【正文】 understand it. As children bee teenagers, they listen less to advice from adults and more to advice from kids of their age. So, rather than trying to lecture young people on the benefits of Jane Austen, we should make the nature of the problem clear to them. Students should challenge each other to read more difficult books. Adults could help by setting up noticeboards or organizing social media networks for young people to share their remendations. And teachers can lend a hand by setting aside time for reading in school. Young people will realize the problems that e when they don39。t challenge themselves to read difficult books.（1）What can we learn from the first paragraph? spend little time on afterclass reading school students seldom read tough books39。s reading interest tends to decrease as they grow up students have difficulty choosing good reading materials（2）The author made use of AR software to ________. children39。s different reading styles the average time children spend on reading out the causes of children39。s reading difficulties clear the difficulty levels of books read by children（3）What can we infer about secondary school students from the readability scores? find some advanced books interesting often make mistakes during advanced reading prefer to read books remended by their parents can hardly improve their scores on reading prehension（4）According to Paragraph 4, what is vital for improving reading prehension? knowledge skills（5）What does the author want to express in the last paragraph? relatively difficult textbooks is necessary students39。 reading is a shared responsibility technology should be used in reading reaching should be encouraged to read more literary works【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）A（4）C（5）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，作者通過對初中生閱讀能力的一項調(diào)查討論了如何提高他們的閱讀能力—興趣動力。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“But once they reach secondary school, the level of difficulty doesn39。t change much. Secondary school students tend to read books which are also read by upper primary students. They are not challenging themselves enough.”但是一旦他們進入中學，學習的難度并沒有太大的變化。中學生喜歡讀小學高年級學生也讀的書。他們沒有足夠的挑戰(zhàn)自己，可知，初中生在閱讀難度方面沒有提高。故選B。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“To discover these trends, I analyzed data collected by Accelerated Reader (AR) software, which asks pupils to check their understanding of the books they39。ve chosen to read. The difficulty — which I call ‘readability’.”為了發(fā)現(xiàn)這些趨勢，我分析了加速閱讀(AR)軟件收集的數(shù)據(jù)，該軟件要求學生檢查他們對所選書籍的理解。這個困難——我稱之為“可讀性”，可知，AR軟件是用來評測學生閱讀難度的。故選D。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“According to the readability, these students39。 favorite books tend to be much more advanced than the other books they chose, but they could still understand them. The rest of the books most often chosen by them are quite simple.”根據(jù)可讀性，這些學生最喜歡的書往往比他們選擇的其他書更高級/有難度，但他們?nèi)匀豢梢岳斫馑麄?。他們最常選擇的其他書都很簡單，可知選A。 （4）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“Having an interest is the most obvious factor here — if you like the book, you try hard to really understand it.”興趣是最明顯的因素——如果你喜歡這本書，你會努力去真正理解它，可知，興趣或動力對于提高閱讀理解能力來說很重要。故選C。 （5）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Students should challenge each other to read more difficult books. Adults could help by setting up noticeboards or organizing social media networks for young people to share their remendations. And teachers can lend a hand by setting aside time for reading in school. Young people will realize the problems that e when they don39。t challenge themselves to read difficult books.”學生們應該互相挑戰(zhàn)，多讀些難懂的書。成年人可以通過設(shè)立公告欄或組織社交媒體網(wǎng)絡(luò)來幫助年輕人分享他們的推薦。老師可以通過在學校留出閱讀時間來幫助學生。年輕人會意識到，如果他們不挑戰(zhàn)自己去讀難懂的書，問題就會出現(xiàn)，可知，作者在建議提高學生閱讀能力方面，將責任分別劃分到了學生、老師、家長身上。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(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 Time talks. It speaks more plainly than words. Time municates in many ways. Consider the different parts of the day, for example. The time of the day when something is done can give a special meaning to the event. It is not customary to telephone someone every early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it is a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call municates its importance. In social life, time plays a very important part. In the United States, guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But this is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten. The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings often arise between people from cultures that treat time differently. Promptness(準時) is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the ., no one would think of keeping a business partner waiting for an hour。 it would be too impolite. A person who is five minutes late is expected to make a short apology. This way of treating time is quite different from that of several other cultures. This helps to explain the unfortunate experience of a certain agriculturist from the United States, assigned to duty in another country. After a long delay, the agriculturist was finally agreed an appointment with the Minister of Agriculture. Arriving a little before the appointed hour, the agriculturist waited. The hour came and passed. At this point he suggested to the secretary that perhaps the minister did not know he was waiting in the outer office. This gave him the feeling of having done something to solve the problem, but he had not. Twenty minutes passed, then thirty, then fortyfive. To an American, that is the beginning of the insult period. No matter what is said in apology, there is little that can remove the damage done by an hour39。s wait in an outer office. Yet in the country where this story took