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高考英语强化阅读理解训练之推理判断类（附详解）

1. Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in Lecce in southern Italy. After climbing up a

hill for a panoramic(全景的) view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused

to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.

Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman approached from behind, and planted

herself right in front of my view. Like me, this woman was here to stop, sigh and appreciate the

view.

Patient as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I

would eventually take, I grew frustrated. Was it too much to ask her to move so I could take just

one picture of the landscape? Sure, I could have asked her, but something prevented me from

doing so. She seemed so content in her observation. I didn’t want to mess with that.

Another 15 minutes passed and I grew bored. The woman was still there. I decided to take the

photo anyway. And now when I look at it, I think her presence in the photo is what makes the

image interesting. The landscape, beautiful on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes

because this woman is engaging with it.

This photo, with the unique beauty that unfolded before me and that woman who “ruined” it,

now hangs on a wall in my bedroom. What would she think if she knew that her figure is

captured(捕捉) and frozen on some stranger’s bedroom wall? A bedroom, after all, is a very

private space, in which some woman I don’t even know has been immortalized(使……永存). In

some ways, she lives in my house.

Perhaps we all live in each others’ spaces. Perhaps this is what photos are for: to remind us that

we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common desire for pleasure, for connection, for

something that is greater than us.

That photo is a reminder, a captured moment, an unspoken conversation between two women,

separated only by a thin square of glass.

happened when the author was about to take a photo?

camera stopped working.

B.A woman blocked her view.

e asked her to leave.

D.A friend approached from behind.

ing to the author, the woman was probably___________.

ng herself

her patience

g for the sunset

ng about her past

the author’s opinion, what makes the photo so alive?

rich color of the landscape.

perfect positioning of the camera.

woman's existence in the photo.

soft sunlight that summer day

photo on the bedroom wall enables the author to better understand ____________.

need to be close to nature

importance of private space

joy of the vacation in Italy

shared passion for beauty

passage can be seen as the author’s reflections upon _____________.

A.a particular life experience

pleasure of traveling

art of photography

D.a lost friendship

2. In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain.

People had been writing novels for a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson

Crusoe in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally. The steam-powered printing press

was still in its early stages; the literacy(识字) rate in England was under 50%. Many works of

fiction appeared without the names of the authors, often with something like “By a lady.”Novels,

for the most part, were looked upon as silly, immoral or just plain bad.

In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its first professional writer and

publisher, famous and beloved, who had led an explosion in both the publication of novels and

their readership and whose characters — from Oliver Twist to Tiny Tim— were held up as moral

touchstones. Today Dickens’ greatness is unchallenged. Removing him from the pantheon(名人堂)

of English literature would make about as much sense as the Louvre selling off the Mona Lisa.

How did Dickens get to the top? For all the feelings readers attach to stories, literature is a

numbers game, and the test of time is extremely difficult to pass. Some 60,000 novels were

published during the Victorian age, from 1837 to1901; today a casual reader might be able to

name a half-dozen of them. It’s partly true that Dickens’ style of writing attracted audiences from

all walks of life. It’s partly that his writings rode a wave of social, political and scientific progress.

But it’s also that he rewrote the culture of literature and put himself at the center. No one will ever

know what mix of talent, ambition, energy and luck made Dickens such a distinguished writer.

But as the 200th anniversary of his birth approaches, it is possible — and important for our own

culture—to understand how he made himself a lasting one.

of the following best describes British novels in the 18th century?

were difficult to understand.

were popular among the rich.

were seen as nearly worthless.

were written mostly by women.

s is compared with the Mona Lisa in the text to stress________.