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一、高中英语任务型阅读
1.Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
Life on a Ship
We three children were very excited when we walked up the gangway (舷梯) of the British flagship China Star and saw officers, crew and staff rushing around. A Chinese housekeeper led the way and helped Uncle Jean and Aunt Reine with our luggage. Victor, Claudine and I lagged behind. The housekeeper was tall and thin and towered over everyone. ________ As we followed him down a narrow corridor towards our cabins, Victor whispered to me, "One thing about having no hair at all on your head, you always look neat!"
Though I was still feeling nervous and tongue-tied because it had only been three days since Aunt Reine took me out of St. Joseph's, I laughed out loud. That was the effect Victor had on people. ________ "Boys to the right and girls to the left," said Uncle Jean. Our two cabins were directly opposite each other. Inside, everything was neat, bare and clean. While Aunt Reine, Claudine and I were unpacking, there was a knock on the door.
Victor stood there, wearing a bright-red and orange life-jacket. "Why are you wearing that?" Claudine protested. "Our ship hasn't even sailed yet!" "In case the China Star starts going down. Then you'll really be sorry you're not wearing one yourself. Here! Let me show you something!" ________ Our cabin was below deck. Outside we could see nothing but deep dark water.
Claudine became alarmed. "Mama, how often does a ship sink?" she asked. Before Aunt Reine had time to reply, Victor quipped with a straight face, "Only once!" Aunt Reine and I could not help laughing in spite of ourselves. But then Victor did something my brothers would never have done. He took off his life-jacket, slipped it on his sister and showed her how to adjust the straps. ________ At night, our housekeeper brought in a tiny roll-out bed because there were three of us.
A. Once Victor hid in a lifeboat for half an hour while we searched everywhere.
B. His head was completely hairless, and he was obviously unsteady.
C. He and Claudine made me feel at ease as soon as I met them.
D. There were only two narrow twin beds in our cabin, each covered with dark blue sheets.
E. He parted the curtain and looked out of the round window of the ship.
F. He jumped out as we passed below him, scaring and delighting us at the same time.
【答案】 B;C;E;D
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文,叙述了作者和另外两个小伙伴登上名为"China Star"的船之后的所见所闻以及个人感受。
(1)考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。
根据空前“ The housekeeper was tall and thin and towered over everyone.”是对管家外表的介绍:又高又瘦;以及空后"One thing about having no hair at all on your head"可知,管家(the housekeeper)没有头发。
故该句承接前文,依然要介绍管家的外貌,还要提到没头发这一点,故选B。
(2)考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。
根据空前“ Though I was still feeling nervous and tongue-tied because it had only been three days since Aunt Reine took me out of St.
Joseph's, I laughed out loud. That was the effect Victor had on people.”尽管作者仍然感到有点紧张,但是听了Victor说的话之后,也情不自禁地哈哈大笑。
这就是Victor对他人的影响力。
该空承接前文,仍然要提到作者的同伴带给他的感受, C. He and Claudine made me feel at ease as soon as I met them.“我一见到Victor和Claudine,他们就使我感到很舒服。
”符合语境,古训啊C。
(3)考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。
根据空前Victor要让Claudine和作者看点东西。
下句提到他们看到外面深而暗的水。
那么该空就应该叙述Victor为了让他的同伴看到外面而做的举动,E. He parted the curtain and looked out of the round window of the ship.“他打开窗帘,向窗外看去。
”承接上文,符合语境,故选E。
(4)考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。
根据空后“ At night, our housekeeper brought in a tiny roll-out bed because there were three of us.”因为我们有三个人,所以管家拿来一张床。
那么,前句应该提到床的问题,D. There were only two narrow twin beds in our cabin, each covered with dark blue sheets.“我们的小屋里只有两张窄的双人床,每一张都覆盖着深蓝色的床单。
”承接下文,符合语境,故选D。
【点评】本题要求在理解细节信息的基础上,着重考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。
2.请认真阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
If you said you were suffering from "burnout" in the early 1970s, you might have raised some eyebrows.
At the time, the term was informally to describe the side effects that heavy drug users experienced.
However, in 1974, a German-American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger found the volunteers at his clinic were struggling, too: their work was tough, and many were lacking in motivation. Freudenberger defined this condition as a state of extreme tiredness caused by constant overwork-and borrowed the term "burnout" to describe it.
