【文章內容簡介】 ay after the first Monday in September. Schools in Cleveland, Ohio used to start the school year on the day after the first Monday in September, but in the 19761977 and 19771978 academic years, the school year was affected by several bad snowstorms, extreme cold. In the 19781979 school year, the Ohio Department of Education moved the start of the year to late August, one week before the first Monday in September. This went into effect in the 19801981 school year. In most school districts in Utah, the school year starts between August 25 and August 30, and goes until the last week of May or the first week in June next year. In American high schools, the freshmen class usually goes back one or two days before the rest of the school body for an orientation(迎新)period. An orientation period helps the freshmen get familiar with their new school, its rules, and surroundings. In some schools, the freshmen classes have their photographs taken for identification purposes. Some high schools have tried to make the first week of school fun for ining freshmen.（1）According to the passage, which schools start their school year the earliest? A.Schools in Denver.B.Schools in Cleveland.C.Schools in New York City.D.Schools in Boston.（2）Why did the Ohio Department of Education change the start of the school year? A.Because of some political events.B.Because of the entrance examinations.C.Because of the increasing number of students.D.Because of the extreme weather.（3）How many months does the school year last in schools in Utah? A.About seven months.B.About eight months.C.About nine months.D.About ten months.（4）The article is probably taken from ________. A.a book about one39。s life storyB.an official website of educationC.an advertisement in a newspaperD.a sports magazine【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，美國開學第一天的日期沒有明文規(guī)定，因地區(qū)而異。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據第二段中的”For example, the Denver, Colorado schools go back in midAugust and schools in Cleveland, …Monday in September.“ 可知，丹佛的學校在八月中旬開學,克里夫蘭的學校通常在9月的第一個星期一之前開始。波士頓，芝加哥，紐約和圣地亞哥的學校在9月的第一個星期一之后的周二或周三開始。綜上所述，丹佛的學校開學最早。故選A。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據第三段中的but in the 19761977 and 19771978 academic years，the school year was affected by several bad snowstorms，extreme cold可知俄亥俄州的學校受到暴風雪的影響，因而開學日發(fā)生了變化。故選D。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據第四段 中的”In most school districts in Utah, the school year starts …next year.“可知猶太州學年從8月25日到8月30日開始，一直持續(xù)到5月的最后一周或明年6月的第一周，持續(xù)時間為九個月左右，故選C。 （4）考查推理判斷。縱觀全文可知，本文介紹了美國學校開學第一天的日期的內容，應屬教育類，故選B。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息，并根據上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 A friend is better than fortune. A friend is worse than poison in some cases. The two sentences above have opposite meanings and seem to be unreasonable but they can be explained as follows: the first refers to all good friends who drive us towards good while the second all bad ones who lead us into bad ways. My ideal friend is of course a good friend whose goodness is shown below — he has no bad habits such as smoking and drinking. He lives in frugality (節(jié)儉). He studies hard so as not to waste his golden time. At home he honors his parents and loves his brothers。 at school he respects his teachers and shares the feelings of his classmates. He treats those truly who are true to him. In a word, he has all the good characteristics that I don39。t have. I can follow him as a model. With his help I can be free from all difficulties. Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never fear difficulty and I shall never know the existence of the word failure.（1）This passage tells us ____. A.how to make friends with othersB.how to help friendsC.what kind of person the writer39。s friend isD.what kind of person we should make friends with（2）According to the writer, an ideal friend refers to _______. friend without bad habits famous man perfect man respectable man（3）From the passage we can learn that ________. writer and his ideal friend have a lot to learn from each other writer has a lot to learn from his ideal friend writer39。s ideal friend has a lot to learn from him writer has only a little to learn from his ideal friend（4）From the second paragraph, we can infer the writer is sure that _______. means a great deal to him can be done without friends who does not smoke or drink must be a good friend friends should always help each other【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了我們應該交哪種朋友。我們應該交那種在學校尊敬老師，在家愛戴父母認真學習，珍惜時間的朋友。 （1）考查推理判斷?？v觀全文可知，本文講述的是我們應該交哪種朋友。我們應該交那種在學校尊敬老師，在家愛戴父母認真學習，珍惜時間的朋友。故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據第三段可知理想的朋友就是那些完美的人。故選C。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據第三段中的“I can follow him as a model.他是我的楷模，我能從他身上學習到很多東西。故選B。 （4）考查推理判斷。從文章內容可知我很看重生命中的好朋友，一位友誼對我來說意義重大。故選A。 【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀?？忌枰鶕舷挛牡倪壿嬯P系，進行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。6．閱讀理解 You probably know the basics of how paratives(比較級) and superlatives(最高級) work in the English language. When paring something, you often add an er to the end of the parative adjective. The general rule is that onesyllable(音節(jié)) words get the suffix(后綴), and polysyllabic words get more or most. That is, unless the twosyllable word ends in a y。 if that39。s the case, you will add the