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【題目】 Weekday mornings are very busy for US middle school students. When your school doesn't have a bus, and you live too far away to walk, you need a carpool （拼車）. A carpool is a group of people sharing the responsibility （責任） of driving to school in the morning. There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns（輪流） to drive the kids in their cars.

Someone's car smells like wet dogs. Some kids get to eat desserts （甜點） for breakfast and some parents shout so much that all you try to do is to stay quiet and go unnoticed. When your mom or dad drives the carpool, your classmates get a close-up look at how strange your parents can be. It might be your first sociological （社會學） study and your first time to work with others.

Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It's a great lesson in responsibility. Imagine （想象） sitting in the car outside of a classmate's house, watching the clock and counting the seconds. Then you start to understand how your carpool friends might feel when you are still inside the house at 7:48. You really begin to learn all your real life lessons just moments before the start of school-in the carpool.

【1】What is a carpool?

A.Parents take turns to drive their kids to school.

B.Parents drive kids to schools on their way to work.

C.Kids go to school in their parents' cars.

D.Kids drive their own cars to school.

【2】How many kids are usually in a carpool?

A.Two or three.B.Three or four.C.Four or five.D.Five or six.

【3】What can students learn from a carpool?

A.How to drive a car.B.How to get along with others.

C.What to do with parents.D.Real teamwork.

【4】What does the underlined words “go unnoticed” mean?

A.沒注意到B.表示抱怨C.提出警告D.指出問題

【5】Which of the following is TRUE?

A.If kids live far away from school, they are always late for school.

B.US children enjoy carpooling better than taking a school bus.

C.Kids can learn real life lessons in a carpool.

D.Kids often have enough time to study in a carpool.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】D

【4】A

【5】C

【解析】

本篇文章難度適中，主要講述對于美國的學生來說，上學的日子是忙碌的，有時他們需要拼車，在拼車的過程中他們會學到許多生活中真實的東西。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)A carpool is a group of people sharing the responsibility of driving to school in the morning. There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns to drive the kids in their cars“拼車是指一群人共同承擔早上開車去學校的責任。拼車通常有四到五個孩子，他們的父母輪流開車送孩子”可知，拼車指的是父母們輪流開車送孩子們?nèi)�學校，故選A。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns to drive the kids in their cars“拼車通常有四到五個孩子，他們的父母輪流開車送孩子”可知，有四個或五個孩子，故選C。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It's a great lesson in responsibility“拼車時團隊合作真的很重要，因為沒人想讓別人遲到。這是一個很好的責任課”可知，學生們在拼車時能夠?qū)W到真正的團隊合作，故選D。

【4】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)Some kids get to eat desserts （甜點） for breakfast and some parents shout so much that all you try to do is to stay quiet and go unnoticed“有些孩子會把甜點當早餐，有些父母會大喊大叫，你所能做的就是保持安靜，不被人發(fā)現(xiàn)”中的stay quiet可知，你能做的就是保持安靜并且不被發(fā)現(xiàn)，故選A。

【5】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)When your school doesn't have a bus, and you live too far away to walk, you need a carpool“當你的學校沒有校車，并且你住得太遠了以至于不能走路，你需要拼車”可知，并未提到住得遠會遲到，排除A；且因為住得遠所以需要拼車，并未提及“比起坐校車孩子們更喜歡拼車”，排除B；根據(jù)Some kids get to eat desserts （甜點） for breakfast“有些孩子會把甜點當早餐”可知，提到了孩子們會在車里吃早點，并未提到他們有足夠的時間學習，排除D；根據(jù)Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It's a great lesson in responsibility“拼車時團隊合作真的很重要，因為沒人想讓別人遲到。這是一個很好的責任課”可知，在拼車時孩子們會學到真正的生活課程，故選C。

解答詞義猜測題時，可以使用如下技巧：1、根據(jù)上下文來猜測詞義；2、通過同義詞或近義詞來猜測詞義；3、通過構(gòu)詞法來猜測詞義；4、通過定義或釋義來猜測詞義；5、通過句法功能來猜測詞義；6、通過轉(zhuǎn)折和因果關系來猜測詞義；7. 通過生活常識來猜測詞義。對于這類題采取“代入法”也非常有效，即將備選答案逐一代入文中，哪一個選項能使句子的意思通順、連貫，且與上下文的內(nèi)容一致，哪一個選項就是該題的正確答案。

例如第4題。根據(jù)Some kids get to eat desserts （甜點） for breakfast and some parents shout so much that all you try to do is to stay quiet and go unnoticed“有些孩子會把甜點當早餐，有些父母會大喊大叫，你所能做的就是保持安靜，不被人發(fā)現(xiàn)”中的stay quiet可知，你能做的就是保持安靜并且不被發(fā)現(xiàn)，故選A。