I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in

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I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation wor by blaming themlves．One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community．Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say．Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence （吊唁） calls on the two families on the same afternoon.At the first home, the son of the decead （已故的） woman said to me, “If only I had nt my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today．It’s my fault that she died.” At the cond home, the son of the other decead woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today．That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take．It’s my fault that she’s dead.” You e that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty．Becau the cour of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite cour — keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation — would have turned out better．After all, how could it have turned out any wor?There em to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty．The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes n, that there is a cau for every effect and a reason for everything that happens．That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.The cond element is the view that we are the cau of what happens, especially the bad things that happen．It ems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cau to believing that every disaster is our fault．The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it．He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks．He cries, and someone comes to attend to him．When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him．Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cau things to happen.小题1:The author had to hold the two women’s funerals probably becau __________________.A．he wanted to comfort the two families B．he was an official from the community C．he had great pity for the decead D．he was priest of the local church小题2:People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones becau _______________________.A．they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow B．they believe that they were responsible C．they had neglected the natural cour of events D．they didn’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction小题3:According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that ______.A．everything in the world is predeterminedB．the world can be interpreted in different waysC．there’s an explanation for everything in the world D．we have to be nsible in order to understand the world小题4:What’s the main idea of the passage?A．Life and death is an unsolved mystery.B．Every story should have a happy ending.C．Never feel guilty all the time becau not every disaster is our fault.D．In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who pasd away . 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:D小题2:B小题3:C小题4:C

解析

小题1:这是推理理解题。根据One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community．Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say．既然按照圣经说……，又因为I had to hold two funerals故选D。小题2:这是细节理解题。根据It’s my fault that she died. It’s my fault that she’s dead.故选B。小题3:这是细节理解题。根据That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.故选C。小题4:这是主旨大意题。根据第一段people make a bad situation wor by blaming themlves．又根据倒数第二自然段，还有通读短文的大意，故选C。点评：文中叙述了作者的观点，不要把亲人的去世看成是自己的过错，每个人都有生老病死，遵循自然规律而生活着。主旨大意题主要是测试考生对一篇文章或一段文字的深层理解程度以及在速读中准确把握文章主旨大意的能力。一般针对某一语段或某一语篇的主题标题或目的设题。这类题目考查的范围是：基本论点、文章标题、主题或段落大意等。

考点

据考高分专家说，试题“I had an experience .....”主要考查你对 [日常生活类阅读 ]考点的理解。 日常生活类阅读

日常生活类阅读的概念：

日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。

日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：

【题型说明】该类文章内容涉及到人们的言谈举止、生活习惯、饮食起居、服饰仪表、恋爱婚姻、消遣娱乐、节日起源、家庭生活等。文章篇幅短小，追根溯源，探索各项风俗的历史渊源，内容有趣。命题也以送分题为主，如事实细节题、语义转换题、词义猜测题和简单推理判断题等。虽然这类文章读起来感觉轻松，试题做起来比较顺手，但绝不能掉以轻心。因为稍不留神，就会丢分。 【备考提醒】为了保证较高准确率，建议同学们做好以下几点： 1、保持正常的考试心态。笔者在教学中发现，越是容易的试题，同学们越是容易失分。为什么呢？因为在这种情况下，同学们极易产生麻痹思想，认为题目好做，就不引起高度重视，于是思维不发散、不周密。而命题人就是利用同学们的这一弱点，设计陷阱题。所以，无论试题难易与否，我们都要保持正常的考试心态。试题容易，不欣喜；试题难，不悲观。 2、根据前面讲到的方法，认认真真、细细心心做好事实细节题。 3、做好语义转换题。这类题是根据英语中一词多义和某些词语在文中能表达一定的修辞意义的原则而设计的。要求同学们解释某生词的含义，确定多义词或短语在文中的意思，确认文中的某个代词所指代的对象，或者对英语中特有的表达、格言、谚语进行解释。这种题要求同学们一定要根据上下文猜测词义或理解句子，切不可望文生义。 4、做好简单推理判断题。简单推理判断题要以表面文字为前提，以具体事实为依据进行推理，做出判断。这种推理方式比较直接，只要弄清事实，即可结合常识推断出合理的结论。