1、课时素养达标(2019海安高一检测)On the day the tornado hit, there was no indication severe weather was on its waythe sky was blue and the sun had been out. The first alert my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p. m. , from some scrolling text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me
2、in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel from the presidential primary debate I had been watching to our local Pensacola, Florida, station. No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The bones of the house shook,
3、 and the power went out. Pink insulation flew into the room from a trapdoor to the attic, and the wind began to roar through the house. I didnt know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. I gripped the banister (栏
4、杆) and tried to move forward, but this intense pressure held me in place. By the time I reached the closet, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldnt get inside himself because of the wind. I gripped Jimmys arm. My knees and scalp were
5、full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldnt believe it was over. Jimmy said hed go outside t
6、o check. “No, ” I said. “Dont leave me. ”Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured. 【语篇概述】这是一篇记叙文。文章作者描述了
7、自己亲身经历的一次龙卷风。1. How is the text organized? A. In order of time. B. In order of frequency. C. In order of preference. D. In order of importance. 【解析】选A。语篇结构题。文章作者描述了自己亲身经历的一次龙卷风, 其中有明显的时间标志, 文章是按照时间顺序讲述的。2. What can we infer from the first paragraph? A. We didnt get the alert until we began to watch
8、TV. B. The weather was severe on the day the tornado hit. C. We changed the channel to find out what was happening. D. The author was sleeping when the tornado came. 【解析】选C。推理判断题。答案定位在第一段“and we changed the channel from the presidential primary debate I had been watching to our local Pensacola, Flor
9、ida, station. ”由此推断出我们转换电视频道是为了寻找发生了什么事情。3. From the text, we can find the author was the following except _. A. fearfulB. courageousC. senselessD. determined【解析】选C。推理判断题。根据作者在经历灾难时的表现“I gripped the banister and tried to move forward, but this intense pressure held me in place. ”“I gripped Jimmys ar
10、m. ”“My knees and scalp were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. ”“Jimmy said hed go outside to check. No, I said. Dont leave me. ”可推断出作者对龙卷风的害怕, 对抗龙卷风的勇敢还有拯救丈夫的坚毅, 文章中都提到了。4. What does the underlined sentence mean? A. The author had no sense of pain. B. The author was absorbed in saving her husband and extremely worried about her husband. C. The author was fearful that her knees and scalp were full of glass. D. The author was terrified in that moment. 【解析】选B。推理判断题。根据上下文可知, 突遇龙卷风, 作者的丈夫处于危险之中。由此推知划线部分的句子意思是作者一心扑在救她的丈夫上, 非常担心她的丈夫, 以至于被玻璃划伤都感觉不到疼痛。