的東西。他沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)，盡管她微笑著，她的身體卻在衰弱下去，內(nèi)心并不快活。終于這幅畫完成時(shí)，他卻發(fā)現(xiàn)妻子死了。（1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“And soon he expressed his great desire to put her rare beauty on canvas.”可知過不久他就強(qiáng)烈表示要把她曠古稀世的美畫出來。 他想把妻子的倩影畫在畫布上永遠(yuǎn)留在人間， 故選A。（2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“When he admired her classic beauty, it was as though he were standing in front of a work of art rather than in front of a human being to whom he had pledged his love and promised his life.”可知他稱贊她身上的古典美，就好像是站在一件藝術(shù)品前欣賞，而不是把她當(dāng)做活生生的人，當(dāng)做他發(fā)誓要終生相愛的愛人。 故選A。（3）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)最后一段中的“As he stood there gazing at his beautiful work of art, he cried with a loud voice, ‘This is indeed life itself!’”。他站在那兒凝視自己創(chuàng)作的藝術(shù)珍品，不僅高聲喊道：“真的，生命就在這兒！可以推斷出這位畫家善于運(yùn)用色彩，他畫什么像什么，甚至超過原樣，好像他能在畫布上展示生命。 故選C。（4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)全文大意。得知本文講述了一位技藝超群的畫家完全沉浸在繪畫中的時(shí)候只看見想看見的東西。他完全忽視妻子的感受和變化。故選B?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷，詞義猜測和主旨大意四個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。6．閱讀理解 We want our children to succeed, in school and, perhaps even more importantly, in life. But the paradox(悖論) is that our children can only truly succeed if they first learn how to fail. Consider the finding that worldclass figure skaters fall over more often in practice than lowlevel figure skaters. At first sight this seems contradictory. Why are the really good skaters falling over the most? The reason is actually quite simple. Top skaters are constantly challenging themselves in practice, attempting jumps that stretch their limitations. This is why they fall over so often, but it is precisely why they learn so fast. Lowerlevel skaters have a quite different approach. They are always attempting jumps they can already do very easily, remaining within their fort zone. This is why they don39。t fall over. In a superficial sense, they look successful, because they are always on their feet. The truth, however, is that by never failing, they never progress. What is true of skating is also true of life. James Dyson worked through 5,126 failed prototypes(原型) for his dual cyclone vacuum before coining up with the design that made his fortune. These failures were essential to the pathway of learning. As Dyson put it: “You can39。t develop new technology unless you test new ideas and learn when things go wrong. Failure is essential to invention.” In healthcare, however, things are very different. Clinicians don39。t like to admit to failure, partly because they have healthy egos(自我)(particularly the senior doctors) and partly because they fear litigation(訴訟). The consequence is that instead of learning from failure, healthcare often covers up failure. The direct consequence is that the same mistakes are repeated. According to the Journal of Patient Safety, 400,000 people die every year in American hospitals alone due to preventable error. Until healthcare learns to respond positively to failure, things will not improve. But let us return to children. One of the major mistakes in education in the 1970s was the attempt to equip children with confidence by giving them lots of successes （setting the bar very low）. The consequence was that the ego of kids became bound up with success, and they became unable to take risks and collapsed as soon as they hit a proper challenge. We need to flip(翻轉(zhuǎn)) this approach. In a plex world, failure is inevitable. It is those individuals and institutions that have the flexibility to face up to failure, learn the lessons and adapt which eventually excel(突出).（1）The question raised in the first paragraph is to ________. A.open up a discussion on the topicB.analyze the reason for successC.express the author39。s oppositionD.doubt the abilities of the top skaters（2）Which of the following is the structure of the passage? A.B.C.D.（3）What would be the best title for the passage? A.How we can avoid failure in lifeB.What we should learn from failureC.Why failure is the key to flying highD.Where we further improve ourselves【答案】（1）A（2）A（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，論證了“失敗是孩子成功的必須條件”這一觀點(diǎn)。(1)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“But the paradox（悖論）is that our children can only truly succeed if they first learn how to fail.”可知，文章的中心論點(diǎn)是如果孩子想要真正成功，首先就要學(xué)會(huì)失敗。后面以世界級(jí)滑冰運(yùn)動(dòng)員摔倒的次數(shù)更多來證明這一點(diǎn)，最后一句提出問題：為什么好的滑冰運(yùn)動(dòng)員反而摔倒的次數(shù)多呢？下文對(duì)這個(gè)問題做了回答，進(jìn)一步闡明了文章的中心論點(diǎn)。很明顯，這個(gè)問題就是為了引出下文對(duì)中心論點(diǎn)的論述服務(wù)的。故選A。(2)考查文章結(jié)構(gòu)。第一段提出中心論點(diǎn)并以滑冰運(yùn)動(dòng)員為例引出第二段。第三段James Dyson為正面例子證明：成功是建立失敗的基礎(chǔ)上的。而第四和第五兩段分別以醫(yī)療和20世紀(jì)七十年代的兒童教育為反例證明：不經(jīng)歷失敗就不會(huì)獲得成功和提高。最后一段再次強(qiáng)調(diào)中心論點(diǎn)。故選A。(3)考查主旨大意。文章第