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【题目】 One day, while I was waiting for my father, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set free from some sort of prison(监狱）. The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.

At that moment，I thought to myself, “Why aren’t most adults this way?” Most adults， when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even make a second attempt(尝试). They would be so embarrassed that they would not try again if someone saw them fall. Or, because they fall, they would find a good excuse for themselves that they’re not fit for it. They would end up being too afraid to attempt again for fear of failure .

However，with kids，when they fall down，they don’t consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a learning experience. They try again and again until they succeed. The answer must be that they have not connected “falling down” with the word “failure”. What’s more，they probably think to themselves that it’s quite okay to fall down and that it’s not wrong to do so. In other words，they allow themselves to make mistakes，so they remain energetic.

【1】What did the little boy do when he fell down?

A. He cried and lay on the grass.B. He asked his mother for help.

C. He got up and went on running. D. He got up and stood there crying.

【2】In the writer’s opinion，what might the little boy consider his falling down as?

A. A failure.B. A joke.C. An interesting game.D. A learning experience.

【3】In the writer’s opinion, why can’t many adults succeed?

A. Because they are afraid of being embarrassed.

B. Because they can’t find a good excuse.

C. Because once they fail, they won’t attempt again.

D. Because they don’t allow themselves to make mistakes.

【4】The underlined word “energetic” in Paragraph 3 means .

A. 精力充沛的B. 高兴的C. 沮丧的D. 愉快的

【5】What does the writer want to tell us?

A. Practice makes perfect.B. Failure is the mother of success.

C. All roads lead to Rome.D. Each coin has two sides.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】C

【4】A

【5】B

【解析】

文章大意：作者通过对比孩子和成年人对待跌倒的不同态度教育我们要不怕失败，坚持不懈地勇敢尝试，这样才能成功。

【1】细节理解题。根据第一段中的句子The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.可知，当小男孩摔倒后会站起来继续跑，脸上仍然带着微笑，好像什么都没有发生。答案为C。

【2】细节理解题。根据第三段中的句子“However, with kids, when they fall down, they don’t consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a learning experience.”然而对于孩子们来说，当他们跌倒时，他们不会把跌倒视为一种失败，相反他们把跌倒视为一种学习经历。答案为D。

【3】根据第二段中的句子“Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even make a second attempt(尝试).”可知，作者认为许多成年人不能够成功，是因为他们一旦失败，就不会再尝试了。故答案为C。

【4】词义猜测题。从句中“they probably think to themselves that it’s quite okay to fall down and that it’s not wrong to do so. In other words, they allow themselves to make mistakes, so they remain energetic（他们可能自己认为失败是很正常的，失败也不是什么错事。换句话说，他们允许自己犯错误，所以他们保持动力和活力），故答案选A。

【5】主旨大意题。从全文中也可以看出作者对于失败是很乐观的，可以把失败当作一次学习的机会，一次又一次地尝试，直到成功。A. Practice makes perfect.孰能生巧；B. Failure is the mother of success.失败是成功之母；C. All roads lead to Rome.条条大道通罗马；D. Each coin has two sides.任何事情都有两面性。因此说失败是成功之母，答案为B。

阅读理解中考查的题型主要有细节理解题、主旨大意题、推理判断题（普通推断、推断文章出处）、词义猜测题等题型。在解答词义猜测题时，由于短文中出现了部分生词，在不允许查字典的情况下，只能运用“猜测词义法”来猜测单词的意思。猜词的技巧有多种，可以通过因果关系，对比关系猜词；也可以通过同义词，反义词或构词法猜词，以及上下文的句意去判断，如第4小题，可以通过上下文语境，运用逻辑推理能力，准确猜出词义。