六、阅读表达(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)
请认真阅读下面短文,并根据短文内容回答问题。
One day,a baby snail found that he had to carry a shell at
any time.He was confused(困惑的)， so he went up to his
mother and asked,“ Why was I born with a shell that grew so
hard and heavy?" His mother said,“ Because we don't have
bones to hold us up.We can only move slowly,so we need a
shell to protect(保护)us."
The baby snail asked again,“ The caterpillar has no bones,
either,and she can't move quickly.Why can she live without a
shell?" The mother snail answered,“ That's because a caterpillar
will become a butterfly.She can fly high into the sky.Then the
sky can protect her."
The baby snail had one more question,“ But the earthworm
moves like us.He has no bones and he won't turn into a
butterfly.Why doesn't he carry a hard and heavy shell?" His
mother said,“ He can dig a hole and hide in the ground,and then
the earth can protect him."
The baby snail then cried,“ We are so poor ! We have no
protection from the sky or from the ground !" His mother smiled
at him,“ That's why we have a shell.My dear,imagine that if
we don't have the shells,what will happen to us?Hot sun will l
dry out our bodies and we'll have nowhere to sleep.What's
worse,we'll die in the heavy rain.How terrible it is ! We don't
depend on(依靠)the sky or the ground for protection.We should
depend on ourselves."
56.Why were snails born with shells?

57.What does the baby snail think of his shell?

58.What will the caterpillar become when she grows up?

59.Where can an earthworm hide?

60.What do you learn from the story ？(请自拟一句话作答)

【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。文章通过小蜗牛与蜗牛妈妈的对话,探讨了蜗牛为何生来就带有坚硬且沉重的壳。
56. To protect themselves. 57. He dislikes it.
58. A butterfly. 59. In the ground.
60. We should depend on ourselves.(言之有理即可)

【分析】
这是一篇记叙文类的阅读表达题，解题时首先通读全文理清小蜗牛和妈妈的对话脉络，明确故事核心主旨。前4道属于细节类题目，直接带着题干的关键词回到原文定位对应的语句，提取精简的答案即可，无需额外冗余表述；最后一道开放类主旨题，紧扣文章结尾蜗牛妈妈点明的核心道理，用通顺的英文写出符合文意的句子即可，保证表意准确。
【解析】
56. 定位原文第一段蜗牛妈妈的表述“we need a shell to protect us”，可知蜗牛生来带壳是为了保护自己，因此提取对应答案即可。
57. 从原文中小蜗牛一开始困惑壳又硬又重，还哭诉自己很可怜的表现，能看出他并不喜欢自己的壳，得出对应答案。
58. 定位原文第二段蜗牛妈妈的表述“That's because a caterpillar will become a butterfly”，直接提取对应信息即可。
59. 定位原文第三段蜗牛妈妈的表述“He can dig a hole and hide in the ground”，直接提取对应信息即可。
60. 文章最后点明核心道理：蜗牛不需要依靠天空或者大地的保护，要靠自己，围绕该核心表意通顺即可，参考回答贴合主旨即可。
【答案】
56. To protect themselves.
57. He dislikes it.
58. A butterfly.
59. In the ground.
60. We should depend on ourselves.(言之有理即可)
【知识点】
阅读细节定位，主旨归纳，英语情景作答
【点评】
本题整体难度偏低，绝大多数题目都可以直接从原文找到对应信息，主要考察学生快速定位文本信息的能力，最后一道开放题跳出单纯的信息提取，引导学生理解故事传递的正向价值观，兼顾了能力考察和思想引导，作答时注意回答要匹配特殊疑问句的逻辑，不要出现语法错误即可。
【难度系数】
0.8