【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 k in your local newspaper to find a conversation club near you. They are usually free although some may charge a small entrance fee(費(fèi)用). ShoppingEven if you don39。t want to buy anything, you can ask questions about products that interest you in a shop. How much does this cost? Can I pay by cheque? Often you can start a real conversationand it costs you nothing! Caf233。 and BarsThere are often American, Britain, Irish and Australian bars in many large cities. If you can find one, you39。ll probably meet many people speaking English as a first or second language. Language is all around youEverywhere you go, you find language. Shop names, street names, advertisements, notices, and car numbers….When you walk down the street, practice reading the words and numbers that you see. Say them to yourself. It39。s not exactly a conversation, but it will help you to think in English. But don39。t speak too loud! Songs and VideoRepeat the words of an English song singing with the music until it bees automatic. It39。s good practice for your memory and for the mouth muscles that you need for English. Above all, speak as much as possible! Make as many mistakes as possible! When you know that you have made a mistake, you know that you have made progress!（1）What does the underlined part oddmanout probably mean according to the passage? A.Someone or something that can be easily mistaken for another.B.Someone or something appearing different from the others.C.Someone or something standing out of the group.D.Someone or something arranged in pairs.（2）In which places can you learn English NOT free of charge? school, in shops and caf233。 bars. conversation clubs and in the streets. conversation clubs, shops, songs and video. school, in conversation clubs and caf233。 and bars.（3）Why does the writer say Make as many mistakes as possible? everyone will make mistakes in learning English. making mistakes is a must in making progress in learning English. everyone will meet people speaking English with some mistakes. making mistakes can make one realize the importance of speaking.（4）What is the purpose of the passage? tell us that English is all around us. tell us that we can speak English alone. give us some advice on how to practice speaking. tell us speaking is the easiest of the four skills in learning English.【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了如何提高英語學(xué)習(xí)者的口語水平的多個(gè)技巧和方法。 （1）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第一段中的”Among the four skills in learning English, which one of these is the ‘oddmanout’? The answer is speaking. The other three you can do alone on your own.“在英語學(xué)習(xí)的四種技能中，哪一種是“oddmanout”?答案是說。其他三個(gè)你可以自己做。但你不能一個(gè)人說!）可知，此處指在英語學(xué)習(xí)的四種技能中，哪一種是不一樣的。由此推知，oddmanout指與別的不一樣的事物。故選B。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的”If you pay to go to a language school, you should use the opportunity to speak.“如果你花錢去語言學(xué)校，你應(yīng)該利用這個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)說英語；第四段中的”They are usually free although some may charge a small entrance fee(費(fèi)用).“他們通常是免費(fèi)的，盡管有些人可能會(huì)收取一點(diǎn)入場費(fèi)；第六段部分中的”If you can find one, you39。ll probably meet many people speaking English as a first or second language.“如果你能找到一個(gè)，你可能會(huì)遇到很多把英語作為第一或第二語言的人及常識(shí)可知，去咖啡館和酒吧的話，肯定會(huì)有消費(fèi)的。由此可知，你可以花錢在學(xué)校、會(huì)話俱樂部、咖啡館和酒吧學(xué)英語。故選D。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的”When you know that you have made a mistake，you know that you have made progress!“當(dāng)你知道你犯了一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤，你就知道你進(jìn)步了!可推知，作者說“盡量多犯錯(cuò)誤”，是因?yàn)榉稿e(cuò)誤是學(xué)好英語的必經(jīng)之路。故選B。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的”Where can you find people to speak English? And how can you practice speaking when you are alone?“你在哪里可以找到說英語的人?當(dāng)你一個(gè)人的時(shí)候，你怎么練習(xí)說呢?及下文所推薦的地方和方法可知，文章主要講述了如何提高英語學(xué)習(xí)者的口語水平的多個(gè)地方和方法。由此可知，本文的主要目的是給我們推薦了一些如何練習(xí)口語的建議。故選C。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。 5．閱讀理解 Stepinac has bee one of the first high schools in the country to drop all textbooks and replace them with a digital library. When students started classes on Monday, they were zipping to an app on their tablets or laptops and bad instant access to all 40 texts in the Stepinac curriculum (課程). Dennis Lauro, director of an information center which provides technical support to public schools in New York, said neither he nor his colleagues were aware of a similar digital effort in a public school setting. This is the wave of the future. Lauro said. I39。m not surprised that a private school would beat the public schools to it. They have the ability to just do it. There is so much politics involved in public schools, when it es to a move like that, needing approval from boards and mittees. For Tom Collins, Stepinac39。s president, the mitment to digital source material was not so difficult a decision. In the past, students39。 families had to spend up to $ 700 a year on textbooks. This year — after the onetime purchase of a tablet or laptop — families only need to pay $ 150. Using the digital library is almost as easy as opening a new book. A student can instantly lap into a digital book and open a map of Egypt or a speech by President John F. Kennedy. A teacher can show a page from a digital book on a whiteboard at the front of the class or send students a link to a particular math problem with notes added in. The first few weeks may bring some challenges. Stepinac officials expect some parental disfort over dropping concrete books. They recognize there may be technical faults at first. And they will have to encourage students to leave spaceeating photos and music off their tablets — and to keep their tablets charged. （1）What is going on in Stepinac? A.It39。s building a new library.B.It39。s reforming its textbooks.C.It39。s updating its digital resources.D.It39。s changing its management pattern.（2）By saying the underlined sentence. Lauro believes . A.public schools face great challengesB.private schools have their advantagesC.the effort is to cause instant changesD.it39。s a trend for schools to go digital（3）