【正文】 oundings. Schools in Cleveland, Ohio used to start the school year on the day after the first Monday in September, but in the 19761977 and 19771978 academic years, the school year was affected by several bad snowstorms, extreme cold. In the 19781979 school year, the Ohio Department of Education moved the start of the year to late August, one week before the first Monday in September. This went into effect in the 19801981 school year. It is hard to say the first day of school in the United States because when the first day of school is and what happens on the first day of school usually are different by districts(地區(qū)). 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)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(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。ve never heard of.”它們就像謎題一樣，當(dāng)有人使用他們從未聽說過的短語時(shí)，甚至以英語為母語的人也會感到困惑。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。m sick)可知，當(dāng)你聽到你的同桌說“我感覺不舒服”時(shí)，你該怎樣回答。根據(jù)I39。s easy)意思是很容易，可知可以表達(dá)你對即將參加800米比賽的同學(xué)的擔(dān)憂，故選D。根據(jù)It39。t you take an umbrella with you?（3）According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE about idioms? sometimes make no sense at all. speakers have trouble understanding idioms sometimes. are the hardest part of learning a language. can guess the meaning of an idiom from the words in it.【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，習(xí)語是學(xué)習(xí)語言最困難的部分之一，作者列舉了五個常見習(xí)語的用法。t worry. Let39。s a piece of cake.（2）How should you respond when you hear your deskmate say, I am feeling under the weather. A.What39。 All in all, learning a new language can be challenging. It39。 This is perhaps one of the most confusing yet wellknown English idioms. If someone says this to you, do not take offence or think they are threatening you。 I don39。s a piece of cake (Meaning: it39。, but if your English teacher asks you why you haven39。I39。 Yes, it39。m feeling under the weather (Meaning: I39。 This might be something your teacher says to you if you score badly in an exam or if you misbehave in class. You can also use it to talk about people in general. For example, if your friend is being mean or nasty for no reason, then you can tell them that they need to get their act together.⒉Pull yourself together (Meaning: calm down)t know, an idiom is a phrase which has a meaning, but the meaning is not clear from the words themselves. If you translate an idiom word for word, it sometimes makes no sense at all. They are like puzzles and even native speakers can get confused when someone uses a phrase that they39。4．閱讀理解 選C。ll describe three nowin situations that monly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap.”可知，在這篇文章中，作者將描述三種通常會引起青少年和父母之間斗爭的情形，然后提出幾種解決的方法。 （4）考查推理判斷。 therefore to mand respect”可知，他們爭論的話題是什么不重要，重要的是他們要證明自己是對的，而對方是不對的，從而贏得尊重。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Third , needing to be right ,It doesn39。選A。 plete unreasonableness.”可知，從父母的觀點(diǎn)來看，他們之間斗爭的唯一原因就是他們的青春期的孩子的完全不講道理。根據(jù)第二段中的“From the parents39。選B。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。D.Neither has any clear winner.B.Both can continue for generations.t matter what the topic is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to mand respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they39。s hair, the cleanness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child39。 In this article, I39。 point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents39。 For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parentteen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do? 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和主旨大意兩個題型的考查，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)行概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 （3）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第四段中的“One reason may be that the US does not teach maths in enough depth.”可知美國的數(shù)學(xué)教學(xué)深度不夠,導(dǎo)致；以及“But as soon as students have to go deeper and answer the more plicated part of a problem, they have difficulties.”美國學(xué)生在復(fù)雜問題的求解上有很大的困難。根據(jù)第一段中的“Recently, people in the US education have got extremely worried because a new report has shown that American students have a maths problem.”可知美國的教育界人士最近非常擔(dān)心的是美國學(xué)生在數(shù)學(xué)上的表現(xiàn),“a new report”指的正是下文的2015年的PISA,故選C。 problems with maths. stress the importance of learning maths well to America students. give American maths teachers some advice on how to teach maths.【答案】 （1）C（2）D（3）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了2015年P(guān)ISA評估結(jié)果顯示美國學(xué)生的數(shù)學(xué)成績較之以前有明顯下降,進(jìn)而分兩方面闡述了造成這一結(jié)果的原因。 situation in science and reading skills（2）What can we learn from the passage? students are not interested in simple maths problems. students are unwilling to go abroad for further study. maths teachers envy highperforming countries better teaching skills. maths teachers seldom teach students how to solve plicated problems.（3）What is the main purpose of the passage? inform people of American students39。 performance in mathsD.the differences from the previous PISAC.. A.Another reason may be the fact that many people in the US are unwilling to travel to foreign countries to learn better teaching practices. One of our biggest challenges in the US is that the teachers are not going out and seeing what highperforming countries do differently, said Wendy Kopp, who started Teach for America ,in a news programme.（1）When it es to the 2015 PISA results, people in the US education are more concerned about maths skills? The 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment(評估)(PISA) shows maths scores in the US getting lower and no improvement in science or reading. PISA tests 15yearolds from different countries and regions in their maths, science and reading skills. About 540,000 students from 72 countries and regions took part in the assessment in 2015. 2．閱讀理解 故選C。s w