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专题03 阅读理解(记叙文)(江苏专用) 高频话题01 生活故事 Passage 1 (2024•江苏三校联考)I was surprised to find the congestion(拥塞) outside Layla’s primary school was unusually absent—I’d driven right into a parking space, and I was on time, for once. The school bell rang, and in a moment a stream of children made their way through the gate. But something was different—the kids were piling into vehicles in threes and fours. Before I could enquire my daughter Layla, Mr Trent, the deputy head, approached. “Mrs Pavis, did you not read our letter?” Letter? What letter? I had a history of not looking out for them, and not reading them in most cases. “The letter? Of course. It must have just slipped my mind—I’ve been away with work.” Now I was digging around in Layla’s messy schoolbag at home. Eventually, I found several letters, all addressing the same topic—parking outside the school gates. Apparently with some parents parking illegally, the police were about to get involved. “Why didn’t you give me these letters?” I demanded. Layla shrugged. “I forgot.” I was about to launch into a severe lecture when it occurred to me that I had always forgotten—I had forgotten to give Layla her money for cookery that morning and forgotten to hang out the kids’ washed clothes. I contained myself and figured out that they wanted the parents to car-pool (拼车). I spent the next half hour ringing round Layla’s friends’ parents, enquiring if they would like to car-pool with us. Unfortunately, they were all sorted. It was my own fault—I should have read those letters ages ago. “Er... I overheard others talking about it,” Layla said, “They said they didn’t know who would car-pool with us, because we’re always late.” I flushed instantly. We were a disorganised family, and I was the one to blame. I resolved to change. With responsibility for my kids, I find I am never, ever late. It’s good for Layla and for her older brothers, and it’s good for me, because now I never leave the house unprepared. I’ve even started checking the kids’ schoolbags for notes from school. 1. What did the author notice when the school was over? A. It was hard to find a parking space. B. Children were picked up in groups. C. Her daughter was absent from class. D. She arrived much earlier than others. 2. What stopped the author criticizing her daughter? A. The reflection of her daily routine. B. The realization of her carelessness. C. The knowledge of her kid’s character. D. The awareness of her kid’s depression. 3. Why did others refuse to car-pool with them according to Layla? A. Because they contacted them late. B. Because they failed to keep the house tidy. C. Because they couldn’t be on time. D. Because they ignored the school’s request. 4. What can we learn from the passage? A. Action creates motivation. B. Mother’s love never changes. C. It’s never too late to mend. D. Patience is the key to success. 【答案】1. B 2. B 3. C 4. C 【语篇解读】这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者在参与孩子的学校生活中，发现自己粗心大意，并且因为迟到，其他家长拒绝和自己拼车，于是作者决心改变，承担起对孩子的责任，再也没有迟到过。 1. 细节理解题。根据第一段“The school bell rang, and in a moment a stream of children made their way through the gate. But something was different—the kids were piling into vehicles in threes and fours.(学校的铃响了，不一会儿，一群孩子从大门进来了。但有些不同——孩子们三三两四地挤进了车里)”可知，放学后作者注意到了孩子们被成群地接走。故选B。 2. 细节理解题。根据第三段“I was about to launch into a severe lecture when it occurred to me that I had always forgotten—I had forgotten to give Layla her money for cookery that morning and forgotten to hang out the kids’ washed clothes.(我正准备严厉地训斥一顿，突然想到我总是忘记——那天早上我忘了给莱拉做饭的钱，也忘了把孩子们洗好的衣服晾在外面)”可知，意识到自己的粗心大意阻止了作者批评她的女儿。故选B。 3. 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段““Er... I overheard others talking about it,” Layla said, “They said they didn’t know who would car-pool with us, because we’re always late.”(“呃……“我无意中听到别人在谈论这件事，”莱拉说，“他们说他们不知道谁会和我们拼车，因为我们总是迟到。”)”可知，根据Layla的说法，其他人拒绝与他们拼车是因为他们不能准时。故选C。 4. 推理判断题。根据最后一段“I resolved to change. With responsibility for my kids, I find I am never, ever late. It’s good for Layla and for her older brothers, and it’s good for me, because now I never leave the house unprepared. I’ve even started checking the kids’ schoolbags for notes from school.(我决心改变。有了对孩子的责任，我发现我从来没有迟到过。这对莱拉和她的哥哥们都有好处，对我也有好处，因为现在我再也不会毫无准备地出门了。我甚至开始检查孩子们的书包里有没有学校的笔记)”结合文章主要讲述了作者在参与孩子的学校生活中，发现自己粗心大意，并且因为迟到，其他家长拒绝和自己拼车，于是作者决心改变，承担起对孩子的责任，再也没有迟到过。可推知，文章告诉我们“亡羊补牢，犹未晚也”的道理。故选C。 Passage 2 (2023•江苏)A few years ago, I realized that I had a fear of heights. Sometimes I would feel uncomfortable if I looked down from somewhere high and the higher I got, the worse I felt. However, there were some things that made me nervous when I looked up at them — such as drop towers(急速下降塔). About a month ago, my family and I went on a trip to Marineland — an amusement park with a sea animal theme. One of Marineland’s attractions is a huge drop tower called the “Sky Screamer”. My dad wanted to ride it, and he wanted to take me with him. He kept encouraging me, and I finally gave in, because I was desired to face my fears. Going up was terrible. I got stomachaches from just looking at the tower. When we reached the tower, we lined up and got seated on the ride. When it reached a few feet off the ground, it stopped for a moment, before sending us straight to the top at great speed. I squeezed my eyes shut and I held the handlebar(把手) as tightly as I could during the whole ride. A few seconds later my heart was in my mouth and I was screaming my lungs out. At the top, I opened my eyes and looked forward, not down. I tried to prepare myself for the way down, but it didn’t really help. There I was, with my eyes squeezed(紧紧地) shut, holding the handlebar and again, screaming at the top of my voice. In fact, it was even worse than going up! But when I got to the bottom, I felt relieved. I thanked my dad for forcing me to go on the ride, and I was pleased I had overcome my fears. So, was the “Sky Screamer” scary? Well, maybe just a little bit. 5. Which of the following wasn’t the writer afraid of? A. Riding a lift to a higher place. B. Looking down from a height. C. Looking up at drop towers. D. Going to a wonderful park. 6. What made the writer finally decide to ride the “Sky Screamer”? A. Her father’s encouraging words. B. Her interest in the ride. C. Her desire to face her fears. D. Her father’s nagging. 7. What did the writer do during the ride? A. She kept looking down. B. She kept holding the handlebar. C. She was too frightened to scream. D. She squeezed her father’s hand tightly. 8. What can we learn from the passage? A. The writer volunteered to take the ride. B. The writer’s father forced her to ride with him. C. The ride was less scary on the way up. D. The ride offered the writer a chance to face and overcome her fears. 9. What is the passage mainly about? A. A trip to Marineland. B. Facing a fear. C. A ride to the top of the “Sky Screamer”. D. A joyful ride on the “Sky Screamer”. 【答案】5. D 6. C 7. B 8. D 9. B 【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了有恐高症的作者在一次去游乐园时，为了直面自己的恐惧，乘坐了跳楼机，最后作者勇敢地战胜了自己的恐惧。 5. 细节理解题。根据第一段“A few years ago, I realized that I had a fear of heights. Sometimes I would feel uncomfortable if I looked down from somewhere high and the higher I got, the worse I felt. However, there were some things that made me nervous when I looked up at them — such as drop towers (急速下降塔).(几年前，我意识到我有恐高症。有时候，如果我从高处往下看，我会觉得很不舒服，越高感觉就越糟。然而，当我抬头看它们的时候，有一些东西让我感到紧张——比如急速下降塔。)”可知，作者有恐高症，害怕的内容主要和高度相关，其中不包括去游乐园。故选D。 6. 细节理解题。根据第二段中“He kept encouraging me, and I finally gave in, because I was desired to face my fears.(他不停地鼓励我，我终于屈服了，因为我想面对我的恐惧。)”可知，作者最终决定乘坐跳楼机是因为渴望面对她的恐惧。故选C。 7. 细节理解题。根据第三段中“I squeezed my eyes shut and I held the handlebar (把手) as tightly as I could during the whole ride.(我紧紧地闭上眼睛，全程紧紧地握住把手)”和第四段中“There I was, with my eyes squeezed (紧紧地) shut, holding the handlebar and again, screaming at the top of my voice.(我就在那儿，紧闭双眼，抓住把手，一次又一次地扯着嗓子尖叫。)”可知，作者在上升和下降的全程都一直握着把手。故选B。 8. 细节理解题。根据第四段中“I thanked my dad for forcing me to go on the ride, and I was pleased I had overcome my fears.(我感谢爸爸强迫我坐过山车，我很高兴自己克服了恐惧。)”可知，这次乘坐跳楼机的体验给了作者一个面对和克服恐惧的机会。故选D。 9. 主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章讲述了有恐高症的作者在一次去游乐园时，为了直面自己的恐惧，乘坐了跳楼机，最后作者勇敢地战胜了自己的恐惧。由此可知，文章主要围绕的是面对恐惧。故选B。 Passage 3 (2020•江苏苏州)I'd done it before, and so I had no reason to believe that this time would be any different. I was sure that when I returned home from my mission trip, as always, I'd bring back nothing more than some mud on my boots, a hole or two in my jeans and, of course, a lot of great memories. The summer before my high school graduation, I went to West Virginia with others as volunteers to repair the homes of those in need. Arriving at our destination, my group was assigned the task of rebuilding sections of a home that had been damaged by fire. No sooner had we parked on the home's dirt driveway than we saw an excited little girl, no more than six years old, standing in the doorway of the family's temporary home. Shoeless and wearing dirty clothes and the biggest smile I'd ever seen, she yelled, "Ma, Ma, they really came! " I didn't know it then, but her name was Dakota, and four more days would pass before she’d say another word near me. Behind Dakota was a woman in a wheelchair—her grandmother, we'd soon learn. I also discovered that my job that week would be to help change a fire—damaged dining room into a bedroom for this little girl. Grabbing our tools, we went to work. Over the following days, I noticed Dakota peeking at us every now and then as we worked. A few times. I tried talking with her, but she remained shy and distant, always flying around us like a tiny butterfly but keeping to herself. By our fifth and final day, however, this was about to change. Before I went to work on her home on that last morning, I spoke for a moment or two with the grandmother. I was especially pleased when she told me how much Dakota loved her new room so much, in fact, that she'd begged to sleep in it the previous night, even though it wasn't quite ready. As we talked, I noticed something I hadn’t seen before—Dakota was hiding behind her grandmother. Cautiously, she stepped into view, and I could see that just like her clothes, her face was still dirty. But no amount of soil could hide those bright blue eyes and big smile. She was simply adorable. I wanted so much to hug her, but respecting her shyness, I kept my distance. Slowly, she began walking toward me. It wasn't until she was just inches away that I noticed the folded piece of paper in her tiny hand. Silently, she reached up and handed it to me. Once unfolded, I looked at the drawing she'd made with her broken crayons on the back of an old coloring book cover. It was of two girls—one much taller than the other—and they were holding hands. She told me it was supposed to be me and her and on the bottom of the paper were three little words that instantly broke my heart. Now almost in tears, I couldn't control myself anymore—I bent down and hugged her. She hugged me, too. And for the longest time, neither one of us could let go. By early afternoon, we finished Dakota's bedroom, and so I gladly used the rare free time to get to know my newest friend. Sitting under a tree away from the others, we shared a few apples while she told me about her life. As I listened to her stories about the struggles she and her family went through daily, I began to realize how boring various aspects of my own life were. I left for home early the next morning. I was returning with muddy boots and holes in my jeans. But because of Dakota, I brought back something else, too—a greater appreciation for all of the blessing of my life. I’ll never forget that barefoot little butterfly with the big smile and dirty face. I pray that she’ll never forget me either. 10. From the appearance description of the little girl, we know _______. A. she formed a bad living habit B. she hoped for a better education C. she was an innocent and lovely child D. she was strong and calm in the inner world 11. What were probably written on the bottom of the paper? A. Enjoy your help. B. Please don’t leave. C. Help me, please. D. Hug me close. 12. How did the author feel after unfolding the piece of paper? A. She worried about the little girl’s future. B. She decided to keep helping the little girl. C. She felt a greater affection for the little girl. D. She got surprised at the little girl’s worthless gift. 13. What does the passage mainly tell us? A. One must learn to share life experiences. B. One often wants to lead a meaningful life. C. One occasionally benefits from the poverty. D. One should be more grateful for the gift of life. 【答案】10. C 11. B 12. C 13. D 【语篇解读】本文是记叙文。作者像往常一样去西弗吉尼亚州做志愿者，遇到了一个害羞的小姑娘，最终小姑娘给了作者一封让她感动的信，这让作者意识到，一个人应该更感激生活的馈赠。 10. 细节理解题。根据文章第二段“ Shoeless and wearing dirty clothes and the biggest smile I'd ever seen, she yelled, "Ma, Ma, they really came! " ”(她没穿鞋，穿着脏衣服，脸上挂着我见过的最灿烂的笑容，大声喊道：“妈妈，妈妈，他们真的来了!”)及文章第五段“But no amount of soil could hide those bright blue eyes and big smile. She was simply adorable.”(但再多的泥土也掩盖不了她那双明亮的蓝眼睛和灿烂的笑容。她简直可爱极了。)可知，这个小女孩是天真可爱的。故选C项。 11. 推理判断题。根据第二段可知，作者是一个志愿者。再根据文章第六段“She told me it was supposed to be me and her and on the bottom of the paper were three little words that instantly broke my heart. Now almost in tears, I couldn't control myself anymore—I bent down and hugged her. She hugged me, too. And for the longest time, neither one of us could let go. ”(她告诉我应该是我和她，在纸的底部有三个小字，让我的心立刻碎了。我再也无法控制自己，几乎要哭了——我弯下腰去拥抱她。她也拥抱了我。很长一段时间，我们都不愿意放手。)由此判断出，小女孩写在底部的字应该是让作者不要离开。故选B项。 12. 推理判断题。根据第六段“on the bottom of the paper were three little words that instantly broke my heart. Now almost in tears, I couldn't control myself anymore—I bent down and hugged her. ”(在这张纸的底部有三个小字，立刻使我的心都碎了。我再也无法控制自己，几乎要哭了——我弯下腰去拥抱她。)可推断出作者对于小女孩的感情更深了一步。故选C项。 13. 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段“But because of Dakota, I brought back something else, too—a greater appreciation for all of the blessing of my life.”(但因为Dakota，我也带回了别的东西——更加感激我生活中所有的恩惠。)由此判断出，作者借故事告诉我们，一个人应该更感激生活的馈赠。故选D项。 Passage 4 (2023•江苏)In 2016, I suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder(SAD) a form of depression(抑郁症) that is found to make people feel low in the UK between September and April. During that cold and wet period, I got comfort in books. Books have been used by many to reduce depression. I lose myself into them as thirstily as usually get my morning coffee. Each Christmas, I have a habit of returning to the old favorite books that make up for my emptiness, such as Jane Eyre. Sometimes, to escape from the cold, I run back to the heat that I am used to, so I will read a lot of books set in Africa. It became important for me to find a way to escape my sadness in the world of books. And isn’t that what art and literature is for? According to JJ Bola, the author of No Place to Call Home, “The world can get you so down that you think you’re the only person going through what you’re going through. But then you read and you realize that you are not alone that if someone else has gone through it and survived, then maybe you can, too.” It is this survival that the reader looks for, that is, the understanding that the winter is not so long after all. 14. What was the possible cause for the author’s illness? A. His personality. B. His poor health. C. Sleeplessness. D. Cold and wet seasons. 