该阅读理解模拟题最大的作用仅在于保持中考前的做题手感。如果做全对则不必花时间看后面的答题思路，如果基础不太牢固，不妨看看，想想下次遇到类似的题目，应该如何做。之前并未强调答题时间，然而中考英语时间分配是很重要的，因此本题建议做题时间：7 min

It was last January, when I’d just finished a charity ( 慈善) and was on the train back home, that I put down my phone and started writing thank-you notes to people who had helped.

When I got off the train, I felt amazingly good. The next day, I wrote more thank-yous and the same feeling of happiness hit me again. I suddenly had the idea: Why not keep on doing this for every day of the year?

To keep on the task, I decided to pick out a different theme for each month. January was charity. February would be neighbors, I decided. And I thought of a number of names right away: the owner of our local bookstore, who let me and my little son in before the store opened and offered to play his favorite songs; our babysitter, who dropped off a bag of old board games for our kids to play.

While writing the notes, I realized how often I had spent my time on the phone moving from app to app, appreciating(欣赏) other people’s lives. Writing thank-you notes allowed me the time to do something different, paying more attention to my own life.

In the following months, I wrote to my friends, doctors, teachers and parenting role models. In July, my “food” month, I wrote to Julie, who used to cook at my favorite restaurant. It went like this:

Dear Julie,

I’ve been finding myself missing you lately. Thank you for hosting and cooking beautiful and thoughtful food. Jake and I will never forget when you sent out biscuits shaped into the number VI for our sixth anniversary ( 周年纪念日) . We talk about it every year.

Thank you. We miss you.

Love,

Gina

I was happy to receive a note back from her. Julie replied, “I don’t think I’ve ever received such a touching letter before. I’m going through a hard time right now, and this helps.”

On December 31, I wrote my last card — to Jake, my husband, and our two kids. And I took apicture of us, so I could remember the feeling coming up inside me. Gratitude.

51. The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 2 means _______.

A. writing thank-you notes

B. putting the phone away

C. taking the train back home

D. raising money for charity

52. How did Julie most probably feel after reading the note from Gina?

A. Shy and surprised.

B. Pleased and relaxed.

C. Nervous and excited.

D. Moved and encouraged.

53. The theme of the December notes might be “_______”.

A. photos

B.family

C. holidays

D. community

54. What did Gina get by doing her task according to the passage?

A. Many thanks from her neighbors.

B. More time to appreciate her own life.

C. More help from people around her.

D. Happy moments to be with her friends.

55. The best title for the passage can be _______.

A. My Thank You Year

B. An Amazing Trip

C. Happiness inside Us

D. Important People in Our Life

51. 这小题问的是this指代什么？其实不论是提问that、this、it，或其他名词指代什么，都是往这个指代词前面去找答案，由前一句“The next day, I wrote more thank-yous and the same feeling of happiness hit me again.”可知，答案选A。

52.从该题题目可知，要去阅读Gina写给Julie的note，这样我们才能得知Julie的感受。因为note都是涉及thank you，所以答案选D. moved and encouraged 感动的和受鼓舞的。

53.先去文中定位“December notes”，很明显可以定位到最后一段，“On December 31, I wrote my last card — to Jake, my husband, and our two kids.”，作者的十二月的note是写给她丈夫和两个孩子，因此note的theme（主题）是家人。所以答案选B。

54.“根据这篇文章，Gina通过做她的任务（writing notes）可以得到什么？”。通过Gina和task，可以定位到第三段，可是第三段仅仅是写作者决定为每个月挑选不同的主题，并未写Gina的收获，那么我们就要继续阅读第四段，从“Writing thank-you notes allowed me the time to do something different, paying more attention to my own life.”可知，writing notes 让Gina更自己的生活。也就是appreciate欣赏自己的生活。因此答案选B。

55.这类选最佳标题的题目一般先去首尾段找答案（有时间的话应该粗略浏览全文），首段“started writing thank-you notes”开始写感谢记录，尾段“On December 31, Iwrote my last card”，“gratitude”，写最后一张卡片，以及感恩，可以得知答案选A。这类选择最佳标题的题目，很大可能是选文中出现频率最高的词的标题，比如该题的thankyou，不过还是要去文中确认下。