专题 02 阅读理解记叙文
题型简介
从命题形式上看，常见的有细节理解、词义猜测、主旨大意、推理判断、作者意图等题型。除了推论或词
义辨识题，记叙文命题的顺序一般都会按照文章的脉络和故事发展的顺序层层推进，否则就会觉得别扭，
逻辑不通。同时，记叙文需要事件的发展过程作支撑，一半以上的题目都会用来检测考生对故事的了解，
因此，我们必须弄明白整件事情的发展脉络。而其余像主旨大意、作者意图之类的题目，则取决于文章的
落句，集中考查对作者所发的感触的理解。综上所述，记叙文的应对策略即：不漏细节，奠定基础；把准
寓意，方能成功。
典例在线
（2023 年新高考 I 卷）When John Todd was a child, he loved to explore the woods around his house,
observing how nature solved problems. A dirty stream, for example, often became clear after flowing through
plants and along rocks where tiny creatures lived. When he got older, John started to wonder if this process could
be used to clean up the messes people were making.
After studying agriculture, medicine, and fisheries in college, John went back to observing nature and asking
questions. Why can certain plants trap harmful bacteria (细菌)? Which kinds of fish can eat cancer-causing
chemicals? With the right combination of animals and plants, he figured, maybe he could clean up waste the way
nature did. He decided to build what he would later call an eco-machine.
The task John set for himself was to remove harmful substances from some sludge ( 污泥). First, he
constructed a series of clear fiberglass tanks connected to each other. Then he went around to local ponds and
streams and brought back some plants and animals. He placed them in the tanks and waited. Little by little, these
different kinds of life got used to one another and formed their own ecosystem. After a few weeks, John added the
sludge.
He was amazed at the results. The plants and animals in the eco-machine took the sludge as food and began to
eat it! Within weeks, it had all been digested, and all that was left was pure water.
Over the years, John has taken on many big jobs. He developed a greenhouse — like facility that treated
sewage (污水) from 1,600 homes in South Burlington. He also designed an eco-machine to clean canal water inFuzhou, a city in southeast China.
“Ecological design” is the name John gives to what he does. “Life on Earth is kind of a box of spare parts for
the inventor,” he says. “You put organisms in new relationships and observe what’s happening. Then you let these
new systems develop their own ways to self-repair.”
1．What can we learn about John from the first two paragraphs?
A．He was fond of traveling. B．He enjoyed being alone.
C．He had an inquiring mind. D．He longed to be a doctor.
2．Why did John put the sludge into the tanks?
A．To feed the animals. B．To build an ecosystem.
C．To protect the plants. D．To test the eco-machine.
3．What is the author’s purpose in mentioning Fuzhou?
A．To review John’s research plans. B．To show an application of John’s idea.
C．To compare John’s different jobs. D．To erase doubts about John’s invention.
4．What is the basis for John’s work?
A．Nature can repair itself. B．Organisms need water to survive.
C．Life on Earth is diverse. D．Most tiny creatures live in groups.
解题技巧
1.关注细节
记叙文中有大量的事件发展过程中的细节，包括记叙文的 5W（what, who, when, where, why）要素。因
此我们作答细节题的时候，就没有那么复杂，一般只需要由前到后，从上到下，一题一题地做就可以了。
2.注重联系
在做题过程中，我们大都不能在文中找到与题干一字不差的词语或句子。这时我们需要认真研究问题，
抓住题干中的关键词语，然后到文中准确地找到与之相关的语句，或是疑似语句的位置，接着去左顾，或
右盼，在前句或后句寻找线索。
3.读懂表象
如前所述，主旨大意题或推理判断、作者意图题等实际上是同一类型的问题，或者说是可用同种方法解
答的题型。在解答此类题目的时候，不可被题干的表象所迷惑，要像剥洋葱一样，一层一层地剥；在四个
可选项中，一个一个地去证实，去排除。
4.挖掘意义每年的高考阅读题中，特别是记叙文的阅读题，都会出现一至两道词义猜测题。而这些词汇往往是你素
昧平生的，或者和你有点头之交，在文中却另有新意的，总之，猜的是那些在高考词汇表要求之外的词汇。
小小的一个词，一个短语，考核的不是你的语法的熟练程度，也不是你的记忆力，而是你对文章通篇或者
一个段落的整体把握和变通能力。
变式训练
（2024 上·山东潍坊·高三统考期末）When most kids go to the beach, they’re too focused on making
sandcastles and splashing around to notice litter, but several years ago, for 7-year-old Cash Daniels, noticing a
plastic straw sparked a lifelong passion for saving the planet.