15. The author likes reading old favorite books because they help him________. A. kill time B. keep warm C. enjoy Christmas time D. drive away emptiness 16. Which book may the author probably read when he feels cold? A. Jane Eyre. B. Out of Africa. C. Alice in Wonderland. D. No Place to Call Home. 17. Through reading, the author________. A. finds a way to escape his sadness B. gets along better with others C. leans more about other cultures D. becomes more interested in literature 18. What is the best title for the passage? A. Reading Reduces Depression B. Reading Keeps You Warm C. How to Escape Loneliness D. How to Survive Winters 【答案】14. D 15. D 16. B 17. A 18. A 【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者患有一种叫做季节性情感障碍的抑郁症。而作者通过阅读来缓解痛苦，阅读书籍给了作者安慰，让作者觉得自己不是一个人在面对困难。 14. 细节理解题。根据第一段“In 2016, I suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder(SAD) a form of depression(抑郁症) that is found to make people feel low in the UK between September and April. During that cold and wet period, I got comfort in books.( 2016年，我患上了季节性情感障碍(SAD)，这是一种抑郁症，在英国，人们在9月至4月期间会感到情绪低落。在那段阴冷潮湿的日子里，我从书里得到了安慰。)”可知，患有这种疾病了时间是在9月至4月期间，那时英国的天气是寒冷和潮湿的，因此可知，是寒冷和潮湿的天气让作者患上这种病。故选D项。 15. 细节理解题。根据第二段的“Each Christmas, I have a habit of returning to the old favorite books that make up for my emptiness, such as Jane Eyre.(每年圣诞节，我都有一个习惯，那就是回到以前最喜欢的书上来弥补我的空虚，比如《简爱》。)”可知，作者通过阅读书本得到了安慰，弥补了自己精神上的空虚感。因此可知，作者读书是为了驱赶空虚感。故选D项。 16. 推理判断题。根据第二段的“Sometimes, to escape from the cold, I run back to the heat that I am used to, so I will read a lot of books set in Africa.(有时候，为了逃离寒冷，我会跑回我习惯的炎热，所以我会读很多以非洲为背景的书。)”可知，为了逃避寒冷，作者会读以非洲为背景的书籍，因此推知Out of Africa会是作者的选择。故选B项。 17. 细节理解题。根据最后一段的“It became important for me to find a way to escape my sadness in the world of books.(对我来说，在书的世界里找到一种逃避悲伤的方法变得很重要。)”可知，对作者来讲，书本是作者逃避悲伤的一种重要的方式，因此可知，通过阅读书本，作者逃离了悲伤。故选A项。 18. 主旨大意题。根据第一段的“During that cold and wet period, I got comfort in books.(在那段阴冷潮湿的日子里，我从书里得到了安慰。)”以及第二段的“Each Christmas, I have a habit of returning to the old favorite books that make up for my emptiness, such as Jane Eyre.(每年圣诞节，我都有一个习惯，那就是回到以前最喜欢的书上来弥补我的空虚，比如《简爱》。)”以及最后一段的“It became important for me to find a way to escape my sadness in the world of books.(对我来说，在书的世界里找到一种逃避悲伤的方法变得很重要。)”以及最后一段的“It is this survival that the reader looks for, that is, the understanding that the winter is not so long after all.(读者寻找的正是这种生存，即明白了冬天总会过去的。)”可知，本文讲述了阅读缓解了作者的抑郁症，给了作者安慰，驱赶走作者的空虚和悲伤，因此可知，阅读缓和了作者的抑郁情绪。故选A项。 Passage 5 (2023•江苏)On a cold and clear day in February, Wes, his brother Jeff, his assistant Jordan, and I were following the GPS from the bear’s collar( 项 圈 ) up a steep and into a red earth canyon. The temperature dropped to zero as we cleaned the snow, trying to locate the black bear’s entrance. The radio signal was so weak that as the sun set, we considered turning back. Then a curtain of snow collapsed, revealing a sandstone cave. It narrowed to a dark tunnel, and the musky(麝香味) smell of wild animal steamed from within. Wes didn’t hesitate. Armed with an expandable six-foot stick with a tranquilizer syringe(镇定剂喷射器) on its tip, he dived in headfirst. His brother crawled after him. Thirty seconds later, they came flying backward out of the tunnel. The bear they’d collared a year and a half ago now weighed about 350 pounds— and he was awake! Wes had managed to jab him with the syringe, so we waited for the drug to take effect. But when we rounded the tunnel bend, wide eyes flashed at us. He was STILL awake!! Wes told me not to move while he backed out and jabbed another dose of tranquilizer. The bear started crawling toward us. We desperately blocked the exit with backpacks and sticks as Wes jabbed him again— but he powered through our barriers with groggy(头晕眼花的) steps and began to crawl down the snowy slope. Jeff and Jordan held his back paws, managing   to hold on to him; Wes jumped on his back and grabbed his collar. The bear pulled them down  the hillside together. The tranquilizer had taken effect— he was asleep. Wes and his brother changed the batteries of the collar and checked his health, but we had one more difficult task: getting a 350-pound bear up the snowy path and safely back to his cave before he awoke. We pushed and pulled with every muscle. Before the drug wore off, our effort paid off. When spring came, signals from the bear’s new radio collar showed he’d continued his everyday life—avoiding any more contact, we hope, with humans. 19. Why did the author and his friends go to the canyon? A. They wanted to conduct a radio experiment. B. They expected to hunt for a bear for fun. C. They wished to explore the nature in winter. D. They planned to maintain the bear’s radio collar. 20. How did they find the bear they had collared? A. The bear’s unique smell reminded them. B. A hunter led them to the bear’s habitat. C. The strong sunlight revealed its cave. D. A curtain of snow showed them the way. 21. What does the underlined word “jab” in paragraph 3 mean? A. Kick. B. Inject. C. Cure. D. Assist. 22. What can we learn from paragraph 3 and 4? A. The bear was more than pleased to see them again. B. The drug took effect immediately after the bear took it. C. They made it to send the bear back to its cave. D. They gave the bear tranquilizer 4 times in the end. 23. The best title for the text is ________. A. The Bear Wearing a Collar B. Danger in Nature C. An Encounter with a Bear D. A “Little” Adventure 【答案】19. D 20. D 21. B 22. C 23. A 【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要介绍了作者跟随生物学家一起给熊更换无线电项圈电池的故事。 19. 细节理解题。根据文章第二段“The radio signal was so weak that as the sun set, we considered turning back.(无线电信号很弱，太阳下山时，我们就考虑往回走。)”和第四段“Wes and his brother changed the batteries of the collar and checked his health, but we had one more difficult task: getting a 350-pound bear up the snowy path and safely back to his cave before he awoke.(维斯和他的弟弟给它换了项圈的电池，检查了它的健康状况，但我们还有一项更艰巨的任务：在它醒来之前，把一只350磅重的熊带上雪道，并安全返回洞穴。)”可知，作者和他的朋友去峡谷是计划维护这只熊的无线电项圈。故选D。 20. 细节理解题。根据文章第二段“Then a curtain of snow collapsed, revealing a sandstone cave. (接着，一层雪塌了下来，露出了一个砂岩洞穴。)” 可知，一层雪的坍塌给他们指明了路，帮助他们找到那只佩戴项圈的熊。故选D。 21. 词义猜测题。根据文章第三段划线词后半句“so we waited for the drug to take effect. (所以我们等待药物起作用。)” 和常识可知，韦斯设法用注射器给熊注射了麻醉剂。所以jab为“注射”之意。故选B。 22. 细节理解题。根据文章第四段“Wes and his brother changed the batteries of the collar and checked his health, but we had one more difficult task: getting a 350-pound bear up the snowy path and safely back to his cave before he awoke.(维斯和他的弟弟给它换了项圈的电池，检查了它的健康状况，但我们还有一项更艰巨的任务：在它醒来之前，把一只350磅重的熊带上雪道，并安全返回洞穴。)” 可知，最终他们成功地把熊送回它的洞穴。故选C。 23. 主旨大意题。根据全文可知，文章主要介绍了作者跟随生物学家一起给熊更换无线电项圈电池的故事。所以“The Bear Wearing a Collar(戴项圈的熊)”作为文章标题最为合适。故选A。 Passage 6 (2023•江苏)On the night of 14th June 1904, New York’s Chinatown was in a deep gloom(低迷). For the past 20 years, the restaurants were filled with those crazy about a taste of real Chinese cooking “chop suey”. But suddenly, all that seemed at risk. A few days earlier, a chef named Lem Sen had arrived, saying he had invented it a decade before while working at a restaurant in San Francisco. His recipe had been stolen by an American diner to make money. Through his lawyer, he demanded restaurants pay him for using his recipe. Chop suey was first mentioned by Chinese-American journalist Wang Chin Foo in a list of common dishes he thought most attractive to Western tastes. As he explained, “each Chinese cook has his own recipe. The main parts are pork, bacon, chicken, mushroom, bamboo shoots, onion, and pepper, while accidental ones are duck, beef, salted black beans etc. Yet it is often considered by Westerners that this is a ‘national dish of China’ more than any other dish they’ve known.” Although a hyperbolic way to introduce this dish, it clearly showed that chop suey was indeed of Chinese origin. Where exactly its roots lay has been debated; but it was probably first cooked in Taishan, Guangdong, where most early immigrants to America had grown up. In 1866, the journalist Allan Forman noticed it as a delicious dish despite its “mysterious nature”, and nine years later, the first recipe appeared in magazines, with some un-Chinese ingredients thrown in. It was not long before a myth making began. In 1896, Li Hongzhang visited New York, and newspapers mistakenly reported that while refusing Western dishes at a banquet(宴会), he had enthusiastically accepted a plate of chop suey. This caused a great hit, and many who never heard of it before simply assumed that it was introduced to the US by Li Hongzhang, which accidentally promoted the dish’s popularity. 24. What is the purpose of a chef’s story in paragraph 1? A. To describe food history. B. To bring out chop suey. C. To show risky business world. D. To introduce a law case. 25. What would Wang Chin Foo most agree with about chop suey? A. Fixed ingredients. B. Its popularity overseas. C. Un-Chinese nature. D. Mixed national identities. 26. When chop suey was introduced in a “hyperbolic” way, it was_________. A. remarked beyond reality B. explained in greater details C. praised in something common D. commented based on the origin 27. What can be inferred about the myth making on chop suey? A. Li Hongzhang promoted this dish. B. Its popularity was based on facts. C. Mass media belonged to the root cause. D. Public opinions voiced acceptance. 【答案】24. B 25. B 26. A 27. C 【语篇解读】这是一篇记叙文。介绍了中国菜“吵杂碎”在美国流行的故事。 24. 推理判断题。根据第一段中“For the past 20 years, the restaurants were filled with those crazy about a taste of real Chinese cooking ‘chop suey’. (在过去的20年里，餐馆里满是对真正的中国菜‘炒杂碎’的狂热。)”和“A few days earlier, a chef named Lem Sen had arrived, saying he had invented it a decade before while working at a restaurant in San Francisco. (几天前，一位名叫Lem Sen的厨师来到这里，说他十年前在旧金山的一家餐馆工作时发明了这道菜。)”以及后文内容可以推知，写厨师的故事目的是引出“炒杂碎”这道菜。故选B项。 25. 细节理解题。根据第二段中“Chop suey was first mentioned by Chinese-American journalist Wang Chin Foo in a list of common dishes he thought most attractive to Western tastes. (美籍华人记者Wang Chin Foo在一份他认为最吸引西方人口味的常见菜肴清单中首次提到了炒杂碎。)”可知，Wang Chin Foo认为“吵杂碎”在海外很受欢迎。故选B项。 26. 推理判断题。根据划线词句前文“Chop suey was first mentioned by Chinese-American journalist Wang Chin Foo in a list of common dishes he thought most attractive to Western tastes. (美国华裔记者Wang Chin Foo在一份他认为最能吸引西方人口味的普通菜肴清单中首次提到了杂烩。)”以及“Yet it is often considered by Westerners that this is a ‘national dish of China’ more than any other dish they’ve known. (然而西方人通常认为这是一道‘中国国菜’，超过他们所知道的任何其他中国菜。)”可知，西方人对这道菜的评价超出了真实情况。从而推知，当用一种“hyperbolic”方式来介绍这道菜时，它的评论超出了现实。故选A项。 27. 推理判断题。根据最后一段中“In 1896, Li Hongzhang visited New York, and newspapers mistakenly reported that while refusing Western dishes at a banquet(宴会), he had enthusiastically accepted a plate of chop suey. This caused a great hit, and many who never heard of it before simply assumed that it was introduced to the US by Li Hongzhang, which accidentally promoted the dish’s popularity. (1896年，李鸿章访问纽约，报纸错误地报道说，他在一个宴会上拒绝西餐，却热情地接受了一盘杂碎。这句话引起了轩然大波，很多之前没听说过这道菜的人都以为是李鸿章介绍到美国来的，结果一不小心让这道菜大受欢迎。)”可以推知，是大众媒体的报道是造成“炒杂碎”这道菜成为神话的根本原因。故选C项。 高频话题02 善行义举 Passage 1 (2023•江苏扬州)As a child, I didn’t enjoy cartoons like other girls my age, but I did love listening to discussions about politics(政治). I was very talkative and asked too many questions, which wore out the patience of my friends and sometimes even the adults around me. My Grade 4 report summarized my social relations with “needs improvement”. It wasn’t until I turned 46 that I learned my uniqueness has a name — autism(自闭症). My diagnosis(诊断) was like discovering a missing piece of my brain, picking it up, putting it in place and feeling whole for the first time. From then on, I started to fully enjoy life. What I’ve found out since is that there are a number of others like me — people who weren’t diagnosed as having autism until midlife. In my 20s, I talked with a doctor about my growing anxiety. But autism never entered the conversation. In early 2017, I began a new job in which I was being praised and recognised as never before, so I didn’t know how to deal with it. As I neared the end of my one-year work, all the symptoms(症状) of my undiagnosed condition appeared in my working environment: becoming so stressed out because of overwork. Then, two months later, I received my diagnosis. Finally everything started to make sense. Today, I have my own company called Liberty Co., which suggests that facing the facts brings us freedom. Our goal is to increase the population of people like me in the workplace. It gives me a chance to be a supporter for women with autism. 1. What do we know about the author as a child? A. She was patient. B. She was different. C. She got good grades in school. D. She tried to stand out from her classmates. 2. How did the author feel about her diagnosis? A. Thankful. B. Concerned. C. Doubtful. D. Dissatisfied. 3. What made the author’s symptoms worse? A. No recognition from her co-workers. B. Not seeing doctors very often. C. The anxiety about her social relations. D. The stress of her new job. 4. Why did the author set up her own business? A. To support women’s equal rights. B. To help people in the workplace connect more. C. To include more autistic people at work. D. To teach women with autism survival skills. 【答案】1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 【知识点】疾病 、记叙文、善行义举(个人) 【语篇解读】这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者从小就表现得跟别人不一样，直到中年，她才被诊断出患有自闭症，她积极面对，并帮助像她一样患有自闭症的女性。 1. 细节理解题。根据第一段中“As a child, I didn’t enjoy cartoons like other girls my age, but I did love listening to discussions about politics (政治). I was very talkative and asked too many questions, which wore out the patience of my friends and sometimes even the adults around me. (小时候，我不像其他同龄女孩那样喜欢看动画片，但我确实喜欢听关于政治的讨论。我非常健谈，问了太多的问题，这让我的朋友，有时甚至是我周围的成年人都失去了耐心)”可知，作者小时候与众不同。故选B项。 2. 推理判断题。根据第二段中“My diagnosis (诊断) was like discovering a missing piece of my brain, picking it up, putting it in place and feeling whole for the first time. From then on, I started to fully enjoy life. (我的诊断就像发现了我大脑中缺失的一块，把它捡起来，放回原处，第一次感觉自己完整了。从那时起，我开始充分享受生活)”可推知，作者对这次诊断充满感激。故选A项。 3. 推理判断题。根据第三段中“In early 2017, I began a new job in which I was being praised and recognised as never before, so I didn’t know how to deal with it. As I neared the end of my one-year work, all the symptoms (症状) of my undiagnosed condition appeared in my working environment: becoming so stressed out because of overwork. (2017年初，我开始了一份新的工作，在这份工作中，我得到了前所未有的表扬和认可，所以我不知道该如何应对。当我一年的工作接近尾声时，我未确诊的病症的所有症状都出现在我的工作环境中：因为工作过度而变得非常紧张)”可推知，来自新工作的压力使作者的情况恶化了。故选D项。 4. 推理判断题。