Late last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the problem will be recognized as a syndrome (综合征) "resulting from workplace stress that has not been successfully managed."
Feeling the burn so how can you tell if you're almost burned out?
"A lot of the signs and symptoms of pre-burnout would be very similar to depression," says Siobhan Murray, a psychotherapist. She suggests looking out for bad habits, such as increased alcohol consumption and relying on sugar to get you through the day. Also watch out for feelings of tiredness that won't go away or not having the energy to exercise or go for a walk. As soon as you begin to feel this way, Murray advises going to see your doctor. "Depression and pre-burnout are very similar. But it is still classified as an occupational phenomenon which is still best tackled by making lifestyle changes."
And how do you know if you're really on the edge of burnout? "Stress is really important, and anxiety is what motivates us to do well," says Murray. "It's when we're continually exposed to stress and anxiety that it starts to turn into burnout."
You're pre-burnout: What's next?
"Sometimes they feel the need to be too perfect so they're having to work very hard to cover up that they're not quite as good as everyone thinks." Another therapist Walker says.
However, sometimes the work environment is the problem. According to a 2018 study of 7,500 US workers, burnout comes from unfair treatment at work, an unmanageable workload and not knowing what a person's role should involve. Workers were also stressed out by a lack of support from their manager and punreasonable time pressure.
Whatever the cause of your burnout, Murray's top tip is to be kind to yourself.
In Murray's experience, a key driver of burnout is today's culture of wanting it all. Often it's just not possible to have a healthy social life and complete a big project at the same time. She says it's vital to prioritize and not expect too much of yourself; when others seem like the perfect boss, parent and friend all at the same time, they're probably misleading us.
If you feel that you might be close to joining the burnout club, take a step back, figure out what's going wrong-and let yourself off the hook.
lack/overuse;imperfect;provide/offer /afford;avoiding;kind
【解析】【分析】本文主要介绍了"精力耗尽"这个词的定义和相应症状,造成这种症状的原因以及提出避免的方法。
(1)由文章前三段以及所填空表格右边的内容可知,讲的是burnout在不同时期的不同解释,故填Changes或Differences。
(2)原文第一段指出,在70年代burnout指的是重度吸毒者遭受的副作用,因此heavy drug users这里转换为drugabuse/addiction。
故填abuse/addiction。
(3)原文第三段a state of extreme tiredness caused by constant overwork可知,是指人们因为不断超负荷工作而劳累,而本题所填空在volunteers前,应该是形容词,因此讲tiredness转换为tired/
exhausted。
故填tired/exhausted。
(4)原文第四段最后一行stress that has not been successfully managed可知,是指没能处
理好压力,而本题所填空应该是名词,固定搭配fail to do表示未能做成某事,此处转换为名词failure。
故填failure。
(5)原文第六段第一行be very similar to depression可知,burnout和depression很相似,而所填空应该是名词,固定搭配share similarities with ……表示和……很类似,故填similarities。
(6)原文第六段第三行需要酒精get you through the day 和not having the energy可知,觉得自己没有精力,或者是精力被过度消耗,所填空为名词,故填lack或overuse。
(7)原文倒数第五段可知,人们被要求很完美,因此努力去做到别人想的那样,即人们不愿意承认自己的不完美,本空应填形容词,故填imperfect。
(8)原文倒数第四段the work environment is the problem和后面具体的unfair treatment at work, an unmanageable workload and not knowing what a person's role should involve可知,公司没能提供有利的工作环境,所填空应该是动词,故填provide/offer /afford。
(9)由文章最后两段内容可知,要接纳自己,不要给自己过多的压力过多的期待,是在介绍避免burnout的方法,且固定搭配approach to doing,故填avoiding。
(10)原文倒数第三段Murray建议要be kind to yourself,故填kind。
【点评】考查任务型阅读。
要结合原文,分析原文中心和段落结构,利用原词复现、上下文关联和概括总结解题。
3.请认真阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意:每个空格只填1个单词。
Pretending you're someone else can make you creative
One great irony(讽刺) about our collective fascination with creativity is that we tend to frame it in uncreative ways. That is to say, most of us marry creativity to our concept of self: We are either "creative" people or we aren't, without much of a middle ground.
