Question

【題目】 Sometimes, a teacher may ask you to write your reading assignments (任務). Why should we write a reading assignment?

Having a habit of writing down what you read is a useful tool to develop your comprehension (理解力) and critical-thinking (批判性思維) ability.

How to write a reading assignment?

Step 1

State the writer’s most important idea. Try your best to get the main idea according to the writer’s statements. Write down the important information to increase understanding.

Step 2

Use your own words. Imagine you are telling a friend about a great movie you saw or a great book that you read. Speak in your own language, but be sure to use standard English, not slang (俚語).

Step 3

Watch for each point and topic sentences the writer uses to support his most important idea. These points form an outline (概述) of your reading assignment.

Step 4

Pay attention to details (細節(jié)). Examine if the writer provides enough details to support his statements. Tell what those details are while writing your reading assignment.

Step 5

. You should not talk about the writer’s supporting points without first talking about what those points are about.

Step 6

Try to use some words or phrases for long lists of items (項目). For example, if you see the following words: swimming, running and beach volleyball, you might just write “summer sports”.

Step 7

Give up information that seems unimportant in your reading assignment.

Step 8

Make your assignment better by adding some more information.

【1】Why should we write a reading assignment?

A.To get the main idea of a book.

B.To tell a friend about a great book.

C.To meet the teacher’s requirements.

D.To improve comprehension and critical thinking.

【2】What can form an outline of your reading assignment?

A.Your own words and ideas.

B.The writer’s points and topic sentences.

C.Enough details the writer provides.

D.The important information you wrote down.

【3】Which of the following sentences could be added in Step 5?

A.State your ideas in order.B.Show your ideas in time.

C.Use words and phrases more.D.Find out the writer’s points quickly.

【4】You can use “ ” when seeing the following words: Mother’s Day, Christmas and Thanksgiving.

A.cakesB.activitiesC.festivalsD.dates

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】A

【4】C

【解析】

本篇文章主要是向讀者介紹怎樣寫一篇閱讀任務,考查學生根據問題關鍵詞,通過跳讀快速定位答題區(qū)間,根據文章內容判斷所選答案能否與題干信息匹配正確。

1.細節(jié)理解題。根據第二段“Having a habit of writing down what you read is a useful tool to develop your comprehension and critical-thinking ability.”，可知養(yǎng)成寫下所讀內容的習慣是培養(yǎng)理解力和批判性思維能力的有用工具，故選D。

2.細節(jié)理解題。根據Step 3中“Watch for each point and topic sentences the writer uses to support his most important idea. These points form an outline of your reading assignment.”，可知作者用來支持他最重要觀點的每一點和主題句構成了你閱讀任務的大綱，故選B。

3.段落大意題。根據Step 5中“You should not talk about the writer’s supporting points without first talking about what those points are about. 你不應該在談論作者的支持點之前先談論那些點是什么。”，可知要按順序陳述你的想法，故選A。

4.推理判斷題。根據Step 6 可知為概括幾個短語的共同特征，再結合題干“母親節(jié)”“圣誕節(jié)”“感恩節(jié)”可判斷出這幾個的共同特征是節(jié)日，故選C。