根据最后一段“Today, I have my own company called Liberty Co., which suggests that facing the facts brings us freedom. Our goal is to increase the population of people like me in the workplace. It gives me a chance to be a supporter for women with autism. (今天，我有了自己的公司，叫做自由公司，这表明面对事实给我们带来自由。我们的目标是在工作场所增加像我这样的人。这让我有机会成为自闭症女性的支持者)”可推知，作者成立公司的目的是让更多的患有自闭症的人群进入职场。故选C项。 Passage 2 (2023•江苏扬州)Sammie Vance knows it feels bad to be left out. So she has been helping kids who feel lonely make friends. Sammie is 14. When she was in the third grade, she started the Buddy Bench program. That was at her school, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Anyone who felt lonely could sit on the “buddy bench.” It showed others that someone needed a friend. The bench brought kids together. “There was one little boy at school, younger than me,” Sammie told TIME for Kids. “He would see me in the hallway and give me a thumbs-up. That told me that what I was doing helped him.” It costs money to build benches. Sammie decided to make them out of recycled materials. This lowered the cost. And the benches were eco-friendly. Sammie gathered friends in her community. They collected 1,200 pounds of bottle caps. A company called Green Tree Plastics made three benches with the bottle caps. Sammie has helped communities all over the country set up buddy benches. And she is spreading kindness around the world. “We recently got a bench in Ghana, Africa,” she says. “That was cool.” Sammie reminds us that kids can help their community. Even small acts of kindness can be powerful. “You don’t have to be an adult to make a difference,” she says. Sammie wrote a book. It is called Inspire the World: A Kid’s Journey to Making a Difference. It tells the story of her buddy benches. Sammie hopes her example will inspire others. “I used to be really, really shy,” she says. Building buddy benches gave her confidence. “I’m definitely more outgoing now.” 5. When did Sammie start the Buddy Bench program? A. In the third grade. B. In the fourth grade. C. In the fifth grade. D. In the sixth grade. 6. What does Sammie do to help lonely kids? A. She helps them find a new hobby. B. She introduces them to her friends. C. She starts a program to help them make friends. D. She gives them a thumbs-up to make them happy. 7. How did Sammie lower the cost of making benches? A. She raised money herself. B. She cycled to find materials. C. She turned to her parents. D. She used recycled materials. 8. What does Sammie hope to do by writing a book? A. To inspire children to make differences. B. To raise more money for her journey. C. To build more benches for children. D. To remind children to act like adults. 【答案】5. A 6. C 7. D 8. A 【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了Sammie Vance从夏令营中获得灵感，创立了Buddy Bench项目，帮助学校中孤单的人找到朋友，她请求自己的社区帮忙收集瓶盖作为长椅的材料，项目的消息传播出去后，很多不同地方的人都提供了帮助，最终很多学校和公园都得以有了这样的长椅，她的善意产生了影响。 5. 细节理解题。根据第二段“When she was in the third grade, she started the Buddy Bench program. (当她上三年级时，她开始了“伙伴长椅”项目。)”可知，Sammie在三年级时启动了“伙伴长椅计划”。故选A。 6. 细节理解题。根据第二段“Anyone who felt lonely could sit on the “buddy bench.” It showed others that someone needed a friend. (任何感到孤独的人都可以坐在“伙伴长椅”上。这向其他人表明，有人需要一个朋友。)”可知，Sammie通过“伙伴长椅计划”，让感到孤独的孩子坐在长椅上，提供他们一个表达自己需要朋友的机会。故选C。 7. 细节理解题。根据第四段“Sammie decided to make them out of recycled materials. This lowered the cost. And the benches were eco-friendly. (萨米决定用再生材料做它们。这降低了成本。而且这些长椅是环保的。)”可知，Sammie决定利用回收材料制作长椅，来降低成本。故选D。 8. 细节理解题。根据第七段“Sammie reminds us that kids can help their community. Even small acts of kindness can be powerful.“You don’t have to be an adult to make a difference,” she says. (Sammie提醒我们，孩子们可以帮助他们的社区。即使是小小的善举也可能是强大的。“你不需要成为一个成年人就可以有所作为，”她说。)”可知，Sammie希望激励孩子们通过一些善意的行动带来一些影响。故选A。 Passage 3 (2024•江苏南通)Los Angeles residents Joe Blackstone and Jamie Mohn have long recognized the lasting impact storytelling can have on a child’s life. Shortly after getting married, the couple began volunteering to read books to elementary school kids. Then, when they became parents themselves, they created the J3 Foundation to help organizations devoted to children’s growth. But after learning two-thirds of fourth graders who cannot read effectively end up on welfare, Blackstone and Mohn decided to take a more hands-on approach: in 2018, they launched J3’s Cozy Reading Club. Each session of the two-hour, after-school program is free and includes outdoor activities and a healthy snack. Then, it’s time for some comfortable reading. After teachers read a book aloud and the group talks about the storyline freely, the kids find a spot to sit while grabbing a book of their choice to look through. In the end, they get to choose two books to borrow and take home. In its first year, J3’s Cozy Reading Club served 15 students in one L. A. -area classroom. As of 2022, it had expanded to 17 schools across four different districts, impacting a total of at least 400 students, the vast majority of whom live in underserved communities. With impressive statistics backing it up 90% of the students have significantly improved their reading scores, and 95% say they’ve started reading for fun since taking part in the program——its founders have much to celebrate. “Having more than 5,000 culturally relevant books available to them is so exciting. I love it when our students can see themselves and their classmates’ lives reflected in the books they are reading. The hope of changing one kid at a time makes all the work worthwhile,” Blackstone said. Currently, J3 is in the process of raising $864,000, so the Cozy Reading Club can expand to an additional 24 Los Angeles schools and double its book collection to 10,000. This is worthwhile. The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) reported that 68% of U. S. fourth graders weren’t skilled at reading in 2022, up from 66% in 2019. 9. What can be inferred about Blackstone and Mohn? A. They are children’s writers. B. They teach reading in a school. C. They value kids’ development. D. They’ve donated much to charities. 10. What can children do in J3’s Cozy Reading Club? A. Learn the history of books. B. Discuss a book’s plot. C. Cook and have snacks. D. Buy interesting books. 11. What are the statistics in Paragraph 3 about regarding J3’s Cozy Reading Club? A. Its great achievements. B. Its various services. C. Its long-term goals. D. Its current programs. 12. Why does the author mention NAEP in the last paragraph? A. To state reading is significant. B. To show J3 is a necessary cause. C. To assess J3’s potential abilities. D. To criticize America’s education. 【答案】9. C 10. B 11. A 12. B 【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。洛杉矶居民乔·布莱克斯通和杰米·莫恩非常关注儿童阅读能力的培养。他们创办了J3’s Cozy Reading Club，免费为孩子们提供阅读机会，提高他们的阅读技能，并取得了成功。 9. 细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Los Angeles residents Joe Blackstone and Jamie Mohn have long recognized the lasting impact storytelling can have on a child’s life. Shortly after getting married, the couple began volunteering to read books to elementary school kids. Then, when they became parents themselves, they created the J3 Foundation to help organizations devoted to children’s growth. (洛杉矶居民乔·布莱克斯通和杰米·莫恩早就认识到讲故事对孩子生活的持久影响。结婚后不久，这对夫妇就开始志愿为小学生读书。然后，当他们自己成为父母时，他们创建了J3基金会，以帮助致力于儿童成长的组织。)”可知，他们对孩子的成长非常重视。故选C。 10. 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“After teachers read a book aloud and the group talks about the storyline freely, the kids find a spot to sit while grabbing a book of their choice to look through. (在老师大声朗读一本书，小组自由地讨论故事情节后，孩子们找一个地方坐下，拿起一本他们选择的书来翻阅。)”可知，在J3的舒适读书俱乐部，孩子们可以自由地讨论某本书的故事情节。故选B。 11. 推理判断题。根据文章第三段“In its first year, J3’s Cozy Reading Club served 15 students in one L. A.-area classroom. As of 2022, it had expanded to 17 schools across four different districts, impacting a total of at least 400 students, the vast majority of whom live in underserved communities. With impressive statistics backing it up 90% of the students have significantly improved their reading scores, and 95% say they’ve started reading for fun since taking part in the program——its founders have much to celebrate.(在第一年，J3的舒适阅读俱乐部在洛杉矶地区的一个教室里为15名学生提供服务。截至2022年，该项目已扩展到四个不同地区的17所学校，影响了至少400名学生，其中绝大多数生活在服务不足的社区。令人印象深刻的统计数据表明，90%的学生的阅读成绩有了显著提高，95%的学生表示，自从参加了这个项目以来，他们开始以阅读为乐趣——该项目的创始人有很多值得庆祝的地方。)”可知，这些数据表明了这个阅读俱乐部所取得的成绩。故选A。 12. 推理判断题。根据最后一段“Currently, J3 is in the process of raising $864,000, so the Cozy Reading Club can expand to an additional 24 Los Angeles schools and double its book collection to 10,000. This is worthwhile. The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) reported that 68% of U. S. fourth graders weren’t skilled at reading in 2022, up from 66% in 2019. (目前，J3正在筹集86.4万美元，这样舒适阅读俱乐部就可以再扩展到洛杉矶的24所学校，并将藏书增加一倍，达到1万本。这是值得的。国家教育进步评估(NAEP)报告称，到2022年，68%的美国四年级学生不擅长阅读，高于2019年的66%。)”可知，作者提到 NAEP 的目的是想说明J3的舒适读书俱乐部所做的事情是非常必要的。故选B。 高频话题03 家人与亲人 Passage 1 (2023•江苏)I will always remember my mother's last few days in this world. On February 14th, 2000 my class went on a field trip to the beach. I had so much fun. When we returned to school, my teacher told me to go to the headmaster's office. When I got into the office, I saw a police office. Suddenly I realized something was wrong. The police office told me what had happened and we went to pick my sister up. After that, we went to the hospital and waited. Time went slowly. Finally, we got to see our mother. It was terrible. On the next day, the headmaster came and told my two teachers what had happened. I was taking a rest that day. I knew it had something to do with my mother. I kept thinking that she either died or had gotten better. How I wished that she had gotten better. When my teacher took me outside, my sister ran up to me. She started crying, “She's gone. Teresa, mommy's gone. She's dead.” I couldn't believe it. We jumped into the car and drove straight to the hospital. Most of my family were there. The silence was terrible. I knew I had to say goodbye. Today when I look back, I still miss my mother very much, but I know that I will live. My mother was a strong mother, who had the biggest heart. My mother was an angel walking on the earth. I will always remember her as living. When someone is asked who their hero(英雄) is, they usually say someone famous, like Michael Jordan or Britney Spears, When someone asks me who my hero is,  I tell them, my mother. My mother lives every day. That is what makes her a true hero. 1. Who brought the writer the bad news that her mother was ill? A. Her sister. B. The headmaster. C. Her teacher. D. The police officers. 2. What did the headmaster tell the two teachers on the next day? A. Her mother had been very ill. B. Her mother had been dead. C. Her mother had gotten better, D. Her sister came to see her. 3. From the last paragraph of the passage we know that________. A. the writer is afraid of her mother B. the writer is proud of her mother C. the writer feels sad about her mother D. the writer feels sorry for her mother 4. The writer must think her mother is a________ woman. A. famous B. free C. rich D. great 【答案】1. D 2. B 3. B 4. D 【语篇解读】这是一篇记叙文。本文讲诉了作者对逝去的的母亲的怀念。 1. 细节理解题。根据第二段“When we returned to school, my teacher told me to go to the headmaster's office. When I got into the office, I saw a police officer.(当我们回到学校时，我的老师告诉我去校长办公室。当我走进办公室时，我看见一位警官。)”和The police officer told me what had happened and we went to pick my sister up.(警官告诉我发生了什么事，然后我们去接我妹妹。)”可知，作者是在警察那里得知妈妈病了，故选D。 2. 细节理解题。根据第三段“On the next day, the headmaster came and told my two teachers what had happened. I knew it had something to do with my mother. When my teacher took me outside, my sister ran up to me. She started crying, “She's gone, Terresa, mommy's gone. She's dead.( 第二天，校长来告诉我的两位老师所发生的事情。我就知道这和我妈妈有关。当我的老师把我带到外面时，我的妹妹跑到我面前。她开始哭，“她走了，特蕾莎，妈妈走了。她死了。)”可知，校长告诉作者的两个老师：作者的母亲去世了，所以随后才有老师让作者出来见自己的妹妹，作者的妹妹才哭着告诉作者母亲去世的消息，故选B。 3. 推理判断题。根据最后一段“When someone is asked who their hero (英雄) is, they usually say someone famous, like Michael Jordan or Britney Spears. When someone asks me who my hero is, I tell them, my mother.”(当有人被问起谁是他们的英雄的时候他们经常会说乔丹或者布兰妮。当有人这样问我的时候，我会告诉他们我的英雄是我的母亲)”可知，作者以自己的母亲为荣，故选B。 4. 推理判断题。根据最后一段“When someone asks me who my hero is,  I tell them, my mother. My mother lives every day. That is what makes her a true hero.( 当有人问我心目中 英雄是谁时，我告诉他们，我的母亲。我妈妈每天都活着。这就是她成为真正英雄的原因。)”可知，因为作者认为自己的母亲是英雄，所以判断出作者认为母亲是了不起的人。故选D。 Passage 2 (2023•江苏)When I was a kid, I was close to my dad, but as I grew older, my dad and I grew further apart. We always had totally different opinions. He thought that college was a waste of time, but for me it was important to finish college. He wanted me to work my way to the top as he had done in his field, but I wanted a different life. There was a time when we did no talk with each other. A few months ago, I heard that my 84-year-old dad was in poor health. When he called and asked whether I could move from Colorado back to Tennessee to help him, I knew he was seriously ill. I am his only child and so it was time to meet my father’s requirement. Two weeks after moving back, we bought a boat and started fishing again. Fisting was one of the few things that we did while I was young and that we both enjoyed. It is strange but true that as we are fishing we are able to put things that have kept us apart for so many years behind us. We are able to talk about things that we have never talked about before. Fishing has been healing the old wounds that have kept us apart. It is not important how many fish we catch. It is about enjoying the relationship that we have not had for years. I’m 62 and he is 84. When we are on the lake fishing, it is like two kids enjoying life. It is far better to find a way to put the unhappy past behind. I am so lucky to spend the happy time with my father in his last years. Now my heart is filled with love. A smile always graces my lips. 6. Why did the author and his father become further apart? A. They had different views on things B. They lived very far from each other C. They only communicated by phone D. They seldom went to see each other 7. What made the author come back to Tennessee? A. Because his father invited him to go fishing. B. Because he decided to live in a different city C. Because his father was ill and needed caring D. Because he regretted being rude to his father. 8. What can we know from the passage? A. The author’s car broke down B. The author’s father intended him to be a fisherman C. The author was unwilling to come back D. The author’s father used to think it was useless to attend college. 9. What can be the best title for the text? A. Forgiving Is Difficult B. Fishing Bring Us Together C. Memories of Old Days D. My Beloved Father 【答案】5. A 6. C 7. D 8. B 【语篇解读】本文是记叙文。讲述了一对关系很僵的父子通过一起钓鱼讲出了各自的心结从而重归于好的故事。 5. 推理判断题。根据第一段中“We always had totally different opinions. He thought that college was a waste of time, but for me it was important to finish college. He wanted me to work my way to the top as he had done in his field, but I wanted a different life. (我们总是有完全不同的意见。他认为读大学完全是在浪费时间，但是对我而言上完大学是非常重要的。