Pillay, a tech businessman and Harvard professor has spent a good part of his career destroying these ideas. Pillay believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to dismiss the conventional advice that urges you to "believe in yourself". In fact, you should do the exact opposite: believe you are someone else.
In a recent column for Harvard Business Review, Pillay pointed to a 2016 study showing the impact of stereotypes(刻板印象)on one's behavior. The authors, education psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college student subjects into three categories, instructing the members of one group to think of themselves as "eccentric(古怪的) poets" and the members of another to imagine they were "rigid librarians" (people in the third category, the control group, were left alone for this part). The researchers then presented participants with 10 ordinary objects, including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to come up with as many different uses as possible for each one. Those who were asked to imagine themselves as "eccentric poets" came up with the widest range of ideas for the objects, while those in the "rigid librarian" group had the fewest. Meanwhile, the researchers found only small differences in students' creativity levels across academic majors—in fact, the physics majors inhabiting(寄生) the personas(伪装的外表) of "eccentric poets" came up with more ideas than the art majors did.
These results, write Dumas and Dunbar, suggest that creativity is not an individual quality, but a "malleable(可塑的) product of context and perspective." Everyone can be creative, as long as they feel like creative people.
Pillay's work takes this a step further: He argues that identifying yourself with creativity is less powerful than the creative act of imagining you're somebody else. This exercise, which he calls "psychological halloweenism", refers to the conscious action of inhabiting another persona—an inner costuming of the self. It works because it is an act of "conscious unfocus", a way of positively stimulating the default mode(默认模式) network, a collection of brain regions that spring into action when you're not focused on a specific task or thought.
Most of us spend too much time worrying about two things: How successful/unsuccessful we are, and how little we're focusing on the task at hand. The former feeds the latter—an unfocused person is an unsuccessful one, we believe. Thus, we force ourselves into quiet areas, buy noise canceling headphones, and hate ourselves for taking breaks.
What makes Pillay's argument stand out is its healthy, forgiving realism: According to him, most people spend nearly half of their days in a state of "unfocus". This doesn't make us lazy people—it makes us human. The idea behind psychological halloweenism is: What if we stopped judging ourselves for our mental down time, and instead started using it? Putting this new idea on daydreaming means addressing two problems at once: You're making yourself more creative, and you're giving yourself permission to do something you'd otherwise feel guilty about. Imagining yourself in a new situation, or an entirely new identity, never felt so productive.
Title: Pretending you're someone else can make you creative
creativity;individual/personal;positively;subscribes;realistic/practical;forgive
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇说明文,介绍了假装你是别人会让你更有创造力。
(1)考查信息归纳。
根据第一段中的“One great irony(讽刺) about our collective fascination with creativity is that we tend to frame it in uncreative ways.”可知,我们大多数人对自己要么有创造力要么没有创造力的想法印象深刻:两者之间不存在中间地带。
故答案为fascinated/impressed。
(2)考查信息归纳。
根据第二段中的“Pillay believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to dismiss the conventional advice that urges you to ’believe in yourself‘. In fact, you should do the exact opposite: believe you are someone else.”可知,与普遍的看法相反,皮莱的建议是,你应该相信你是别人。
故答案为Contrary。
(3)考查信息归纳。
根据第三段中的“instructing the members of one group to think of themselves as ’eccentric(古怪的) poets‘ and the members of another to imagine they were ’rigid librarians‘(people in the third category, the control group, were left alone for this part).”可知,其中一组被要求认为自己是“古怪的诗人”,另一组是“刻板的图书管理员”,第三组作为对照组。
故答案为worked/acted/served/functioned。
(4)考查句义理解。
根据第三段中的“The researchers then presented participants with 10 ordinary objects,including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to come up with as many different uses as possible for each one.”可知,前两组被要求为每个给定对象想出尽可能多的不同用途。
