【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 on, and that helps develop their selfconfidence. Once again, music is important because it can make children better students, give them something positive to do, and build their character. That is why music should be offered in every single grade in every school.（1）According to the passage, music could make students smarter by _______________. their classroom skills and paying attention their classroom skills and imagination their attention, direction and imagination music, making music and trying out their own ideas（2）What does the underlined phrase glued to in the second paragraph mean? to turn on looking to leave playing（3）The third paragraph mainly tells us that music could _______________. children selfexpression and selfconfidence to children achievement and success children something to be proud of children39。s selfconfidence（4）What39。s the best title of this passage? is a must as a course at school. builds children39。s selfconfidence. makes students much smarter. music and making music.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文介紹了音樂在學(xué)生的成長過程中不容忽視的作用，應(yīng)該被列為學(xué)校里的一門必修課程．音樂不但能夠提高學(xué)生們的注意力和服從指揮的能力，而且也能讓學(xué)生發(fā)揮想象力，培養(yǎng)他們的創(chuàng)造能力。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“They could improve their classroom skills”和“Making music also lets children use their imagination”可知，音樂通過提高學(xué)生的課堂技能和發(fā)揮他們的想象力，使其更加聰明。故選B。 （2）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第二段中的“Parents can enjoy listening to their children39。s music instead of seeing them glued to a puter or TV screen.”家長們能享受孩子們的音樂，而不是看他們不愿離開電腦或電視。glue的原意“似膠般固著于”，這里引申為“不愿離開”。故選C。 （3）考查段落大意。 根據(jù)第三段中的“Music builds selfconfidence, too.”音樂也建立自信可知, 故選D。 （4）考查主旨大意。 第一段中的“The arts, especially music, should be part of every school39。s lessons at every grade level.”即本篇文章的主題句。根據(jù)概括標(biāo)題需遵循“征對性、概括性、醒目性”的原則可知A為最佳答案，故選A。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測，段落大意和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．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 suffixes and change the y to an i. But what about the word fun? This simple adjective only has one syllable, so you39。d think you39。d add suffixes on it to create superlatives. But if you were to say I think Magic Kingdom is a funner park than Epcot. or Disney World was the funnest vacation ever! you might get some strange looks. It doesn39。t sound quite right. But…why? Fun is one syllable, so why do we choose more fun as the parative—especially considering that the similar word funny, which has more syllables than fun, uses the suffixes with no problem? Well, the problem es from the fact that the word fun was not originally an adjective. Until the early 19th century, it was mostly just a noun, and it gained its meaning as amusement in the 18th century. But as early as the 1800s, people began using it as an adjective, the way we39。d describe a fun time or a fun place today. Basically, language is still developing. Grammarians have mostly e around to the use of fun as an adjective (though some dictionaries still call it informal). There was (and remains) an agreement of Fine, you can use ‘fun39。 as an adjective…but, like, it39。s not really one, so it can39。t follow the rules of real adjectives. So they also agree that the answer to is funner a word? is yes. If you want to consider fun, as an adjective, then funner is indeed a word, as is funnest. But this doesn39。t mean that more fun and most fun are incorrect, though。 in fact, in formal writing, you39。ll probably still want to use those instead of funner and funnest. The English language is chockfull of uncertain grammar rules。 there39。s no need to insist that a word breaks the mon rules of language just because we didn39。t used to use it in a way we do now.（1）How do paratives and superlatives work in the English language? A.Put more or most before onesyllable adjectives.B.Add er or est to most polysyllabic adjectives.C.Put more or most before polysyllabic adjectives.D.Add er or est straight to twosyllable words ending in a y.（2）People didn39。t used to use funner or funnest partly because ______________. A.it sounded strange to grammariansB.the English language changed a littleC.the word was originally used as a nounD.some dictionaries considered it incorrect（3）What can be the best title of the passage? A.Is funner a word?B.A general rule of English grammar.C.The development of English language.D.The paratives and superlatives of adjectives.【答案】 （1）C（2）C（3）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了英語形容詞比較級和最高級中，單詞fun的比較級和最高級變化規(guī)則而展開。告訴了我們單詞fun詞性的歷史演變，英語充滿了不確定的語法規(guī)則。沒有必要僅僅因為我們過去不像現(xiàn)在這樣使用一個詞就認為它違反了語言的一般規(guī)則。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“The general rule is that onesyllable words get the suffix, and polysyllabic words get 39。more39。 or 39。most.39。一般規(guī)則是單音節(jié)單詞詞尾添加后綴，多音節(jié)單詞則需要添加more或most?？芍谟⒄Z比較級和最高級中，在多音節(jié)形容詞前加more或most。故選C。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的”Until the early 19th century, it was mostly just a noun, and it gained its meaning as amusement in the 18th century. But as early as the 1800s, people began using it as an adjective, the way we39。d describe a fun time or ‘a(chǎn) fun place“today.”直到19世紀(jì)早期，它還只是一個名詞，到了18世紀(jì)才有了娛樂的含義。但早在19世紀(jì)，人們就開始把它用作形容詞，我們今天用它來形容有趣的時間或有趣的地方?？芍^去的人們不習(xí)慣使用funner或funnest，部分原因是這個詞最初用作名詞。故選C。 （3）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第二段中的“But what about the word fun? This simple adjective only has one syllable, so you39。d think you39。d add suffixes on it to create superlatives.”但是樂趣這個詞呢?這個簡單的形容詞只有一個音節(jié)，所以你會認為你應(yīng)該在它上面加上后綴來創(chuàng)造最高級。以及倒數(shù)第二段中的“So they also agree that the answer to is funner a word? is yes.”所以他們對funner是一個詞嗎?的說法是肯定的。本文主要內(nèi)容都是圍繞著fun的比較級和最高級變化規(guī)則展開論述，故A選