他希望我像他一样在自己工作的行业里做到最好，但是我想要不同的生活)”可知，作者和父亲关系变糟的原因是他们对事情的看法不同，故选A 。 6. 细节理解题。根据第二段中“A few months ago, I heard that my 84-year-old dad was in poor health. When he called and asked whether I could move from Colorado back to Tennessee to help him, I knew he was seriously ill. I am his only child and so it was time to meet my father’s requirement. (几个月前，我听说我84岁的父亲身体不好。当他打电话问我是否可以从科罗拉多搬回田纳西帮助他时，我知道他病得很重。我是他唯一的孩子，所以是时候满足父亲的要求了)”可知，作者决定从科罗拉多搬回田纳西，是因为父亲生病需要作者去照顾。故选C。 7. 细节理解题。根据第一段中“He thought that college was a waste of time, but for me it was important to finish college.(他认为上大学是浪费时间，但对我来说，完成大学学业很重要)”可知，作者父亲过去认为读大学是浪费时间。故选D。 8. 主旨大意题。根据最后一段“It is about enjoying the relationship that we have not had for years. I am so lucky to spend the happy time with my father in his last years. Now my heart is filled with love. A smile always graces my lips.(而是要享受我们多年未拥有的关系。 我很幸运能在父亲的最后几年和他一起度过快乐的时光。 现在我的心里充满了爱。 我的唇上总是挂着微笑)”结合文章开始讲了作者因为跟父亲意见不同而离开家多年，后来因为父亲年纪大了又得了重病，作者回家照顾父亲。回家后父亲同作者一起做作者小时常与父亲做的事情——钓鱼。渐渐地两个人话多了起来，父子俩的距离拉近，隔阂消失了。故B选项“钓鱼让我们走到一起”最符合文章标题，故选B。 高频话题04 环境污染 Passage 1 (2019•江苏常州)"It can't be done." Boyan Slat heard this over and over when he first proposed a way to clean  up millions of tons of plastic polluting our oceans. Almost anyone else would have given up in frustration and despair. But 20﹣year﹣old Slat hasn't: been discouraged but committed to his dream. "Human history is basically a list of things that couldn't be done, and then were done," he says. Today, slat and his team at The Ocean Cleanup are well on their way to proving the critics wrong. Good news for the planet. (1)_______ Slat, who grew up in the city of Delft in the Netherlands, was on a diving trip in Greece three years ago when he was deeply impressed by plastic, "There were more plastic bags than fish," he says. "That moment I realized it was a huge issue and that environmental issues are really the biggest problems my generation will face." That fall, Slat, then 17, decided to study plastic pollution as part of a high school project. Soon, Slat learned that no one had yet come up with practical way to clean up this massive garbage patches. Most proposed solutions involved "fishing" up the plastic using ships equipped with nets﹣which, as Slat discovered, would likely take more than 1,000 years, cost too much, let off too much sea life along with the trash. Slat proposed an alternative that mostly avoided these problems﹣a solar﹣powered system using a floating plastic tube which will go around the garbage and trap it is 600 meters long, A big screen hangs down from it, about three metres into the water. Wind, waves and ocean currents will push the trash toward the tube. (Fish can swim under the screen) A ship will pick up the trash and take it back to the shore to sort and recycle it into oil and other products. Best of all, Slat predicted his system could clean up the North Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Hawaii where a lot of floating garbage exists, within five to 10 years. (2)________ The following, Slat entered the aerospace engineering program at the Delft University of Technology and officially announced his ocean cleanup concept at TEDx Delft. But nothing much moved forward, Slat found himself continually absent﹣minded in classes, looking for ways. to improve his concept. "It wouldn't let go. I finally decided to put both university and my social life on hold to focus all my time on developing this idea. I wasn't sure if it would succeed, but considering the scale of problem I thought it was important to at least try." He says. With this family's blessing, Slat began in earnest organizing a team of volunteers and employees for The Ocean Cleanup, which now numbers about 100. (3)_______ In answer to opposition, Slat and his team raised ＄100,000 from a crowdfunding campaign and began testing a 40﹣meter collecting barrier near the Azores Islands last March. In June, they released a 500+ page possibility study. Over the next three to four years, Slat will push toward a fully operational large﹣scale project by testing a series of longer and longer barriers. He's currently seeking to crowd fund ＄2 million to finance it. Incidentally, The Ocean Cleanup is also working on a plan to stop plastic from washing into the oceans in the first place. "It's just the other problem that is equally important." Slat says. "It's something everyone is able to help with, and we also have some technologies in the pipeline." As for school, Slat doesn't miss it-except maybe for the social﹣part, which he hopes to (恢复) a bit once his team takes on more of the workload. "I don't have time for things like that right now, but I really can't complain. I can imagine doing something more fun than being able to have an idea and then actually making it into a reality." he says. 1. What is the function of the first paragraph? A. An introduction to the main topic. B. An overview of the whole article C. The background information of the story D. Raising a problem for later solution 2. Which of the following shows the correct order of the three missing subtitles? a. But is it possible? b. Drowning in plastic. c. An idea wouldn't die. A. a﹣b﹣c B. c﹣b﹣a C. b﹣a﹣c D. b﹣c﹣a 3. What inspired the boy to study plastic pollution? A. One of his high school projects. B. Others' opposition to his proposal. C. Humans' failure in cleaning up the ocean. D. The shockingly heavy plastic pollution in ocean. 4. What can we say about Slat's design? A. It is powerful but only used in California and Hawaii B. It is huge but causes great damage to sea lives C. It makes full use of natural forces and is friendly to nature. D. It was welcomed by all the public and worked very well. 5. Which of the following quotes best displays Slat's strong will and confidence? A. "Human history is basically a list of things that couldn't be done， and then were done." B. "That was the moment I realized it was a huge issue and that environmental issues are really the biggest problems my generation will face." C. "I finally decided to put both university and my social life on hold to focus all my time on developing this idea." D. "It's something everyone is able to help with, and we also have some technologies in the pipeline." 6. What does the author mainly do in this article? A. Explain a creative idea B. Introduce a fascinating person. C. Describe a social phenomenon D. Praise a point of view 【答案】1. B 2. D 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. B 【知识点】环境污染、记叙文 【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文，主要介绍了一个20岁的小伙子发现海洋中的塑料污染日益严重之后，想出了一种利用风、海浪和洋流清理海洋中的塑料垃圾的方法，人人都说他的想法不可行，但他仍然坚持梦想并付诸实践。 1. 推理判断题。根据第一段中的““It can’t be done.” Boyan Slat heard this over and over when he first proposed a way to clean up millions of tons of plastic polluting our oceans.”可知，当Boyan Slat提出一种处理数百万吨污染海洋的塑料的方法时，他一遍又一遍地听到“这是不可能的”，下文又具体介绍了海洋中的塑料污染现象和Boyan Slat为处理海洋塑料的新方法所付出的努力，由此可知，第一段的目的就是引出文章话题，故B项正确。 2. 段落大意题。根据第二段中的“There were more plastic bags than fish,”可知，海洋中的塑料袋比鱼还多，塑料污染十分严重，Drowning in plastic(淹没在海洋中)最能概括出这部分内容；根据第六段中的“It wouldn’t let go.”可知，Slat坚持自己的理念不放手，An idea wouldn’t die(一种想法不会消失)最能概括出这部分内容；根据倒数第三段中的“In answer to opposition, Slat and his team raised $100,000 from a crowd funding campaign and began testing a 40-meter collecting barrier near the Azores Islands last March”可知，Slat和他的团队在亚速尔群岛附近测试一个40米高的收集屏障，讲的是这个方法的可行性，But is it possible?(但是它可能么)最能概括出这部分内容，故D项正确。 3. 细节理解题。根据第二段中““There were more plastic bags than fish,” he says. “That moment I realized it was a huge issue and that environmental issues are really the biggest problems my generation will face.””可知，Slat发现海洋中的塑料袋比鱼还多，这让他决定研究塑料污染，故D项正确。 4. 推理判断题。根据第四段中的“Wind, waves and ocean currents will push the trash toward the tube.”可知，Slat的设计充分利用了风、海浪和洋流等自然力量，因此它是环保的，故C项正确。 5. 推理判断题。根据第一段中的““It can’t be done.” Boyan Slat heard this over and over when he first proposed a way to clean up millions of tons of plastic polluting our oceans.”可知，当Boyan Slat提出一种处理数百万吨污染海洋的塑料的方法时，他一遍又一遍地听到“这是不可能的”，但是他没有因此而放弃， A项(人类历史基本上就是一张不能做的事情的列表，然后被做了)最能反映出Slat的自信和意志，故A项正确。 6. 主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文主要介绍了一个20岁的小伙子发现海洋中的塑料污染日益严重之后，想出了一种利用风、海浪和洋流清理海洋中的塑料垃圾的方法，人人都说他的想法不可行，但他仍然坚持梦想并付诸实践，故B项正确。 【点睛】本篇第5题推理判断题难度很大，抓住关键词是关键，根据第一段中的““It can’t be done.” Boyan Slat heard this over and over when he first proposed a way to clean up millions of tons of plastic polluting our oceans.”可知，当Boyan Slat提出一种处理数百万吨污染海洋的塑料的方法时，他一遍又一遍地听到“这是不可能的”，但是他没有因此而放弃，把不可能变成可能， A项的意思是人类历史基本上就是一张不能做的事情的列表，然后被做了，也就是完成不可能之事，A项中的“couldn’t be done”与第一段中的“It can’t be done.”相对应，故A项最能反映出Slat的自信和意志。 高频话题05 电影和戏剧 Passage 1 (2023•江苏南通)The only science fiction that ever really caught my attention when I was growing up, besides Star Trek and Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, was the novel Contact by Carl Sagan. When I was 15, I saw the 1997 film version of this. Later, as a 17­-year-­old adapting to my first semester(学期) at university, I read the book. Contact eventually became the gateway for me to try more popular science books. One thing that interested me was the bitter fights the researchers got into with one another about their different ways of measuring the expansion rate of space­time. On second thoughts, maybe this was a lesson I was supposed to draw from Contact, but, at the time, I didn’t regard such politics as a scientist problem. Instead, what caught my attention was the portrayal of Eleanor “Ellie” Arroway, a scientist who searched for alien intelligence. In the film version, Ellie is seen listening to space using a pair of headphones connected to the Very Large Array (VLA)—a real facility in New Mexico. Astronomers don’t really do this for the purposes of actual research because there is rarely any point. This is the kind of detail that is unimportant for the film of Contact, but how it portrays radio astronomy is one of the inaccuracies I occasionally hear scientists complain about. I was lucky enough to observe the behaviour of some water molecules(分子) in the Orion nebula(猎户座星云) using the VLA for my third­year lab course. We didn’t listen to the data. Instead, we processed it so that we could look at it. That was probably the only time I ever excelled in the lab, and I was so excited to be a real­life Ellie Arroway. Later, I was forced to think more about the human aspects of my working experience. I witnessed unnecessarily heated arguments between scientists, complete with shouting and chalkboard punching (用拳猛击). But, thankfully, Contact had not only introduced me to the idea of radio astronomy as a possible career path, it had also given me a road map for remaining calm in the confused conflict of astronomical wonder and human politics. 1. What can be learned about the author in his teenage years? A. He watched Contact’s film version in his freshman year. B. His interest in science was inspired by Contact. C. He read a wide range of science fiction books. D. His favourite science fiction author was Robert Heinlein. 2. What does the underlined word “this” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Detecting the sound of space. B. Searching for alien intelligence. C. Communicating with non­experts. D. Visiting the VLA in New Mexico. 3. Why does the author mention his third­year lab course? A. To demonstrate his strong interest in lab projects. B. To explain why scientists sometimes make complaints. C. To show his observations had achieved positive results. D. To prove the film of Contact presented radio astronomy incorrectly. 4. What lesson did Contact teach the author? A. How to grasp career opportunities. B. How to get an excellent score on a lab course. C. How to deal with conflicts between scientists. D. How to explain the science of radio astronomy. 【答案】1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 【语篇解读】这是一篇记叙文，文章主要介绍了《超时空接触》这部作品对作者的深远影响。 1. 细节理解题。根据第一段中“When I was 15, I saw the 1997 film version of this. Later, as a 17­year­old adapting to my first semester (学期) at university, I read the book. Contact eventually became the gateway for me to try more popular science books.(当我15岁的时候，我看了1997年的电影版。后来，17岁的我为了适应大学第一学期的生活，读了这本书。《超时空接触》最终成为我尝试更多科普书籍的途径)”可知，《超时空接触》激发了作者对科学的兴趣，故选B。 2. 词句猜测题。第二段中“In the film version, Ellie is seen listening to space using a pair of headphones connected to the Very Large Array (VLA) — a real facility in New Mexico.(在电影版本中，Ellie用一副连接到甚大阵(VLA)的耳机收听太空——这是一个位于新墨西哥州的真实设施)”提到，Ellie用一副连接到甚大阵(VLA)的耳机收听太空的声音，结合划线词所在句句意“天文学家这样做并不是为了实际的研究，因为这几乎没有任何意义”可知，“this”指代上文提到的“探测太空的声音”，故选A。 3. 推理判断题。第三段中“This is the kind of detail that is unimportant for the film of Contact, but how it portrays radio astronomy is one of the inaccuracies I occasionally hear scientists complain about.(对于《超时空接触》这部电影来说，这种细节并不重要，但它如何描绘射电天文学是我偶尔听到科学家抱怨的不准确之处之一)”提到，科学家抱怨《超时空接触》这部电影对射电天文学的描述是不准确的，下文“I was lucky enough to observe the behaviour of some water molecules (分子) in the Orion nebula (猎户座星云) using the VLA for my third­year lab course. We didn’t listen to the data. Instead, we processed it so that we could look at it.(我很幸运地在我第三年的实验课程中使用VLA观察了猎户座星云中一些水分子的行为。我们没有听到数据。相反，我们处理了它，这样我们就可以看到它了)”提到，作者在第三年的实验课程中使用VLA观察了猎户座星云中一些水分子的行为，没有听到数据，由此证明上文观点，《超时空接触》这部电影对射电天文学的描述是错误的，故选D。 4. 推理判断题。根据最后一段中“I witnessed unnecessarily heated arguments between scientists, complete with shouting and chalkboard punching (用拳猛击). But, thankfully, Contact had not only introduced me to the idea of radio astronomy as a possible career path, it had also given me a road map for remaining calm in the confused conflict of astronomical wonder and human politics.(我目睹了科学家之间不必要的激烈争论，包括大喊大叫和用拳猛击。但值得庆幸的是，《超时空接触》不仅让我认识到射电天文学是一种可能的职业道路，还为我提供了在天文奇观和人类政治的混乱冲突中保持冷静的路线图)”可知，《超时空接触》这部电影教会作者如何处理科学家之间的冲突。故选C。 