Question

    In January 2018, I was commuting (通勤) from Brooklyn to New Jersey. I have two little kids and a busy business, so a quiet train ride felt like a mini ______. Yet I found myself spending that ______ time scrolling through my social media feeds. One day, I ______ my phone and started writing thank-you notes to people who had ______ to a fund I had organized.

When I got off the train that day, I was in a noticeably better ______. The next day, I wrote more thank-yous — and felt the same. When I finished writing the notes, I ______ them up. There were 31 — one for every day of the year so far. Something ______. What if I kept it up?

I decided to write one thank-you note for every day of that year. I had no shortage of people I was ______ for. So I picked out a different ______ for each month. January was charity — and, thankfully, I had already completed that ______.

February would be ______ to neighbors, and I thought of a dozen names right away. I remembered when the owners of our local bookstore let me and my five-year-old son, Henry, in before the store opened. I ______ when our 14-year-old babysitter ______ a bag of old board games for our kids to play.

Writing the notes wasn’t all that ______: Each was two or three sentences long, taking just a few minutes to ______. I focused on the person I was writing to and what I wanted to say, and the words came fairly easily. That focus felt ______. It was good for my brain, which had been trained to ______ from this feed to that e-mail.

While writing the notes, I eventually realized why this task was the perfect antidote (解药) to my social ______. What was I actually doing when I scrolled through Facebook? More often than not, I was ______ other people’s lives — their beach vacations, their organized kitchens. Writing thank-you notes was an act of noticing and ______ my own life.

1.A.trip B.adventure C.vacation D.celebration

2.A.lonely B.precious C.boring D.tiring

3.A.picked up B.brought out C.put up D.put down

4.A.contributed B.offered C.led D.expanded

5.A.mood B.situation C.position D.harmony

6.A.folded B.arranged C.piled D.counted

7.A.happened B.clicked C.appeared D.presented

8.A.thoughtful B.awful C.grateful D.respectful

9.A.theme B.topic C.object D.range

10.A.cause B.assignment C.goal D.contract

11.A.written B.provided C.celebrated D.devoted

12.A.reminded B.recalled C.recognized D.reflected

13.A.dropped off B.took off C.set off D.put off

14.A.tiring B.boring C.breath-taking D.time-consuming

15.A.form B.compose C.accumulate D.type

16.A.exhausting B.desperate C.refreshing D.independent

17.A.work B.lock C.fasten D.wander

18.A.feeds B.media C.activities D.participations

19.A.observing B.admiring C.following D.sharing

20.A.lengthening B.purifying C.honoring D.varying

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.A

5.A

6.D

7.B

8.C

9.A

10.C

11.D

12.B

13.A

14.D

15.B

16.C

17.D

18.A

19.B

20.C

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。作者在一次坐火车通勤时，选择放下手机，开始给那些给她组织的基金捐款的人写感谢信。下车之后，她的心情明显好了很多。之后她决定那一年的每天都写一封感谢信，并且每一个月都有不同的主题。在这个过程中，她学会了关注和欣赏自己的生活。

1.

考查名词词义辨析。句意：我有两个小孩，生意又很忙，所以一次安静的火车旅行感觉就像一个迷你假期。A. trip旅程；B. adventure冒险；C. vacation假期；D. celebration 庆典。根据前文“I have two little kids and a busy business,”可知作者有两个孩子要养，生意也很忙，所以一次安静的火车旅行对于作者来说就像一个短暂的假期，让她暂时摆脱繁忙的生活。故选C项。

2.

考查形容词词义辨析。句意：然而，我发现自己把宝贵的时间花在了刷社交媒体的信息上。A. lonely 孤独的；B. precious 珍贵的；C. boring 无聊的；D. tiring 累人的。根据前文“I have two little kids and a busy business, so a quiet train ride felt like a mini ___1___ .”可知在火车上的这段时间对于生活繁忙的作者来说就像是一个迷你假期，这段时间对于作者来说自然是珍贵的。故选B项。

3.

考查动词词组辨析。句意：有一天，我放下手机，开始给那些为我组织的基金捐款的人写感谢信。A. picked up捡起；B. brought out出版；生产；C. put up 举起，张贴；D. put down 放下。根据后文“started writing thank-you notes to people ”可知作者开始写感谢信，这说明她没有玩手机，把手机放下了。故选D项。

4.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：有一天，我放下手机，开始给那些为我组织的基金捐款的人写感谢信。A. contributed为……做贡献；捐助；B. offered提供；C. led 带领；D. expanded 扩展。根据“started writing thank-you notes to people”可知作者给一些人写感谢信，根据“to a fund I had organized. ”可知作者创办了一个基金，结合上下文推知这些人给作者的基金捐款了，作者因此给他们写感谢信。故选A项。

5.

考查名词词义辨析。句意：那天下火车时，我的心情明显好了许多。A. mood 心境；情绪；B. situation情况；C. position位置；D. harmony 协调；融洽。作者下火车后，心情好了很多。故选A项。

6.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：写完感谢信之后，我数了数它们的数量。A. folded折叠；B. arranged管理；安排；C. piled 堆房；D. counted 计算；数数。根据后文“There were 31”可知作者写了31封感谢信，说明作者数了数她写了多少感谢信。故选D项。

7.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：我突然想到。如果我继续这样做呢? A. happened 发生；B. clicked 豁然开朗；突然想到；C. appeared出现；D. presented 呈现。根据后文“What if I kept it up? ”可知作者突然有了一个想法：如果她继续写感谢信会怎么样呢？故选B项。

8.

