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Reading comprehension

能力要求：

理解主旨要义;理解具体信息;

推测生词含义;进行推理判断和引申;

理解概念性含义;理解文章的结构、单句之间、段落之间的关系;

理解作者意图、观点和态度;区分论点和论据;

该部分有A、B两部分组成，

A节：该节20题，考查考生阅读能力。根据提供四篇文章的内容，从每题给出的四个选项中选出最佳答案。

B节：要求阅读一篇约400词的文章，将其中5个画线部分翻译成中文。

（一）

A sixth grader settles downs to tackle her homework on a weekday afternoon in 2004. She is sitting on the bus with her laptop; logging on to the Internet to take a math-skills test in the school home page and get her own personalized assignment. She downloads the software she’ll need, seeks help from an online school librarian and emails the finished work to her teacher. Mom and dad check in from their office computer, comparing her scores with the class and the state averages.

Homework in the future may not any less laborious, but it will certainly be more wired. And as more children gain access to computers and the Net—75%of teens and 47% of kids aged 2 to 12 are expected to be online by 2002—schools and technology companies are responding with unique assignment and high-tech homework help for parents and kids. On the menu: TAILOR-MADE ASSIGNMENTS. The most profound way homework will change is that instead of everybody heading home with the same lesson; each student will sit down to an individual assignment. The school server, or central computer, will maintain information on each student’s progress and dole out the appropriate work when the child checks the Web page.

Keeping in touch. For students like high school junior Samantha Symonds of Pottstown, pa, the simple ease of getting assignments on line and turning in via emails is reason enough to take homework digital. Samantha, a competitive fencer, travels far from her school for tournament and boots up to stay on top of her assignment. Logging on in hotel rooms and airpor ts, she gets copies of

course lectures and lab assignments, emails her teacher when she is stumped and even takes tests on line. ―You can actually focus on what you need to know rather than tracking down someone to answer your questions,‖ Samantha says.

Unlimited research. Kids are rapidly becoming experts at searching websites and CD-RoMS for research projects and wowing teachers with what they find. The most profound way homework will change is that instead of everybody heading home with the same lesson; each student will sit down to an individual assignment.

Wiring the Have-Nots. As computers become the homework to tool of choice, educators worry about children who don’t have access to the technology. ―The kids who don’t have computers at home will be at such a fundamental disadvantage. It will be as if they don’t have a pen or paper,‖ says Ellyot Solovay, a professor at he university of Michigan. He’s just finished a study in which internet TVs were placed in the homes of a class of Detroit public-school students, and found it not only benefited the kids but boosted parental involvement as well.

Yet wining kids over to become fans of homework may take more than high-tech help. Annette Bitter’s seventh–graders love doing research on the laptops they g ot through a Microsoft study. ―But of course there are always excuses‖ says Bitter, who keeps hearing a modern tale of woe. ―The computer ate my homework.‖

1.How will assignments in 2004 be finished?

A. Students will go to school and finish the school work assigned by teachers.

B. Middle school teachers will require students to type our all their assignments.

C. Different assignments will be given to students according ti their own will.

D. Staying at home, students can get their assignments throu gh the Internet and email to their teachers after finishing them.

2. According to the passage, laptop probably refers to ____.

A. a small-sized portable computer

B. a newly-invented TV set

C. a kind of calculator

D. an old-fashioned private computer

3.What does the author mean by saying ―it (homework) will certainly be more wired‖?

A. More wires will be needed to finish homework.

B. homework is going to be done by wiring the house.

C. Students are expected to finish school work through the Internet.

D. Teachers will inform students of homework by phoning.

4.What kind of assignment will teachers give to students in 2004 according to the passage?

A. Less laborious than today’s homework.

B.Assignment given according to students’ differ ent conditions.

C. Easy to complete with the help of online information.

D. work that are most entertaining to the students.

5.It is implied in the passage that _____

A. information technology enables education to vary from person to person.

B. assignment in 2004 will be more entertaining and less paining

C. all students are going to be fans of homework in the future.

D. traditional education is doomed to disappear

解析

1.D 考查对文章具体内容的的理解。通过对第一段具体事例的分析和总结，即可得出结论。

2.A 考查对不熟悉的词语的推断能力，通过上下文中的关键词可以推断该词的意思。比如：internet, home page, down load the soft ware, online, email.这些词都是和计算机密切相关的。

3.C 考查对不熟悉词语的推断能力。通过上下文可以得知，未来的作业需要通过网络完成。

4.B 考查对文章具体内容的理解。通过文章中出现的关键词TAILoR-MADE ASSIGMENTS 及其解释可以得知未来的作业是量身订做的。

5.A 考查逻辑推理能力和对文章具体内容的理解。未来的作业将仍然是Laborioou 所以不是所有的学生都是fans of homework，文章当中也没有提及传统教育的命运.