Cash, who is now known as the “conservation kid”, has always loved nature. He grew up fishing along the
Chattanooga River, after all! But once he learned that 80 percent of all trash from land and rivers ends up in the
ocean, he couldn’t sit back.
He started with cleanups along the river, something that quickly went from a family affair to a community
effort with volunteers and neighbors. In 2019, Cash, together with a Canadian conservationist, Ella Galaski-Rossen,
started a nonprofit called the Cleanup Kids. Despite living in different countries, they managed to create
educational videos on their YouTube channel. “We hope to be a really big nonprofit that eliminates plastic in the U.
S. and Canada,” Cash said. “We want to inform kids and adults in the landlocked states on how their actions are
connected to the water and the ocean,” Cash said.
Cash was selected as one of America’s top 10 youth volunteers of 2021 by the Prudential Spirit of Community
Awards. He also earned the title of National Honoree, where he received a$5,000 grant to go to a nonprofit of his
choice, and he became the first person to win the Youth Conservationist Award two years in a row from the
Tennessee Wildlife Federation.
“I want to travel the world, teach others, and help them feel connected to the ocean. Because if you are
connected to the ocean-if you love it and what lives in it—you’ll want to protect it,” he said. “This is my fun, and it
becomes more fun with every new discovery.”
1．Which can replace the underlined words “sit back” in paragraph 2?
A．Fall asleep. B．Lose heart.
C．Turn a blind eye. D．Lend a hand.
2．What is the purpose of starting the Cleanup Kids?
A．To recycle waste plastics.B．To make instructive videos.
C．To spread marine knowledge.
D．To appeal for ocean protection.
3．Which of the following best describes Cash Daniels?
A．Sympathetic and devoted. B．Initiative and talented.
C．Ambitious and humorous. D．Determined and modest.
4．What does Cash Daniels story imply?
A．Passion fuels dreams.
B．Great minds think alike.
C．Helping others is of great fun.
D．Actions speak louder than words.
刷模拟
（2023·浙江金华·浙江省义乌中学校考模拟预测）Like many other five-year-olds, Jeanie Low of Houston,
Texas, would use a stool (凳子) to help her reach the bathroom sink. However, the plastic step-stool she had at
home was unstable and messed up the small bathroom shared by her whole family. After learning of an invention
contest held by her school that year, Jeanie resolved to enter the contest by creating a stool that would be a
permanent fixture in the bathroom, and yet could be kept out of the way when not in use.
Jeanie decided to make a stool attached to the bathroom cabinet door under the sink. She cut a board of wood
into two pieces, each about two feet wide and one foot long. Using metal hinges (铰链), Jeanie attached one piece
of the wood to the front of the cabinet door, and the second piece to the first. The first piece was set just high
enough so that when it swung out horizontally from the cabinet door, the second piece would swing down from the
first, just touching the ground, and so serving as a support for the first piece of the wood. This created a convenient,
strong platform for any person too short to reach the sink. When not in use, the hinges allowed the two pieces of
wood to fold back up tightly against the cabinet, where they were held in place by magnets (磁铁). Jeanie called her
invention “the Kiddie Stool”.
Jeanie’s Kiddie Stool won first place in her school’s contest. Two years later, it was awarded first prize again
at Houston’s first annual Invention Fair. As a result, Jeanie was invited to make a number of public appearances
with her Kiddie Stool, and was featured on local TV as well as in newspapers. Many people found the story of the
Kiddie Stool inspiring because it showed that with a pair of observant eyes, anyone can be an inventor.1．According to the passage, why did Jeanie Low invent the Kiddie Stool?
A．Many other five-year-olds had problems reaching the bathroom sink.
B．She did not think that plastic stools were tall enough for her.
C．The stool in her bathroom was not firm and often got in the way.
