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【題目】 Olympic National Park, with its temperate rainforests and breath-taking views, exerts a natural pull on many Pacific Northwestemers. But Seattle writer Rosette Royale found it repellent. To Royale, the park seemed like a damp, dirty and unpleasant place. “I couldn’t figure out why anyone would want to carry a 50-pound pack into the wilderness and camp there for days,” he said. “It didn’t make sense.”

Then he met Bryant Carlin, a vendor (小販) for Real Change, the Seattle weekly sold on the street by vendors who are homeless or low-wage earners. He was also a skilled outdoorsman and a nature photographer who would take weeks-long photographic journeys to the park. The two men connected in the fall of 2011 when Royale interviewed Carlin for a feature story in Real Change about Carlin’s photography.

That first time they met—and for years afterward—Carlin invited Royale to go camping with him. Each time, Royale said “Thanks, but no thanks.” Until one day, in the spring of 2015, Royale surprised himself by saying yes. “Little did I know,” said Royale, “that saying ‘yes’ would change the course of my life.”

Royale and Carlin went on five separate journeys to the Olympic wilderness. They camped in spring, summer, fall and winter. For Royale, the trips were exhausting and terrifying. But the trips were also inspiring, and helped Royale—a black, strange man—to develop a relationship with the outdoors that he had never experienced before.

For Carlin, the trips were an opportunity to throw off the label of “homeless”. In Olympic National Park, sleeping outside just means you’re a camper. But there was one aspect of Carlin’s life in the city that he couldn’t escape: alcohol abuse. While he never brought beer on their camping journeys, the effects of years of drinking weren’t so easy to leave behind.

【1】What does the underlined word “repellent” in paragraph 1 mean?

A.Appealing.B.Puzzling.

C.Rewarding.D.Disgusting.

【2】According to Royale, what made his life course changed?

A.His first meeting with Carlin.B.His rejection of Carlin’s invitation.

C.His camping trips with Carlin.D.His reading of Carlin’s feature story.

【3】What did the trips with Royale mean to Carlin?

A.They improved his photography skills.

B.They helped him feel a sense of belonging.

C.They deepened his relationship with nature.

D.They enabled him to get rid of alcohol addiction.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【解析】

這是一篇夾敘夾議的文章。文章主要講了羅亞爾和卡林的奧林匹克國家公園露營之旅對各自產生的意義。

【1】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第一段To Royale, the park seemed like a damp, dirty and unpleasant place.（對羅亞爾來說，公園似乎是一個潮濕、骯臟和令人不快的地方。）由此可知，But Seattle writer Rosette Royale found it repellent.的意思是但西雅圖作家羅亞爾卻發(fā)現(xiàn)它是令人厭惡的。A. Appealing. 吸引人的；B. Puzzling. 令人迷惑的；C. Rewarding. 有益的；D. Disgusting. 令人厭惡的。故選D。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段“Little did I know,” said Royale, “that saying ‘yes’ would change the course of my life.”（ “我不知道，”羅亞爾說，“說‘是’會改變我的人生軌跡�！保┛芍�，羅亞爾認為，是他和卡林的露營之旅改變了他的人生軌跡。故選C。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段For Carlin, the trips were an opportunity to throw off the label of “homeless”.（對卡林來說，這些旅行是一個擺脫“無家可歸”標簽的機會。）推斷出，與羅亞爾的旅行對卡林意味著它們幫助他感到一種歸屬感。故選B。