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第一节
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共
15
小题；每小题
2
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30
分
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项
A
、
B
、
C
、
D
中，选出最佳选项。
A
(2018·安徽省重点中学盟校联考
)
Welcome!
We
look
forward
to
welcoming
you
this
summer.
Below
you
will
find
a
list
of
forms
for
students
accepted
to
our
2019
Salisbury
Summer
School.
Please
review
the
documents
and
fill
out
and
return
any
applicable
forms.
Should
you
wish
to
spend
overnight
in
the
area
when
you
drop
off
your
child,
please make
arrangements well in advance as summer is a busy
time of year in Connecticut's
northwest
corner. (A list of area hotels is found here.)
Both
the
elective
course
enrollment
(
登记
)
and
the
questionnaire
are
very
important
because
we will be unable to
design your child's academic schedule without
them. We would also like to
draw your
attention to the form regarding students leaving
on weekends during summer school.
Accepted Student Forms
(ASFs)
：
●Elective
Enrollment
●Questionnaire
●Weekend Permission
●Travel Form
●Pharmacy (用药
) Form
●E&R Laundry Registration
Form
The
Salisbury
School
Health
Cen
ter
works
with
Magnus
Health
which
is
a
secure
and
easy?to?use
website for
online submission and storage of your child's
medical information. You must access
your child's Magnus Health account in
order to get and submit the required health forms
before
registration (Access the
Pharmacy Form here). Health forms must be
completed and submitted to
Magnus
Health by June 15, if not, summer school classes
and activities may not be accessible
to
your kid.
For
questions
regarding
Salisbury
School
required
health
forms
or
your
Magnus
Health
account,
please
email
healthcenter
@
salisburyschool.
org.
Alternatively,
you
may
call
the
Health
Center
at
860
－
435
－
5748.
【解题导语】
本文是应用文，介绍了
2019
年
Salisbury
学校暑期班的入班事宜，包括选修课程注
册、问卷调查、健康信息等。
【难句分析】
Should you
wish to spend overnight in the area when you drop
off your child,
please make
arrangements well in advance as summer is a busy
time of year in Connecticut's
northwest
corner.
分析：
本句是个复杂的复合句；
倒装句
Should
you
wish
to
spend...
your
child
相当于
If
you
should
wish
to spend... your child
，倒装句中有一个
when
引导的时间状语从句。主句是祈使句，且祈使句中
含有
as
引导的原因状语从句。
译文：如果你希望送孩子过来时在这个地区住一晚，请提前做好安排，因为夏季是康涅狄格州
西北地
区一年中较为繁忙的时候。
1
．
What should
they do if parents want to spend one night in the
area?
A
．
Complete
all the forms.
B
．
Book a room as
early as possible.
C
．
Apply to Magnus
Health.
D
．
Tell
the summer school in advance.
答案与解析：
B
考查细节理解。根据第一段中的“Should you... please
make arrangements well
in advance as
summer is a busy time of year in Connecticut's
northwest corner”可知，如果父
母想要在这个地方住一晚，应该提前
在学校附近找旅馆订房间。
2
．
Which form
should parents fill in if their kids leave on
weekends during summer school?
A
．
Elective
Enrollment.
B
．
Questionnaire.
C
．
Weekend
Permission.
D
．
Travel Form.
答案与解析：
C
考查细节理解。题干问的表格指的是“the form regarding
students leaving on
weekends during
summer school”，由此可知，这个表格是学生在读暑期班期间的周末离开校园时所需
要的，因此
C
项正确。
3
．
What may cause
students to miss some classes and activities?
A
．
Incomplete
health forms.
B
．
Not returning
ASFs by June 15.
C
．
Failing to
register ahead of time.
D
．
Loss of Magnus
Health account.
答案与解析：
A
考查细节理解。根据倒数第二段中的“Health
forms
must
be
comple
ted...
if
not,
summer school classes
and activities may not be accessible to your kid”可
知，如果健康表格没
有及时完成并提交，可能导致学生不能参与暑期班课程和活动。
B
(2018·成都摸底测试)“Hungary？”
I
looked
at
my
school
headmaster
in
confusion.