故答案为given。
(5)考查句义理解。
根据第三段中的“Meanwhile, the researchers found only small differences in students' creativity levels across academic majors—in fact, the physics majors inhabiting(寄生) the personas(伪装的外表) of ’eccentric poets‘ came up with more ideas than the art majors did.”可知,学生的创造力水平并不总是与专业类型成正比。
故答案为creativity。
(6)考查原词复现。
根据第四段中的“These results, write Dumas and Dunbar, suggest that creativity is not an individual quality, but a ’malleable(可塑的) product of context and perspective.‘”可知,因此,创造力可能是环境和视角的产物,而不是个人的东西。
故答案为individual/personal。
(7)考查信息归纳。
根据第五段中的”This exercise, which he calls “psychological halloweenism", refers to the conscious action of inhabiting another persona—an inner costuming of the self. It works because it is an act of ’conscious unfocus‘, a way of positively stimulating the default mode(默认模式) network.“可知,"psychological halloweenism"的实施是指通过积极刺激默认模式网络,有意识地成为他人的行为。
故答案为positively。
(8)考查句义理解。
根据最后一段中的”Pillay's work takes this a step further: He argues that identifying yourself with creativity is less powerful than the creative act of imagining you're
somebody else.“可知,Pillay坚决支持把你想象成别人的观点,并建议我们不要担心自己有多成功或不成功。
故答案为subscribes。
(9)考查概括总结。
根据右栏内容可知这里在讲述“演习的现实意义”。
故答案为realistic/practical。
(10)考查推理判断。
根据最后一段中的”You're making yourself more creative, and you're giving yourself permission to do something you'd otherwise feel guilty about. Imagining yourself in a new situation, or an entirely new identity, never felt so productive.“可知,我们完全有权利原谅自己注意力不集中,因为这不仅是人性的表现,而且还能让我们更有创造力和富有成效。
故答案为forgive。
【点评】本题考点涉及信息归纳,句义理解,原词复现,概括总结和推理判断五个题型的考查,是一篇教育类阅读,要求考生准确掌握所给材料,结合相关的语法知识和词汇知识,做出正确答案。
4.阅读下列短文,按照要求用英文回答问题。
I was in the country, Vietnam, from 1970 to 1971. I was a nineteen-year-old soldier. Six months after my arrival, I stepped on a land mine and lost my right foot. Although it was a painful experience, I also felt great relief and happiness. I knew it meant my plane ticket home. So I had mixed feelings after the accident.
Back in the US, I was fitted with an artificial leg and I threw away my uniform and my Purple Heart. They had no value to me. They reminded me of what I wasn't proud of and I had one constant reminder: one artificial leg.
Twenty-six years later, I participated in a bicycle race in Vietnam, which was designed for Americans and veterans (老兵) and civilians of Vietnam. In the race I formed a connection with Tran, a veteran of the former North Vietnam. Like me, Tran had also lost his leg due to a mine. But unlike me, he had also lost some family members in the Americans' bombing. He said he used to be filled with hate for Americans.
One day, I heard that he had slipped in the race by accident, and that his leg was hurting him. I offered him some medicine to ease his pain. He gave me a "thumbs up". He smiled his big smile. And that was enough. We had a special connection. Although language was an obstacle to our communication, it didn't hinder us from conveying our friendship. In the race, we found that we could relax and enjoy each other's company, even without words.
During the race, I found his prosthesis (假肢) was not good, so I considered arranging a new prosthesis for him after returning home. And I invited him to visit my country. Joyfully, he agreed. When I returned home, I talked with my friend Jim, who owned the company where my prosthesis was made. I told him about Tran and why he should have a new prosthesis. Jim agreed. Later, Tran travelled to my country. We got Tran a new prosthetic leg. I was happy to give something to him—and in a way, to his country. At my daughters' school, he talked about forgiveness. Despite their country's loss, he found the place in his heart to forgive.
He is my friend, and I am happy that now our friendship will continue for the rest of our life.(1)Why did the author have mixed feelings after the accident? (no more than 10 words) (2)What does the underlined word in Paragraph 4 mean? (only 1 word)
(3)What did the author's friend, Jim, agree to do? (no more than 10 words)
(4)What was the change of Tran's feelings to Americans? (no more than 10 words)
(5)Why does the author say he and Tran will be friends for the rest of their life? Please give reasons in your own words. (no more than 20 words)
【答案】(1)Because although he was injured, he could returned home.
(2)Prevent.
(3)To make a new prosthesis for Tran for free.
(4)He turned hate to forgiveness.
(5)Open.