D．She was invited to enter an invention contest held by her school.
2．Which of the following statements is true about how the Kiddie Stool works?
A．The platform is supported by two metal hinges.
B．It swings from left to right to be attached to the cabinet door.
C．It uses hinges and magnets to keep the wooden pieces in place.
D．The Kiddie Stool will swing out only when the cabinet door opens.
3．What are the characteristics of Jeanie’s Kiddie Stool?
A．Permanent and foldable. B．Fragile and disposable.
C．Conventional and portable. D．Convenient and recyclable.
4．What message does the passage convey?
A．Failure is the mother of success.
B．Necessity is the mother of invention.
C．Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
D．Invention requires both disciplines and wild imagination.
（2023·山东·统考一模）Tyler had broken his arm in a bicycle accident. A car knocked Tyler down when it
came out of a side street without stopping. The accident happened because there was no stop sign at the corner and
the car didn’t stop. So Tyler decided to try to get the city to put up a stop sign.
First, Tyler wrote a petition (请愿书) to have a stop sign put up with his parents’ help. Then, Tyler and his
parents asked their neighbors, friends, teachers, classmates ... almost everyone they knew to sign the petition. Soon,
there were hundreds of names on the petition.
Tyler also got some information about other accidents at the same corner where he had had his own accident.
If he could show the city that it was a dangerous corner, they might put up a stop sign there. He hoped that this
information and his petition would work.
When the petition was ready, Tyler and his parents went to a meeting of the city council (政务委员会). They
brought along the petition and the other information. After a long wait, Tyler got a chance to tell what had happened
to him. He told the story of the bicycle accident and explained his idea. If there were a stop sign at the corner where
the accident happened, other kids would be safer. After that, Tyler read the petition out loud. Then, he handed it andthe other information to the council. The city council agreed to consider the request and make a decision before
their next meeting.
The next month, Tyler and his parents attended another meeting of the city council. The head of the city
council announced that the city had decided to agree to the petition! There would be a stop sign at the corner where
Tyler had his accident. Now other kids would be safer when they rode their bikes.
5．Why did Tyler have the bicycle accident at the corner?
A．Tyler rode rather too fast. B．There was no stop sign.
C．The car ran the red light. D．The street was crowded.
6．What was the first thing Tyler did to have a stop sign put up at the corner?
A．He found out about other accidents.
B．He explained his idea to his neighbors.
C．He wrote a petition for the stop sign.
D．He attended a meeting of the city council.
7．When did the city council agree to the petition?
A．As soon as Tyler handed it. B．After Tyler’s parents handed it again.
C．After about a six-month wait. D．Nearly a month after Tyler handed it.
8．How would the other kids probably feel when the new stop sign was put up?
A．Thankful. B．Nervous. C．Embarrassed. D．Proud.
9．What can we learn from the text?
A．It is dangerous for people to ride bikes in the street.
B．Only adults have the responsibility to present a petition.
C．Kids can play a role in making their neighborhoods better,
D．Stop signs are supposed to be put up at every street corner.
（2024·广东佛山·统考一模）75-year-old hip-hop (街舞) grandma Stephanie Walsh has gained worldwide
attention with her intense dance moves and incredible energy. Better known as “Ms. Stephanie” online, Walsh has
been featured on social media accounts with some videos drawing more than II million people to watch.
Walsh believes the videos gained popularity because she is 75. “It’s because I’m a senior, ”said Walsh. “You
don’t usually see someone my age doing hip-hop and moving like that. ”But actually, it’s more than that. Just as her
profile claims, Walsh’s videos are “inspiring the world to dance like no one is watching. ”
“Dance isn’t just your body, it’s what you’re feeling inside about the dance and it’s what comes out here in
your face,” Walsh said. “What I want to put through my movement is how much fun it is and how much joy it givesyou.”
From a young age, Walsh loved to dance but her family didn’t have the money for classes. When she was
nearly 30, she got her daughter ballet lessons, which her daughter hated. So, she took her daughter out and started
classes herself right away.
Walsh believes her lifelong passion for dance is what motivates her today. “Everybody has to have a passion in
their life,” she said. “It’s like that saying, ‘A life without passion is a life half lived.’ I believe that.”