“I
never
mentioned wanting to
go to Hungary.” And with th
at, my
adventure started.
My name is Jonathan
Diamond and I just finished an amazing school
exchange year in Hungary.
Going
on
an
exchange
had
always
been
my
dream.
When
my
high
school
offered
an
all?year
program,
I jumped at the opportunity. It would
pay for almost everything and all I had to do was
buy
a plane ticket. I knew where I
wanted to go: Spain, the country of dancers
wearing flowing red
dresses. So when I
heard that I was going to Hungary, I was pretty
shocked. But I decided to
make
the
bes
t
of
it, since
it
was, after
all, a
once?in?a?lifetime
opportunity.
Before
I
knew
it, I was
on the airplane, leaving for Budapest Ferenc Liszt
International Airport, Hungary.
I
had
difficult
times
when
I
almost
gave
up.
Hungarian
is
the
hardest
language
on
the
planet.
Cultural differences occasionally
embarrassed both my peers and me. I had to give up
eating
carrots,
my
beautiful
favorite,
for
Hungarians
think carrots
are
rubbish
in
their
country.
The
change in the landscape was amazing,
looking nothing like skyscrapers, bullet trains,
cars,
and
people
in
tiny
houses
that
I
had
been
accustomed
to.
Gradually,
I
fell
in
love
with
the
relaxing
lifestyle, the warm?hearted people, and
getting home at 2：
30
p
．
m. at the latest from
school.
And I was sad to leave on my
very last day.
Having the host family
who took me as one of their own members was the
best thing I've ever
experienced.
From
my
little
sisters,
I
learned
how
to
embrace
life
to
its
fullest.
From
my
brothers
I
learned that it's OK for a boy to run around the
house. From my host parents I learned to stay
positive, to smile and that when you
pick the right people and take their hands,
suddenly,
you become friends.
【解题导语】
本文是一篇记叙文，讲
述作者作为一个交换生在国外学习的经历和感受。
【难句分析】
From my
host parents I learned to stay positive, to smile
and that when you
pick the right people
and take their hands, suddenly, you become
friends.
分析：本句中两个不定式
to stay
positive
和
to smile
及
that
引导的宾语从句作谓语动词
learned
的宾语；
that
引导的宾语从句中包含一个
when
引导的
时间状语从句。
译文：从我寄宿父母那里，我学会了保持积极
和微笑以及当你选择了合适的人并且握住对方的手时，
你们就会立刻变成朋友。
4
．
How did
Jonathan feel when he was told to go to Hungary?
A
．
Excited and
satisfied.
B
．
Confused and
shocked.
C
．
Amazed
and embarrassed.
D
．
Delighted and
interested.
答案与解析：
B
考查细节理解。根据首段中的“I
looked
at
my
school
headmaster
in
con
fusion”
可知，作者听到这个消息很迷惑，再结合第三段中的“So when
I heard that I was going to Hungary,
I was pretty
shocked”可知，选项
B
正确。
5
．
Why did
Jonathan still decide to go to Hungary instead of
Spain?
A
．
He
didn't like Spain.
B
．
He wanted to
learn Hungarian.
C
．
It was a rare
chance.
D
．
Going
to Hungary was much cheaper.
答案与解析：
C
考查细节理解。根据第三段中的“But I decided to make
the best of it, since
it was, after
all, a once?in?a?lifetime opportunity”可知，作者决定充分利用这
次机会，因为毕
竟这是一次千载难逢的机会，所以选项
C
正确。a rare chance“一次罕见的机会”。
6
．
What can we
learn about Jonathan during his stay in Hungary?
A
．
He fell in love
with eating carrots.
B
．
He couldn't
wait to leave.
C
．
He was
surprised by the landscape.
D
．
He quickly got
used to the life there.
