1、专题十二 人物故事类,-2-,(2018北京A) My First Marathon(马拉松) A month before my first marathon,one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks,leaving me only two weeks to train.Yet,I was determined to go ahead. I remember back to my 7th year in school.In my first P.E.class,the teacher requi
2、red us to run laps and then hit a softball.I didnt do either well.He later informed me that I was “not athletic”. The idea that I was “not athletic” stuck with me for years.When I started running in my 30s,I realized running was a battle against myself,not about competition or whether or not I was a
3、thletic.It was all about the battle against my own body and mind.A test of wills!,-3-,The night before my marathon,I dreamt that I couldnt even find the finish line.I woke up sweating and nervous,but ready to prove something to myself. Shortly after crossing the start line,my shoe laces(鞋带) became u
4、ntied.So I stopped to readjust.Not the start I wanted! At mile 3,I passed a sign:“GO FOR IT,RUNNERS!” By mile 17,I became out of breath and the once injured ankle hurt badly.Despite the pain,I stayed the course walking a bit and then running again. By mile 21,I was starving! As I approached mile 23,
5、I could see my wife waving a sign.She is my biggest fan.She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m.or questioned my expenses on running.,-4-,I was one of the final runners to finish.But I finished!And I got a medal.In fact,I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place
6、had. Determined to be myself,move forward,free of shame and worldly labels(世俗标签),I can now call myself a “marathon winner”.,-5-,36.A month before the marathon,the author . A.was well trained B.felt scared C.made up his mind to run D.lost hope 37.Why did the author mention the P.E.class in his 7th ye
7、ar? A.To acknowledge the support of his teacher. B.To amuse the readers with a funny story. C.To show he was not talented in sports. D.To share a precious memory.,-6-,38.How was the authors first marathon? A.He made it. B.He quit halfway. C.He got the first prize. D.He walked to the end. 39.What doe
8、s the story mainly tell us? A.A man owes his success to his family support. B.A winner is one with a great effort of will. C.Failure is the mother of success. D.One is never too old to learn.,-7-,【文章结构】,-8-,【难点分析】 A month before my first marathon,one of my ankles was injured and this meant not runni
9、ng for two weeks,leaving me only two weeks to train. 我第一次参加马拉松比赛的一个月前,我的一只脚踝受伤了,这就意味着两周内不能训练,留给我的仅仅有两周的训练时间。 分析:leaving me.是动词-ing形式短语,作结果状语。,-9-,【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文,介绍了作者第一次参加马拉松的经历。比赛前作者脚踝受伤,但依然坚持参加比赛,最终跑完了全程。通过这次经历,作者决心要做自己,不断向前。 36.C 细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句“Yet,I was determined to go ahead.”可知,马拉松前一个月,作者脚踝受伤
10、,两个星期不能跑,只剩下两周的训练时间,但作者依然决定要去参加赛跑。故选C项。 37.C 推理判断题。第二段作者提到七年级时的一次体育课上,老师认为作者不擅长运动,作者以此说明自己不具备体育天赋,故选C项。 38.A 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中的“I was one of the final runners to finish.But I finished!”可知,作者最终跑完了马拉松比赛,故选A项。,-10-,39.B 主旨大意题。这篇文章介绍了作者在第一次参加马拉松前的一个月,脚踝受伤,但他依然坚持参加比赛,最终跑完了全程。作者之所以能完成,靠的是坚强意志。只有这样的人才会是获胜者。故选
11、B项。,-11-,A (2018陕西西安八校第一次联考) I can never forget the stamp incident which happened when I was a primary school pupil. My best friend,Apple,was a stamp collector.He tried every way to get stamps and spent every penny he had on them.Once he obtained a beautiful or precious stamp he would be more than h
12、appy.I was always his companion in his search for stamps. One day Apple whispered to me mysteriously that he had found a most wonderful stamp on a letter addressed to our young arithmetic teacher,who was a very pretty and kind-hearted girl.Apple wanted that stamp badly so that the idea of stealing t
13、he letter occurred to him.I was frightened and begged him not to do that.,-12-,That evening Apple hurried to my home and showed me a letter.It was a mans handwriting.In the letter the man implored our teacher to forgive him and asked her to meet him at the gate of Central Park at eight that evening.
