Passage 1
【语篇导读】本文讲述作者当报童时关心一位丧偶的顾客,每次送报都会停留一会儿倾听她的故事,而作者多年后又被自家的送报员关心。由此作者感悟到社区邻里之间应互相关心,倾听别人的烦恼与忧愁。
1.Why did soda go up the author’s nose one time?
A.He was talking fast. B.He was shocked.
C.He was in a hurry. D.He was absent-minded.
答案 B
解析 推理判断题。根据第二段中的“Mrs.Stanley talked mostly about her dead husband.‘Mr.Stanley and I went shopping this morning,’ she’d say.”可推测,作者第一次听到Mrs.Stanley说这话时是极为震惊的。
2.Why did the author sit and listen to Mrs.Stanley according to Paragraph 3?
A.He enjoyed the drink.
B.He wanted to be helpful.
C.He took the chance to rest.
D.He tried to please his dad.
答案 B
解析 推理判断题。根据第三段中的“Dad said she was probably lonely,and that I ought to sit and listen and nod my head and smile...”可知,作者倾听Mrs.Stanley说话是为了帮助她。
3.Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase “work it out of her system”?
A.Recover from her sadness.
B.Move out of the neighborhood.
C.Turn to her old friends.
D.Speak out about her past.
答案 A
解析 词义猜测题。根据第三段最后一句“After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery(墓地).”可知,Mrs.Stanley看来已从失去丈夫的悲痛中走了出来,故选A项。
4.What does the author think people in a community should do?
A.Open up to others. B.Depend on each other.
C.Pay for others’ help. D.Care about one another.
答案 D
解析 推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“You find it whenever people ask how you’re doing because they care,and not because they’re getting paid to do so.”以及本文所讲的故事可推断作者想要表明的观点:社区邻里间应该互相关心。
Passage 2
【语篇导读】主要介绍一名教师,在最初授课时给学生布置组装玩具的任务,以逐步培养学生的想象力与创造力。
1.The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to .
A.know more about the students
B.make the lessons more exciting
C.raise the students’ interest in art
D.teach the students about toy design
答案 A
解析 细节理解题。根据文章第一段第一句“...I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.”可知,这位老师最初给学生布置这个任务目的是了解这些学生。故选A项。
2.What do we know about the boy mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A.He liked to help his teacher.
B.He preferred to study alone.
C.He was active in class.
D.He was imaginative.
答案 D
解析 推理判断题。根据文章第三段可以得知,这个男孩组装好的玩具堆满了美术教室的一个架子,家里的卧室也被占了相当大的地方。“我”为能有这样一位有创造力的学生而倍感欣慰。他的存在意味着“我”的课堂上有了一位意想不到的教学助手,他的创造力会感染其他学生,让他们也参与进来。由此可以看出这个男孩是有创造力、有想象力的。故选择D项。
3.What does the underlined word “downside”in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.Mistake. B.Drawback.
C.Difficulty. D.Burden.
答案 B
解析 词义猜测题。根据文章第四段可知,鼓励孩子有这种想象力也会有不利的一面。要冒一定的风险,可能会失去那些有不同思维方式的学生。必定有人会说“我就是没有创造力。”因此可以看出此段重在介绍上述这种做法存在的弊端。因此B项正确。
4.Why did the teacher ask the students to talk about their dreams?
A.To help them to see their creativity.
B.To find out about their sleeping habits.
C.To help them to improve their memory.
D.To find out about their ways of thinking.
答案 A
解析 推理判断题。文章第四段最后一句“But I’m just not creative.”引出下文师生间的对话,根据文章最后一句“Try doing it in the daytime,in class,okay?”可以看出,老师以孩子晚上做的梦引出白天课堂上要勇于尝试,大胆想象。因此A项正确。
【长难句分析】His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect(感染) other students.
他的出现意味着我有一个意想不到的助教,他的创造力会感染其他学生。
本句是一个复合句。that引导的是宾语从句,whose引导的是定语从句,修饰assistant。
