【正文】 her you are a professional ice skater or this will be your first time on the ice, you are guaranteed to have a fantastic time!”可知作為冬季運動愛好者，你可以選擇1月6日(星期三)的一個項目。故選D。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)Wednesday, January 27: Ecological Risk Assessment of Your Life/Home部分中的“Come to figure out how to live your healthiest possible life without spending a ton of money.”想辦法在不花一大筆錢的情況下過最健康的生活?？芍?月27日的活動重點是健康，故選A。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段“Tomorrow brings to a close of the second school term of the 2018 academic year and the start of the winter school holidays. Following a busy examination period, this is a much needed break for many students across the province.”明天是2018學(xué)年第二學(xué)期的結(jié)束日，也是冬季學(xué)校假期的開始。在繁忙的考試之后，這是全省許多學(xué)生非常需要的休息時間。由此推斷出這篇文章的讀者群是學(xué)生，故選C。 【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，是一篇介紹類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(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 If spending is a measure of what matters, then the people of the developing world place a high value on brains. While private spending on education has not changed much in the rich world in the past ten years, in China and India it has more than doubled. Since brainpower is the primary generator of progress, this burst of enthusiasm for investing in private education is excellent news for the world. But not everybody is delighted. Because private education increases inequality, some governments are trying to stop its advance. That39。s wrong: they should wele it, and spread its benefits more widely. ① Education used to be provided by religious institutions or entrepreneurs. But when governments, starting in Prussia in the 18th century, got into the business of nationbuilding, they realized they could use education to shape young minds. As state systems grew, private schooling was left to the elite and the pious(虔誠的). Now it is enjoying popularity again, for several reasons. Ines are rising, especially among the better off, at the same time as birth rates are falling. In China the former onechild policy means that six people—two parents and four grandparents—can pour money into educating a single child. ② All over the developing world, people want more or better education than governments provide. Where cities are growing at unmanageable speed, the private education is taking up the slack. In India the private education now educates nearly half of all children, in Pakistan more than a third, and in both countries the state education is shrinking. Even where the state does pretty well, as in East Asia, richer people still want better schooling for their children than the masses get. Thus, Vietnam, which has an outstanding stateschool system for a poor country, measured by its performance in the OECD39。s PISA test, also has the fastestgrowing private education. ③ In most ways, this is an excellent thing, because the world is getting more and better schooling. In rich countries, once the background and ability of the children who attend private schools are taken into account, their exams results are about the same as those in the state education. But in developing countries private schools are better—and much more efficient. A study of eight Indian states found that, in terms of learning outes per rupee, private schools were between times and 29 times more costeffective than state schools. ④ They tend to sort children by ine, herding richer ones towards better schools that will enhance their already superior life chances. That is one reason why many governments are troubled by their rise. Governments are right to worry about private education39。s contribution to inequality, but they are wrong to discourage its growth. Governments should instead focus on improving the public education by mimicking(模仿) the private education39。s virtues. Freedom from independent management is at the root of its superior performance and greater efficiency. Governments should therefore do their best to give school principals more freedom to innovate and to fire underperforming teachers. To spread the benefit of private schools more widely, governments should work with them, paying for education through vouchers(代金券) which children can spend in private schools. And vouchers should be limited to students in nonselective schools that do not charge topup fees。 otherwise governments will find themselves helping the better off and increasing inequality. The world faces plenty of problems. Governments should stop behaving as though private education were one of them. It will, rather, increase the chances of finding solutions.（1）What do we know about private education? A.More developed countries enjoy it.B.It attracts more and more investment.C.Public education will replace it in the future.D.It has helped governments to remove inequality.（2）What does the underlined phrase taking up the slack in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A.Filling the gap.B.Setting the place.C.Breaking the balance.D.Avoiding the risk.（3）Why has private education been developing rapidly in Vietnam? A.The population in Vietnam is shrinking dramatically.B.Its state education is worse than other developing countries.C.Some people want better education for their children than others.D.The government intends private education to shape young minds.（4）The sentence But private schools also increase inequality. can be put in . A.①B.②C.③D.④（5）What does the author advise governments to do? A.Train school principals.B.Sell vouchers to children.C.learn from private education.D.Fire underperforming teachers.（6）What39。s the author39。s opinion about private education? A.Private education should be based on state education.B.Private education should be targeted at welloff families.C.Governments should prevent the sp