Walsh dances for fun and fitness, but also for therapy (心理治疗). She struggled through countless hardships,
and she has more than enough reasons to keep her down. But they don’t. She turns to her faith, her friends and of
course, dance, to shine as an inspiration to those around her.
Gilbert, one of Walsh’s followers, says she inspires him every day. “She’s a beautiful soul who teaches me that
it doesn’t matter about your age or your size. As long as you feel good, that’s all that matters,” says Gilbert. “I am
truly thankful that Walsh is teaching me at the age of 32 to live my life full and stop being so scared.”
10．What motivates Walsh to do hip-hop?
A．Its great social benefit. B．Its growing popularity.
C．Her enthusiasm for dance. D．Her hunger for reputation.
11．What contributes to her videos’ popularity according to Walsh?
A．Her advanced age. B．Her smooth moves.
C．Her endless energy. D．Her confident claim.
12．What will Walsh’s story probably inspire Gilbert to do?
A．Be active in social media.
B．Set a good example to others.
C．Take full advantage of his talent.
D．Adopt a positive approach to life.
13．Which is a suitable title for the text?
A．Optimistic About Life: The Way to Survive
B．Forever Young in Dance: An Inspiring Figure
C．Embracing Social Media: The Key to Success
D．Dancing with the Young: An Amazing Journey
（2024·浙江杭州·学军中学校考模拟预测）I’m a walker, logging an average of 9000 steps a day several
times a week around my neighborhood. On recent trips to Copenhagen and Stockholm, I noticed tall, fit
Scandinavians (斯堪法尼亚人) walking along on city streets with poles, as if they were cross-country skiingwithout any snow.
It was a surprise to learn that the addition of the poles makes it a more vigorous, full-body exercise than
simply walking – and, as a 76-year-old looking to stay healthy while enjoying the outdoors, I decided to give it a
try.
There’s plenty of help online for the new Nordic (北 欧的 ) walker: stand tall, swing your arms out as if to
shake hands, and plant your poles with vigour. Then there’s the little matter of the strap (带子) on the pole. This
allows the walker to grip the pole when thrusting forward and then relax that hand as the other hand pushes forward
– a skill of coordination that builds stronger muscles.
For a warm-up, I started slow: Nordic walking down the hall that extends from my front door to the deck.
Keeping balance wasn’t my only problem. The novel use of my arms and upper body was surprisingly demanding.
After half an hour, my heart was pounding and I was sweating, but I still wasn’t much good.
Still, I carried on because there’s no arguing with the exercise’s benefits. Nordic walkers’ upper-body exercise
increases their heart rate significantly more than walking without poles. And according to cardiologist Dr Aaron
Baggish, with poles “you’re engaging 80 to 90 per cent of your muscles.” It also helps people with Parkinson’s,
says Burrill. “We put poles in their hands and it’s amazing because they start walking with real rhythm.”
After a few clumsy days of being convinced I would never succeed, suddenly everything clicked. Not only
was I able to coordinate the movements, I was aware that my heart, arms and core were getting a workout. Nordic
walking is a form of exercise I expect to enjoy for years to come.
14．What inspired the writer to try Nordic walking?
A．Enjoying the outdoor skiing. B．Observing Scandinavians walking.
C．Getting tired of simple walking. D．Fancying a healthy lifestyle.
15．What was the main challenge for the author during the initial stages of Nordic walking?
A．Building strong muscle in the arms.
B．Using arms and upper body harmoniously.
C．Sweating with heart pounding.
D．Feeling discouraged for lack of progress.
16．What does the author want to show by mentioning people with Parkinson’s?
A．The great benefits of Nordic walking. B．The wide practice of Nordic walking.
C．The urgency to promote Nordic walking.D．The promising future of Nordic walking.
17．What is the author’s intention in writing this passage?A．To persuade readers to try Nordic walking for fun.
B．To share the experience of trying a new fitness activity.
C．To emphasize the great difficulties of Nordic walking.
D．To compare Nordic walking with simple walking.
