【考点】考察故事类短文阅读

【文章大意】本文主要讲述的是一位母亲和3个孩子被大水冲走了，然后勇敢的Maggie奋力救人的故事。

61. 【答案】A 

【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第二段The car was floating about and was being swept toward the Tillamook River only a few miles ahead. Suddenly it stopped when hitting a logjam (浮木阻塞).The water swept over them, rising higher and higher.可知正是因为有浮木阻塞住了，所以汽车才没有被水冲走，他们才没有被冲进河流里。故A正确。

62. 【答案】B 

【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第二段最后2行The water swept over them, rising higher and higher. Stephanie screamed into the rainy night, almost crying.可知河水冲向他们，水位越来越高，Stephanie尖叫是因为她感觉要绝望了。故B正确。

63. 【答案】C 

【试题解析】推理题。根据第4段第2句But Maggie was still recovering from foot surgery. 和文章最后一句Maggie accepted an award for her heroism, but she’s happier to get back to her sports team and her family. 可知当危险发生的时候，Maggie的脚受伤了，无法参加体育活动。所以妈妈才会担心她能否游到岸边，寻求帮助。B项是文章中直接出现的，不需要推理。故C正确。

64. 【答案】A 

【试题解析】排序题。根据文章倒数第二段2,3行Inside, the neighbors immediately called 911 and were told that firefighters were making their way toward another trapped car.可知邻居打电话给911的时候，已经有救援队伍已经得到通知并在赶来的途中了。说明④是最先发生的，然后是②；后来是才是邻居打电话救援的③，再根据toward another trapped car. Maggie joined the neighbors, and helped the rescue team point out where her mother was. The firefighters saved McRae and her children by using a 35-foot-long ladder可知A项是正确的顺序。

65. 【答案】B 

【试题解析】主旨大意题。本文主要讲述的是一位母亲和3个孩子被大水冲走了，然后勇敢的Maggie不顾自己受伤的脚，奋力救人的故事。故Ｂ正确。

【长难句解析】

Although rain still beat the window of her car, the worst of the day’s storm seemed to have passed as she drove her 11-year-old daughter, Maggie, home from a church at 8:30 p.m.

【翻译】尽管大雨仍然敲打着汽车玻璃，一天当中最大的暴风雨似乎已经过去了，晚上8点半的时候她开车把11岁的大女儿Maggie从教堂接回家。

【分析】本句中的although在句中引导一个让步状语从句，本句中要特别注意seem to have passed。Seem的后面通常都接不定式做宾语，不定式的完成式表示的是已经完成的动作。

C

      Almost anywhere in the world, you can probably see graffiti (涂鸦画). Although it’s usually more common in big cities, it can be found in almost any community, big or small.

    The problem with graffiti art is the question of whether it’s really art. This isn’t always an easy question to answer, simply because there are so many different types of graffiti. While some simply consists of collections of letters, known as tags, with little artistic value, such examples are easy to find, especially on larger spaces such as walls.

    If it weren’t for the fact that most graffiti is placed on private property without permission, it might be more commonly recognized as a legal form of art. Most graffiti, however, annoys the property owner, who is more likely to paint over it or remove it than accept it as art.

    Many ways of removing graffiti have been developed, such as paints that dissolve graffiti paint, or make it easy to remove. Community groups and government departments often organize graffiti-removal teams.

    It hardly makes sense to encourage artists to deface (丑化) private or public property; but perhaps there are ways to work with them rather than just oppose them. Graffiti artists can, for example, create murals (壁画) for property owners, and get paid for them.

    Maybe we need to start at a very basic level, and find a way to encourage the creation of graffiti art on paper or canvas rather than on walls. After all, who would remember Monet or Picasso if they’d created their masterpieces on walls, only to have them painted over the next day? Finding a solution to such a complex problem is never going to be easy, but with more and more graffiti art being recognized in galleries around the world, we do need to try.

66. What would be the best title for this passage?

     A. How to Be a Good Graffiti Artist.         B. Stop Removing Graffiti!

C. Do You Like Graffiti?                  D. Is Graffiti Art?

67. The reason why people remove graffiti is that it ______.

A. makes buildings ugly                  B. has no artistic value at all 

C. robs private property                   D. takes up too much space

68. In Paragraph 4, the underlined word "dissolve" is closest in meaning to ______.

     A. change         B. flow               C. remove           D. freeze

69. The example of Monet and Picasso are mentioned in the passage to indicate that ______.

A. they are world-famous artists              

B. they are good at graffiti

C. walls are right places to keep their masterpieces

D. their works, if painted on the wall, might not be kept long

70. The writer’s attitude toward graffiti is that graffiti ______.

     A. should be removed by more countries      B. should be saved on larger spaces 英语学习  http://www.yggk.net/english/