第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的

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第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.

Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she

always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d

shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at o nce we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.

Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”

The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

56.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

Friends of the Road B. The Silent Woman on the Bus

C. Going to Work by Bus D. Different Kinds of Friendship

57.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

A. poor B. warm hearted C. silentD. cold

58. The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as ______.

A. keep B. discover C. set up D. accept

59. Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?

A. She was worried about her disabled son.

B. She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother.

C. She had difficulty in expressing herself. D. She was only interested in the bus driver.

60. The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

A. they both disabled people B. they both had some difficulty in expressing

C. they both liked bus travel D. they both brought interest to the passengers

最佳答案：

小题1:A

小题2:D

小题3:C

小题4:C

小题5:B

答案解析：

考点核心：

人物传记类文章的文体特征：

人物传记是记叙文体的一种，主要描写某人的生平事迹、趣闻轶事、生活背景、个性特征、成长奋斗历程等，包含记叙文的时间、地点、人物、事件等要素。其特点是以时间的先后或事件的发展为主线，空间或逻辑线索贯穿文章始终，脉络清楚，可读性较强。