（2024·河北邢台·宁晋中学校考模拟预测）During my graduate studies, countless workshops taught me
one thing: To make it in science, one must design and carry out big projects. As I established my own research lab,
a senior colleague encouraged me to try something big. So when I landed an associate professor position, my goal
seemed obvious: I should perform big projects. This was the only way to lay a foundation for a successful academic
research career. The path, however, would not be as clear as I had pictured.
When I contacted famous researchers to suggest cooperating, as is typically required for high-profile projects,
they frequently replied enthusiastically to start, agreeing my project sounded interesting and promising. But when
they learned I had just established my lab, they became skeptical and hesitant, ultimately saying no. And when I
sought grant funding, my lack of experience and reputation was cited as a reason to deny support for my ambitious
proposals.
I spent about two years being stuck in this mindset, excited about my big ideas but making little actual
progress, leading to frustration and depression. As I neared my breaking point, I began to ask myself: Were big
projects really the only route?
When I shifted to small projects, I became brave enough to step into fields I was not familiar with. By reading
papers in new areas, I found creative ideas to pursue. When I discussed these adventurous, low-cost projects with
early-career researchers, they were glad to cooperate. We secured funding. When I published papers out of these
projects, they were not exciting enough to make headlines— but for me, it was a moment of joy and self-
contentment.
It has now been 3 years since I embraced this “small” approach. Sometimes senior colleagues say I’m wasting
time with projects that aren’t important enough. But I disagree. When I do these studies, I also find clues for future
big projects. Going forward, I will still commit part of my time to exploring small projects, which I think can help
pursue more fundamental questions.
18．What is the author trying to do with big projects?
A．Pursue his graduate studies.
B．Seek a route to academic success.
C．Apply for an associate professorship.D．Establish an academic research center.
19．What prevented the author pursuing his big project?
A．Lack of necessary support. B．The toughness of work
C．Shortage of academic talents. D．The opposition from colleagues.
20．How did the author carry out his small project?
A．By publishing influential papers.
B．By getting young colleagues’ funding.
C．By exploring and initiating new ideas.
D．By cooperating with senior colleagues.
21．What does the author learn from his experience?
A．Good jobs require a high degree.
B．Ambition isn’t fit for the young.
C．Success results from preparation.
D．Small doesn’t mean unimportant.
刷真题
（2023年新高考II卷）Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers is a celebration of an everyday object
— the book, represented here in almost three hundred artworks from museums around the world. The
image of the reader appears throughout history, in art made long before books as we now know them
came into being. In artists’ representations of books and reading, we see moments of shared
humanity that go beyond culture and time.
In this “book of books,” artworks are selected and arranged in a way that emphasizes these
connections between different eras and cultures. We see scenes of children learning to read at home
or at school, with the book as a focus for relations between the generations. Adults are portrayed (描
绘) alone in many settings and poses —absorbed in a volume, deep in thought or lost in a moment of
leisure. These scenes may have been painted hundreds of years ago, but they record moments we can
all relate to.
Books themselves may be used symbolically in paintings to demonstrate the intellect (才智),
wealth or faith of the subject. Before the wide use of the printing press, books were treasured objects
and could be works of art in their own right. More recently, as books have become inexpensive oreven throwaway, artists have used them as the raw material for artworks — transforming covers,
pages or even complete volumes into paintings and sculptures.
Continued developments in communication technologies were once believed to make the printed
page outdated. From a 21st-century point of view, the printed book is certainly ancient, but it remains
as interactive as any battery-powered e-reader. To serve its function, a book must be activated by a
user: the cover opened, the pages parted, the contents reviewed, perhaps notes written down or words
underlined. And in contrast to our increasingly networked lives where the information we consume is
monitored and tracked, a printed book still offers the chance of a wholly private, “off-line” activity.
1．Where is the text most probably taken from?
A．An introduction to a book. B．An essay on the art of writing.
C．A guidebook to a museum. D．A review of modern paintings.
2．What are the selected artworks about?
A．Wealth and intellect. B．Home and school.
C．Books and reading. D．Work and leisure.
3．What do the underlined words “relate to” in paragraph 2 mean?
A．Understand. B．Paint.
C．Seize. D．Transform.
4．What does the author want to say by mentioning the e-reader?
A．The printed book is not totally out of date.
