专题 02 阅读理解（记叙文+新闻报道+议论文）
1. 【2024届贵州省六盘水市高三第二次诊断性试题】
In 1997, the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko met another struggling researcher, the American
immunologist Drew Weissman, as they queued to copy scientific papers at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).
Due to the lack of funding for their work, the two scientists found a common scientific interest and decided to
cooperate. Then they jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. But while both scientists endured
years of professional struggle on the way to the huge approval, Kariko had to overcome greater difficulties than
Weissman.
Kariko worked in a few different research jobs before landing a junior position at the University of
Pennsylvania. And for many years her career at the UPenn was fragile. She migrated from lab to lab, relying on one
senior scientist after another to take her in. She never made more than $60,000 a year. She struggled to raise the
funding essential for a scientific career and never had a stable position. Kariko said she endured being made fun of
by university colleagues for her dogged pursuit. In 2013, she was kicked out from UPenn — forced to retire. She
said in an interview that the university told her that she was unfit for her work. Yet the scientist’s commitment to
her work did not falter. “When I was terminated (终止), I didn’t feel sorry for myself,” she said. “I have to focus
all the energy on seeking out what’s next.”
In a news conference held at UPenn, she encouraged young scientists to love learning to solve problems and to
be prepared for failure. Researchers in her field are full of admiration for her generosity and persistence. “She is
really the soul of perseverance and what it takes to be a great researcher,” Elliot Barnathan, a cardiologist who hired
Kariko, said.
4．What was the difficulty that Kariko faced at the UPenn?
A．Little support. B．Being laughed at.
C．Working in different jobs. D．Migrating from place to place.
5．What does the underlined word “falter” mean in paragraph 2?
A．Weaken. B．Quit. C．Fail. D．Insist.
6．How did Kariko respond to her termination from UPenn?
A．She retired from her scientific work. B．She sought revenge against the university.
C．She focused on finding new opportunities. D．She became discouraged by the challenges.
7．Why does the author write the text?
A．To tell Kariko’s story. B．To show Kariko’s hardship.
C．To list Kariko’s achievements. D．To highlight Kariko’s persistence.2.【2024届河南省鹤壁市高中高三第二次模拟试题】
Saying farewell to someone you love, even for a night, can be difficult, much less saying goodbye for a
lifetime or forever in death. Juliet bid Romeo adieu (再见) for the evening with the words, “Parting is such sweet
sorrow.” Sweet sorrow is an oxymoron. But this seeming contradiction is true in the context of relationships.
Relationships are based on feelings, emotions, and passion. Deep friendships and loving relationships are
measured by the level of emotional attachment. Emotions intensify over time. People spend time with the people
they like. The more one person likes another person, the closer the relationship becomes. Each person in the
relationship receives an emotional benefit from knowing the other person.
Saying goodbye means separating from the people who make up a significant part of your emotional identity.
Separation, even a temporary absence, from the people you have a deep emotional connection with can cause
sorrow because you will no longer be able to enjoy their company.
The sweet side of saying goodbye is the emotional fulfillment of being in a close relationship. The time spent
together is emotionally rewarding, especially if that person is seen as a soulmate. Humans are social beings. We
seek the love and comfort of other people. Loneliness devastates the human condition and leads to sadness. Sad
people will do anything they can to find fulfilling relationships. Likewise, happy people will do anything they can
to maintain or enhance relationships. Herein lies the essential point of the emotional problem.
The more intense relationships become, the more devastating the emotional loss that is felt upon separation.
The exhilaration of relationships cannot be truly measured without experiencing the overwhelming loss of a deep
emotional connection.
Enjoy the company of the person you are with as long as you can; knowing the pain you will feel at the end of
the relationship is the true measure of the relationship. If it doesn’t hurt to say goodbye, perhaps it wasn’t worth
saying hello.
8．Which of the word group can create the same effect as “sweet sorrow”?
A．icy cold B．clicking sound C．deafening silence D．endless speech
9．What can we learn from paragraph 3?
A．Saying goodbye is unavoidable in our daily life.