高频话题06 历史事件和著名人物 Passage 1 (2023•江苏)The Taj Mahal(泰姬陵) is a love story, a sad and beautiful one. If it didn’t exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale. Three hundred years ago, there lived an Indian emperor called Shah Jahan. His wife was a beautiful and bright woman whom he loved greatly. Her title was Mumtazl Mahal: its shortened form Taj Mahal, means “pride of the palace”. In the year 1630 this beloved wife of the emperor died. He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne(王位). He decided out of his love for his wife, to build her the most beautiful tomb that he had ever seen. He summoned the best artists and architects from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was completed. It took more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahal, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. The building itself stands on a marble platform 29 meters square and 6—7 meters high. Towers rise from each of the four comers. The Taj Mahal itself soars another 61 meters into the air. It is an eight-sided building made of white marble. The emperor planned to build an identical(相同的)tomb of black marble for himself on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge. However, his son put him into a prison in the palace before he could finish, and for the rest of his life, he could only gaze across river at the tomb of his beloved wife. 1. Why was the Taj Mahal built according to the passage? Because________. A. Shah Jahan was heartbroken after the death of his wife B. Shah Jahan loved his wife greatly C. his wife was a beautiful and bright woman D. his wife was the “pride of the palace” 2. From the passage we can know________. A. the Taj Mahal was completed quickly owing to the efforts of the best artists and workers B. a lot of people took part in the building of the Taj Mahal C. the Taj Mahal and Shah Jahan’s own tomb were built at the same time D. the Taj Mahal is the most beautiful tomb in the world 3. The emperor’s own tomb was designed to be________. A. four-sided B. eight-cornered C. black-colored D. white-colored 4. The reason why the emperor couldn’t finish his own tomb was that________. A. he died soon after his wife’s death B. he was killed by his son C. he gave up his throne D. he was put into prison by his son 5. The whole passage tells us about ________. A. the story of the Taj Mahal B. a beautiful fairy tale C. white and black marble tombs made for two emperors D. the love story of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife 【答案】1. B 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. A 【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了泰姬陵建造背后的故事。 1. 细节理解题。根据文章第二段最后一句“He decided out of his love for his wife, to build her the most beautiful tomb that he had ever seen.(出于对妻子的爱，他决定为她建造一座他所见过的最美丽的坟墓。)”可知，出于对妻子的爱，Shah Jahan建造了泰姬陵。故选B项。 2. 细节理解题。根据文章第三段中的“It took more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahal, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.(泰姬陵是世界上最美丽的建筑之一，2万多人花了18年的时间才建成。)”可知，两万多人花了十八年才建成了泰姬陵。由此可知，很多人参与了泰姬陵的建造。故选B项。 3. 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段中的“The emperor planned to build an identical(相同的)tomb of black marble for himself on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge.(这个皇帝计划在河的另一边为自己建造一座同样的黑色大理石坟墓，由一座银色的桥连接。)”可知，这个皇帝打算给自己建造一座黑色的大理石坟墓。由此可知，他的坟墓是黑色的。故选C项。 4. 细节理解题。根据文章最后一段“However, his son put him into a prison in the palace before he could finish, and for the rest of his life, he could only gaze across river at the tomb of his beloved wife.(然而，他的儿子在他完成之前把他关进了宫殿里的监狱，他的余生只能望着河对面心爱的妻子的坟墓。)”可知，在他完成自己的坟墓之前，就被自己的儿子关进了监狱。故选D项。 5. 主旨大意题。根据文章第一段“The Taj Mahal(泰姬陵)is a love story, a sad and beautiful one. If it didn’t exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale.(泰姬陵是一个爱情故事，一个悲伤而美丽的故事。如果它不存在，我们很容易把它的建造故事想象成一个童话故事。)”可知，本文主要讲述了泰姬陵建造背后的故事。A项“the story of the Taj Mahal(泰姬陵的故事)”最能概括文章主题。故选A项。 Passage 2 (2023•江苏)George Daniels lives in London. He is a watchmaker. His work continues the tradition of the English watchmakers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Today this tradition is almost dead. Daniels is the only man in the world who designs his own watches makes all the pars himself and then puts them together. A Daniels watch is the product of his hands alone. One of his watches which is now in an American museum took 3500 hours to complete. He usually makes one watch a year. Each one is inscribed(刻) with “Daniels London” and costs about $10,000. Of course these are not ordinary watches—they are very beautiful and will last three centuries. George Daniels has always been attracted by clocks and watches. When he was five he used to take his father’s clock apart and put it back together again. At school he used to repair his teachers watches. He is now internationally famous and many people would like him to make watches for them. But most of them will be disappointed. He chooses his customers very carefully indeed. It must be someone who understands the subject,” he says “not someone who will leave the watch in the drawer and only show it to dinner quests.” 6. Who is George Daniels? A. One of the few who repaired watches in the old days. B. The only man who collects old watches in the world. C. One of the few remaining watch designers in the world. D. The only man who designs and makes watches by himself. 7. How long can a Daniels watch keep working? A. 10,000 hours. B. 300 years. C. 200 years. D. 3,500 hours. 8. Which of the following shows Daniels’ early interest in watches? A. He played with his father’s clock. B. He taught people how to repair watches. C. He made a watch for an American museum. D. He made beautiful and long-lasting watches. 9. George Daniels makes watches for those who _________. A. can afford his watches B. may want to show them to others C. appreciate his watches D. enjoy his watch-making process 10. What do we know about Daniels watches? A. Only a few people like them. B. They are kept in a museum. C. Only a few people can get them. D. They have a history of over 200 years. 【答案】6. D 7. B 8. A 9. C 10. C 【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了一位著名的钟表匠乔治·丹尼尔斯。他自己设计手表，亲手制作所有的零件，在国际上颇有名声。然而，不是所有人都能获得让他帮忙制作手表的资格，他只给那些懂得手表的人设计。 6. 细节理解题。根据第一段的“George Daniels lives in London. He is a watchmaker. His work continues the tradition of the English watchmakers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Today this tradition is almost dead. Daniels is the only man in the world who designs his own watches makes all the pars himself and then puts them together.(乔治·丹尼尔斯住在伦敦。他是一名钟表匠。他的作品延续了18世纪和19世纪英国制表师的传统。今天，这一传统几乎已经消亡。丹尼尔斯是世界上唯一一个自己设计手表的人，他自己制造所有零件，然后把它们组装在一起。)”可知，乔治·丹尼尔斯是一个自己独自设计和制作手表的钟表匠。故选D项。 7. 细节理解题。根据第二段的“Of course these are not ordinary watches—they are very beautiful and will last three centuries.(当然，这些不是普通的手表，它们非常漂亮，可以用三个世纪。)”可知，他制作的手表可以持续三个世纪，即300年。故选B项。 8. 细节理解题。根据第三段的“George Daniels has always been attracted by clocks and watches. When he was five he used to take his father’s clock apart and put it back together again.(乔治·丹尼尔斯一直被钟表所吸引。当他五岁的时候，他经常把他父亲的钟拆开，然后再装回去。)”可知，他从小喜欢钟表，喜欢玩他父亲的钟，因此玩父亲的钟是他早期对钟表感兴趣的体现。故选A项。 9. 细节理解题。根据最后一段的“It must be someone who understands the subject,” he says “not someone who will leave the watch in the drawer and only show it to dinner quests.”(他说：“一定是某个理解这个物品的人，而不是某个会把手表放在抽屉里，只在晚宴上展示的人。”)”可知，他只给那些明白他为什么设计这个手表，真正欣赏手表的人。故选C项。 10. 推理判断题。根据最后一段的“He is now internationally famous and many people would like him to make watches for them. But most of them will be disappointed. He chooses his customers very carefully indeed.(他现在在国际上很有名，许多人想让他为他们制作手表。但大部分都会失望。他确实非常仔细地选择他的顾客。)”可知，不是所有人都能让他为他们制作手表，他要筛选客人，大多数都是没有这个资格的，因此可知，只有少数部分人能获得他的手表。故选C项。 Passage 3 Hell comes to Pearl Harbor It was Sunday, December 7,1941. As usual, the wake­up call came at 5:45 a.m. The men aboard the warship USS Arizona stretched and rubbed their eyes. Seaman Russell Warriner was awakened by Quartermaster Louis Conter. Russell made his bed and helped clean the huge, shared room. The men went to the washroom, dressed in their uniforms and sat down to breakfast. It looked like it would be a normal day on board the ship. But nobody ate their breakfast: at that moment, there was a huge crashing sound from above. The ship shook violently and the men looked at each other in horror. Above their heads, hundreds of Japanese planes circled like eagles. They were diving down to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor. The scream of their engines was deafening. As bombs thundered all around, clouds of black smoke rose into the sky and hung over the sea. Russell felt his blood freeze, but he quickly came to himself and rushed up to the deck. Moments later, a bomb hit the USS Arizona and Russell was thrown more than 100 meters across the ship. He suffered serious burns on his hands, arms and legs, and watched many of his friends die. Louis, meanwhile, also standing on the deck, was lucky not to be thrown into the sea. With only minor injuries, he was able to help others who were severely burnt and in terrible pain. After receiving the order to abandon ship, Louis saved more men from the water, dragging them into the lifeboat. In the chaos and confusion after the attack, the US Navy sent a message to his family that Louis had been killed in the attack. Luckily, he was able to get in touch with them before the message arrived. Despite his remarkable actions, Louis did not think that he was a hero. “The heroes are the ones that gave their lives that day,” he said. Russell was saved from the water, but he was badly burnt, bleeding heavily. Fortunately, he was taken to hospital and survived. For many years, Russell refused to talk about what happened that morning, describing it simply as “hell”. His wife Elsa said, “When he opened up later on, he always mentioned the horror of it.” Louis and Russell would never forget the terrible scene of the attack, but they were fortunate enough to be among the few survivors from the Arizona. Nobody had expected the bombing. Japan had hatched a plot to launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, so the attack began without warning and without declaring war on the United States. The attack destroyed nearly 20 American ships and over 180 airplanes. In total, more than 2,000 American people were killed and over 1,000 others were wounded that day. More than 1,000 people aboard the Arizona lost their lives. Out of 37 sets of brothers, Russell and his brother were the only full pair to survive the attack. The surprise attack came as a great shock to the whole nation. The next day, President Roosevelt delivered his famous Pearl Harbor Speech, in which he described December 7 as “a date which will live in infamy” and asked that the US Congress declare war on Japan. In response to the attack and the president’s address, the United States joined the Second World War. Today, the USS Arizona lies where it sank: in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its location is marked with a memorial shaped like a bridge, which crosses the ship’s sunken remains . Each year, more than two million people visit the memorial. They come to see the shadow of the ship at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, to learn about the attack, to show respect for those who had lost their lives in the attack and to pray for world peace. Although about eight decades has passed, the attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the darkest episodes in American history, will never be forgotten. 11. When did Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor? A. In the morning. B. At noon. C. In the afternoon. D. At midnight. 12. What can we know about Russell and Louis from the passage? A. Russell lost his hands, arms and legs in the attack. B. Russell was seriously burned in the attack. C. Louis’s family were sad to hear that he was killed. D. Louis was proud of his remarkable actions. 13. Which of the following words can best describe Louis? A. Kind and skilled. B. Helpful and clever. C. Brave and clever. D. Brave and modest. 14. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to Paragraph 5? A. Many American ships and airplanes were destroyed in the attack. B. More than 1,000 people aboard the Arizona were killed. C. 2,000 Americans were killed and 1,000 others were wounded in the war. D. Both Russell and his brother survived the attack. 【答案】11. A 12. B 13. D 14. C 【语篇解读】这是一篇记叙文，文章主要讲述了珍珠港事件及事件中路易斯的英勇事迹。 11. 细节理解题。根据文章第一段“It was Sunday, December 7,1941. As usual， the wake­up call came at 5：45 a. m. (那是1941年12月7日星期日。和往常一样，早上5点45分响起了叫醒电话)”和第二段“But nobody ate their breakfast: at that moment, there was a huge crashing sound from above.The ship shook violently and the men looked at each other in horror. Above their heads, hundreds of Japanese planes circled like eagles. They were diving down to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor.(但是没有人吃早餐：就在那一刻，从上面传来巨大的撞击声。船剧烈地摇晃着，人们惊恐地看着对方。数百架日本飞机在他们头顶上像鹰一样盘旋。他们潜入珍珠港投弹) ”可知，日本飞机是在早晨袭击珍珠港的。故选A项。 12. 细节理解题。根据文章第四段“Russell was saved from the water, but he was badly burnt, bleeding heavily.(罗素被从水中救了出来，但他被严重烧伤，血流不止)”可知，罗素在袭击中被严重烧伤。故选B项。 13. 推理判断题。根据文章第三段“With only minor injuries, he was able to help others who were severely burnt and in terrible pain. After receiving the order to abandon ship, Louis saved more men from the water, dragging them into the lifeboat.(他只受了轻伤，却能帮助那些严重烧伤、疼痛难忍的人。 在接到弃船的命令后，路易斯从水里救了更多的人，把他们拖进救生艇。)”可推测出，路易斯是勇敢的。再根据第三段“Despite his remarkable actions, Louis did not think that he was a hero. “The heroes are the ones that gave their lives that day,” he said.(尽管他的行为非同寻常，但路易并不认为自己是英雄。英雄是那些在那天献出生命的人，他说。)”可推测出，路易斯又是谦虚的。所以路易斯是勇敢的和谦虚地。故选D项。 14. 细节理解题。根据文章第五段“In total, more than 2,000 American people were killed and over 1,000 others were wounded that day.(当天共有2000多名美国人死亡，1000多人受伤。)”可知，C项“2000名美国人在战争中丧生，另有1000人受伤。”说的不是当天的伤亡情况，所以C项不正确。故选C项。 的美丽风景，选C。 ( 19 )原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 专题03 阅读理解(记叙文)(江苏专用) 高频话题01 生活故事 Passage 1 (2024•江苏三校联考)I was surprised to find the congestion(拥塞) outside Layla’s primary school was unusually absent—I’d driven right into a parking space, and I was on time, for once. The school bell rang, and in a moment a stream of children made their way through the gate. But something was different—the kids were piling into vehicles in threes and fours. Before I could enquire my daughter Layla, Mr Trent, the deputy head, approached. “Mrs Pavis, did you not read our letter?” Letter? What letter? I had a history of not looking out for them, and not reading them in most cases. “The letter? Of course. It must have just slipped my mind—I’ve been away with work.” Now I was digging around in Layla’s messy schoolbag at home. Eventually, I found several letters, all addressing the same topic—parking outside the school gates. Apparently with some parents parking illegally, the police were about to get involved. “Why didn’t you give me these letters?” I demanded. Layla shrugged. “I forgot.” I was about to launch into a severe lecture when it occurred to me that I had always forgotten—I had forgotten to give Layla her money for cookery that morning and forgotten to hang out the kids’ washed clothes. I contained myself and figured out that they wanted the parents to car-pool (拼车). I spent the next half hour ringing round Layla’s friends’ parents, enquiring if they would like to car-pool with us. Unfortunately, they were all sorted. It was my own fault—I should have read those letters ages ago. “Er... I overheard others talking about it,” Layla said, “They said they didn’t know who would car-pool with us, because we’re always late.” I flushed instantly. We were a disorganised family, and I was the one to blame. I resolved to change. With responsibility for my kids, I find I am never, ever late. It’s good for Layla and for her older brothers, and it’s good for me, because now I never leave the house unprepared. I’ve even started checking the kids’ schoolbags for notes from school. 1. What did the author notice when the school was over? A. It was hard to find a parking space. B. Children were picked up in groups. C. Her daughter was absent from class. D. She arrived much earlier than others. 