7．Saturday，October 7th，was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya．Two weeks earlier，her father，a retired official in the department of foreign affairs，had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya's mother，Raisa Mazepa，in the hospital．She had just been diagnosed（診斷） with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband's funeral．"Your father will forgive me，because he knows that I have always loved him，"she told Anna and her sister，Elena Kudimova，the day he was buried．A week later，she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief．
Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital，but her twenty-six-year-old daughter，who was pregnant，had just moved into Politkovskaya's apartment on Lesnaya Street，while her own place was being prepared for the baby．"Anna had so much on her mind，"Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London，before Christmas．"And she was trying to finish her article．"Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta，and，like most of her work，the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya．This time，she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister，Ramzan Kadyrov，who are in favour of Russia．
In the past seven years，Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime； many had been collected in her book"A Small Corner of Hell：reports from Chechnya．"Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield，and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery，and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians-and almost no other reporters-cared to think about．
36．Politkovskaya's father died ofC．
A．tiredness
B．a(chǎn)n attack
C．a(chǎn) heart disease
D．a(chǎn)n accident
37．From the text we know that Raisa MazepaD．
A．didn't love her husband
B．was too sad to attend her husband's funeral
C．was having an operation the day her husband was buried
D．didn't attend her husband's funeral
38．The underlined word"emerged"most likely meansB．
A．went into
B．came out
C．disappeared
D．left for
39．How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage？D
A．Three．
B．Four
C．Six
D．Five
40．Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya's character？A
A．responsible
B．easy-going
C．careless
D．Curious．
分析 短文主要介紹了Anna Politkovskaya，其父親去世，母親得病的事情，并且也寫了其工作等方面．
解答 36．C，細(xì)節(jié)理解題，從第2句中的"…h(huán)ad died of a heart attack…"可知C選項是正確答案．B選項attack是"攻擊"的意思，而文中出現(xiàn)的是heart attack，"心臟病"，故答案為C．
37．D，細(xì)節(jié)理解題，根據(jù)句子Raisa Mazepa，in the hospital．She had just been diagnosed（診斷） with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband's funeral可知，Raisa Mazepa沒有參加她丈夫的葬禮，故答案為D．
38．B，詞義猜測題，介詞"from"表示動作的出處、來源，而后面的介詞賓語是"the Moscow Metro"，可知"Moscow Metro"是"emerged"這一動作的起源地，因此，B選項符合原文的意思．
39．D，細(xì)節(jié)理解題，文中提到Politkovskaya姐妹倆，以及她的父母、女兒，因此有五個人．
40．A，推理判斷題，從"Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta，…"一直到文章的結(jié)尾，作者簡述了Politkovskaya敢于直面社會的不良現(xiàn)象的正直性格，而這是其他記者所不屑的，因此A選項是正確答案．
點評 解答任務(wù)型閱讀理解題，首先對原文材料迅速瀏覽，掌握全文的主旨大意．因為閱讀理解題一般沒有標(biāo)題，所以，速讀全文，抓住中心主旨很有必要，在速讀的過程中，應(yīng)盡可能多地捕獲信息材料．其次，細(xì)讀題材，各個擊破．掌握全文的大意之后，細(xì)細(xì)閱讀每篇材料后的問題，弄清每題要求后，帶著問題，再回到原文中去尋找、捕獲有關(guān)信息．最后，要善于抓住每段的主題句，閱讀時，要有較強(qiáng)的針對性．對于捕獲到的信息，要做認(rèn)真分析，仔細(xì)推敲，理解透徹，只有這樣，針對題目要求，才能做到穩(wěn)、準(zhǔn)．