B．The companion of close friends can lessen sorrow.
C．A person’s identity is connected with relationship.
D．Separation is the sorrowful part of saying goodbye.
10．What gives a person emotional satisfaction in social life?
A．Making more communication with others.
B．Building deep emotional connections with others.
C．Comforting friends with love and intense feelings.
D．Being a thoughtful person by standing in others’ shoes.11．What is the main idea of the passage?
A．Sweet sorrow is very common in close relationships.
B．The pain of separation is the measure of relationships.
C．Human beings are eager to get emotional fulfillment.
D．Happiness is meaningless without sadness to compare it.
3.【2024届四川省绵阳南山中学高三二诊热身模拟试题】
Soaring to 29, 035 feet, the famous Mount Everest had long been considered unclimbable due to the freezing
weather, the obvious potential fall from cliffs and the effects of the extreme high altitude, often called “mountain
sickness.” But that was to be changed by Edmund Hillary.
When he was invited to join the British Everest expedition in 1953, Edmund Hillary was a highly capable
climber. The glacier-covered peaks in his hometown in New Zealand proved a perfect training ground for the
Himalaya. It was his fourth Himalayan expedition in just over two years and he was at the peak of fitness.
On May 28, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, an experienced Sherpa (夏尔巴人), set out and
reached the South Summit by 9 a.m. next day. But after that, the ridge (山脊) slightly fell before rising suddenly in
a rocky spur (尖坡) about 17 meters high just before the true summit. The formation is difficult to climb due to its
extreme pitch because a mistake would be deadly. Scratching at the snow with his ax, Hillary managed to overcome
this enormous obstacle, later to be known as the Hillary Step.
At 11: 30 a. m., the two men found themselves standing at the top of the world. “Not until we were about 50
feet of the top was I ever completely convinced that we were actually going to reach the summit.” Hillary later
recounted, “Of course I was very, very pleased to be on the summit, but my first thought was a little bit of surprise.
After all, this is the ambition of all mountaineers.”
Emerging as the first to summit Mount Everest, Hillary continued by helping explore Antarctica, and
establishing the Himalayan Trust (信托基金), through which he provided a number of beneficial services to the
Himalayan peoples. He also left a sizeable legacy that mountain climbers have chased ever since. As a young
climber said, “It was not just Hillary and Tenzing that reached the summit of Mount Everest. It was all of humanity.
Suddenly, all of us could go.”
24．What made Edmund Hillary a capable climber on the 1953 expedition?
A．His undisputed reputation. B．His previous training on Mount Everest.
C．His remarkable physical condition. D．His exceptional ability to adapt to the cold.
25．What does the Hillary Step refer to?
A．A steep spur of rock Hillary conquered. B．An ax Hillary used to scratch snow.
C．A mistake Hillary avoided making. D．A sudden fall of a ridge Hillary skipped.
26．What was Hillary’s initial feeling upon reaching the summit of Mount Everest?
A．Overwhelming joy. B．A touch of astonishment.C．Complete disbelief. D．Enormous pride.
27．What was the impact of Hillary’s achievement on mountaineering?
A．It led to friendly regulations for mountaineering.
B．It left financial benefits for climbers to pursue.
C．It enabled him to give back to his hometown.
D．It opens up possibilities for other climbers.
4.【宁夏石嘴山市第三中学2023-2024学年高三试题】
On Wednesday, two things happened. In Syria, 80 people were killed by government airstrikes. Meanwhile, in
Florida, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched and fired a sports car into space. Guess which story has
dominated mainstream news sites?
The launch of Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful ever launched by a private company, went off
successfully. Musk sent his cherry-red Tesla roadster running toward Mars, launching “a new space age”. The event
attracted phenomenal publicity and made the rocket launch a masterstroke of advertising for Tesla.
Meanwhile, in Syria, where hundreds of thousands of refugees(难民) may be forced to return to unsafe homes,
a UN human rights coordinator for Syria said despondently(沮丧地) that he was no longer sure why he bothers to
videotape the effects of bombing, since nobody ever pays attention. He wondered what level of violence it would
take to make the world care.
