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The following passage recounts a young girl's experience o f moving with herfamily from Massachusetts to Arizona.
When I was thirteen, my family moved from Boston to Tucson, Arizona Before the move, my father gathered us together after dinner on a freezing January night. My sisters and I clustered around the fire, unaware that the universe was about to suddenly change its course. "I've been transferred In May, we're moving to 5 Arizona ',
The words-so small, just two sentences-didn't seem big enough to hold my new fate. But without any further ceremony, the world changed and I awoke on a train moving across the country. I watched the landscape shift like a kaleidoscope . from green trees to flat dusty plains to soaring mountains as I glimpsed strange new 10 plants that hinted of mysteries yet to come. Finally, we arrived and settled into our new one-story adobe home.
While my older sisters grieved the loss of friends, schools, dances, and trees, I eagerly explored our new surroundings. I never realized there could be such a variety of cacti: saguaro, pincushion, prickly pear, barrel, cholla Nor could I ever have' 15 imagined trees as strange as the Joshua trees that grew m our yard 。And the mountains !I had never seen mountains before, and now they surround me.
One afternoon, I was out exploring as usual and espied a new kind of cactus. It looked like a green ball covered in soft white fur. I crouched down for a closer look "You'd better not touch that. That white stuff may look like harmless fur, but 20 they're actually spines and they're the devil to get out "
I turned around to see a woman who seemed to have emerged from the desert itself. Everything about her was brown - boots, skirt, skin - except for her startling white hair and eyes of a blue that matched the color of the sky.
Are you new to this neighborhood? I haven't seen you before. " I explained that 25 I was, in fact, new to the entire state. "My name is Ina Thorne. I've lived here smce I was eight years old How are you adjusting to life in the desert? It must be quite a shock after liying in Boston " How could I explain how I found the desert? I tried, haltingly, to tell her how the desert affected me, but I couldn't seem to find the right words.
It's the freedom," she offered 66That vastness when you stand on the 30 mountains overlooking the desert-you can sense how little you are m comparison with the world that surrounds you At the same time, you feel that the possibilities are limitless. "It was as if she had read some of my inner diary. That was it. That was the feeling I'd had ever sine I'd first seen the mountains of my new home I trembled inside, hoping that this woman who captured the essence of the desert itself 35 wouldn't just send me away with a pat on the head, as adults do. I saw in her a true friend Again, my life would change with just a few simple words.
“Would you like to come to my ranch tomorrow afternoon-if your parents don't mind? Someone should teach you which plants you should and shouldn't touch "
2. From the sentence, “But without... country”(lines 7- 8), it can be inferred that
A) the author was not allowed to graduate from middle school before the family's move
B) the family was forced to move across the country without prior notice
C) it seemed to the author that hardly any time passed between leaming about the move and actually moving
D) the author was startled to see that the rest of the country looked different from Boston
E) the author was excited by the thought of new experiences she would have in Tucson
【分析】
这是一道典型的“推理题”，凡是在题目中出现infer、imply或suggest这三个核心词，则本题属于“推理题”。
这类试题要求考生根据某一句话的内容推理出一个符合逻辑的选项。要特别注意，正确选项的内容不能是原文的简单重复，这样就不是推理了。比如，原文说玛丽眼睛大大的鼻梁高高的，那么推理出的应该是“玛丽很漂亮，，，而不能是“玛丽的眼睛很大”。当然，正确选项一定是原文能够正确暗示的，如果和原文相差万里，就不是推理，而是想象了。
许多学生在做推理题的时候经常犯的一个错误就是想象力过于丰富，确切说是喜欢递延推理，这种递延推理往往是考生自己在想当然。我们看下面的一个小对话：
Tom: Hi, Mary ,do you have time this evening?1 want to dance with you.
Mary: I have a project due tomorrow.
Question：what can be inferred from the dialogue?
正确选项就是：Mary今天晚上不能和Tom去跳舞。
这就可以了，但是许多学生会选择：Mary不喜欢Tom，或Mary和Tom刚吵架了，甚至选择：Mary已经有男朋友了。学生们会认为，既然Mary不愿意和Tom去跳舞，那说明她不喜欢Tom.也许是事实，但是从这两句话里你能看出来那些错误选项的内容吗?就是说，推理的结论一定要根据原文做适当地推理，而不能漫无边际地推理，要把握好分寸，不能加入自己的想像。
推理题实际上是本来这个句子要说什么，但没有直接说出来，我们要根据这个句子直接说出来的内容，寻找其背后隐藏的意思，而正确选项就是把这个隐藏的意思说出来了。
针对这道题，这句话的意思是：没有举行什么特别的仪式，我醒来的时候已经是在火车上了。那么，这句话背后的潜台词是什么呢?从前面内容可以看出，作者是在一月知道要搬迁的，但真正动身是在五月，这中间有四个月的时间，可在作者看来，这四个月一转眼就过去了，一转眼他们就已经在奔向亚利桑那的火车上了。这里强调的是时间的飞逝，据此选C。
A跑题了，全篇没有提到学校的问题。从学校毕业和作者醒来时已经坐在火车上之间没有任何关系。
B违背原文的意思，作者在正式动身前父亲还是提前告诉他的。
D犯了想像力过于丰富的错误。在本句后面确实提到了一路上景色的改变，但作者没有对此感到吃惊。当然，推理的核心是要紧紧抓住作者为什么说I awoke on a train moving across the country，这和风景改变没有关系，也没有抓住本句的核心是时间飞逝。
E的问题还是没有抓住时间飞逝的概念。作者也许对即将到来的新生活感到兴奋，但从But without any further ceremony，the、world changed and I awoke on a train moving across the country这句话里，看不出任何兴奋的成分，就是说，infer的东西只能是根据这个句子内容来infer，而不是像做“目的题，，那样，根据句子以外的内容来寻找答案线索。