2. What stopped the author criticizing her daughter? A. The reflection of her daily routine. B. The realization of her carelessness. C. The knowledge of her kid’s character. D. The awareness of her kid’s depression. 3. Why did others refuse to car-pool with them according to Layla? A. Because they contacted them late. B. Because they failed to keep the house tidy. C. Because they couldn’t be on time. D. Because they ignored the school’s request. 4. What can we learn from the passage? A. Action creates motivation. B. Mother’s love never changes. C. It’s never too late to mend. D. Patience is the key to success. Passage 2 (2023•江苏)A few years ago, I realized that I had a fear of heights. Sometimes I would feel uncomfortable if I looked down from somewhere high and the higher I got, the worse I felt. However, there were some things that made me nervous when I looked up at them — such as drop towers(急速下降塔). About a month ago, my family and I went on a trip to Marineland — an amusement park with a sea animal theme. One of Marineland’s attractions is a huge drop tower called the “Sky Screamer”. My dad wanted to ride it, and he wanted to take me with him. He kept encouraging me, and I finally gave in, because I was desired to face my fears. Going up was terrible. I got stomachaches from just looking at the tower. When we reached the tower, we lined up and got seated on the ride. When it reached a few feet off the ground, it stopped for a moment, before sending us straight to the top at great speed. I squeezed my eyes shut and I held the handlebar(把手) as tightly as I could during the whole ride. A few seconds later my heart was in my mouth and I was screaming my lungs out. At the top, I opened my eyes and looked forward, not down. I tried to prepare myself for the way down, but it didn’t really help. There I was, with my eyes squeezed(紧紧地) shut, holding the handlebar and again, screaming at the top of my voice. In fact, it was even worse than going up! But when I got to the bottom, I felt relieved. I thanked my dad for forcing me to go on the ride, and I was pleased I had overcome my fears. So, was the “Sky Screamer” scary? Well, maybe just a little bit. 5. Which of the following wasn’t the writer afraid of? A. Riding a lift to a higher place. B. Looking down from a height. C. Looking up at drop towers. D. Going to a wonderful park. 6. What made the writer finally decide to ride the “Sky Screamer”? A. Her father’s encouraging words. B. Her interest in the ride. C. Her desire to face her fears. D. Her father’s nagging. 7. What did the writer do during the ride? A. She kept looking down. B. She kept holding the handlebar. C. She was too frightened to scream. D. She squeezed her father’s hand tightly. 8. What can we learn from the passage? A. The writer volunteered to take the ride. B. The writer’s father forced her to ride with him. C. The ride was less scary on the way up. D. The ride offered the writer a chance to face and overcome her fears. 9. What is the passage mainly about? A. A trip to Marineland. B. Facing a fear. C. A ride to the top of the “Sky Screamer”. D. A joyful ride on the “Sky Screamer”. Passage 3 (2020•江苏苏州)I'd done it before, and so I had no reason to believe that this time would be any different. I was sure that when I returned home from my mission trip, as always, I'd bring back nothing more than some mud on my boots, a hole or two in my jeans and, of course, a lot of great memories. The summer before my high school graduation, I went to West Virginia with others as volunteers to repair the homes of those in need. Arriving at our destination, my group was assigned the task of rebuilding sections of a home that had been damaged by fire. No sooner had we parked on the home's dirt driveway than we saw an excited little girl, no more than six years old, standing in the doorway of the family's temporary home. Shoeless and wearing dirty clothes and the biggest smile I'd ever seen, she yelled, "Ma, Ma, they really came! " I didn't know it then, but her name was Dakota, and four more days would pass before she’d say another word near me. Behind Dakota was a woman in a wheelchair—her grandmother, we'd soon learn. I also discovered that my job that week would be to help change a fire—damaged dining room into a bedroom for this little girl. Grabbing our tools, we went to work. Over the following days, I noticed Dakota peeking at us every now and then as we worked. A few times. I tried talking with her, but she remained shy and distant, always flying around us like a tiny butterfly but keeping to herself. By our fifth and final day, however, this was about to change. Before I went to work on her home on that last morning, I spoke for a moment or two with the grandmother. I was especially pleased when she told me how much Dakota loved her new room so much, in fact, that she'd begged to sleep in it the previous night, even though it wasn't quite ready. As we talked, I noticed something I hadn’t seen before—Dakota was hiding behind her grandmother. Cautiously, she stepped into view, and I could see that just like her clothes, her face was still dirty. But no amount of soil could hide those bright blue eyes and big smile. She was simply adorable. I wanted so much to hug her, but respecting her shyness, I kept my distance. Slowly, she began walking toward me. It wasn't until she was just inches away that I noticed the folded piece of paper in her tiny hand. Silently, she reached up and handed it to me. Once unfolded, I looked at the drawing she'd made with her broken crayons on the back of an old coloring book cover. It was of two girls—one much taller than the other—and they were holding hands. She told me it was supposed to be me and her and on the bottom of the paper were three little words that instantly broke my heart. Now almost in tears, I couldn't control myself anymore—I bent down and hugged her. She hugged me, too. And for the longest time, neither one of us could let go. By early afternoon, we finished Dakota's bedroom, and so I gladly used the rare free time to get to know my newest friend. Sitting under a tree away from the others, we shared a few apples while she told me about her life. As I listened to her stories about the struggles she and her family went through daily, I began to realize how boring various aspects of my own life were. I left for home early the next morning. I was returning with muddy boots and holes in my jeans. But because of Dakota, I brought back something else, too—a greater appreciation for all of the blessing of my life. I’ll never forget that barefoot little butterfly with the big smile and dirty face. I pray that she’ll never forget me either. 10. From the appearance description of the little girl, we know _______. A. she formed a bad living habit B. she hoped for a better education C. she was an innocent and lovely child D. she was strong and calm in the inner world 11. What were probably written on the bottom of the paper? A. Enjoy your help. B. Please don’t leave. C. Help me, please. D. Hug me close. 12. How did the author feel after unfolding the piece of paper? A. She worried about the little girl’s future. B. She decided to keep helping the little girl. C. She felt a greater affection for the little girl. D. She got surprised at the little girl’s worthless gift. 13. What does the passage mainly tell us? A. One must learn to share life experiences. B. One often wants to lead a meaningful life. C. One occasionally benefits from the poverty. D. One should be more grateful for the gift of life. Passage 4 (2023•江苏)In 2016, I suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder(SAD) a form of depression(抑郁症) that is found to make people feel low in the UK between September and April. During that cold and wet period, I got comfort in books. Books have been used by many to reduce depression. I lose myself into them as thirstily as usually get my morning coffee. Each Christmas, I have a habit of returning to the old favorite books that make up for my emptiness, such as Jane Eyre. Sometimes, to escape from the cold, I run back to the heat that I am used to, so I will read a lot of books set in Africa. It became important for me to find a way to escape my sadness in the world of books. And isn’t that what art and literature is for? According to JJ Bola, the author of No Place to Call Home, “The world can get you so down that you think you’re the only person going through what you’re going through. But then you read and you realize that you are not alone that if someone else has gone through it and survived, then maybe you can, too.” It is this survival that the reader looks for, that is, the understanding that the winter is not so long after all. 14. What was the possible cause for the author’s illness? A. His personality. B. His poor health. C. Sleeplessness. D. Cold and wet seasons. 15. The author likes reading old favorite books because they help him________. A. kill time B. keep warm C. enjoy Christmas time D. drive away emptiness 16. Which book may the author probably read when he feels cold? A. Jane Eyre. B. Out of Africa. C. Alice in Wonderland. D. No Place to Call Home. 17. Through reading, the author________. A. finds a way to escape his sadness B. gets along better with others C. leans more about other cultures D. becomes more interested in literature 18. What is the best title for the passage? A. Reading Reduces Depression B. Reading Keeps You Warm C. How to Escape Loneliness D. How to Survive Winters Passage 5 (2023•江苏)On a cold and clear day in February, Wes, his brother Jeff, his assistant Jordan, and I were following the GPS from the bear’s collar( 项 圈 ) up a steep and into a red earth canyon. The temperature dropped to zero as we cleaned the snow, trying to locate the black bear’s entrance. The radio signal was so weak that as the sun set, we considered turning back. Then a curtain of snow collapsed, revealing a sandstone cave. It narrowed to a dark tunnel, and the musky(麝香味) smell of wild animal steamed from within. Wes didn’t hesitate. Armed with an expandable six-foot stick with a tranquilizer syringe(镇定剂喷射器) on its tip, he dived in headfirst. His brother crawled after him. Thirty seconds later, they came flying backward out of the tunnel. The bear they’d collared a year and a half ago now weighed about 350 pounds— and he was awake! Wes had managed to jab him with the syringe, so we waited for the drug to take effect. But when we rounded the tunnel bend, wide eyes flashed at us. He was STILL awake!! Wes told me not to move while he backed out and jabbed another dose of tranquilizer. The bear started crawling toward us. We desperately blocked the exit with backpacks and sticks as Wes jabbed him again— but he powered through our barriers with groggy(头晕眼花的) steps and began to crawl down the snowy slope. Jeff and Jordan held his back paws, managing   to hold on to him; Wes jumped on his back and grabbed his collar. The bear pulled them down  the hillside together. The tranquilizer had taken effect— he was asleep. Wes and his brother changed the batteries of the collar and checked his health, but we had one more difficult task: getting a 350-pound bear up the snowy path and safely back to his cave before he awoke. We pushed and pulled with every muscle. Before the drug wore off, our effort paid off. When spring came, signals from the bear’s new radio collar showed he’d continued his everyday life—avoiding any more contact, we hope, with humans. 19. Why did the author and his friends go to the canyon? A. They wanted to conduct a radio experiment. B. They expected to hunt for a bear for fun. C. They wished to explore the nature in winter. D. They planned to maintain the bear’s radio collar. 20. How did they find the bear they had collared? A. The bear’s unique smell reminded them. B. A hunter led them to the bear’s habitat. C. The strong sunlight revealed its cave. D. A curtain of snow showed them the way. 21. What does the underlined word “jab” in paragraph 3 mean? A. Kick. B. Inject. C. Cure. D. Assist. 22. What can we learn from paragraph 3 and 4? A. The bear was more than pleased to see them again. B. The drug took effect immediately after the bear took it. C. They made it to send the bear back to its cave. D. They gave the bear tranquilizer 4 times in the end. 23. The best title for the text is ________. A. The Bear Wearing a Collar B. Danger in Nature C. An Encounter with a Bear D. A “Little” Adventure Passage 6 (2023•江苏)On the night of 14th June 1904, New York’s Chinatown was in a deep gloom(低迷). For the past 20 years, the restaurants were filled with those crazy about a taste of real Chinese cooking “chop suey”. But suddenly, all that seemed at risk. A few days earlier, a chef named Lem Sen had arrived, saying he had invented it a decade before while working at a restaurant in San Francisco. His recipe had been stolen by an American diner to make money. Through his lawyer, he demanded restaurants pay him for using his recipe. Chop suey was first mentioned by Chinese-American journalist Wang Chin Foo in a list of common dishes he thought most attractive to Western tastes. As he explained, “each Chinese cook has his own recipe. The main parts are pork, bacon, chicken, mushroom, bamboo shoots, onion, and pepper, while accidental ones are duck, beef, salted black beans etc. Yet it is often considered by Westerners that this is a ‘national dish of China’ more than any other dish they’ve known.” Although a hyperbolic way to introduce this dish, it clearly showed that chop suey was indeed of Chinese origin. Where exactly its roots lay has been debated; but it was probably first cooked in Taishan, Guangdong, where most early immigrants to America had grown up. In 1866, the journalist Allan Forman noticed it as a delicious dish despite its “mysterious nature”, and nine years later, the first recipe appeared in magazines, with some un-Chinese ingredients thrown in. It was not long before a myth making began. In 1896, Li Hongzhang visited New York, and newspapers mistakenly reported that while refusing Western dishes at a banquet(宴会), he had enthusiastically accepted a plate of chop suey. This caused a great hit, and many who never heard of it before simply assumed that it was introduced to the US by Li Hongzhang, which accidentally promoted the dish’s popularity. 24. What is the purpose of a chef’s story in paragraph 1? A. To describe food history. B. To bring out chop suey. C. To show risky business world. D. To introduce a law case. 25. What would Wang Chin Foo most agree with about chop suey? A. Fixed ingredients. B. Its popularity overseas. C. Un-Chinese nature. D. Mixed national identities. 26. When chop suey was introduced in a “hyperbolic” way, it was_________. A. remarked beyond reality B. explained in greater details C. praised in something common D. commented based on the origin 27. What can be inferred about the myth making on chop suey? A. Li Hongzhang promoted this dish. B. Its popularity was based on facts. C. Mass media belonged to the root cause. D. Public opinions voiced acceptance. 