There is, perhaps, no better way to appreciate the tragedy of 21st-century global inequality than by watching a
billionaire spend $90m launching a $100,000 car into space.
Musk said he wanted to participate in a space race because “races are exciting” and that while strapping his car
to a rocket may be “silly and fun … silly and fun things are important”. Thus, anyone who mentions the huge waste
the project involves, or the various social uses to which these resources could be put, can be dismissed as a killjoy.
But one doesn’t have to hate fun to question the justification for pursuing a costly new space race at exactly
this moment. If we examine the situation honestly, it becomes hard to defend a project like this.
A mission to Mars does indeed sound exciting, but it’s important to have our priorities straight. First, perhaps
we could make it so that a child no longer dies of malaria every two minutes. Or we could try to address the level of
poverty in Alabama which has become so extreme that the UN investigator did not believe it could occur in a first-
world country. Perhaps when violence, poverty and disease are solved, then we can head for the stars.
Many might think that what Elon Musk chooses to do with his billions is Elon Musk’s business alone. If he
wanted to spend all his money on medicine for children, that would be nice, but if he’d like to spend it making big
explosions and sending his convertible on a million-mile space voyage, that’s his right.
But Musk is only rich enough to afford these money-consuming projects because we have allowed social
inequalities to arise in the first place. If wealth were actually distributed fairly in this country, nobody would be in a
position to fund his own private space program.
Elon Musk is right: silly and fun things are important. But some of them are an indefensible waste ofresources. While there are still humanitarian crises such as that in Syria, nobody can justify vast spending on
rocketry experiments.
37．Why does the writer mention the two pieces of news at the beginning of the passage?
A．To illustrate the inequality of wealth distribution and the consequent inequality of attention distribution.
B．To highlight the significance of SpaceX’s successful launch of a rocket and a car into space.
C．To appeal to the government for more attention to the air strikes and refugee crisis in Syria.
D．To find out which news dominated the mainstream news sites.
38．Why did the UN human rights coordinator for Syria feel disappointed?
A．Because nobody appreciated his work and all the efforts he made.
B．Because the violence in Syria is not serious enough to make the world care.
C．Because however hard he tried, nobody seemed to care about the situation in Syria.
D．Because he had great difficulty videotaping the effects of bombing.
39．What is implied in Paragraph 6 and 7?
A．The space project of SpaceX cost the government too much money.
B．It kills the fun to question the justification of the pursuit of space programs.
C．Space programs are a waste of money that cannot be justified.
D．Addressing problems of violence, poverty and diseases should be our top priority.
40．What does the writer mainly want to tell us?
A．We should pay equal attention to space projects and solving social problems.
B．No private companies should be allowed to spend money in rocketry experiments.
C．The money and resources used in space projects could have been used to deal with various social
problems.
D．Elon Musk should be blamed for misleading the public.
5.【新疆乌鲁木齐市第十二中学2023-2024学年高三试题】
My senior years, I can’t believe it is almost over. Now when I look back, it was stressful, but exciting, the ball,
graduation, and then of course, college.
I started applying for my college months before Christmas. My parents told me it would be smart if I set up
interviews and tours. But I wasn’t motivated. I wanted to go to college, but I didn’t want to deal with the stress.
As the days flew by, my applications lay on my desk just as I had left them three months before. “You are
wasting valuable time,” my parents complained. Sweeping away the gathered dust on the applications, I worked on
them every Sunday until I finished. Next came writing the essays. I had many ideas, but every school had different
requirements. I changed them until I was pleased. Finally, everything was underway.
Now I just had to wait. In March, I started receiving letters of rejection. I began to think that I had set myself
up for disappointment. I had a letter from Salem State College starting that they wanted to see my grades beforethey made their decision. Yes! At least someone wanted to consider me. At the beginning of April, I received a letter
from Keens State. Those opening words: “We regret to inform you…” made me sit down and cry. I had lost all
hope. Then I heard from Plymouth State. Not my first choice, but…I had been accepted. Maybe if I get my grades
up, I can choose another school…
The college application hurt me deeply. All my friends had dozens of schools to choose from. I guess my
parents were right. High school grades are undoubtedly important to your future plans. If I could do it all over
again, I would take it more seriously.