B．Technology has changed the way we read.
C．Our lives in the 21st century are networked.
D．People now rarely have the patience to read.
（2022 年新高考 II 卷）We journalists live in a new age of storytelling, with many new
multimedia tools. Many young people don’t even realize it’s new. For them, it’s just normal.
This hit home for me as I was sitting with my 2-year-old grandson on a sofa over the Spring
Festival holiday. I had brought a children’s book to read. It had simple words and colorful pictures —
a perfect match for his age.
Picture this: my grandson sitting on my lap as I hold the book in front so he can see the pictures.
As I read, he reaches out and pokes (戳) the page with his finger.
What’s up with that? He just likes the pictures, I thought. Then I turned the page and continued.He poked the page even harder. I nearly dropped the book. I was confused: Is there something wrong
with this kid?
Then I realized what was happening. He was actually a stranger to books. His father frequently
amused the boy with a tablet computer which was loaded with colorful pictures that come alive when
you poke them. He thought my storybook was like that.
Sorry, kid. This book is not part of your high-tech world. It’s an outdated, lifeless thing. An
antique, like your grandfather. Well, I may be old, but I’m not hopelessly challenged, digitally
speaking. I edit video and produce audio. I use mobile payment. I’ve even built websites.
There’s one notable gap in my new-media experience, however: I’ve spent little time in front of
a camera, since I have a face made for radio. But that didn’t stop China Daily from asking me last
week to share a personal story for a video project about the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei
province.
Anyway, grandpa is now an internet star — two minutes of fame! I promise not to let it go to my
head. But I will make sure my 2-year-old grandson sees it on his tablet.
5．What do the underlined words “hit home for me” mean in paragraph 2?
A．Provided shelter for me. B．Became very clear to me.
C．Took the pressure off me. D．Worked quite well on me.
6．Why did the kid poke the storybook?
A．He took it for a tablet computer. B．He disliked the colorful pictures.
C．He was angry with his grandpa. D．He wanted to read it by himself.
7．What does the author think of himself?
A．Socially ambitious. B．Physically attractive.
C．Financially independent. D．Digitally competent.
8．What can we learn about the author as a journalist?
A．He lacks experience in his job. B．He seldom appears on television.
C．He manages a video department. D．He often interviews internet stars.
（2021年新高考I卷）By day, Robert Titterton is a lawyer. In his spare time though he goes on
stage beside pianist Maria Raspopova — not as a musician but as her page turner. “I’m not a trained
musician, but I’ve learnt to read music so I can help Maria in her performance.”
Mr Titterton is chairman of the Omega Ensemble but has been the group’s official page turnerfor the past four years. His job is to sit beside the pianist and turn the pages of the score so the
musician doesn’t have to break the flow of sound by doing it themselves. He said he became just as
nervous as those playing instruments on stage.
“A lot of skills are needed for the job. You have to make sure you don’t turn two pages at once
and make sure you find the repeats in the music when you have to go back to the right spot.” Mr
Titterton explained.
Being a page turner requires plenty of practice. Some pieces of music can go for 40 minutes and
require up to 50 page turns, including back turns for repeat passages. Silent onstage communication
is key, and each pianist has their own style of “nodding” to indicate a page turn which they need to
practise with their page turner.
But like all performances, there are moments when things go wrong. “I was turning the page to
get ready for the next page, but the draft wind from the turn caused the spare pages to fall off the
stand,” Mr Titterton said, “Luckily I was able to catch them and put them back.”
Most page turners are piano students or up-and-coming concert pianists, although Ms Raspopova
has once asked her husband to help her out on stage.
“My husband is the worst page turner,” she laughed. “He’s interested in the music, feeling every
note, and I have to say: ‘Turn, turn!’ Robert is the best page turner I’ve had in my entire life.”
9．What should Titterton be able to do to be a page turner?
A．Read music. B．Play the piano.
C．Sing songs. D．Fix the instruments.
10．Which of the following best describes Titterton’s job on stage?
A．Boring. B．Well-paid.
C．Demanding. D．Dangerous.
11．What does Titterton need to practise?
A．Counting the pages. B．Recognizing the “nodding”.
C．Catching falling objects. D．Performing in his own style.
