【名师指津】2018年高三英语二轮复习 第一部分 阅读理解 四选一阅读 仿真模拟 第四组 议论文课件.pptVIP

(六) 1. Why did the girl save the two starving birds? A. To make money. B. To seek love. C. To protect other birds. D. To enjoy the songs. B 事实细节题。根据第一段段意尤其是第一句“There was once a lonely girl who longed desperately for love.”可知答案选B项。 2. The underlined phrase in Paragraph 2 probably means ___. A. get ill B. be tight C. turn weak D. become wild C 词义推断题。根据第二段倒数第二句“She opened her hand stared in horror at the dead bird.”中的关键信息dead可推知，小鸟在小女孩的手中应该是慢慢走向死亡，即变得虚弱。go limp的意思是“四肢无力”，故选C项符合语境逻辑。 3. What can we know about the second bird? A. He was set free and sang songs in return. B. He pretended to stay in the cage. C. He managed to escape from the cage. D. He tried hard to help his fellow bird. A 推理判断题。根据第三段第三句“She lifted him from the cage and threw him softly into the air.”及第四段最后两句“Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the sweetest melody she had ever heard.”可推知，笼中另一只小鸟因小女孩的放手得以自由并以歌声作为回报。 4. The main purpose of the passage is to tell us ____. A. how to protect birds B. how to nurture birds C. how to keep your love D. how to share your love C 主旨大意题。根据本文大意，渴望爱的小女孩两种不同的方法导致了两只小鸟不同的结局，且文章最后一段指出：失去爱的方式是紧紧握住不放，而保持爱的最佳途径是给予自由，即学会放手，故选C项。 助读强化 starving adj. 饥饿的 circle vi. 盘旋 wildly adv. 野蛮地 fist n. 拳头 capture vt. 抓住 melody n. 旋律；歌曲 grasp at 抓住 delight at 为……而欣喜 long desperately for 非常渴望 (七) 1. The author mentions bad news in order to show that ___. A. bad news attracts people to see positive things B. bad news has a negative effect on television rates C. bad news makes people see things in a negative light D. bad news is more likely to catch people’s eyes D 事实细节题。通过第三段中的“The fact that something is negative catches a lot more attention than something positive”可知答案选D项。 2. The underlined part “nasty staff” in Paragraph 4 probably means ____. A. something unpleasant B. amazing incidents C. important events D. unstable emotions A 词义推断题。通过下文的awesome stuff可知，这里是与其对应，awesome stuff是指一些极好的事情，所以与此对应的应