7.Sharing Beauty
It was in October.I was aimlessly wandering down the street,heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset.I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share that beauty,but it seemed everyone was in a hurry.
I took the next-best action.Quickly I ducked into a department store and asked the lady behind the counter if she could come outside for just a minute.She looked at me as though I were from some other planet.She hesitated,and then seemingly against her better judgment,she moved toward the door.
When she got outside I said to her,"Just look at that sunset!Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone."
For a few seconds we just looked.Then I said,"God is in his heaven and all is right with the world."I thanked her for coming out to see it; she went back inside and I left.It felt good to share the beauty.
Four years later my situation changed greatly.I came to the end of a twenty-year marriage.I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life.I lived in a trailer park which,at the time,I considered a real come-down,and I had to do my wash in the community laundry room.
One day,while my clothes were going around,I picked up a magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances.She had come to the end of a marriage,moved to a strange community,and the only job she could find was one she disliked:clothing sales in a department store.
Then something that happened to her changed everything.She said a woman came into her department store and asked her to step outside to look at a sunset.The stranger had said,"God is in his heaven and all is right with the world,"and she had realized the truth in that statement.From that moment on,she turned her life around.

56.The author asked the woman to go outside toA.
A.a(chǎn)dmire the sunset     
B.cheer her up     
C.offer some help     
D.have a chat
57.Four years later,the authorB.
A.found her dream job                    
B.put an end to her marriage
C.worked in a laundry room                
D.lived in the same community
58.After reading the article in the magazine,the author was probablyC.
A.disappointed     B.puzzled     
C.inspired         D.overjoyed.

分析 本文屬于記敘文閱讀,文章中講述了作者與一位陌生的女士分享看日落的喜悅.四年后,作者生活處于低谷,偶然看到了那位陌生女士在雜志上發(fā)表的文章,很受鼓舞.

解答 56.A   細(xì)節(jié)理解題:根據(jù)第三段When she got outside I said to her,"Just look at that sunset!Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone."可知作者讓這個女人出去欣賞日落,故選A.
57.B   細(xì)節(jié)理解題:根據(jù)第五段Four years later my situation changed greatly.I came to the end of a twenty-year marriage.I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life.可知四年后作者的情況發(fā)生了很大的變化,她結(jié)束了她的婚姻,故選B.
58.C   推理判斷題:根據(jù)最后一段The stranger had said,"God is in his heaven and all is right with the world,"and she had realized the truth in that statement.From that moment on,she turned her life around.可知作者讀了雜志上的這篇文章后,很受鼓舞.故選C.

點評 考查學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力.做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進(jìn)行比較,再做出正確選擇.在做推理判斷題時不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.

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