4．What does the sentence “We regret to inform you…” mean?
A．The writer was accepted by the college.
B．The writer couldn’t go to college forever.
C．The writer couldn’t go to any college.
D．The writer was rejected by the college.
5．From the last paragraph, we know the writer felt ________.
A．honorable B．regretful（遗憾的）
C．hopeless D．happy
6．From the text, we know that ________.
A．the writer didn’t go to a college
B．the writer thought senior years was easy
C．the writer didn’t desire to go to college.
D．the writer didn’t prepare interviews actively
7．Why was the writer rejected by many colleges?
A．He didn’t choose a good college.
B．He got bad grades in senior years.
C．He wanted to deal with the stress.
D．Every school had different requirements.
6.【四川省成都市树德中学2023-2024学年高三试题】
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the
man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the
Civil War. H. B．Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly
with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the
surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider themost controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been
kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people
hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the
novel “trash and suitable only for the slums (贫民窟).” More recently the book has been attacked because of the
character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurrences of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the
novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it. )
But the attacks were and are silly — and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search
through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J. Chadwick has pointed
out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction — a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the
voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of
even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior (低等
的) to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave
gave birth to her master’s baby and, for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby
by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the
education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes
and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture (养育), not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the
black man that provided the stuff of prejudice — manner of speech, for example — were, to Twain, indicative of
nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his
autobiography about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth — mostly with white men
performing in black-face — and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think
Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen
awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we
read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we
will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to
free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the
nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
12．How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?
A．Twain was more willing to deal with racism.
B．Twain was openly concerned with racism.
C．Twain’s themes seemed to agree with the plots.
D．Twain’s attack on racism was much less open.
13．What best proves Twain’s anti-slavery stand according to the author?A．Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.
B．The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels.
C．Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.
D．Jim’s search for his family was described in detail.
14．What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A．The attacks. B．The shows. C．White men. D．Slavery and prejudice.
15．What does the author mainly argue for?
A．Twain’s works had been banned on unreasonable grounds.
B．Twain’s works should be read from a historical point of view.
C．Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.
D．Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism.
7.【2024届贵州省六校联盟高三联考二模试题】
Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse has just been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his
“innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.
The Swedish Academy credits Fosse as “one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world”,
although the 64-year-old originally made his name as a novelist, beginning with Red, Black in 1983. He has since
written many works of prose and poetry. “His literary works, spanning a variety of genres, comprise about 40 plays
and a wealth of novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations,” said Anders Olsson, chairman
of the Nobel Committee for Literature.
Fosse draws inspiration from his rural living environment and personal struggles, which have deeply
influenced his distinctive writing style. Growing up in a small coastal village, Fossed was immersed in the beauty
of nature and the vastness of the sea, which filled him with a sense of solitude and introspection (内省). Fosse’s
writing discussed themes of loneliness, longing, and the search for meaning in life. Additionally, his battles with
depression have enabled him to explore the depths of human emotions.
“He touches you so deeply when you read his works,” said Anders Olsson. “What is special about him is the
closeness in his writing. It touches your deepest feelings — anxieties, insecurities, questions of life and death —
which are things that every human being actually faces from the very beginning. In that sense I think he reaches
very far and there is a sort of a universal impact of everything that he writes— it has appeal to this basic humanity.”
Fosse is the first-ever laureate writing in Nynorsk, one of the two official languages of Norwegian, but only
used by just 10% of the population. Fosse’s recognition on a global stage promotes the visibility and importance of
Nynorsk as a written standard. It will attract more attention to Nynorsk literature, inspire and encourage Nynorsk
speakers to continue preserving and promoting their linguistic heritage.
4．What do we know about Jon Fosse according to this passage?
