【文章大意】这篇文章介绍了作者为什么给火星探测器命名为Curiosity：因为好奇才会进步、发展。 56. How did Clara get the news about the essay contest? (no more than 10 words) [答案]By reading a Time for Kids magazine. Or: From a Time for Kids magazine
[解析]文章的第一段第二句话“I’d finished a worksheet early and picked up a Time for Kids magazine”明确指明了来源。对学生来说就是语言的组织问题了。题干中的the news暗示了答案可能出现的位置，又因为后面是谈论竞赛的内容，所以我们知道答案应该出现在前面那句话中。
[考点定位]考查对文章的细节理解能力。一般根据题干中的关键信息去定位答案，然后根据文章的意思就能很快的找到答案。
57. Why did Clara have a front-row seat in NASA? (no more than 10 words)
[答案]She won the essay contest held by NASA. Or: She named the Mars rover “Curiosity”. Or: “Curiosity” was chosen as the name of the Mars rover.
[解析]题干中的关键信息“a front-row seat in NASA”告诉我们答案可能在第四段，第四段中有一个“the rover named Curiosity”再结合第二段中的“Curiosity is an…”的句子，我们就能得出正确答案了。 [考点定位]考查细节理解能力。一般根据题干中的关键信息去定位答案，然后根据文章的意思就能很快的找到答案。
58. What does Clara remember about the time spent with Grandma? (no more than 15 words) [答案]She sat together with Grandma listening to her stories about stars. Or: Her grandma told her stories about stars. Or: They sat together talking about stars.
[解析]关键信息“the time spent with Grandma”说明答案应该出现在倒数第2段：I remember as a little girl, my grandmother and I would sit together in the backyard for hours. She’d tell me stories and point out the stars. 学生在组织语言的时候要把人物和事件都概括进来。 [考点定位]考查细节理解能力。学生在组织语言时必须把人物和事件概括好。 59. What does the underlined phrase “hole up” mean? (1 word) [答案]Stay/Remain/Live/Hide
[考点定位] 考查推测生词的能力。一定要把握好语境，有时要考虑搭配。 60. In your opinion, why is curiosity important? (no more than 20 words)
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[答案]Curiosity is important because it leads to discovery or inventions. Or: With curiosity, we keep asking questions and exploring the world unknown. Or: Curiosity drives us through our lives so that we never stop wondering about the things beyond our knowledge.
[解析] 这是一个开放性的问题，理解了原文之后，就比较容易回答了。但是，回答时一定不要偏离了文章的中心。文章多次提到curiosity或curious，我们要对除了专有名词之外的地方进行概括提炼，揣摩作者的意思。
[考点定位] 考查学生概括能力和组织语言能力。对出现关键词的对方要进行归纳总结，在揣摩了作者的意图之后，组织语言。
2012年高考试题
[2012·天津卷]
阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion. Like many young athletes, she had Olympic dreams, but a serious illness kept her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didn't stop her from going forward. Instead, she became interested in marathon swimming. A brilliant athlete, she was well-conditioned for spending long periods of time in the water. As a long-distance swimmer, she would compete against herself and the obstacles presented by distance, danger, cold, and exhaustion.
For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the world's best long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile marathon in Lake Ontario, setting the women's record for the course. In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.
Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978. Though the span of water is less than 100 miles wide, it is rough and dangerous. After battling the water for two days, she had to give up for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. For Nyad her strength of purpose was just as important as reaching Cuba. That is how she defined success. It did not matter that her swim came up short; she believed she had touched the other shore.
When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer, she continued to try new things—travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.
56．What prevented Nyad from taking part in the Olympic Games？(No more than 5 words) ________________________________________________________________________ 57．What does the underlined word“obstacles” mean？(1 word)
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________________________________________________________________________ 58．What achievement did Nyad make in 1970？(No more than 10 words) ________________________________________________________________________
59．Why did Nyad believe that she had touched the other shore？(No more than 10 words) ________________________________________________________________________ 60．Please explain how you are inspired by Nyad.(No more than 20 words) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ [答案]
56．A serious illness (did)．
57．Difficulties/Problems/Trouble(s)/Challenges.