考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我并不缺少让我感激的人。A. thoughtful 深思的；体贴的；B. awful可怕的；C. grateful 感激的；D. respectful 有礼貌的；恭敬的。根据前文“I decided to write one thank-you note for every day of that year.”可知作者决定那一年每天都写一封感谢信，感谢信的对象肯定是作者所感激的人，所以这里要表达的是“我并不缺少让我感激的人”。故选C项。

9.

考查名词词义辨析。句意：因此，我每个月都会选择不同的主题。A. theme主题；B. topic 话题；C. object 目标；物体；D. range 范围。根据后文“January was charity —”可知一月的主题是慈善，也就是说每个月份作者会定下一个主题。故选A项。

10.

考查名词词义辨析。句意：一月份的主题是慈善——幸运地，我已经完成了这个目标。A. cause原因；B. assignment作业；任务；C. goal目标；D. contract 合同；契约。根据“January was charity”可知作者一月份写感谢信的主题是慈善，结合前文“When I finished writing the notes, I ___6___ them up. There were 31 —”可知作者已经写了31感谢信给那些为她基金捐款的人，这正好和一月主题-慈善-相符，也就是说作者已经完成了一月份每天写一封感谢信，主题是慈善的这个目标。故选C项。

11.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：二月是献给邻居的，并且我马上想到了十几个名字。A. written 写；B. provided 提供；C. celebrated庆祝；D. devoted 奉献，致力于。根据后文“I remembered when the owners of our local bookstore…”可知作者在一段回忆了她和邻居比如当地书店老板之间的事，这说明二月份是用来写感谢信给邻居的。故选D项。

12.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：我回想起我们14岁的保姆放下了一袋旧棋盘游戏给我们孩子玩的时候。 A. reminded提醒；B. recalled回想起；C. recognized 认识；承认；D. reflected 反思；反映。根据“I remembered when… ”可知在这一段中，作者回想了她与邻居之间的故事，所以这里作者回想起（recalled）她家14岁的保姆曾经做过的事。故选B项。

13.

考查动词词组辨析。句意：我回想起我们14岁的保姆放下了一袋旧棋盘游戏给我们孩子玩的时候。A. dropped off 丢下；B. took off 起飞；突然成功；C. set off 出发；引起；D. put off 推迟；拖延。根据“a bag of old board games for our kids to play”可知这个14岁的小保姆放下一袋子旧棋盘游戏给作者的孩子玩。故选A项。

14.

考查形容词词义辨析。句意：写感谢信并不那么费时间：每封信都只有两三句话，只需要几分钟就可以完成。A. tiring 累人的；B. boring无聊的；C. breath-taking 激动人心的；令人惊讶的；D. time-consuming 费时的。根据后文“Each was two or three sentences long, taking just a few minutes”可知每封感谢信只有两三句话，花几分钟就可以完成，所以写感谢信并不是那么费时间。故选D项。

15.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：写感谢信并不那么费时间：每封信都只有两三句话，只需要几分钟就可以完成。A. form形成；组成；B. compose创作，写（信，诗或演讲稿）；C. accumulate 积累；累计；D. type 打字。根据Each was two or three sentences long, taking just a few minutes”可知每封感谢信只有两三句话，所以花几分钟就可以写完。故选B项。

16.

考查形容词词义辨析。句意：这种专注让人耳目一新。 A. exhausting让人精疲力竭的；B. desperate 拼命的；渴望的；C. refreshing 使人耳目一新的；D. independent 独立的。根据前文“I focused on the person I was writing to and what I wanted to say, and the words came fairly easily”可知作者把注意力集中在她写信的对象和她想说的话上，字句脱口而出。这种体验对于作者来说是令人耳目一新的。故选C项。

17.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：这对我的大脑是有好处的，（之前）我的大脑已经被训练的能从这个信息走神到那封邮件。A. work工作；B. lock锁上；C. fasten扎牢；D. wander 走神；开小差。根据“from this feed to that e-mail”可知作者之前容易思绪飘荡，一会关注社交媒体上的消息，一会又关注邮件，故选D项。

18.

考查名词词义辨析。句意：在写感谢信的时候，我终于意识到为什么这个任务是我社交信息的完美解毒剂。A. feeds（博客，社交网站，新闻网站等）的信息推送；B. media 媒体；C. activities活动；D. participations 参与。根据前文“myself spending that ___2___ time scrolling through my social media feeds”可知作者把时间浪费在社交媒体信息上，这里是原词复现，指“社交媒体上的推送信息”，故选A项。

19.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：我常常欣赏别人的生活——他们的海滩假期，他们整齐有序的厨房。A. observing 观察；B. admiring 欣赏；C. following 跟随；D. sharing 分享。根据后文“their beach vacations, their organized kitchens”可知作者在Facebook看到别人的海滩假期和整齐有序的厨房，这种生活很美好，所以作者应该是在欣赏别人的生活。故选B项。

20.

考查动词词义辨析。句意：写感谢信是一种关注和尊重自己生活的行为。 A. lengthening加长；B. purifying净化；C. honoring给……荣誉；尊重；D. varying变化。根据前文“More often than not, I was ___19___ other people’s lives”可知作者常常欣赏别人的生活，结合此句中的“my own life”可知作者这里要表达的是，写感谢信让她把目光放在自己的生活上，是一种关注和尊重自己生活的行为。故选C项。