A．He has written 40 literature works so far.B．He was originally famous as a playwright.
C．His most popular work is the play Red, Black.
D．He accomplished various genres of literature works.
5．What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?
A．Jon Fosse’s tough experiences.
B．Jon Fosse’s motivation for writing.
C．The major themes of Jon Fosse’s works.
D．The effect of life experiences on Jon Fosse’s writing.
6．How does Anders Olsson think of Jon Fosse’s works?
A．Far-reaching and touching B．Complex and meaningful.
C．Appealing and abstract. D．Interesting and emotional.
7．What Jon Fosse’s contribution is mentioned in the passage?
A．He explains the importance of linguistic diversity.
B．He has improved the international status of Norway.
C．He promotes the development and preservation of Nynorsk.
D．He shapes the basic writing standard of Norwegian literature.
8.【陕西省渭南市蒲城县尧山中学2023-2024学年高三试题】
The literary world has a new star. Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in
literature in recognition of his “compassionate penetration (洞察力) of the effects of colonialism (殖民主义) and
the fate of the refugee (难民)”.
Gurnah grew up in Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania. In 1964, Gurnah was forced to leave for
England as a refugee, where he began to reflect on his experiences in a diary and then through stories. Through the
years, he wrote 10 novels and stories that explore the suffering caused by war and colonialism. “The thing that
motivated the whole experience of writing for me was this idea of losing your place in the world,” Gurnah told The
New York Times.
His 1994 novel Paradise, which tells the story of a boy growing up in early 20th century Tanzania, marked his
breakthrough as a novelist and won the Booker Prize.—Afterlives, his most recent work, continues the narrative of
Paradise and takes place during the period of German colonialism in Tanzania.
Before he retired, Gurnah, 73, was a professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of
Kent in England. Although Gurnah’s first language is Swahili, he adopted English as his literary language. His
writing often contains traces of Arabic, Swahili and German, as well.
Anders Olsson, the chair of the Nobel committee, said that Gurnah “is widely recognized as one of the world’s
more preeminent post-colonial writers”.
Ethiopian-American novelist Maaza Mengiste described Gurnah’s writings as being “like a gentle blade (刀刃) slowly moving in” “He has written work that is absolutely unfearing and yet at the same time completely
compassionate and full of heart for people of East Africa,” Mengiste said. “He is writing stories that are often quiet
stories of people who aren’t heard, but there’s an insistence there that we listen.”
4．What are Gurnah’s works mainly about?
A．The life of the people in Tanzania.
B．Effects of war and colonialism.
C．Experiences of living abroad.
D．Growth in an underdeveloped nation.
5．What do we know about Gurnah?
A．He was inspired to write by his refugee experience.
B．He used to be a professor of law and literature.
C．He publishes his works in Arabic and Swahili.
D．He was not well-known until he won the Nobel Prize.
6．What does the underlined word “preeminent” in paragraph 5 probably mean?
A．Awful. B．Outstanding. C．Potential. D．Productive.
7．What does Maaza Mengiste think of Gurnah’s writing?
A．It is elegantly written in his native language.
B．It is widely welcomed by people around the world.
C．It is powerful and employs sharp language.
D．It calls for attention to the life of the underclass.
9.【2024届四川省攀枝花市高三第二次统考试题】
In spring 2015, after 39 years with Columbia Pictures, I retired and found myself with lots of free time to
spare.
I decided to use that time to volunteer. While tutoring with the adult literacy program at my local library, an
advertising flyer for a neighborhood group called Westchester Villages caught my eye. Its main job is about
matching aging neighbors with local volunteers who help them in a number of different ways: Making short visits,
being a walking partner, or driving to doctors’ appointments and the like.
I am happy to offer myself as a responsible person and a comfort to someone who is nervous about their
appointment and concerned about getting there safely on time. I’ m usually available to stay with the person I’m
driving during their visit and accompany them back to my car for the ride home. These drives also can be ideal
times for relaxing conversation. I’ve had many discussions with them, discovered many common interests, and
heard numerous extended stories of past travels and family histories.