58．She swam a ten-mile marathon and set the women's record./She swam a ten-mile marathon, setting the women's record./She set the women's record for a ten-mile marathon swimming.
59．Because she had tried her best (to fulfill the task)．/Her strength of purpose was as important as reaching Cuba.
60．I am encouraged by her determination and strong will./I am inspired by her courage and strong desire to succeed./From her I learned that once we set a goal, we should try hard to achieve it./We should never give up in the face of difficulty/failure./We should never stop trying new things and we may achieve success in different fields.
【两年模拟】2015、2016名校模拟题及其答案解析 2016名校模拟题
【天津市河东区2016届高三一模】阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was severely lame and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare. I would feel ashamed at the unwanted attention. If he ever noticed or was bothered, he never let on, nor did he say anything about it.
It was difficult to coordinate(协调) our steps—his pausing, my impatience—and because of that, we didn’t say much as we went along. But as we started out, he always said, “You set the
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pace, I will try to adjust to you.”
Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was how he got to work. He went to work sick, and despite bad weather. He almost never missed a day, and would make it to the office even if others could not. A matter of pride.
When snow or ice was on the ground, it was impossible for him to walk, even with help. At such times my sisters or I would pull him through the streets of Brooklyn, NY, on a child’s sleigh to the subway entrance. Once there, he would grasp the handrail until he reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept ice-free. In Manhattan the subway station was the basement of his office building, and he would not have to go outside until we met him in Brooklyn on his way home.
When I think of it now, I wondered at how much courage it must have taken for a grown man to subject himself to such indignity and stress. And at how he did it—without bitterness or complaint.
He never talked about himself as an object of pity, nor did he show any envy of the more fortunate or able. What he looked for in others was a “good heart”, and if he found one, the owner was good enough for him.
Now that I am older, I believe that is a proper standard by which to judge people, even though I still don’t know precisely what a “good heart” is. But I know the times I don’t have one myself.
My father has been gone many years now, but I think of him often. I wonder if he sensed my unwillingness to be seen with him during our walks. If he did, I am sorry I never told him how sorry I was, how unworthy I was, how I regretted it. I think of him when I complain about incident, when I am envious of another’s good fortune, when I don’t have a “good heart”.
At such times I put my hand on his arm to regain my balance, and say, “You set the pace, I will try to adjust to you.”
56. What wouldn’t the author like others to see?(No more than 10 words)
_________________________________________________________________________
57. What’s the meaning of the underlined phrase “let on” in the first paragraph? (No more than
5 words)
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________________________________________________________________________
58. According to the third paragraph, what conclusion can you get about the father’s attitude
toward his work? (No more than 8 words)
_________________________________________________________________________
59. Find an example in the passage that shows the father was a man with a “good heart”. (No
more than10 words)
_________________________________________________________________________ 60. What does the author learn from his father? (No more than 15 words)
_________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】
56.His father was crippled and couldn’t keep balance 57.Showed his feelings/Toldothers his feelings
58.He loved his work/ He took his work seriously./He was strict in his work
59.He subjected himself to indignity and stress./He never talked about himself as an object of pity/He didn’t show any envy of the more fortunate or able. 60.To be a man with a good heart 【解析】
试题分析：本文主要讲述了作者对自己生有残疾却从不怨天尤人保持一颗“善良的心”的父亲的怀念和对自己年轻时羞于与父亲在一起的悔恨
56.His father was crippled and couldn’t keep balance 考查细节理解题。根据第一段提到When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was severely lame and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare.当我在长大时，我提到父亲很尴尬，他是瘸的，很矮，当我们一起走路时，他的手挎着我的胳膊来保持平衡，人们会瞪着眼睛看，故His father was crippled and couldn’t keep balance
57.Showed his feelings/Toldothers his feelings 考查细节理解题。根据第一段提到If he ever noticed or was bothered, he never let on, nor did he say anything about it如果他注意到或被打扰，他不能表达自己的感觉，也不会说什么。
58.He loved his work/ He took his work seriously./He was strict in his work 考查细节理解题。根据第三段提到He went to work sick, and despite bad weather. He almost never missed a day他
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