2016届陕西汉中市高考英语二轮阅读理解选练（24）（含答案）_高考复习指南

2016届陕西汉中市高考英语二轮阅读理解选练（24）（含答案）

　　D. baby steps play the key role in leading us towards success

　　【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据该段内容可知, baby steps是成功的第一步, 它让我们在失败中提升能力, 获得成功所需要的各种才能, 因此baby steps在我们迈向成功的道路上起着关键作用。

　　. The underlined word“sprint”in the last paragraph probably means“　”.

　　A. slow rush　B. sudden stop

　　C. hard climb D. fast run

　　【解析】选D。词义猜测题。根据语境, 随着你的经验越多, 蹒跚学步变成走, 然后跳, 最后冲刺。

　　. What’s the writer’s tone in the text?

　　A. Light-hearted.

　　B. Regretful.

　　C. Encouraging.

　　D. Concerned.

　　【解析】选C。推理判断题。作者劝说人们不要惧怕失败, 要勇敢地迈出通向自己成功目标的baby

　　steps, 由此可知, 作者在叙述中是一种“鼓励、激励”的语气。

　　When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate(照亮) me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.

　　When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious”about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:“Let’s start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changed into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.