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文,作者去越南参加自行车比赛时,遇到了和他遭遇相似的越南老兵,他们心意相通,成为了朋友。
作者回国后邀请Tran来美国并送给他新的假肢,他很感动,告诉作者他原谅了美国对他的伤害,作者觉得他们的友谊可以永远保持下去。
(1)考查细节理解。
根据第一段中的“Although it was a painful experience, I also felt great relief and happiness. I knew it meant my plane ticket home. So I had mixed feelings after the accident.”可知,作者虽然腿受了伤,但这意味着他可以回家,所以他的心情即痛苦又开心。
故本题答案为:Because although he was injured, he could return home.
(2)考查词义猜测。
根据第四段中的“Although language was an obstacle to our communication, it didn't hinder us from conveying our friendship.”可知,尽管语言是他们交流的障碍,但这并不……他们传达友情。
前后句为转折关系,故推测划线词的意思是“阻止”。
故本题答案为:Prevent。
(3)考查细节理解。
根据第五段中的“so I considered arranging a new prosthesis for him after returning home…When I returned home, I talked with my friend Jim, who owned the company where my prosthesis was made. I told him about Tran and why he should have a new prosthesis.”可知,作者回到美国后把想送给Tran新假肢的事情给朋友Jim说了,Jim对此想法表示赞同。
故本题答案为:To make a new prosthesis for Tran for free.
(4)考查细节理解。
根据第三段中的“He said he used to be filled with hate for Americans.和倒数第二段的At my daughter s' school, he talked about forgiveness.”可知,Tran对美国的态度由恨变为原谅。
故本题答案为:He turned hate to forgiveness.
(5)考查推理判断。
根据第四段中的“We had a special connection. Although language was an obstacle to our communication, it didn't hinder us from conveying our friendship. In the race, we found that we could relax and enjoy each other's company, even without words.”;以及倒数第二段中的“I was happy to give something to him—and in a way, to his country. At my daughters' school, he talked about forgiveness. Despite their country's loss, he found the place in his heart to forgive.”可推测,作者认为他们之间的友谊可以继续延续下去是因为他们虽然语言不同却能正真理解对方,而且Tran也放下了对美国的仇恨。
故本题答案可以围绕这方面展开。
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解,词义猜测和推理判断三个题型的考查,是一篇故事类阅读,要求考生准确掌握细节信息。
并根据上下文的逻辑关系,进行分析,推理,从而写出正确答案。
5.阅读短文,按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
My dad is a kind, gentle man, and a man of few words. Throughout my life, he offered advice rarely. But the words were always appropriate to the situation I was facing.
As a teen when I struggled with making sense of the world around me, he said, “All things are relative.” He taught me the right view of the world. When I was offered the opportunity to be a manager of an organization as an undergraduate student, I asked him for advice because he was a senior manager of a large company. His advice was simple, “Only when you becom e the manager can you have a vision for how you can make the organization better; management isn't about power and it's about leadership.” I learned what I needed was not only to be responsible for my team but also to have leading ability. When I was feeli ng down, he explained, “Think that you make the wrong choices in life, sometimes.”
My dad is 86 now, living on his own and enjoying life while struggling with the challenges that aging brings. He keeps a positive attitude despite long pain and the losses that come in life. Although we live quite far away from each other, we talk daily on the phone, and he shares the joys of my young family. As I tell him how we're heading off cycling or on a trip or out to play tennis, now his typical response is, “Do it while you can.” This is very important. We can't be sure of the future. My father's advice is like the ancient dictum(格言)of “ carpe diem”— seize the day and enjoy it to the fullest.
My dad rarely “lectured me”. He trusted me, and helped me when I nee ded help. His patience and wisdom have been true gifts in my life. As I doubt my ability and my motivation, I recall his most recent gift of wisdom, “Do it while you can”. It's enough to “just get me started”.
(1)Why did the author's dad tell him “All things are relative.”? (No more than 10 words) (2)What qualities should a manager have according to the author? (No more than 5 words) (3)What is the purpose of the author's father talking with him on the phone every day? (No more than 10 words)
(4)How do you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph? (No more than 10 words)
(5)How do you feel about the ancient dictum of “carpe diem”? (No more than 20 words) 【答案】(1)To teach the author the right view of the world.
(2)Both responsibility and leading ability.
