【正文】 出幾種解決的方法。選C。2．閱讀理解 Why should they read literature? Do stories have value pared with the reading and learning of facts? Studies show clearly that the most powerful ways of learning are by experience, action and doing experiments and taking risks. Yet there are so many important things to learn that cannot be learned in these ways: feelings, problem solving, danger and relationships, for example. Research into this has shown how deep reading is a valuable experience different to a learning of words or facts. Keen(熱心的) readers of literature show a better understanding of others. Their abilities to make good decisions are raised. Young children who enjoy a parent reading stories to them show greater awareness(意識) when they reach school age.He is proud of it.B.He doesn39。D.By experience.By taking risks.By reading deeply.By doing experiments.（3）What can be learned from the last paragraph? A.Chinese students like reading stories as they get older.C.Chinese students have no chance to read enough materials.（4）What39。Literature is a kind of art.B.Good reading materials are in great need.D.最后作者指出文學(xué)的價值不僅有助于促進(jìn)決策制定和價值觀共享的舉措，而且有助于中國的未來。根據(jù)第一段中的“There is therefore the possibility of something wrong with the way students are taught here.”因此，這里的學(xué)生的教育方式可能有問題。故選C。根據(jù)第二段中的“Studies show clearly that the most powerful ways of learning are by experience, action and doing experiments and taking risks.”研究清楚地表明，最有效的學(xué)習(xí)方法是通過經(jīng)驗、行動、實驗和冒險。故選C。根據(jù)最后一段中的“There are moves in Chinese education to promote decision making and shared values. The value of literature is helpful to these as well as to the future of China.”中國的教育中有一些促進(jìn)決策制定和價值觀共享的舉措?？芍喿x文學(xué)有助于培養(yǎng)良好的價值觀。 （4）考查主旨大意。重要性；以及最后一段中的“There are moves in Chinese education to promote decision making and shared values. The value of literature is helpful to these as well as to the future of China.”中國的教育中有一些促進(jìn)決策制定和價值觀共享的舉措。結(jié)合文章主要內(nèi)容為說明閱讀文學(xué)作品的重要性，故可知文章的主旨大意是閱讀文學(xué)作品應(yīng)該受到重視。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和主旨大意兩個題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時根據(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。 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)). 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. In American high schools, the freshmen class usually goes back one or two days before the rest of the school body for an orientation(迎新)period. An orientation period helps the freshmen get familiar with their new school, its rules, and surroundings. Schools in Denver.B.Schools in New York City.Schools in Boston.（2）Why did the Ohio Department of Education change the start of the school year? A.Because of the entrance examinations.C.D.About seven months.About eight months.C.D.a book about one39。B.an advertisement in a newspapera sports magazine【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，美國開學(xué)第一天的日期沒有明文規(guī)定，因地區(qū)而異。根據(jù)第二段中的”For example, the Denver, Colorado schools go back in midAugust and schools in Cleveland, …Monday in September.“ 可知，丹佛的學(xué)校在八月中旬開學(xué),克里夫蘭的學(xué)校通常在9月的第一個星期一之前開始。綜上所述，丹佛的學(xué)校開學(xué)最早。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。故選D。根據(jù)第四段 中的”In most school districts in Utah, the school year starts …next year.“可知猶太州學(xué)年從8月25日到8月30日開始，一直持續(xù)到5月的最后一周或明年6月的第一周，持續(xù)時間為九個月左右，故選C?？v觀全文可知，本文介紹了美國學(xué)校開學(xué)第一天的日期的內(nèi)容，應(yīng)屬教育類，故選B。4．閱讀理解 New words, and new ways of using old words, appear every day. Twenty years ago, who could have been able to understand a sentence like this: Click here to download your digital book.? Nobody. You never stop learning new vocabulary and you never know how long you will need it.t think that it is because of a bad memory. You should not give this phenomenon more importance in the language you are learning than in your mother tongue.t avoid some work in order to learn these necessary words and all the more if you want to learn quickly. And before you consider buying into any method, be sure it is right for you. It is not wise to depend on any method based upon mnemonics(記憶群). The first few words seem very easy to learn, so you buy the course, but then you discover quickly, though too late, that a dozen words later, it is all the more difficult to learn a new word when you have also to learn the trick to memorize it.（1）From the first paragraph, we can infer that ______. A.it is honest to answer no to a question you don39。a baby can know all the new words of its mother tongueD.s attitude to mnemonics is________. （4）The passage is mainly about ______. old words in a new way new words from the context a method to memorize vocabulary vocabulary of a foreign language【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）C（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，很多學(xué)習(xí)外語的人都有一個困惑是否要記憶足夠多的單詞，作者的回答是不，文章告訴人們應(yīng)該掌握多少個基本單詞，且不能為了學(xué)習(xí)這些必要的單詞而逃避一些工作，以及依靠任何基于助記法的方法都是不明智的。根據(jù)第一段中的“To be honest，do you know all the words of your mother tongue？The answer is‘No’．“說實話，你知道你母語的所有單詞嗎?答案是:不。故選A。根據(jù)最后一段中的“You need to learn only 2，000 or so basic words to be able to create any phrase you need.”你只需要學(xué)習(xí)2000個左右的基本單詞就能創(chuàng)造出任何你需要的短語。故選C。根據(jù)最后一段中的“It is not wise to depend on any method based upon mnemonics.”依靠任何基于記憶術(shù)的方法都是不明智的。故選C。根據(jù)第一段中的“When it es to learning a foreign language, many people wonder if they will be able to memorize enough vocabulary.”當(dāng)談到學(xué)習(xí)一門外語時，許多人想知道他們是否能記住足夠的詞匯。故選D。5．閱讀理解 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 ef