I often begin rides by comforting a nervous neighbor by calmly saying, “I know where we’re going, the mostdirect route, and the best place to park. You’re in good hands with me.” These driving experiences also have
afforded me opportunities for reflection. I’ve come to feel united with the neighbors I have come to know, and a
more eager awareness of the aging process we all share. In living through so much time with them, I realize I’m
going through the same stages.
A final irony (讽刺) for this movie lover is that I no longer need to go to a darkened theatre and gaze at a big
screen in search of high drama. Whether it’s a World War II-era family story or anxiety about current events or
good news from a doctor, I experience all from a definitely front row seat.
4．What did the author decide to do during his free time?
A．Work as a librarian. B．Give rides for elderly people.
C．Making short visits to sick people. D．Play matches with aging neighbors.
5．Which of the following can best describe the author?
A．Creative and competent. B．Talented and warm-hearted.
C．Devoted and considerate. D．Ambitious and hard-working.
6．What might the author’s driving experiences remind him of?
A．His own aging process. B．A driver’s responsibility.
C．The value of conversations. D．Passengers’ words of comfort.
7．What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．The author has been anxious about his health.
B．The author has no interest in dramas anymore.
C．The author prefers watching movies from a front row.
D．The author has found a new way of experiencing life.
10.【2024届四川省绵阳市高三第二次诊断性考试试卷】
“If you’re Italian and Swedish, and Daddy’s Italian and Polish,” my 7-year-old daughter asked, “does that
mean I’m part Swedish, Polish and Italian?”
“Well, not exactly...” I tried to think on my feet. Clearly it was time to explain some complicated things.
My daughter arrived by using a donated egg (卵子). I carried her to term, but she carries all her genes from my
husband and the donor. Any similarities we share are a result of nurture rather than nature. I often experienced a
sense of shame, as if I had cheated nature. I also feared that my daughter would feel disconnected or pull away
from me once she knew everything.
However, we didn’t want the information to come from anyone but us. I had referred to many related
researches and results showing such families have better outcomes when parents tell kids about their special arrival
early on, ideally by the time they’re 7 years old. On the day when she asked the question, I bought a book You
Began as a Wish by Kim Bergman, which talks about all the different ways kids come.After reading together, we talked a little longer about the different kinds of families we knew. I could see
recognition in her warm brown eyes. “Could I be French? I love the Eiffel Tower and croissant (羊角面包)”, she
asked expectantly. I thought back to the information of the donor application.” “Actually, I think you are a little bit
French.”
“Yes!” She pumped her fist in the air.
I know this is only the very beginning of these conversations, and things may be more complicated for my
family from now on. But we get to work through whatever complications’ arise together, without secrecy or shame.
4．What does the underlined phrase “think on my feet” possibly mean?
A．Lie easily. B．Respond carefully. C．Treat it casually. D．Run away quickly.
5．What does the writer describe in the third paragraph?
A．Her misfortune. B．Her plan. C．Her upset. D．Her regret.
6．How did the writer possibly get prepared to solve the problem?
A．Discussing openly. B．Reading widely.
C．Waiting patiently. D．Thinking wisely.
7．What kind of family does the writer have?
A．Open and trustful. B．Happy and hardworking.
C．Rich and caring. D．Brave and humorous.
11.【四川省内江市第一中学2023-2024学年高三1月试题】
This weekend, thousands of motorcyclists are riding on the Black Hills for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Fair.
For many of them, an 8-year-old’s lemonade stand has become a popular stop.
Wyatt started the free lemonade stand last year as a way to raise some money to buy a Lego set. But on the
first day, he not only made enough cash to get his toys, but he was able to donate $200 to St. Jude Children’s
Hospital. “So now, 50 percent goes to college,” he explained. “30 percent goes to St. Jude and the rest goes to... last
year it was Legos, this year it’s a dirt bike.”
This year, Wyatt’s lemonade stand went viral after someone posted about it on social media. “I’m still trying
to figure out exactly what happened,” said his mother Robin Dennis. “This just blows my mind.”
