【正文】 s the suffixic, meaning consisting of. Those three parts add up to this definition：consisting of one stone. s why it makes such good sense to begin with context. s another reason. Suppose someone asks you what the word fast means. You answer, speedy or swift. But does it mean that in such context as fast color or fast friend？And if a horse is fast, is it securely tied or galloping at top speed？It could be either. It all depends. On the dictionary？No, on the context. After all, there are over twenty different meanings for fast in the dictionary. But the dictionary doesn39。 Through Context. When students in a college class were asked what should be done when they came across an unknown word in their reading, 84percent said, Look it up in the dictionary. If you do, however, you shortcircuit the very mental processes needed to make your efforts most productive. Hybrid (雜交產(chǎn)生的) corn bines the best qualities of several varieties to ensure maximum productivity. A hybrid approach to vocabulary should, in the same way, ensure maximum results. That39。 8．閱讀理解 故選D。s educational attainment even above and beyond such factors as education level of the parents, the father39。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。由此可推斷出劃線詞的意思是“使某人想做某事”。所以劃線詞的句子“Having as few as 20 books in the home still has a significant impact on motivating a child to a higher level of education”這句話是說“ 即使家里只有20本書，在激勵(lì)孩子接受更高層次的教育方面仍然有很大的影響”。再根據(jù)第三段中的“Even a little bit goes a long way. ...the greater benefit the children get” 即使是一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)書，也能大有幫助......你家的書越多，孩子得到的好處就越大。 （2）考查詞義猜測(cè)?？芍?，過去教育家們認(rèn)為受過高等教育的父母的孩子將獲得高水平的教育。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。D.Education levels of parents.The father39。Preventing somebody from achieving something.（3）Which of the following has the most important effect on the level of education a child will gain? A.Helping somebody to finish somethingC.s levels of education（2）What does the underlined word motivating in Paragraph 3 mean? A.parents39。children who were born in poor families studied harder than those in rich familiesC.s education level, and more important than whether a child was brought up in a developing country or a developed country. Surprisingly, the difference in educational attainment for children born in a developed country and children born in a developing country was just 2 years, less than twothirds of the effect that having 500 or more books in the home had on children.（1）In the past educators held a point of view that ______ . A. s occupation or the economic level of the country.The researchers were struck by the strong effect having books in the home had on children39。 For years, educators have thought the strongest predictor(預(yù)示物) of attaining high levels of education was having parents who were highly educated. But, the study showed that the difference between being raised in a bookless home pared to being raised in a home with a 500book library has as great an effect on the level of education a child will attain as the difference between having parents who are barely literate (有文化的) and having parents who have a university education. 7．閱讀理解 故選B。 interest in learning. Education methods are based on culture.”可知，楊東平認(rèn)為，中國的教學(xué)方法側(cè)重于嚴(yán)格要求，而英國的教學(xué)方法更為自然和輕松，旨在激發(fā)學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)興趣，教學(xué)方法是以文化為基礎(chǔ)的。 （3）考查推理判斷。由此可知，劃線詞意為“嚴(yán)厲的”。根據(jù)第四段中的“故選D。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。Yang Dongping says, The documentary does reflect some problems rooted in traditional Chinese teaching methods. Nobel prize winner, Yang Zhenning, gave a very fair ment on this issue. He said the Chinesestyle education method works for most ordinary qualified students effectively, helping them reach high standards. However, it may weaken the training for highpotential outstanding students.（1）Why are five Chinese teachers sent to teach 50 UK teens? test the intelligence of the UK teens. help the school improve their teaching efficiency. do some practical research into the UK education system. test the effectiveness of Chinese teaching methods.（2）What39。transplanted39。Yang Dongping, dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, says, The Chinese teaching methods are designed to strictly train the majority. Foreign teaching methods, however, are more natural and relaxing, and designed to inspire students39。 The Chinese teachers use their own teaching methods but receive strong resistance from the students. A clip from the documentary online shows some problems, with Chinese teachers calling their students lazy and lacking in discipline, while the students say the high pressure and harsh teachers are driving them crazy. The documentary, titled Are Our Kids Tough Enough? focuses on five Chinese teachers who are sent to teach 50 UK teens at a school in Hampshire. 6．閱讀理解 故選C。 （5）考查推理判斷。這是在說謠言的危害，像病毒一樣容易傳播。根據(jù)第四段中的“Each receiver is at the same time a potential transmitter of the information. The receiver often adds their own opinion. Their manner and tone of transmitting it also changes it.”可知每個(gè)接收者同時(shí)又是信息潛在的發(fā)送者。故選D。根據(jù)第三段中的“Change: It acts like a tree. New rumors branch out to fill in the gaps left by the initial rumor.”把謠言比作樹，新謠言的出現(xiàn)填補(bǔ)了最初謠言留下的空白。故選C。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“In more traditional times they shook entire families.”；第二段中的“The fact is that rumors have great potential to upset things, whether socially or personally.”；以及第四段中的“Another property of rumors is that they tend to bee viral.”等信息可知作者認(rèn)為謠言會(huì)對(duì)個(gè)人生活和社會(huì)造成混亂，作者對(duì)謠言是批評(píng)的態(tài)度。re happy to be the receiving end of them. may have negative influence on society. often hide good intentions in the messages.（3）How are rumors like trees? keep changing, just as trees change their color. are deeply rooted in reality, like tree roots in the earth. rumors have gaps, like the space between tree branches. rumors grow out of the original, like branches out of a trunk.（4）What does the underlined word viral in Paragraph 4 probably mean? easily spread