【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 o accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor. Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn39。t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are pared. Typically, the original message has changed. That39。s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen to improve on it, stamping(打上標(biāo)記) it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know. This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another。 and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.（1）According to the passage, what situation may passive learning occur in? A.Doing a medical experimentB.Solving a math problemC.Visiting an exhibitionD.Doing scientific reasoning（2）What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 2 refers to? A.Active learningB.KnowledgeC.CommunicationD.Passive learning（3）Why does the author mentions the game Rumor? A.To show that a message may be changed when being passed on.B.To show that a message should be delivered in different ways.C.To show that people may have problems with their sense of hearing.D.To show that people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor.（4）What can we infer from the passage? A.Active learning is less important.B.Passive learning may not be reliable.C.Active learning occurs more frequently.D.Passive learning is not found among scholars.【答案】 （1）C（2）D（3）A（4）B 【解析】【分析】短文大意：本文主要主要介紹了被動獲得知識所存在的一個嚴(yán)重的問題——被告知的可能是謠言。并用現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中簡單的事說明。 （1）推理判斷題。由文章第二段we achieve knowledge passively by being told by some of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV of read newspaper or magazines is passive可知被動學(xué)習(xí)是通過別人告訴獲取知識，而A做實(shí)驗(yàn)；B解決數(shù)學(xué)問題；D做科學(xué)推理都是主動學(xué)習(xí)，故選C。 （2）推理判斷題。根據(jù)it 所在句We are used to passive learning, and it39。s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday munication with friends and coworkers可知這我們依賴的是前句所提的被動學(xué)習(xí)，故選D。 （3）推理判斷題。通過第三段最后一句Typically, the original message has ，信息原始的意思已經(jīng)改變了。和第二段最后一句話It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and ，有時候甚至是傳聞或者謠言?？芍恼孪胍嬖V我們信息在傳遞的過程中發(fā)生了變化。故選A。 （4）推理判斷題。A、C兩個選項(xiàng)說的是主動學(xué)習(xí)，文中沒有提到，D選項(xiàng)說被動學(xué)習(xí)在學(xué)者中不會出現(xiàn)，這和最后一段第一句This process is also found among scholars and authors不符合，而根據(jù)第二段和第三段可知人們傳遞信息到最后時，信息的原始意思已經(jīng)改變了，故得出被動學(xué)習(xí)不可靠，故選B。 【點(diǎn)評】考查閱讀理解。本文涉及推理判斷題，需要聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出所需要的信息，也可以利用排除法，根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容，排除錯誤選項(xiàng)。5．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old, and could not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried about his mental ability. Beethoven39。s music teacher said about him, As a poser (作曲家) he is hopeless. What if this young boy had believed it? When Thomas Edison was a young boy, his teachers said he was so stupid that he could never learn anything. He once said, I remember I used to never be able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of my class ... My father thought I was stupid, and I almost decided that I was a stupid person. What if young Thomas had believed what they said about him? When the sculptor (雕刻家) Auguste Rodin was young, he had difficulty learning to read and write. Today, we may say he had a learning disability. His father said of him, I have an idiot (白癡) for a son. His uncle agreed. He39。s uneducable, he said. What if Rodin had doubted his ability? Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor because he was thought to have no good ideas. Enrico Caruso was told by one music teacher, You can39。t sing. You have no voice at all. And an editor told Louisa May Alcott that she was unable to write anything that would have popular appeal. What if these people had listened and bee discouraged? Where would our world be without the music of Beethoven, the art of Rodin or the ideas of Albert Einstein and Walt Disney? As Oscar Levant once said, It39。s not what you are but what you don39。t bee that hurts. You have great potential. When you believe in all you can be, rather than all you cannot bee, you will find your place on earth.（1）How many successful people are mentioned as examples in the passage? A.SixB.SevenC.EightD.Nine.（2）Which of the following statements is RIGHT? A.When he was young, Thomas Edison always got good grades at school.B.Levant thought Louisa May Alcott couldn39。t write any popular works.C.Only Auguste Rodin39。s uncle regarded him a boy of learning ability.D.Both Enrico Caruso and Beethoven achieved their dreams in music.（3）What39。s the meaning of the underlined sentence He39。s uneducable? A.He can39。t be taught.B.He is very clever.