Robert Friedlander's next destination were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.
The best headline (标题）for this newspaper article would be _______.
A.The Kingdom of Bicycles
B. A Beautiful Hotel in Xi'an
C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road
D. An American Achieving His Aims
Passage2:Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. After an apprenticeship(学徒身份）as a printer, he left Boston when he was seventeen years old and went to Philadephia to seek his his independence and fortune. During his lifetime, Franklin was a printer, inventor, author, statesman, and diplomat(外交家）. He first became world-famous because of his experiment in electricity. As an author his most famous work was his unfinished Autobiography. He played many important roles during the time of the American Revolution; he was an extremely able diplomat, and he was one of the five men chosen to write the Declaration of Independence. He was active in government until his death in 1790.
The best title for this article would be ______
A.Benjamin Franklin's Job.
B. Seeking Independence and Fortune
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Famous Diplomat.
7. 猜测词句意义(P93)
这类考题包括对生词生义的推测、熟词生义的推测，以及对短语或句子语境意义的推测。解答这类试题最重要的方法是理解含生词、短语或句子所处的上下文，只有这样，才可以真正把握他们特定的语境中的特殊含义。注意以下小技巧：1. 根据并列关系2）根据选择或相对关系3）根据同位或解释关系4）根据转折或对比关系。如，Passage1
Scientist had long dreamed of splitting the atom and let out some of its huge quantity of energy. They didn't find out how to do it until the 1940s.
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Uranium is one of the matters whose atoms can be split fairly easily. A small particle(粒子）is added to an atom of uranium, which then breaks into two smaller atoms. The change has other results. It makes the uranium very hot. It also produce two or three free particles of the kind first added. These free particles move around, splitting other uranium atoms, and so begins a "chain reaction", which produces more and more free particles. Both the heat and the chain reaction are important.
The underlined words "Chain reaction" means ________.
A. Free particles produced in the reaction will split other atoms, which in turn will produce more free particles.
A.Free particle will split more atoms after splitting some atoms.
B.Atoms split by free particles will continue to split
C.Reaction can go on and on with the help of a chain of particles.
Passage2:... Somehow, the gift of gratitude she had given me was far more than the "seat" I had offered her! It was difficult to say who was doing the giving.
By saying "It was difficult to say who was doing the giving", the author is trying to tell us ______.
A. giving and receiving really go hand in hand
B. The giver of kindness is seldom recognized
C. doing the giving is sometimes difficult
D. acts of giving are not usually performed these days
Passage3:Mark is leaving. Please excuse me if I'm a little pensive today. Y ou probably don't know Mark, but you might be lucky enough to know someone just like him. He's been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of years, performing professional skills. He's never been all that interested in getting credit for the terrific work he does. He just wants to do his job, and to do it well. And now he's moving on to an exciting new professional opportunity....But that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye to a dear friend and trusted colleague.
The underlined word "pensive" (Para.1) probably means _______
A. grateful
B. pleased
C. sad
D. Confused
8.先后排序题(P161)
这种试题要求考生确定动作发生的先后顺序。常见的提问方式是：What is the right order of ...? What’s the correct order of the following events?
解题技巧：1）采用“首尾定位法”，即确定首项和尾项（先找出第1个动作和最后一个动作，迅速缩小选择范围，按照事件发展的先后顺序进行其它项的比较，从而得出结论。
2）首先观察题目4个选项中排序的特点，确定正确答案可能出现在哪一对选项中，然后快速浏览全文，注意事物发展的先后顺序，通过比较，即可得出正确答案。
1.（2012年广州一模的C篇阅读，第38题：In what order did the following events take place?
a.He took the money from his parents.
b. He bought a bicycle with his savings.
c. He was sentenced to prison.
d. He wrote the letter hom
e.
e. He sat on the pavement
f. He hitchhiked back home.
A.b, a, c, d, e, f
B. b, a, c, f, d, e
C. a, c, b, d, f, e
D. a, d, b, c, e, f
Passage2:In 19th century England people liked to go to the seaside. In those days, ladies wore long bathing dresses, and men wore bathing suits. Women did not walk about on the beach in their bathing dresses. They hired a bathing machine. A bathing machine was used for changing in, and for taking the bather down to the sea. It cost 2 pence to hire a machine and an attendant. When she had paid, the bather climbed up the back steps and got into the bathing machine. Then she changed into her bathing dress. When she had changed, the machine was pulled down to the sea.