11.THE STORY OF AN EYEWITNESS
by Jack London
Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed.San Francisco is gone.Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the centre of the city.Its businesses are gone.The factories,hotels and palaces are all gone too.Within an hour after the earthquake,the smoke of San Francisco's fires could be seen 160kilometres away. ①The sun was red in the dark sky.There was no stopping the fires.There was no way to organize or communicate.The steel railway tracks were now useless.And the great pipes for carrying water under the streets had burst.All of the ways man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the thirty seconds the earth moved.
②Out at sea it was calm.No wind came up.Yet from every direction-east,west,north,and south,strong winds blew upon the unlucky city.Man himself had to make ruins of some of the city's best buildings so that they would not be a danger to those in the streets.A list of buildings undestroyed was now only a few addresses. ③A list of the brave men and women would fill a library.A list of all those killed will never be made.
Amazing as it may seem,Wednesday night was a quiet night.There were no crowds.The policemen said nothing; even their horses were quiet. ④There were no shouts or people doing crazy things.In all those terrible hours I saw not one woman who cried,not one man who was excited.Before the fires,through the night,thousands and thousands of people who had lost their homes left for safety.Some were covered in blankets.Sometimes whole families put everything they owned and could save into wagons (四輪馬車).They helped one another climb the high hills around the city.Never in all San Francisco's history were her people so kind as on that terrible night.
31.We can judge from the passage that the terrible earthquake took place inD.
A.China
B.Britain
C.Canada
D.America
32.Which word best describes how the writer felt about the earthquake?B
A.lost
B.shocked
C.excited
D.quiet
33.Which of the underlined sentences is NOT an example of contrast(對比)?D
A.①
B.②
C.③
D.④
34.What can we learn from Jack London's description of the earthquake?C
A.The terrible earthquake lasted about one hour.
B.People hid in the library during the earthquake.
C.The quake almost destroyed everything in the city.
D.People were in panic (恐慌),not knowing what to do.
35.We could probably read the passage fromA.
A.a(chǎn) report
B.a(chǎn) letter
C.a(chǎn) poster
D.a(chǎn) play.
分析 本文為新聞報道,報道了美國舊金山地震后的慘狀.
解答 31---35 DBDCA
31.答案D.推理判斷題.根據(jù)第一段"San Francisco is gone"可知,地震發(fā)生在舊金山,故選D 美國.
32.答案B.觀點態(tài)度題.根據(jù)第一段"Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed"歷史上從來沒有一個城市被毀滅得如此徹底,可推斷作者是震驚的,故選B.
33.答案D.寫作手法題.第一句話"The sun was red in the dark sky"是使用red與dark的顏色對比.第二句話"Out at sea it was calm.No wind came up.Yet from every direction-east,west,north,and south,strong winds blew upon the unlucky city"使用海上的風平浪靜與城市四面八方的大風作對比.第三句話"A list of the brave men and women would fill a library.A list of all those killed will never be made"使用幸存的勇敢的人們與不幸去世的作對比.只有第四句話沒有對比,故選D.
34.答案C.推理判斷題.根據(jù)第一段"Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed"和"Nothing is left of it but memories and some houses far from the centre of the city.Its businesses are gone.The factories,hotels and palaces are all gone too."可知,地震后的舊金山被徹底毀壞了,沒有工廠、酒店,所有的東西都沒有了,故選C.
35.答案A.文章出處題.閱讀全文可知,這是一篇新聞報道,報道了地震后的美國舊金山,故選A.
點評 高考英語應用文閱讀的常見的考查題型有:細節(jié)理解題、推理判斷題、主旨大意題及猜測詞義題等.解題技巧如下:1.題干定位法.先閱讀題干,然后根據(jù)問題的要求,按照題目順序依次有針對性地結(jié)合題干中的關(guān)鍵詞到文中定位,閱讀相關(guān)部分并快速尋找有效信息.再將原文和選項進行比較.當問題與原文材料相同的時候,對號入座;如果問題與原文不同.則可以同義替換、歸納事實等. 2.補全成分法.省略詞和省略旬在應用文中大量出現(xiàn).對于影響語境理解的省略情況.我們應將省略句補全,從而更加準確地理解其意思. 3.信息再加工法.此方法主要用于詞義或句意推測題.以及涉及數(shù)字轉(zhuǎn)換的判斷推理題.此類題目需要考生對原文相關(guān)信息作正確理解,并通過推理判斷或是計算.對信息進行再加工.這個理解可能牽涉到對某一句話或某哆句子的理解.考生在理解其意義時.一定要捕捉到關(guān)鍵性的詞. 4.排除法.排除法在應用文閱讀巾使用也比較多.考生可以根據(jù)題干中的關(guān)鍵詞.找準相關(guān)句、段的內(nèi)容.再仔細對照,排除于文章內(nèi)容不一致的錯誤信息,從而確定選項.考生要注意根據(jù)所提問題采用尋讀、跳讀的方法.這樣往往可以達到事半功倍的效果.