高频话题02 善行义举 Passage 1 (2023•江苏扬州)As a child, I didn’t enjoy cartoons like other girls my age, but I did love listening to discussions about politics(政治). I was very talkative and asked too many questions, which wore out the patience of my friends and sometimes even the adults around me. My Grade 4 report summarized my social relations with “needs improvement”. It wasn’t until I turned 46 that I learned my uniqueness has a name — autism(自闭症). My diagnosis(诊断) was like discovering a missing piece of my brain, picking it up, putting it in place and feeling whole for the first time. From then on, I started to fully enjoy life. What I’ve found out since is that there are a number of others like me — people who weren’t diagnosed as having autism until midlife. In my 20s, I talked with a doctor about my growing anxiety. But autism never entered the conversation. In early 2017, I began a new job in which I was being praised and recognised as never before, so I didn’t know how to deal with it. As I neared the end of my one-year work, all the symptoms(症状) of my undiagnosed condition appeared in my working environment: becoming so stressed out because of overwork. Then, two months later, I received my diagnosis. Finally everything started to make sense. Today, I have my own company called Liberty Co., which suggests that facing the facts brings us freedom. Our goal is to increase the population of people like me in the workplace. It gives me a chance to be a supporter for women with autism. 1. What do we know about the author as a child? A. She was patient. B. She was different. C. She got good grades in school. D. She tried to stand out from her classmates. 2. How did the author feel about her diagnosis? A. Thankful. B. Concerned. C. Doubtful. D. Dissatisfied. 3. What made the author’s symptoms worse? A. No recognition from her co-workers. B. Not seeing doctors very often. C. The anxiety about her social relations. D. The stress of her new job. 4. Why did the author set up her own business? A. To support women’s equal rights. B. To help people in the workplace connect more. C. To include more autistic people at work. D. To teach women with autism survival skills. Passage 2 (2023•江苏扬州)Sammie Vance knows it feels bad to be left out. So she has been helping kids who feel lonely make friends. Sammie is 14. When she was in the third grade, she started the Buddy Bench program. That was at her school, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Anyone who felt lonely could sit on the “buddy bench.” It showed others that someone needed a friend. The bench brought kids together. “There was one little boy at school, younger than me,” Sammie told TIME for Kids. “He would see me in the hallway and give me a thumbs-up. That told me that what I was doing helped him.” It costs money to build benches. Sammie decided to make them out of recycled materials. This lowered the cost. And the benches were eco-friendly. Sammie gathered friends in her community. They collected 1,200 pounds of bottle caps. A company called Green Tree Plastics made three benches with the bottle caps. Sammie has helped communities all over the country set up buddy benches. And she is spreading kindness around the world. “We recently got a bench in Ghana, Africa,” she says. “That was cool.” Sammie reminds us that kids can help their community. Even small acts of kindness can be powerful. “You don’t have to be an adult to make a difference,” she says. Sammie wrote a book. It is called Inspire the World: A Kid’s Journey to Making a Difference. It tells the story of her buddy benches. Sammie hopes her example will inspire others. “I used to be really, really shy,” she says. Building buddy benches gave her confidence. “I’m definitely more outgoing now.” 5. When did Sammie start the Buddy Bench program? A. In the third grade. B. In the fourth grade. C. In the fifth grade. D. In the sixth grade. 6. What does Sammie do to help lonely kids? A. She helps them find a new hobby. B. She introduces them to her friends. C. She starts a program to help them make friends. D. She gives them a thumbs-up to make them happy. 7. How did Sammie lower the cost of making benches? A. She raised money herself. B. She cycled to find materials. C. She turned to her parents. D. She used recycled materials. 8. What does Sammie hope to do by writing a book? A. To inspire children to make differences. B. To raise more money for her journey. C. To build more benches for children. D. To remind children to act like adults. Passage 3 (2024•江苏南通)Los Angeles residents Joe Blackstone and Jamie Mohn have long recognized the lasting impact storytelling can have on a child’s life. Shortly after getting married, the couple began volunteering to read books to elementary school kids. Then, when they became parents themselves, they created the J3 Foundation to help organizations devoted to children’s growth. But after learning two-thirds of fourth graders who cannot read effectively end up on welfare, Blackstone and Mohn decided to take a more hands-on approach: in 2018, they launched J3’s Cozy Reading Club. Each session of the two-hour, after-school program is free and includes outdoor activities and a healthy snack. Then, it’s time for some comfortable reading. After teachers read a book aloud and the group talks about the storyline freely, the kids find a spot to sit while grabbing a book of their choice to look through. In the end, they get to choose two books to borrow and take home. In its first year, J3’s Cozy Reading Club served 15 students in one L. A. -area classroom. As of 2022, it had expanded to 17 schools across four different districts, impacting a total of at least 400 students, the vast majority of whom live in underserved communities. With impressive statistics backing it up 90% of the students have significantly improved their reading scores, and 95% say they’ve started reading for fun since taking part in the program——its founders have much to celebrate. “Having more than 5,000 culturally relevant books available to them is so exciting. I love it when our students can see themselves and their classmates’ lives reflected in the books they are reading. The hope of changing one kid at a time makes all the work worthwhile,” Blackstone said. Currently, J3 is in the process of raising $864,000, so the Cozy Reading Club can expand to an additional 24 Los Angeles schools and double its book collection to 10,000. This is worthwhile. The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) reported that 68% of U. S. fourth graders weren’t skilled at reading in 2022, up from 66% in 2019. 9. What can be inferred about Blackstone and Mohn? A. They are children’s writers. B. They teach reading in a school. C. They value kids’ development. D. They’ve donated much to charities. 10. What can children do in J3’s Cozy Reading Club? A. Learn the history of books. B. Discuss a book’s plot. C. Cook and have snacks. D. Buy interesting books. 11. What are the statistics in Paragraph 3 about regarding J3’s Cozy Reading Club? A. Its great achievements. B. Its various services. C. Its long-term goals. D. Its current programs. 12. Why does the author mention NAEP in the last paragraph? A. To state reading is significant. B. To show J3 is a necessary cause. C. To assess J3’s potential abilities. D. To criticize America’s education. 高频话题03 家人与亲人 Passage 1 (2023•江苏)I will always remember my mother's last few days in this world. On February 14th, 2000 my class went on a field trip to the beach. I had so much fun. When we returned to school, my teacher told me to go to the headmaster's office. When I got into the office, I saw a police office. Suddenly I realized something was wrong. The police office told me what had happened and we went to pick my sister up. After that, we went to the hospital and waited. Time went slowly. Finally, we got to see our mother. It was terrible. On the next day, the headmaster came and told my two teachers what had happened. I was taking a rest that day. I knew it had something to do with my mother. I kept thinking that she either died or had gotten better. How I wished that she had gotten better. When my teacher took me outside, my sister ran up to me. She started crying, “She's gone. Teresa, mommy's gone. She's dead.” I couldn't believe it. We jumped into the car and drove straight to the hospital. Most of my family were there. The silence was terrible. I knew I had to say goodbye. Today when I look back, I still miss my mother very much, but I know that I will live. My mother was a strong mother, who had the biggest heart. My mother was an angel walking on the earth. I will always remember her as living. When someone is asked who their hero(英雄) is, they usually say someone famous, like Michael Jordan or Britney Spears, When someone asks me who my hero is,  I tell them, my mother. My mother lives every day. That is what makes her a true hero. 1. Who brought the writer the bad news that her mother was ill? A. Her sister. B. The headmaster. C. Her teacher. D. The police officers. 2. What did the headmaster tell the two teachers on the next day? A. Her mother had been very ill. B. Her mother had been dead. C. Her mother had gotten better, D. Her sister came to see her. 3. From the last paragraph of the passage we know that________. A. the writer is afraid of her mother B. the writer is proud of her mother C. the writer feels sad about her mother D. the writer feels sorry for her mother 4. The writer must think her mother is a________ woman. A. famous B. free C. rich D. great Passage 2 (2023•江苏)When I was a kid, I was close to my dad, but as I grew older, my dad and I grew further apart. We always had totally different opinions. He thought that college was a waste of time, but for me it was important to finish college. He wanted me to work my way to the top as he had done in his field, but I wanted a different life. There was a time when we did no talk with each other. A few months ago, I heard that my 84-year-old dad was in poor health. When he called and asked whether I could move from Colorado back to Tennessee to help him, I knew he was seriously ill. I am his only child and so it was time to meet my father’s requirement. Two weeks after moving back, we bought a boat and started fishing again. Fisting was one of the few things that we did while I was young and that we both enjoyed. It is strange but true that as we are fishing we are able to put things that have kept us apart for so many years behind us. We are able to talk about things that we have never talked about before. Fishing has been healing the old wounds that have kept us apart. It is not important how many fish we catch. It is about enjoying the relationship that we have not had for years. I’m 62 and he is 84. When we are on the lake fishing, it is like two kids enjoying life. It is far better to find a way to put the unhappy past behind. I am so lucky to spend the happy time with my father in his last years. Now my heart is filled with love. A smile always graces my lips. 6. Why did the author and his father become further apart? A. They had different views on things B. They lived very far from each other C. They only communicated by phone D. They seldom went to see each other 7. What made the author come back to Tennessee? A. Because his father invited him to go fishing. B. Because he decided to live in a different city C. Because his father was ill and needed caring D. Because he regretted being rude to his father. 8. What can we know from the passage? A. The author’s car broke down B. The author’s father intended him to be a fisherman C. The author was unwilling to come back D. The author’s father used to think it was useless to attend college. 9. What can be the best title for the text? A. Forgiving Is Difficult B. Fishing Bring Us Together C. Memories of Old Days D. My Beloved Father 高频话题04 环境污染 Passage 1 (2019•江苏常州)"It can't be done." Boyan Slat heard this over and over when he first proposed a way to clean  up millions of tons of plastic polluting our oceans. Almost anyone else would have given up in frustration and despair. But 20﹣year﹣old Slat hasn't: been discouraged but committed to his dream. "Human history is basically a list of things that couldn't be done, and then were done," he says. Today, slat and his team at The Ocean Cleanup are well on their way to proving the critics wrong. Good news for the planet. (1)_______ Slat, who grew up in the city of Delft in the Netherlands, was on a diving trip in Greece three years ago when he was deeply impressed by plastic, "There were more plastic bags than fish," he says. "That moment I realized it was a huge issue and that environmental issues are really the biggest problems my generation will face." That fall, Slat, then 17, decided to study plastic pollution as part of a high school project. Soon, Slat learned that no one had yet come up with practical way to clean up this massive garbage patches. Most proposed solutions involved "fishing" up the plastic using ships equipped with nets﹣which, as Slat discovered, would likely take more than 1,000 years, cost too much, let off too much sea life along with the trash. Slat proposed an alternative that mostly avoided these problems﹣a solar﹣powered system using a floating plastic tube which will go around the garbage and trap it is 600 meters long, A big screen hangs down from it, about three metres into the water. Wind, waves and ocean currents will push the trash toward the tube. (Fish can swim under the screen) A ship will pick up the trash and take it back to the shore to sort and recycle it into oil and other products. Best of all, Slat predicted his system could clean up the North Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Hawaii where a lot of floating garbage exists, within five to 10 years. (2)________ The following, Slat entered the aerospace engineering program at the Delft University of Technology and officially announced his ocean cleanup concept at TEDx Delft. But nothing much moved forward, Slat found himself continually absent﹣minded in classes, looking for ways. to improve his concept. "It wouldn't let go. I finally decided to put both university and my social life on hold to focus all my time on developing this idea. I wasn't sure if it would succeed, but considering the scale of problem I thought it was important to at least try." He says. With this family's blessing, Slat began in earnest organizing a team of volunteers and employees for The Ocean Cleanup, which now numbers about 100. (3)_______ In answer to opposition, Slat and his team raised ＄100,000 from a crowdfunding campaign and began testing a 40﹣meter collecting barrier near the Azores Islands last March. In June, they released a 500+ page possibility study. Over the next three to four years, Slat will push toward a fully operational large﹣scale project by testing a series of longer and longer barriers. He's currently seeking to crowd fund ＄2 million to finance it. Incidentally, The Ocean Cleanup is also working on a plan to stop plastic from washing into the oceans in the first place. "It's just the other problem that is equally important." Slat says. "It's something everyone is able to help with, and we also have some technologies in the pipeline." As for school, Slat doesn't miss it-except maybe for the social﹣part, which he hopes to (恢复) a bit once his team takes on more of the workload. "I don't have time for things like that right now, but I really can't complain. I can imagine doing something more fun than being able to have an idea and then actually making it into a reality." he says. 1. What is the function of the first paragraph? A. An introduction to the main topic. B. An overview of the whole article C. The background information of the story D. Raising a problem for later solution 2. Which of the following shows the correct order of the three missing subtitles? a. But is it possible? b. Drowning in plastic. c. An idea wouldn't die. A. a﹣b﹣c B. c﹣b﹣a C. b﹣a﹣c D. b﹣c﹣a 3. What inspired the boy to study plastic pollution? A. One of his high school projects. B. Others' opposition to his proposal. C. Humans' failure in cleaning up the ocean. D. The shockingly heavy plastic pollution in ocean. 