(3)Learning (To learn) more about the pleasure of the author's family.
(4)His father's words make him take action.
(5)(One possible version:) I totally agree with it, because I think one should seize the day to enjoy his life without regret.
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文。
作者介绍了自己的父亲及父亲对自己的教导和启发。
(1)考查信息提升能力。
根据第二段中的“As a teen when I struggled with making sense of the world around me, he said, ‘All things are relative.’ He taught me the right view of the world.”可知,作者的父亲说“所有的事情都是相对的。
”是为了教给作者正确的世界观。
考虑词数
限制,故答To teach the author the right view of the world.
(2)考查信息提升能力。
根据第二段中的“I learned what I needed was not only to be responsible for my team but also to have leading ability.”可知,作者明白了作为经理他需要的不仅仅是对团队负责,还要有领导能力。
考虑词数限制,故答Both responsibility and leading ability.
(3)考查信息提升能力。
根据第三段中的“Although we live quite far away from each other, we talk daily on the phone, and he shares the joys of my young family. ”可知,作者的父亲每天和他通电话的目的实际上是想分享年轻家庭的快乐。
考虑词数限制,故答Learning (To learn) more about the pleasure of the author's family.
(4)考查信息提升能力。
根据最后一段中的“As I doubt my ability and my motivation, I recall his most recent gift of wisdom, “Do it while you can”. It's enough to “just get me started”可知,当作者怀疑自己的能力和动机时,他会想起父亲最近赐予他的智慧——“趁你能做的时候去做”。
这足以让我“开始”了。
由此可知,划线句意为,父亲的话让自己行动起来。
考虑词数限制,故答His father's words make him take action.
(5)考查信息提升能力。
此题答案不统一,答题时要有立场、要有依据,同时注意字数限制。
例如:I totally agree with it, because I think one should seize the day to enjoy his life without regret.(我完全同意,因为我认为一个人应该抓住这一天,享受他的生活没有遗憾)
【点评】本题涉及信息提升能力的考查,要求考生准确掌握所给材料,根据上下文的逻辑关系,结合相关的语法知识和词汇知识,从而做出正确答案。
6.任务型阅读
I stood at the edge of the cliff. The wind stung my eyes, cutting into my skin. Dark-feathered birds circled the air, swooping (俯冲) low over the ocean every now and then to catch their dinner. Hundreds of feet below, the deep ocean beat against the rough sandy shore. I took a deep breath, filling my lungs with excitement — and at the same time, fear.
Behind me, I heard the rest of the crew start to mutter. I was here for the shooting of a movie as I was one of the lead actors in the film Dangerous Things, and this scene was right in the middle of the climax (故事的高潮). It was vital that this went right.
The director had talked to me about getting a stunt double (替身演员), but I'd persuaded him that I could handle the dive. I'd taken a diving course a few years ago, and I'd been taking swimming lessons since I was five years old. I had been pretty confident that I could do this — up till now.
Someone called out, “Ceria, you don't have to do this! Are you sure you want to dive?” It was one of the producers, Callie Evans. I knew I couldn't turn back now. I couldn't bear to see the disappointed look on the director's face when he was told that I couldn't do it.
At that moment, all my fears and worries broke free. The expectation of adventure and victory seemed to move all the hesitation. I swooped downwards. The air on either side of me cut into my extended arms. I knew that this wonderful feeling of flight would only last a few seconds, yet time seemed to slow down so I could hear the thrilled whoops of my crew and a round of
applause that seemed to echo in my pounding ears.
(1)At the beginning, how did the author feel about what she was going to do?(No more than 3 words)
(2)What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean in English?(No more than 15 words)
(3)Why was the author that confident in diving? (No more than 10 words)
(4)What was the crew's reaction while the author was diving down? (No more than 10 words) (5)How do you like the author? Please explain why. (No more than 25 words)
【答案】(1)She felt excited and frightened / fearful.
(2)It was important that the scene was properly shot.
Or: (Because it was the climax of the movie), the dive must perform successfully / well.
(3)Because she had taken diving and swimming courses.
(4)The crew cheered loudly for her.
(5)I think the author was brave and confident, because she could overcome the fear to challenge herself and enjoy success.
Or: I think she was brave because she didn't chicken out when facing challenges.