So far, the post has been shared more than 60,000 times and encouraged hundreds of bikers from all over the
U.S. to the Sturgis motorcycle rally. “He loves it,” said Robin. “He loves seeing the people. He loves waving to the
people. Even if they don’t stop, they ride by and honk their horn. He makes many friends and becomes more
confident.”
Whether he’s serving lemonade, posing for pictures, or sitting on a motorcycle, Wyatt has become something
of a local celebrity. He’s raised enough to donate $4,500 to St. Jude this year and he has no plans to pump the
brakes anytime soon.
“As long as he’s having fun doing it and it’s what he wants to do, we’ll be out here every year servinglemonade to everyone who’s here,” his mother said.
4．Why do people stop by a lemonade stand?
A．To advocate the annual fair. B．To worship the local celebrity.
C．To support the little boy . D．To make lemonade for the charity.
5．What is Robin’s attitude toward Wyatt’s popularity?
A．Relieved. B．Moved. C．Content. D．Amazed.
6．Which is closest in meaning to “pump the brakes” in Paragraph 5?
A．Speed. B．Stop. C．Decline. D．Expand.
7．What can we learn from the story?
A．Roses given, fragrance in hand.
B．Birds of a feature flock together.
C．A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
D．Love shows more in action than in words.
12.【四川省成都市石室中学2023-2024学年高三1月期末试题】
Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse has just been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his
“innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.
The Swedish Academy credits Fosse as “one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world”,
although the 64-year-old originally made his name as a novelist, beginning with Red, Black in 1983. He has since
written many works of prose and poetry. “His literary works, spanning a variety of genres(体裁), comprises about
40 plays and a wealth of novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations,” said Anders Olsson,
chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature.
Jon Fosse draws inspiration from his rural living environment and personal struggles, which have deeply
influenced his distinctive writing style. Growing up in a small coastal village, Fosse was immersed in the beauty of
nature and the vastness of the sea, which filled him with a sense of solitude and introspection(内省) that is reflected
in his works. Fosse’s writing discussed themes of desolateness(孤独，苍凉), longing, and the search for meaning
in life. Additionally, his battles with depression have enabled him to explore the depths of human emotions and
existential des-pair.
“He touches you so deeply when you read his works,” said Anders Olsson. “What is special about him is the
closeness in his writing. It touches your deepest feelings-anxieties, insecurities, questions of life and death-which
are things that every human being actually faces from the very beginning. In that sense I think he reaches very far
and there is a sort of a universal impact of every-thing that he writes-it has appeal to this basic humanity.”
Fosse is the first-ever laureate writing in Nynorsk, one of the two official languages of Norwegian, but only
used by just 10% of the population. As The Guardian writes, “Many Nynorsk speakers see Fosse ‘as a kind of
national hero’ for his championing of the language.” Fosse’s recognition on a global stage promotes the visibilityand importance of Nynorsk as a written standard. It will attract more attention to Nynorsk literature, inspire and
encourage Nynorsk speakers to continue preserving and promoting their linguistic(语言的) heritage.
4．What do we know about Jon Fosse from paragraph 2?
A．His most popular work is the play Red, Black.
B．He accomplished various genres of literature works.
C．Many famous plays are the inspiration for his writing.
D．His language skills earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature.
5．What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?
A．Jon Fosse’s tough experiences.
B．Jon Fosse’s motivation for writing.
C．The major themes of Jon Fosse’s works.
D．The effect of Jon Fosse’s life on his writing style.
6．What is special about Jon Fosse’s works according to Anders Olsson?
A．They explore the meaning of life.
B．They touch human’s deepest emotions.
C．They show the bond between humans and nature.
D．They appeal to readers to focus on personal feelings.
7．What contribution of Jon Fosse is mentioned in the last paragraph?
A．He explains the importance of linguistic diversity.
B．He has improved the international status of Norway.
C．He promotes the development and preservation of Nynorsk.
D．He shapes the basic writing standard of Norwegian literature.
