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驾驭推理判断题

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(2017·湖北四地七校联考)The wallet is heading for a day－to

－day essential，it will die off with the generation who read print

kind of shopping，where you hand over notes and count out change in return，now

happens only in the most minor of our retailers (零售商)，like buying a bar of

chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner the shops where you spend any

real money，that money is increasingly this is more and more true，

the higher up the scale you the most cutting­edge (前沿的) retail stores，

Victoria Beckham on Dover Street，for instance，you don't go and stand at any kind

of cash register when you decide to staff is equipped with iPads to take

your payment while you relax on a sofa.

Across society，the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me

I'm just old－ earning money isn't quick or easy for most of 't it

a bit weird(不可思议的) that spending it should happen in half a blink (眨眼睛) of an

eye？Doesn't a wallet，that time－honored Friday－night feeling of pleasing，

promising fatness，represent something that matters?

But I'll leave the economics to the bothers me about the death

of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical hing

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about the look and feel of a wallet，the way the materials wear and tear and loosen

with age，the plastic and paper and gold and silver，and handwritten phone

numbers and printed cinema tickets，is the very opposite of what our world is

opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an rounded edges，

cool glass，smooth and unknowable as a d of digging through pieces

of paper，we move our fingers left and more counting out

your wallet，if you still have may not be here much longer.

语篇解读：文章介绍随着电子商务的发展，钱包就要消失了，作者认为自己过时了，

对这个日益变化的世界感觉不安。

1．What is happening to the wallet?

A．It is disappearing.

B．It is becoming costly.

C．It is being fattened.

D．It is changing in style.

[解析] 细节理解题。根据文章第一段中的“The wallet is heading for extinction.”

可知，钱包正在消失。故选A。

[答案] A

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2．How are businesses done in big modern stores?

A．Individually. B．In the abstract.

C．Electronically. D．Via a cash register.

[解析] 细节理解题。根据文章第一段中的“you don't go and stand at any kind of

cash register when you decide to staff is equipped with iPads to take your

payment while you relax on a sofa.”可知，在大型现代化的商店，生意是用电子手段做

的。故选C。

[答案] C

3．What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?

A．Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.

B．The pleasing Friday－night feeling is fading.

C．Earning money is getting more difficult.

D．Spending money is so fast and easy.

[解析] 细节理解题。根据文章第二段中的“But earning money isn't quick or easy

for most of us.”可知，挣钱不快也不容易，但花钱这么快这么容易让作者不舒服。故选

D。

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[答案] D

4．What can we infer from the passage about the author?

A．He is resistant to social changes.

B．He is against technological progress.

C．He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.

D．He feels insecure in the ever－changing modern world.

[解析] 推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“What bothers me about the death of

the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.”可知，作者认为

在千变万化的现代化社会，他感觉不安全。故选D。

[答案] D

B

(2017·安徽皖南八校高三联考)It was the men's skating finals of the Winter

Olympics when I was y I'd be in the fact，it was my dream.

That night I lay on our living room floor excitedly watching the battle between

the Brians：American Brian Baitano facing Brian Orser in of them had

been world of them deserved to lly I was for Brian

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Boitano，a northern Californian like had skated on the same ice.I held my

breath in o performed gold medal！I jumped in

the air when his score went what happened next is what I'll never

Boitano sat in front of the camera with his coach，surrounded by a

group of was talking about his career and his medal，talking to the

whole world.A terrible sinking feeling went through me.I could never be in the

Olympics，I thought.I could not talk in public like the idea of a press

conference terrified me.

I loved skating partly because I didn't have to talk.I could express myself with

my jumps and dances better.I didn't have to stand up and give a speech like some

teachers expected.I could feel the blood rush to my face if I thought a teacher was

going to call me.I stared at my shoes.I was sure I'd make a fool of myself.

The next day I was at the rink (溜冰场)as usual.I was practising a

combination of jumps that had once seemed impossible.I worked very

hard the next few years—on the ice and especially journalists talked to me

and although my heart pounded every time I spoke to them，I got to know

became familiar they got to know when my big

moment came four years after Brian's，I was mes I think my biggest

accomplishment was not winning the gold but talking to the press

yon do the thing you fear most，you put an end to fear.

Fear can stop you dead in your can kilt a are you afraid

of？What scares you more than anything else？This year，walk right up to it and

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conquer it，step by step.

语篇解读：作者喜欢滑冰，但是害怕接受媒体采访。经过一段时间，作者终于克服自

己的恐惧，可以站在媒体面前表达自己了。

5. What information can we get from the second paragraph?

A．The author lived a hard life.

B．The author comes from Canada.

C．The author once skated with Orser.

D．The author wished Boitano to win the match.

[解析] 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Naturally I was for Brian Boitano，a

northern Californian like me.”可知，作者希望Boitano赢得比赛。故选D。

[答案] D

6．What is one of the reasons why the author liked skating according to the

passage?

A．She could build up her body to be healthier.

B．It could help her to get closer to her idol.

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C．She could better express herself with body language.

D．The possibility of her being a world champion was great.

[解析] 细节理解题。根据第三段中的“I loved skating partly because I didn't

have to talk.I could express myself with my jumps and dances better.”可知，作者

喜欢滑冰的一个原因是她可以用肢体语言更好地表达自己。故选C。

[答案] C

7．What the author felt the most satisfied with is that ________.

A．she lived up to her coach's expectations

B．she became a world champion as planned

C．she managed to overcome her inner fear eventually

D．she handled the balance between her career and life

[解析] 推理判断题。根据第四段中的“Sometimes I think my biggest

accomplishment was not winning the gold but talking to the press afterwards.”可

知，作者感到满足的是她最终克服了自己的恐惧。故选C。

[答案] C

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8．What does the author mainly want to tell us?

A．Face a fear bravely.

B．Practice makes perfect.

C．Bad times make a good man.

D．Failure is the mother of success.

[解析] 推理判断题。根据全文尤其是最后一段“Fear can stop you dead in your

This year，walk right up to it and conquer it，step by step.”可知，作者想

告诉我们的是要勇敢地面对恐惧。故选A。

[答案] A

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