4. What can we say about Slat's design? A. It is powerful but only used in California and Hawaii B. It is huge but causes great damage to sea lives C. It makes full use of natural forces and is friendly to nature. D. It was welcomed by all the public and worked very well. 5. Which of the following quotes best displays Slat's strong will and confidence? A. "Human history is basically a list of things that couldn't be done， and then were done." B. "That was the moment I realized it was a huge issue and that environmental issues are really the biggest problems my generation will face." C. "I finally decided to put both university and my social life on hold to focus all my time on developing this idea." D. "It's something everyone is able to help with, and we also have some technologies in the pipeline." 6. What does the author mainly do in this article? A. Explain a creative idea B. Introduce a fascinating person. C. Describe a social phenomenon D. Praise a point of view 高频话题05 电影和戏剧 Passage 1 (2023•江苏南通)The only science fiction that ever really caught my attention when I was growing up, besides Star Trek and Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, was the novel Contact by Carl Sagan. When I was 15, I saw the 1997 film version of this. Later, as a 17­-year-­old adapting to my first semester(学期) at university, I read the book. Contact eventually became the gateway for me to try more popular science books. One thing that interested me was the bitter fights the researchers got into with one another about their different ways of measuring the expansion rate of space­time. On second thoughts, maybe this was a lesson I was supposed to draw from Contact, but, at the time, I didn’t regard such politics as a scientist problem. Instead, what caught my attention was the portrayal of Eleanor “Ellie” Arroway, a scientist who searched for alien intelligence. In the film version, Ellie is seen listening to space using a pair of headphones connected to the Very Large Array (VLA)—a real facility in New Mexico. Astronomers don’t really do this for the purposes of actual research because there is rarely any point. This is the kind of detail that is unimportant for the film of Contact, but how it portrays radio astronomy is one of the inaccuracies I occasionally hear scientists complain about. I was lucky enough to observe the behaviour of some water molecules(分子) in the Orion nebula(猎户座星云) using the VLA for my third­year lab course. We didn’t listen to the data. Instead, we processed it so that we could look at it. That was probably the only time I ever excelled in the lab, and I was so excited to be a real­life Ellie Arroway. Later, I was forced to think more about the human aspects of my working experience. I witnessed unnecessarily heated arguments between scientists, complete with shouting and chalkboard punching (用拳猛击). But, thankfully, Contact had not only introduced me to the idea of radio astronomy as a possible career path, it had also given me a road map for remaining calm in the confused conflict of astronomical wonder and human politics. 1. What can be learned about the author in his teenage years? A. He watched Contact’s film version in his freshman year. B. His interest in science was inspired by Contact. C. He read a wide range of science fiction books. D. His favourite science fiction author was Robert Heinlein. 2. What does the underlined word “this” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Detecting the sound of space. B. Searching for alien intelligence. C. Communicating with non­experts. D. Visiting the VLA in New Mexico. 3. Why does the author mention his third­year lab course? A. To demonstrate his strong interest in lab projects. B. To explain why scientists sometimes make complaints. C. To show his observations had achieved positive results. D. To prove the film of Contact presented radio astronomy incorrectly. 4. What lesson did Contact teach the author? A. How to grasp career opportunities. B. How to get an excellent score on a lab course. C. How to deal with conflicts between scientists. D. How to explain the science of radio astronomy. 高频话题06 历史事件和著名人物 Passage 1 (2023•江苏)The Taj Mahal(泰姬陵) is a love story, a sad and beautiful one. If it didn’t exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale. Three hundred years ago, there lived an Indian emperor called Shah Jahan. His wife was a beautiful and bright woman whom he loved greatly. Her title was Mumtazl Mahal: its shortened form Taj Mahal, means “pride of the palace”. In the year 1630 this beloved wife of the emperor died. He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne(王位). He decided out of his love for his wife, to build her the most beautiful tomb that he had ever seen. He summoned the best artists and architects from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was completed. It took more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahal, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. The building itself stands on a marble platform 29 meters square and 6—7 meters high. Towers rise from each of the four comers. The Taj Mahal itself soars another 61 meters into the air. It is an eight-sided building made of white marble. The emperor planned to build an identical(相同的)tomb of black marble for himself on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge. However, his son put him into a prison in the palace before he could finish, and for the rest of his life, he could only gaze across river at the tomb of his beloved wife. 1. Why was the Taj Mahal built according to the passage? Because________. A. Shah Jahan was heartbroken after the death of his wife B. Shah Jahan loved his wife greatly C. his wife was a beautiful and bright woman D. his wife was the “pride of the palace” 2. From the passage we can know________. A. the Taj Mahal was completed quickly owing to the efforts of the best artists and workers B. a lot of people took part in the building of the Taj Mahal C. the Taj Mahal and Shah Jahan’s own tomb were built at the same time D. the Taj Mahal is the most beautiful tomb in the world 3. The emperor’s own tomb was designed to be________. A. four-sided B. eight-cornered C. black-colored D. white-colored 4. The reason why the emperor couldn’t finish his own tomb was that________. A. he died soon after his wife’s death B. he was killed by his son C. he gave up his throne D. he was put into prison by his son 5. The whole passage tells us about ________. A. the story of the Taj Mahal B. a beautiful fairy tale C. white and black marble tombs made for two emperors D. the love story of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Passage 2 (2023•江苏)George Daniels lives in London. He is a watchmaker. His work continues the tradition of the English watchmakers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Today this tradition is almost dead. Daniels is the only man in the world who designs his own watches makes all the pars himself and then puts them together. A Daniels watch is the product of his hands alone. One of his watches which is now in an American museum took 3500 hours to complete. He usually makes one watch a year. Each one is inscribed(刻) with “Daniels London” and costs about $10,000. Of course these are not ordinary watches—they are very beautiful and will last three centuries. George Daniels has always been attracted by clocks and watches. When he was five he used to take his father’s clock apart and put it back together again. At school he used to repair his teachers watches. He is now internationally famous and many people would like him to make watches for them. But most of them will be disappointed. He chooses his customers very carefully indeed. It must be someone who understands the subject,” he says “not someone who will leave the watch in the drawer and only show it to dinner quests.” 6. Who is George Daniels? A. One of the few who repaired watches in the old days. B. The only man who collects old watches in the world. C. One of the few remaining watch designers in the world. D. The only man who designs and makes watches by himself. 7. How long can a Daniels watch keep working? A. 10,000 hours. B. 300 years. C. 200 years. D. 3,500 hours. 8. Which of the following shows Daniels’ early interest in watches? A. He played with his father’s clock. B. He taught people how to repair watches. C. He made a watch for an American museum. D. He made beautiful and long-lasting watches. 9. George Daniels makes watches for those who _________. A. can afford his watches B. may want to show them to others C. appreciate his watches D. enjoy his watch-making process 10. What do we know about Daniels watches? A. Only a few people like them. B. They are kept in a museum. C. Only a few people can get them. D. They have a history of over 200 years. Passage 3 Hell comes to Pearl Harbor It was Sunday, December 7,1941. As usual, the wake­up call came at 5:45 a.m. The men aboard the warship USS Arizona stretched and rubbed their eyes. Seaman Russell Warriner was awakened by Quartermaster Louis Conter. Russell made his bed and helped clean the huge, shared room. The men went to the washroom, dressed in their uniforms and sat down to breakfast. It looked like it would be a normal day on board the ship. But nobody ate their breakfast: at that moment, there was a huge crashing sound from above. The ship shook violently and the men looked at each other in horror. Above their heads, hundreds of Japanese planes circled like eagles. They were diving down to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor. The scream of their engines was deafening. As bombs thundered all around, clouds of black smoke rose into the sky and hung over the sea. Russell felt his blood freeze, but he quickly came to himself and rushed up to the deck. Moments later, a bomb hit the USS Arizona and Russell was thrown more than 100 meters across the ship. He suffered serious burns on his hands, arms and legs, and watched many of his friends die. Louis, meanwhile, also standing on the deck, was lucky not to be thrown into the sea. With only minor injuries, he was able to help others who were severely burnt and in terrible pain. After receiving the order to abandon ship, Louis saved more men from the water, dragging them into the lifeboat. In the chaos and confusion after the attack, the US Navy sent a message to his family that Louis had been killed in the attack. Luckily, he was able to get in touch with them before the message arrived. Despite his remarkable actions, Louis did not think that he was a hero. “The heroes are the ones that gave their lives that day,” he said. Russell was saved from the water, but he was badly burnt, bleeding heavily. Fortunately, he was taken to hospital and survived. For many years, Russell refused to talk about what happened that morning, describing it simply as “hell”. His wife Elsa said, “When he opened up later on, he always mentioned the horror of it.” Louis and Russell would never forget the terrible scene of the attack, but they were fortunate enough to be among the few survivors from the Arizona. Nobody had expected the bombing. Japan had hatched a plot to launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, so the attack began without warning and without declaring war on the United States. The attack destroyed nearly 20 American ships and over 180 airplanes. In total, more than 2,000 American people were killed and over 1,000 others were wounded that day. More than 1,000 people aboard the Arizona lost their lives. Out of 37 sets of brothers, Russell and his brother were the only full pair to survive the attack. The surprise attack came as a great shock to the whole nation. The next day, President Roosevelt delivered his famous Pearl Harbor Speech, in which he described December 7 as “a date which will live in infamy” and asked that the US Congress declare war on Japan. In response to the attack and the president’s address, the United States joined the Second World War. Today, the USS Arizona lies where it sank: in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its location is marked with a memorial shaped like a bridge, which crosses the ship’s sunken remains . Each year, more than two million people visit the memorial. They come to see the shadow of the ship at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, to learn about the attack, to show respect for those who had lost their lives in the attack and to pray for world peace. Although about eight decades has passed, the attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the darkest episodes in American history, will never be forgotten. 11. When did Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor? A. In the morning. B. At noon. C. In the afternoon. D. At midnight. 12. What can we know about Russell and Louis from the passage? A. Russell lost his hands, arms and legs in the attack. B. Russell was seriously burned in the attack. C. Louis’s family were sad to hear that he was killed. D. Louis was proud of his remarkable actions. 13. Which of the following words can best describe Louis? A. Kind and skilled. B. Helpful and clever. C. Brave and clever. D. Brave and modest. 14. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to Paragraph 5? A. Many American ships and airplanes were destroyed in the attack. B. More than 1,000 people aboard the Arizona were killed. C. 2,000 Americans were killed and 1,000 others were wounded in the war. D. Both Russell and his brother survived the attack. ( 17 )原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$