翻译

pets4 对于翻译的考查重点仍然是放在对于整篇文章的理解和掌握上。

1.She downloads the software she’ll need, seeks help from an online school librarian and emails the finished work to her teacher.

她下载所需要的软件,在网上校园图书馆查询资料,把完成的作业通过邮件

交给老师.

(seek help原义是―寻求帮助‖ )

2.Homework in the future may not any less laborious, but it will certainly be more wired.

未来的作业不会比现在会更轻松，但肯定会更多的与网络联接/更加依赖网络来实现

laborious ―劳神费力的，辛苦的‖ not ，less注意两个否定词的用法。

3.The most profound way homework will change is that instead of everybody heading home with the same lesson; each student will sit down to an individual assignment.

家庭作业最深刻的变化将是每个学生都有为自己量身定做的作业，而不再是千篇一律的功课。

instead of ―是而不是‖，注意翻译成汉语要通顺。

4. …and found it not only benefited the kids but boosted paren tal involvement as well.

(研究)发现电脑网络不仅有利于孩子们，而且提高了家长们的参与性。

boost: promote, encourage提高，促进

5.Yet wining kids over to become fans of homework may take more than high-tech help.

然而要使孩子们喜欢做家庭作业，仅仅凭靠高科技的帮助是远远不够的。

more than在英语中的用法很多，希望大家给予注意。

I have talked about the issue more than enough.关于这个问题，我说的已经够多的了。

You have too pay much more than patience.你需要付出的不仅仅是耐心/光付出耐心是不够的

（二）

The percentage of immigrants (including those unlawfully present) in the United states has been creeping upward for years. At 12.6 percent, it is now higher than at any point since the mid1920s.

We are not about to go back to the days when Congress openly worried about inferior races polluting America’s bloodstream. But once again we are wondering whether we have too many of the wrong sort newcomers. Their loudest critics argue that the new wave of immigrants cannot, and indeed do not want to, fit in as previous generations did.

We now know that these racist views were wrong. In time, Italians, Romanians and members of other so-called inferior races became exemplary Americans and contributed greatly, in ways too numerous to detail, to the building of this magnificent nation. There is no reason why these new immigrants should not have the same success.

Although children of Mexican immigrants do better, in terms of educational and professional attainment, than their parents UCLA sociologist Edward Telles has found that the gains don’t continue. Indeed, the fouth generation is marginally worse off than the third James Jackson, o f the University of Michigan, has found a similar trend among black Caribbean immigrants, Tells fears that Mexican-Americans may be fated to follow in the footsteps of American blacks-that large parts of the community may become mired(陷入)in a seemingly permanent state of poverty and Underachievement. Like

African-Americans, Mexican-Americans are increasingly relegated to (降

入)segregated, substandard schools, and their dropout rate is the highest for any ethnic group in the country.

We have learned much about the foolish idea of excluding people on the presumption of the ethnic/racial inferiority. But what we have not yet learned is how to make the process of Americanization work for all. I am not talking about requiring people to learn English or to adopt American ways; those things happen pretty much on their own, but as arguments about immigration hear up the campaign trail, we also ought to ask some broader question about

assimilation, about how to ensure that people , once outsiders , don’t forever remain marginalized within these shores.

That is a much larger question than what should happen with undocumented workers, or how best to secure the border, and it is one that affects not only newcomers but groups that have been here for generations. It will have more impact on our future than where we decide to set the admissions bar for the latest ware of would-be Americans. And it would be nice if we finally got the answer right.

1. How were immigrants viewed by U.S. Congress in early days?

A) They were of inferior races.

B) They were a Source of political corruption.

C) They were a threat to the nation’s security.

D) They were part of the nation’s bloodstream.

2. What does the author think of the new immigrants?

A) They will be a dynamic work force in the U.S.

B) They can do just as well as their predecessors.

C) They will be very disappointed on the new land.

D) They may find it hard to fit into the mainstream.

3. What does Edward Telles’ research say about Mexican-Americans?

A) They may slowly improve from generation to generation.

B) They will do better in terms of educational attainment.

C) They will melt into the African-American community.

D) They may forever remain poor and underachieving.

4. What should be done to help the new immigrants?

A) Rid them of their inferiority complex.

B) Urge them to adopt American customs.

C) Prevent them from being marginalized.

D) Teach them standard American English.

5. According to the author, the burning issue concerning immig ration

is_______.

A) How to deal with people entering the U.S. without documents

B) How to help immigrants to better fit into American society

C) How to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border

D) How to limit the number of immigrants to enter the U.S. 参考答案

ABDCB

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