【解析】【分析】本文为记叙文。
作者讲述了自己拍摄电影的故事。
(1)根据第一段中的I took a deep breath, filling my lungs with excitement — and at the same time, fear.(我深深地吸了一口气,肺里充满了兴奋——同时也充满了恐惧)可知,一开始,作者对她将要做的事情感觉既兴奋又害怕。
考虑字数限制,故答She felt excited and frightened / fearful。
(2)根据第二段中的I was here for the shooting of a movie as I was one of the lead actors in the film Dangerous Things, and this scene was right in the middle of the climax.(我在这里拍摄一部电影,因为我是电影《危险的事情》的主角之一,而这个场景正好处于高潮的中间)可知,因为这个场景正好处于高潮的中间,因此拍好这个场景是至关重要。
考虑字数限制,故答It was important that the scene was properly shot. Or: (Because it was the climax of the movie), the dive must perform successfully / well。
(3)根据第三段中的I'd taken a diving course a few years ago, and I'd been taking swimming lessons since I was five years old.(几年前我上过潜水课,从五岁起我就一直在上游泳课)可知,作者对潜水很有信心是因为她学过潜水和游泳课程。
考虑字数限制,故答Because she had taken diving and swimming courses。
(4)根据最后一段中的I could hear the thrilled whoops of my crew and a round of applause (我能听到团队成员们激动的呼喊和掌声)可知,当作者潜水时,团队成员们激动的呼喊和鼓掌。
考虑字数限制,故答The crew cheered loudly for her。
(5)本题是开放性题目。
首先要表明立场,然后解释原因。
通读原文可知,作者是勇敢和自信的,因为她面对挑战时她没有退缩,克服恐惧,挑战自己,享受成功。
考虑字数限制,故答I think the author was brave and confident, because she could overcome the fear to challenge herself and enjoy success. Or: I think she was brave because she didn't chicken out when facing challenges.
【点评】任务型阅读的关键在看懂文章,然后根据题目要求作答,注意尽量用文章的语言填写答案。
在文章中找不到答案时,要完全理解句子,根据同义词,句型转换的方式找到可以替换文章中的单词,短语或者句子的词。
7.请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意:每个空格只填1个单词。
The urge to share our lives on social media
People have long used media to see reflections of themselves. Long before mobile phones or even photography, diaries were kept as a way to understand oneself and the world in which one lives. In the 18th and 19th centuries, as diaries became more popular, middle-class New Englanders, particularly white women, wrote about their everyday lives and the world around them.
These diaries were not a place into which they poured their innermost thoughts and desires, but rather a place to chronicle (记录) the social world around them. The diaries captured the everyday routines of mid-19th-century life, and women diarists in particular focused not on themselves but on their families and their communities.
Diaries today are, for the most part, private. But things were different for these New England diaries. Young women who were married would send their diaries home to their parents as a way of maintaining kin (血缘) relations. When family or friends came to visit, it was not uncommon to sit down and go through one's journal together.
Diaries are not the only media that people have used to document lives and share them with others. We have long used media like photo albums, baby books and even slide shows as a means of creating traces (痕迹) of our lives. We do this to understand ourselves and to see trends in our behaviour. We create traces as part of our identity and part of our memory.
Sharing everyday life events can strengthen social connection and intimacy (亲密感). For example, you take a picture of your child's first birthday. It is not only a developmental milestone: the photo also strengthen the identity of the family unit itself. The act of taking the photo and proudly sharing it further reaffirms (再次证实) one as a good and attentive parent. In other words, the media traces of others figure in our own identities.
Today's social media platforms are, by and large, free to use, unlike historical diaries, which people had to buy. Today, advertising subsidises (补贴) our use of networked platforms. Therefore these platforms encourage use of their networks to build larger audiences and to better target them. Our pictures, our posts, and our likes are commodified—that is, they are used to create value through increasingly targeted advertising.
Instead of social media merely connecting us, it has become a craze (狂热) for information, continually trying to draw us in with the promise of social connectivity—it's someone's birthday, someone liked your picture, etc. There's a multibillion-dollar industry pulling us into our smartphones, relying on a longstanding human need for communication.
The urge to be present on social media is much more complex than simply narcissism (自恋). Social media of all kinds not only enable people to see their reflections, but to feel their。