2013届高考英语阅读理解命题点4 （猜测词义专题解析02）

2013届高考英语:阅读理解命题点4 （猜测词义专题解析02）
Passage ****
When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings.
Week by week her list grew; I was very thin; I wasn't a good student. I talked too much; I was too proud, and so on. I tried to bear all these as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.
He listened to me quietly. Then he asked, "Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn't you ever wonder what you are really like? Well, you now have that girl's opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.
I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn't change like being very thin, but a good number I could and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I got a fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it. "That's just for you," he said. "You know better than anyone, the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you'll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don't shut your ears. Listen to them all, but bear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to ~to."
Daddy's advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I've never had a better piece of advice.
1. What does "Week by week her list grew"mean?
A. Week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious
B. She made a list of my shortcomings and kept on adding new ones to it.
C. I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on.
D. She discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me.
答案: D指导：从文中第一句话和"Weekbyweekherlistgrow” 后的一句话知D选项为最佳选项。
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Passage *****
Bond had walked for only a few minutes when it suddenlyoccurred to him that he was being followed. There was no evidence for it except a slight headache and a little knowing the people near him but believed in his sixth sense and he at once stopped in front of the shop window he was passing and looked occasionally back along 46th street. Nothing but a lot of miscellaneous people moving slowly on the sidewalks, mostly on the same side as himself, the side that was back from the sun. There was no sudden movement into a doorway, nobody wiping his face with a handkerchief to avoid recognition, nobody bending down to tie a shoelace.
He went on and turned into the Avenue of the Americans, stopping in the-first doorway, the entrance to a woman's un-derwear store where a man in a blue hat with his back to him was examining the black face paints on a particularly realistic dummy (模型)
And then something grasped his arm and a voice came, "All right, Limey. Take it easy unless you want lead for lunch. "and he felt something press into his back just above the kidney. There was a tap as his fist was caught in the other man's left hand, and at the same time as the contact telegraphed to Bond's mind that there could have been no gun,
there came the well remembered laughter and the lazy voice saying, "No good, James. The angles have got you. '
Bond straightened himself slowly and for a moment he could only gaze into the smiling face of Felix Leiter with bland disbelief, his built-up tension (紧张) slowly relaxing.
"So you were doing a front tail, you bastard? ' he finally said.
1. What did the man mean by saying "Take it easy unless you want lead for lunch"?
A. Put up your hands.
B. Don't move or I'll shoot you.
C. If you want to have lunch, you must listen to me.
D. You go first slowly and we'll have lunch together.
答案: B 指导：从上下文知，Bond当时以为是枪顶着他的后背，故推知本句决非本义。lead指子弹。
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Passage *****(典型例题E)
Every year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for "sport". Progress in this direction is slow because shooting is not a sport for watching, and only those few who take part realize the cruelty and destruction.
The number of gunners, however, grows rapidly. Children too young to develop proper iudgments through independ- ent thought are led a long way away by their gunning parents. They are subjected to advertisements of gun producers who describe shooting as good for their health and guncarrying as a way of putting redder blood in the veins (血管). They are persnaded by gunner magazines with stories honoring the chase and the kill. In school they view motion pictures which are supposedly meant to teach them how to deal with arms safely but which are actually designed to stimulate (刺激) a desire to own a gun.
Wildlife is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wildland habitat (Jfl~,~,J~). Habitat loss will contin- ue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by shooting? There doesn't seem to be any chance if the serious condition of our birds is not improved.
Wildlife belongs to everyone and not to the gunners alone. Although most people do not shoot, they seem to forgive shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it. The only answer, then, is to bring the truth about sport shooting to the great majority of people.
Now, it is time to realize that animals have the same right to life as we do and that there is nothing fair or right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful creatures. The gunners like to describe what they do as character- building, but we know that to wound an animal and watch it go through the agony of dying can make nobody happy. If, as they would have you believe, gun-carrying and killing improve human character, then perhaps we should encourage war.
1. According to the text, most people do not seem to be against hunting because________.
A. they have little knowledge of it
B. it helps to build human character
C. it is too costly to stop killing wildlife
D. they want to keep wildlife under control
答案: A 指导：第四段第二句是解此题的关键句。
2. The underlined word "agony"in the last paragraph probably means________.
A. form B. condition C. pain D. sadness
答案: C 指导：通过画线词所在句子中的but所表达的转折关系可推出该词的含义。
3. According to the text, the films children watch at school actually ________.
A. teach them how to deal with guns safely
B. praise hunting as character-building
C. describe hunting as an exercise
D. encourage them to have guns of their own
答案: D指导：第二段最后一句是解本题的关键。
4. It can be inferred from the text that the author seems to________.
A. blame the majority of people
B. worry about the existence of wildlife
C. be in favour of war
D. be in support of character-building
答案: B 指导：本文最后一段反映出作者反对持枪捕措，从而揭示作者对于野生动物的生存的担忧之情。
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