题目内容
11.THE STORY OF AN EYEWITNESSby Jack London
Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed.San Francisco is gone.Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the centre of the city.Its businesses are gone.The factories,hotels and palaces are all gone too.Within an hour after the earthquake,the smoke of San Francisco's fires could be seen 160kilometres away. ①The sun was red in the dark sky.There was no stopping the fires.There was no way to organize or communicate.The steel railway tracks were now useless.And the great pipes for carrying water under the streets had burst.All of the ways man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the thirty seconds the earth moved.
②Out at sea it was calm.No wind came up.Yet from every direction-east,west,north,and south,strong winds blew upon the unlucky city.Man himself had to make ruins of some of the city's best buildings so that they would not be a danger to those in the streets.A list of buildings undestroyed was now only a few addresses. ③A list of the brave men and women would fill a library.A list of all those killed will never be made.
Amazing as it may seem,Wednesday night was a quiet night.There were no crowds.The policemen said nothing; even their horses were quiet. ④There were no shouts or people doing crazy things.In all those terrible hours I saw not one woman who cried,not one man who was excited.Before the fires,through the night,thousands and thousands of people who had lost their homes left for safety.Some were covered in blankets.Sometimes whole families put everything they owned and could save into wagons (四轮马车).They helped one another climb the high hills around the city.Never in all San Francisco's history were her people so kind as on that terrible night.
31.We can judge from the passage that the terrible earthquake took place inD.
A.China
B.Britain
C.Canada
D.America
32.Which word best describes how the writer felt about the earthquake?B
A.lost
B.shocked
C.excited
D.quiet
33.Which of the underlined sentences is NOT an example of contrast(对比)?D
A.①
B.②
C.③
D.④
34.What can we learn from Jack London's description of the earthquake?C
A.The terrible earthquake lasted about one hour.
B.People hid in the library during the earthquake.
C.The quake almost destroyed everything in the city.
D.People were in panic (恐慌),not knowing what to do.
35.We could probably read the passage fromA.
A.a report
B.a letter
C.a poster
D.a play.
分析 本文为新闻报道,报道了美国旧金山地震后的惨状.
解答 31---35 DBDCA
31.答案D.推理判断题.根据第一段"San Francisco is gone"可知,地震发生在旧金山,故选D 美国.
32.答案B.观点态度题.根据第一段"Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed"历史上从来没有一个城市被毁灭得如此彻底,可推断作者是震惊的,故选B.
33.答案D.写作手法题.第一句话"The sun was red in the dark sky"是使用red与dark的颜色对比.第二句话"Out at sea it was calm.No wind came up.Yet from every direction-east,west,north,and south,strong winds blew upon the unlucky city"使用海上的风平浪静与城市四面八方的大风作对比.第三句话"A list of the brave men and women would fill a library.A list of all those killed will never be made"使用幸存的勇敢的人们与不幸去世的作对比.只有第四句话没有对比,故选D.
34.答案C.推理判断题.根据第一段"Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed"和"Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the centre of the city.Its businesses are gone.The factories,hotels and palaces are all gone too."可知,地震后的旧金山被彻底毁坏了,没有工厂、酒店,所有的东西都没有了,故选C.
35.答案A.文章出处题.阅读全文可知,这是一篇新闻报道,报道了地震后的美国旧金山,故选A.
点评 高考英语应用文阅读的常见的考查题型有:细节理解题、推理判断题、主旨大意题及猜测词义题等.解题技巧如下:1.题干定位法.先阅读题干,然后根据问题的要求,按照题目顺序依次有针对性地结合题干中的关键词到文中定位,阅读相关部分并快速寻找有效信息.再将原文和选项进行比较.当问题与原文材料相同的时候,对号入座;如果问题与原文不同.则可以同义替换、归纳事实等. 2.补全成分法.省略词和省略旬在应用文中大量出现.对于影响语境理解的省略情况.我们应将省略句补全,从而更加准确地理解其意思. 3.信息再加工法.此方法主要用于词义或句意推测题.以及涉及数字转换的判断推理题.此类题目需要考生对原文相关信息作正确理解,并通过推理判断或是计算.对信息进行再加工.这个理解可能牵涉到对某一句话或某哆句子的理解.考生在理解其意义时.一定要捕捉到关键性的词. 4.排除法.排除法在应用文阅读巾使用也比较多.考生可以根据题干中的关键词.找准相关句、段的内容.再仔细对照,排除于文章内容不一致的错误信息,从而确定选项.考生要注意根据所提问题采用寻读、跳读的方法.这样往往可以达到事半功倍的效果.