答案与解析：
C
考查推理判断。根据第四段中的“The change in the
landscape was amazing”可
知选项
C<
/p>
正确。
7
．
According to
Jonathan, the host family ________.
A
．
changed him
completely
B
．
taught him how
to dance well
C
．
treated him as
equally as a student
D
．
showed him the
good things of life
答案与解析：
D
考查推理判断。根据最后一段内容可知，作者从寄宿家庭那里学到了很多人生哲学，
他们向作者展现了生活中美好的事情，故选项
D
正确。
C
(2018·济宁一模
) The unusual
whistle language used as a means of communication
by
villagers in the remote and
mountainous northern Turkey has been added to the
UNESCO list of
Intangible Cultural
Heritage.
The
language
is
a
highly
developed
high?pitch
system
of
whistling
to
communicate
in
ru
gged(
崎
岖
的
)
areas
where
people
mostly
cannot
see
each
other.
It
can
allow
people
to
communicate across great distances, up
to 5 kilometers. Compared with
other
similar whistle
languages in Spain's
Canary Islands, in Mexico, or in Greek villages,
it has a higher tone and
larger
vocabulary.
This
unusual
form
of
communication,
which
dates some
500
years
ago,
to
the
Ottoman
Empire,
was born from sheer
necessity and widespread across the Black Sea
regions.
But 50 years ago,
it suffered
the
impact of the
progression
of technology and nowadays the
rapid
growth of cellular mobile systems has put this
cultural heritage under serious threat.
For centuries, the language has been
passed on from grandparent to parent, from parent
to
child.
Now,
though, many
of
its
most
proficient
speakers
who
use
their
tongue, teeth
and
fingers
are aging and
becoming physically weak. Young people are no
longer interested in learning the
language or in finding ways to update
its vocabulary with new words, and in a few
generations
it may be gone for good.
“Our bird language is very
convenient and efficient to communicate across
the valleys.
It has many benefits over
yelling, which is bad for our throats
，”
said Avni Kocek, head of
the
bird
village,
adding
that
despite
setbacks
bec
ause
of
technology,
“bird
language
is
still
used by many of us. Whistle language is
transmitted from our elders to us and we have the
duty
to
transmit
it
to
our
children.
We
are
making
efforts
to
keep
our
culture
alive
through
the
annual
Bird Language
Fest
ival.”
Besides, the bird language has been
required to be taught at primary schools since
2014 by
district authorities in order
to instill the practice in younger generations.
【解题导语】
本文是一篇说明文。文
章介绍了土耳其的一种口哨语言，并谈及了对这种文化的保护
措施。
【难句分析】
The
language
is
a
highly
developed
high?pitch
system
of
whistling
to
communicate
in rugged
(
崎岖的
) areas where people
mostly cannot see each
other.(
第二段第一句
)
分析
：本句是一个主从复合句。
where
引导的定语从句修饰
rugged(
崎岖的
)
areas
；不定式短语
to
communicate in...
作定语，修饰名词
whistling
。
Paraphrase/
英英释义：
The
language is
a hig
hly
developed high?pitch system of whistling.
It
is used to communicate
among people who mostly cannot see each other in
rugged (
崎岖的
) areas.
词汇积累
whistle
n
．口哨
necessity
n
．必要，需要
heritage
n
．遗产
efficient
adj.
有效
率的，高效的
8
．
What is the
bird language's advantage over other similar
whistle languages?
A
．
It is used as a
means of communication.
B
．
It is older and
has a larger number of users.
C
．
It can send
more messages to farther places.
D
．
It is a
completely different system of whistling.
答案与解析：
C
考查细节理解。由第二段中的
Compared
with
other
similar
whistle
languages
in
Spain's
Canary
Islands,
in
Mexico,
or
in
Greek
villages,
it
has
a
higher
tone
and
larger
vocabulary.
可推知，这种语言语调高，所以它传播得更远，词汇量大，所以它传递的信息就更多。故选
C
。
9
．
What's the
biggest threat to the bird language?