b．全文最后一个词显示，妈妈的目的是为了让孩子们feel safe, 而且这个目的确实达到了，因此这里，家庭存款给“我们”的感觉应该是“温暖而安全的”。
9. a. accountb. needc. goodd. check
全文从开始就强调“银行的账户”是一家人的精神支柱，虽然大家从来没有去银行取过钱。到最后原来文章才揭示出它是妈妈为了给全家人以安全感，虚构的一个账户。 【整篇分析】
①every night after dinner, my mother and i would sit at the kitchen table. she would present new tests, taking her ）from stories of amazing children she had read in newspapers and magazines.
②the first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states in our country and ）most of the european countries. a teacher also said the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly.
③“what?s the capital of finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.
④all i knew was the capital of california. “nairobi!” i guessed, saying the most3（foreign） word i could think of. she
checked to see if that was possibly one way to （pronounce）“helsinki” before showing me the answer.
⑤the tests got 5（harder）. one night i had to look at a page from the bible (圣经) for three minutes and then report everything i could remember. i said all i remembered. and (after) i saw my mother?s disappointed (失望的) face once again, something inside of me began to hopes and failed expectations. before going to bed that night, i looked in the mirror in the bathroom and when i saw only my face looking back — and that it would always be this (ordinary) face — i began to cry. i
made loud noises like a mad animal.
⑥and then i saw what seemed to be the prodigy (奇才) side of me — because i have never seen that face before. i looked at myself in the mirror, blinking (眨眼) so i could see more
(clearly). the girl looking back at me was angry, strong. this girl
and i were the same. i had new thoughts. i won?t let her me. i won?t be what i?m not.
⑦so the following nights when my mother presented her tests, i performed listlessly, my head on one arm. i pretended (假装) to be bored. and i was. i started to think about other things. soon, she noticed i was absent-minded. we had a talk and i told her what i thought and how i felt about the tests. then the whole evening, she seemed to be thinking.
⑧the next day, she presented me some easier tests. i found my pleasure and confidence back again, and we started to be on the way to make me a prodigy i could be. 7. a. riseb. fallc. died. run 【解析】
c, something inside of me在这里指代的是第⑧段的my pleasure and confidence。看着妈妈绝望的眼神，我的快乐和信心都没了。从文章逻辑看来所缺内容应该是“消失”的意思。在选项中a 和d都是正面意义的选项，因此首先被排除。fall是“坠落”的意思。而die =disappear，因此正确选项为c.die. 同时，上文中something inside of me die (消失) 又和i found my pleasure and
confidence back again中的back again 相呼应，逻辑严谨。因此学会如何利用复线的线索寻找文章中的答案非常重要。 三、常用词的非常用法 common words’ unusual use
常用词的非常用法是近几年出现频率较高的难题，针对这类题，平时要多查字典，注意积累。
【片段一】讲述作者深夜驾车，遵守交通规则的经历，反思信任与社会守则形成的真谛
at one point along an open highway, i came to a crossroads with a traffic light. i was alone on the road, but as i got close to the light, it turned red and i stopped. i looked left, right and behind me. nothing. not a car, no __39__ of headlights. 39. a. condition b. suggestionc. instruction d. relation
suggestion, 除了“建议”之意外，字典中第二个词条就是“a sign or possibility of something”，例如：there is some suggestion that he will come. 【片段二】
d schools the next year, and i never saw ricky again. however, i will never forget the day that he became the most popular guy
in school. whenever i?m __47__, i still look back at that yearbook.
47. a. away b. out c. behind d. down down 情绪低落的，沮丧的 【片段三】
i thought i had made it safely through the entire day;
（however）what i had come to consider my experiment blew up at the dinner table when my dad asked me about my day. “what do i always do?” i responded.
my parents looked at each other. my father tried again. “well, i hope you went to school,” he said.
“uhh. . . why would you think otherwise?” i asked. my parents exchanged anotherand were becoming annoyed. 43. a. look b. word c. mindd. topic look: 眼神
【片段四】2012西城期末
one day, after i got home, the police suddenly came and
arrested (逮捕) my parents. i was frightened to death! i held on to my brother and sister as we were
as my parents waited for their , my brother, sister and i waited in the children?s home. soon days
turned into weeks. when i was told that they would be in prison for six months, i fell on my bed and cried for hours. 40. a. news b. reply c. letters d. sentence
sentence：the punishment given by a court of law判决
【片段六】（讲述我使一个常受人嘲笑、不自信的同学变得受欢迎的经过，这也让我体会到帮助他人的快乐。）
among them, a weak boy with ugly teeth and thick glasses kept shaking．i had seen him around, and i knew he was
always laughed at．he seemed unsure of himself, and was so pale that it us to look at him．
38．a．worried b．surprised c．taught d．hurt hurt : 心疼的,心酸的 【片段七】
the first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states in our country and even most of the european countries. a teacher also said the
little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly.
“what?s the capital of finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.
all i knew was the capital of california. “nairobi!” i guessed, saying the most word i could think of. she checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronounce “helsinki” before showing me the answer.
38. a. surprising b. foreign c. interesting d. special foreign: seeming strange and unfamiliar
eg: the idea of doing sth. just for pleasure is quite foreign to them. 他们根本没有纯粹为了消遣而做某事的想法。 【片段八】
that was 34 years ago. today, the boy is a successful architect in new york city. and he was right. he has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he that night long ago. but he does see the same fish again and again every time he comes up against a question of principles（纪律）. as his father taught him, principles are simple matters of right and wrong. it is only the practice of principles that is difficult. do we do right when no one is looking? 15. a. landed b. saw c. cast d. threw 【片段九】
later that night，after i had climbed into bed，the question of why i stopped for that light （came） back to me．i did so because it’s part of a contract (协议) we all have with each other．it’s not only the law，but an agreement we have，and we trust each other to it.
43. a. honorb. make c. protectd. believe honor an agreement: 履行协议
四、对文章中情感因素的分析select words based on the character’s feeling.
这部分要求学生从整体上把握文章的脉络，作者的思维轨迹。做题时一定要从作者的角度出发，身临其境地去体会文章所传达的信息。 【片段一】（讲述一个被歹徒劫持的妇女，如何逃离危险的过程） smith(被劫持者) even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave. nichols (歹徒) was __10__ when she made him breakfast and then the two of them watched tv…
