阅读理解 Everyone has a moment in history, which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed(释放的)emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.
For me, this moment—four years in a moment in history—was the war. The war was and is reality for me. I still instinctively live and think in its atmosphere. These are some of its characteristics.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the president of the United States, and he always has been. The other two eternal world leaders are Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. America is not, never has been, and never will be what the song and poems call it, a land of plenty. Nylon, meat, gasoline, and steel are rare. There are too many jobs and not enough workers. Money is very easy to earn but rather hard to spend, because there isn't very much to buy. Trains are always late and always crowded with "service men" . The war will always be fought very far from America, and it will never end. Nothing in America stands still for very long, including the people who are always either leaving or on leave. People in America cry often. Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are ranged in an orderly manner ahead of and behind you as a harmonious setting for the sixteen-year-olds of the world. When you are sixteen, adults are slightly impressed and almost intimidated by you. This is a puzzle finally solved by the realization that they foresee your military future: fighting for them. You do not foresee it. To waste anything in America is immoral. String and tinfoil are treasures. Newspapers are always crowed with strange maps and names of towns, and every few months the earth seems to lurch(突然倾斜)from its path when you see something in the newspapers, such as the time Mussolini, who almost seemed one of the eternal leaders, is photographed hanging upside down on a meat hook.
单选题 16.Which statement best depicts the main idea of the first paragraph?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题为文章主旨题。通过对第一段的阅读，可提取关键句“Everyone has a moment in history，which belongs particularly to him”(每个人都有属于他的特殊的历史时刻)，后面是对这句话的深入描述，由此可知，答案为D选项。
单选题 17.Why does the author still clearly remember the war?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题为细节题。参见文章第二段中第二句“The war was and is reality for me”(战争无论是过去还是现在对我来说都是现实)。分析各个选项的意思，B选项为此句的转述“战争是他的个人现实和生活中的部分”。由此可以判断，答案为B选项。
单选题 18.Which statement best describes the author's feelings about the war?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题为事实细节题。纵观文章第二段，从第三句“I still instinctively live and think in its atmosphere．These are some of its characteristics．”(我仍然本能地在这种氛围下生活和思考。这些都是它的些特征。)中可以判断，那对他来说是真实的，但是文章中并没有提到他是名战士，因此，只有A选项符合题意。
单选题 19.Why does the author think that adults are impressed with sixteen-year-olds?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题为事实细节题。文中第四段指出“When you are sixteen，adults are slightly impressed and almost intimidated by you．This is a puzzle finally solved by the realization that they foresee your military future：fighting for them．”，后句话点出了作者所认为的成年人对16岁年龄段人印象深刻的原因，故选D。
单选题 20.Why does the author say that string and tinfoil are treasures?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题为正误判断题。文中对于细绳和锡纸的珍贵性并没有直接说明。先看各个选项的意思，B、C项说他们对16岁的人有用，以及在16岁的时候喜欢用，文中在前面句中讲16岁是至关重要的年龄段，并没有对这两方面内容进行表达。而D选项说人们非常浪费，和文章事实相反，文章中说人们从不浪费。那么可推断A选项“战争是造成它们稀缺的原因”合理，故答案为A选项。