14、If not,hed take it that she would never forgive him,and it meant the end of their relationship. “The teacher asked me if there was any letter for her this afternoon.You see,she knows I am a stamp collector and always wander about the place where letters are delivered.When I said No,she looked rather
15、 sad,” Apple told me.We were completely at a loss.Too frightened to go to the teacher,we decided to go to the meeting place ourselves.,-13-,At the park gate,we saw a tall young man with glasses,walking back and forth as if he was waiting for someone.I did not know how long he had been there.Finally,
16、the man left,looking very worried and disappointed. A few days later,Apple ran to me with stamps in his hand and tears in his eyes.He told me that these were from our teacher.She said that she once had a friend who was a stamp-collector too,but she had lost him forever,so the stamps she had collecte
17、d for him were no longer useful. .,【语篇解读】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者叙述了小时候发生的他永远不会忘记的邮票事件。,-14-,1.How did the author feel about Apples plan that day? A.Excited. B.Scared. C.Anxious. D.Regretful.,答案,解析,-15-,2.Why did the man write to the authors teacher? A.To apologize to her. B.To ask about the letter. C.To show
18、his forgiveness. D.To end their relationship.,答案,解析,-16-,3.What happened to the teacher and the man at last? A.They stopped collecting stamps. B.They forgave Apple. C.They solved their problem. D.They broke up.,答案,解析,-17-,4.What could be the most appropriate ending paragraph for the text? A.From the
19、n on,Apple never collected any more stamps;neither did I. B.From then on,Apple and I tried to avoid meeting that man at our school. C.From then on,the man would ask Apple to send messages to my teacher. D.From then on,my teacher would give to Apple the stamps on all her letters.,答案,解析,-18-,B (2018河南
20、洛阳三模) Just a few years out of law school,I decided that I wanted to write fictions.The only thing I had ever published before was a law-review article.I had made great efforts to write when I came home at night after work,but I was too tired.I decided to quit my job. I began my new life on a Februar
21、y morning.I sat down at my kitchen table at 7:30 am and made a resolution.Every day I would write until lunchtime.Then I would lie down on the floor for 20 minutes to rest my mind.After that,I would return to work for a few more hours.,-19-,In my first year,I sold two stories.Then I wrote a novel,bu
22、t I thought it wasnt good enough,so I ended up putting it in a drawer.My second novel,Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk,was published to glowing reviews and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. My success sounds like a familiar story,but actually it was far from sudden.I quit my
23、 job,and for every story I published in those years,I had at least 30 rejections.The novel that I put away in the drawer took my four years.My breakthrough came in 2006,18 years after I first sat down to write at my kitchen table. Sometimes genius is just the thing that comes out after 20 years of w
24、orking at your kitchen.Also,doing something truly creative requires the energy of youth.Orson Welles made his masterpiece, Citizen Kan,at 25.T.S.Eliot wrote The Love Song of J.Afred Prufrock at 23.,-20-,【语篇解读】本文是一篇记叙文。通过作者的成功经历告诉我们“失败是成功之母”的道理。,-21-,5.When did the author decide to devote himself to
25、writing fictions? A.When he was tired from his work. B.Straight after graduation from law school. C.On being informed his law-review article came out. D.When his hobby was disturbed by his work.,答案,解析,-22-,6.What can we infer from the second paragraph? A.The author led a wealthy life. B.The author a
26、rranged his life reasonably. C.The author was too diligent to relax himself. D.The author remained single.,答案,解析,-23-,7.What does the author mainly intend to tell us in this passage? A.Failure is the mother of success. B.A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. C.It is never too old to learn. D.
27、It is the first step that costs troublesome.,答案,解析,-24-,8.Why did the author give the example of Orson Welles and T.S.Eliot? A.To make a comparison between them and himself. B.To show creativity needs energy and efforts. C.To persuade the readers of their great talents. D.To recommend their two masterpieces.,答案,解析,
