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47、Many people whose possessions were destroyed in natural disasters eventually considered their loss_______
做阅读理解时,一定得仔细分析第一段,因为绝大多数的文章第一段必然会出现一个主题(topic),这对我们把握作者的行文思路是非常重要的,因为文章中所有的例子,观点等等都是为主题服务的,只有把握住主题,才能为理解文章打下基础。先看第一句话:I’ve heard and talked to many people who described how Mother Nature simplified their lives for them。大自然使很多人的生活变简单了。什么意思?作者接下来进行了解释。They’d lost their home and many or all of their possessions through fires, floods, earthquakes, or some other disaster。读到这,我们能够理解第一句话的意思了:许多人在自然灾害中(如火灾,洪水,地震)失去了家庭和财产,但这反而却使他们的生活变得简单了。最后一句写了这些人对失去财产的看法:but the people I’ve heard from all saw their loss, ultimately, as a blessing。这里的the people就对应着第一句的many people, ultimately对应着题干中的eventually,所以这里自然是填a blessing。再次强调读题干时一定要注意主语,这里的主语是many people,所以与之对应的就不可能是distressing,而只能是blessing。看完第一段,根据simplify their lives和a blessing我们就可以推知文章接下来作者一定会具体论述在灾难中失去财富是如何使生活简化的,最后一般会得出自己的结论。
48、Now that all their possessions were lost in the fire, the woman and her husband felt that their lives had been_____
很容易找到原文中对应的话:And once all those things were no longer there, she and her husband saw how they had weighed them down and complicated their lives。这里的they向前指代all those things, them指代这个妇女和她的丈夫。答案似乎也很容易写出来their lives had been complicated。对吗?错!! 这里又是“歹毒”的命题人下的一个套。文章中说:当所有的东西都不复存在时,她和她的丈夫才发现过去这些东西是如何压在他们身上,使他们生活变得复杂的。题干中的表述是:当他们所有的财产在大火中化为乌有时,这个妇女和她的丈夫觉得他们的生活变得_______。过去他们的生活是复杂的,现在这些财产都没了,生活肯定变得简单了吧。所以这里一定填一个与complicated相反的词,结合第一段首句simplified their lives,这边只能填their lives had been simplified。 注意:第一段的simplified their lives是文章的一个核心所在,因此命题人在这里设置题目是很自然的事,这也再一次提醒我们阅读时一定要把握住文章的中心。
49、What do we know about the author’s house from the sentence “Gibbs and I did have a close call”
have a close call是一个习语,表示“差一点没发生的倒霉的事,或是差一点完不成的该做的事”。那有同学会问了:我哪知道这个意思啊?不要紧,这种对句子理解题就是要联系上下文,在具体语境中去体会。第四段开头写到:虽然我们从来没有遭遇过如此灾难性的损失,但我和Gibbs在决定要简化生活之前就……。后文又写到我们当时住在火灾频繁发生的社区, 一天晚上大火肆虐,摧毁了我们社区600户家庭。这次灾难能让我们客观的审视我们原先积累的物品。close本身就含有“差一点”的意思,联系前后文,我们可以推断出这里的have a close call表示差一点就遭受灾难性的损失,即差一点被大火给吞噬。所以答案是:A tragedy/disaster/loss almost occurred to it或者it had nearly been destroyed by a firestorm。本题有难度,难在需要联系上下文自己归纳出短语的意思,而且以主观的形式给出答案,如果出选择题则相对要容易得多。
50、According to the author, getting rid of possessions and losing them through a natural disaster are vastly_____
这道题比较简单,找到原文对应处:Obviously, there’s a tremendous difference between getting rid of possessions and losing them through a natural disaster without having a say in the matter。这里填入different构成副词修饰形容词搭配vastly different替换原文中的a tremendous difference。换一个角度思考,如果这里不给你原文,估计语感比较好的同学都能填出different这个词,为什么?其一,这里是两种事物相比较;其二,vastly different这是一个在外刊阅读中常见的搭配,所以如果经常读外刊的同学一定可以轻松的做对这道题。由此可以看出,多腾出一些时间阅读《 共7页: 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] 5 [6] [7] 下一页 |