【正文】 t 540,000 students from 72 countries and regions took part in the assessment in 2015. maths skills? 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 . A.the differences from the previous PISAC. performance in mathsD. 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。 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(shuō)明文，介紹了2015年P(guān)ISA評(píng)估結(jié)果顯示美國(guó)學(xué)生的數(shù)學(xué)成績(jī)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。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(guó)的教育界人士最近非常擔(dān)心的是美國(guó)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。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(guó)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(guó)學(xué)生在復(fù)雜問(wèn)題的求解上有很大的困難。 （3）考查主旨大意。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和主旨大意兩個(gè)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。 Stepinac has bee one of the first high schools in the country to drop all textbooks and replace them with a digital library. When students started classes on Monday, they were zipping to an app on their tablets or laptops and bad instant access to all 40 texts in the Stepinac curriculum (課程).m not surprised that a private school would beat the public schools to it. They have the ability to just do it. There is so much politics involved in public schools, when it es to a move like that, needing approval from boards and mittees.s president, the mitment to digital source material was not so difficult a decision. In the past, students39。 The first few weeks may bring some challenges. Stepinac officials expect some parental disfort over dropping concrete books. They recognize there may be technical faults at first. And they will have to encourage students to leave spaceeating photos and music off their tablets — and to keep their tablets charged. （1）What is going on in Stepinac? A.s building a new library.It39。It39。D.s changing its management pattern.（2）By saying the underlined sentence. Lauro believes . A.private schools have their advantagesC.it39。Officials.Technicians.Parents.Teachers.【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文主要講了Stepinac是第一個(gè)放棄了傳統(tǒng)意義上的教科書(shū)，改用數(shù)字圖書(shū)館的學(xué)校。 （1）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。library，應(yīng)該是改革了教科書(shū)，故選B。由第二段m not surprised that a private school would beat the public schools to it. They have the ability to just do it. There is so much politics involved in public schools, when it es to a move like that, needing approval from boards and ，私立學(xué)校在政策決定上比公立學(xué)校更有優(yōu)勢(shì)，如果在公立學(xué)校推行，需要得到很多人的同意。 （3）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查閱讀理解。推理判斷題不要以個(gè)人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí)，要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷。Painkillers (止痛藥) are turning out to be a real pain: according to a new study in the British Medical Journal. Taking them for just a week can increase your risk of heart attack by 50%. The research suggested that the risk related to the use of certain drugs was greatest with higher doses (服用量) and during the first month of use. The potential risk may increase by 75% for medicines like ibuprofen (布洛芬) and naproxen, and more than 100% for rofecoxib. t very effective. Drugs like opiates are strong painkillers but easy to be addicted and often have other bad effects. Maybe you find that you are in a dilemma now. But don39。 you can refer to a pain clinic for some professional guidance. For ongoing pain, music and exercise may be the best choices to help you reduce the feeling of it. s sleep and a cup of coffee in the morning may help reduce pain. don39。side effects.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，根據(jù)《英國(guó)醫(yī)學(xué)雜志》的一項(xiàng)新研究，止痛藥正變成一種真正的疼痛。文章主要說(shuō)明了止痛藥存在的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，以及說(shuō)明了其他一些可以有助于減輕疼痛的方法。 （1）考查推理判斷。布洛芬和萘普生等藥物的潛在風(fēng)險(xiǎn)可能增加75%，羅非昔布增加100%以上；及第二段中的“Paracetamol has very few unless taken too much, in which case it can cause serious liver danger, but it isn39。故選D。根據(jù)第二段中的“Maybe you find that you are in a dilemma now.”也許你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你現(xiàn)在處于一個(gè)兩難的境地；以及“you can refer to a pain clinic for some professional guidance”你可以向疼痛診所尋求一些專業(yè)指導(dǎo))可知，雖然也許你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你現(xiàn)在處于一個(gè)兩難的境地，但是不必絕望，你還可以向疼痛診所尋求一些專業(yè)指導(dǎo)。故選C。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“…a good night39。故選B。根據(jù)第一段中的“Painkillers are turning out to be a real pain: according to a new study in the British Medical Journal. Taking them for just a week can increase your risk of heart attack by 50%. ”根據(jù)《英國(guó)醫(yī)學(xué)雜志》的一項(xiàng)新研究，止痛藥正變成一種真正的疼痛。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及推理判斷，詞義猜測(cè)和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇醫(yī)學(xué)類閱讀，考生需要根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。As we reflect on the evolution of fitness over the centuries, and the emergence of a well organized and growing fitness market and industry, it is well to ask ourselves: what have we lost, and what have we gained? s widespread awareness of the importance of regular exercise, nearly every munity has a gym or fitness club where people can go or pay to work out, and we understand more about how the human body works. Yet despite the many health and fitness methods, programs, and resources, the general population has never been so physically sedentary (久坐的)and outofshape. A recent World Health Organization report indicates that life expectancy (壽命)in the U. S. dropped for t