【考点】O5：科教类阅读；P1：内容归纳；P2：文中细节
【分析】这是一篇夹叙夹议的文章．文章主要介绍每个人都希望成功，但是人们在实施任务的时候会出现启动疲惫和表现疲惫，这是造成失败的两种原因，文章具体介绍如何克服这两种疲惫：为了防止启动疲惫，作者建议先解决最难的任务；遇到表现疲惫，可以暂时一放，有时无意识的行为可能帮助我们发现正确的解决方法
【解答】51．A 细节理解题．根据第二段的"In the former case，we keep putting off a task， "可知，有启动疲惫的人更可能拖延任务，故选A
52．D 细节理解题．根据第三段的"The solution is obvious though perhaps not easy to apply：always handle the most difficult job first．"可知，为了防止启动疲惫，作者建议先 解决最难的任务，故选 D
53．B 细节理解题．根据第五段的"Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle…we failagain and again，"可知，当所有的解决方法都失败的时候，一个人可能会有表现疲惫，故选 B
54．D 细节理解题．根据倒数第二段的"the solution which had come up in my unconscious mind provided correct at every step．"可知，无意识的行为可能帮助我们发现正确的解决方 法，故选D
【答案】C
【解析】主旨大意题．根据全篇文章和最后一段的内容，可知，文章主要介绍造成失败的两种疲惫，以及如何克服疲惫，故选C
【点评】本文是科教类阅读，考查学生的细节理解和推理判断能力．做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确选择．在做推理判断题时不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断
第三部分：写作第一节：阅读表达（共 1 小题；每小题 10 分，满分 10 分）阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题
21．（10 分）I'm a 34﹣year﹣old man，married，lived in a nice house，and have a successful career as an educational consultant．But my life was not always so great．I had a learning disability from an early age．I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra help．Still，I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools
My life improved remarkably when I discovered art ． The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words．I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things with clay（黏土）．Here I learned my first important lesson：disabled as I was in language．I could still be smart and well express myself with clay．And my confidence came along
I got my next lesson from rock climbing．It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start．I soon noticed it wasn't a talent thing； it was practice．So I did it more．After about five years of climbing，I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall．I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time，you will get better at it
Later I decided to apply my previous experience to learning how to read and write．Every day I practiced reading and writing，which I used to avoid as much as possible．After two hard years，I was literate
Having gone through the long process with art，rock climbing，and reading and writing，now I've got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totally unknown，hard，but interesting