12．Why is Ms Raspopova’s husband “the worst page turner”?
A．He has very poor eyesight. B．He ignores the audience.
C．He has no interest in music. D．He forgets to do his job.
（2021年新高考II卷）I have worked as a keeper at the National Zoo, Paris for 11 years. Spotand Stripe are the first tiger cubs that have ever been born here. Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in
zoos don't make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home.
I've got two children—the younger one, Kynan, was extremely happy about the tigers arriving -
but all of us really looked forward to being part of their lives and watching them grow. I wasn't
worried about bringing them into my home with my wife and kids. These were cubs. They weighed
about 2.5 kg and were so small that there was absolutely no risk.
As they grew more mobile, we let them move freely around the house during the day, but when
we were asleep we had to contain them in a large room, otherwise they'd get up to mischief. We'd
come down in the morning to find they'd turned the room upside down, and left it looking like a zoo.
Things quickly got very intense due to the huge amount of energy required to look after them.
There were some tough times and I just felt extremely tired. I was grateful that my family was there
to help. We had to have a bit of a production line going, making up “tiger milk”, washing baby
bottles, and cleaning the floors.
When Spot and Stripe were four months old, they were learning how to open doors and jump
fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go. It was hard for us to finally part with them.
For the first few days, Kynan was always a bit disappointed that the cubs weren't there.
I'm not sad about it. I'm hands-on with them every day at the zoo, and I do look back very fondly
on the time that we had them.
13．Why did the author bring the tiger cubs home?
A．To ensure their survival. B．To observe their differences.
C．To teach them life skills. D．To let them play with his kids.
14．What do the underlined words “get up to mischief” mean in paragraph 3?
A．Behave badly. B．Lose their way. C．Sleep soundly. D ． Miss
their mom.
15．What did the author think of raising the tiger cubs at home?
A．Boring. B．Tiring. C．Costly. D．Risky.
16．Why did the author decide to send Spot and Stripe back to the zoo?
A．They frightened the children. B．They became difficult to contain.
C．They annoyed the neighbours. D．They started fighting each other.
（2020 年新高考 II 卷）In the mid-1990s, Tom Bissell taught English as a volunteer inUzbekistan. He left after seven months, physically broken and having lost his mind. A few years
later, still attracted to the country, he returned to Uzbekistan to write an article about the
disappearance of the Aral Sea.
His visit, however, ended up involving a lot more than that. Hence this book, Chasing the Sea:
Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, which talks about a road trip from Tashkent to
Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea. It is
the story of an American travelling to a strange land, and of the people he meets on his way: Rustam,
his translator, a lovely 24-year-old who picked up his colorful English in California, Oleg and
Natasha, his hosts in Tashkent, and a string of foreign aid workers.
This is a quick look at life in Uzbekistan, made of friendliness and warmth, but also its darker
side of society. In Samarkand, Mr Bissell admires the architectural wonders, while on his way to
Bukhara he gets a taste of police methods when suspected of drug dealing. In Ferghana, he attends a
mountain funeral(葬礼)followed by a strange drinking party. And in Karakalpakstan, he is saddened
by the dust storms, diseases and fishing boats stuck miles from the sea.
Mr Bissell skillfully organizes historical insights and cultural references, making his tale a well-
rounded picture of Uzbekistan, seen from Western eyes. His judgment and references are decidedly
American, as well as his delicate stomach. As the author explains, this is neither a travel nor a history
book, or even a piece of reportage. Whatever it is, the result is a fine and vivid description of the
purest of Central Asian traditions.
17．What made Mr Bissell return to Uzbekistan?
A．His friends' invitation. B．His interest in the country.
C．His love for teaching. D．His desire to regain health.
18．What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A．Developing a serious mental disease.
B．Taking a guided tour in Central Asia.
C．Working as a volunteer in Uzbekistan.
D．Writing an article about the Aral Sea.
19．Which of the following best describes Mr Bissell's road trip in Uzbekistan?
A．Romantic. B．Eventful. C．Pleasant. D．Dangerous.
20．What is the purpose of this text?A．To introduce a book. B．To explain a cultural phenomenon.
C．To remember a writer. D．To recommend a travel destination.
