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【题目】 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 （拼车）. A carpool is a group of people sharing the responsibility （责任） of driving to school in the morning. There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns（轮流） to drive the kids in their cars.

Someone's car smells like wet dogs. Some kids get to eat desserts （甜点） 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 （社会学） 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.没注意到B.表示抱怨C.提出警告D.指出问题

【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】

本篇文章难度适中，主要讲述对于美国的学生来说，上学的日子是忙碌的，有时他们需要拼车，在拼车的过程中他们会学到许多生活中真实的东西。

【1】细节理解题。根据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“拼车是指一群人共同承担早上开车去学校的责任。拼车通常有四到五个孩子，他们的父母轮流开车送孩子”可知，拼车指的是父母们轮流开车送孩子们去学校，故选A。

【2】细节理解题。根据There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns to drive the kids in their cars“拼车通常有四到五个孩子，他们的父母轮流开车送孩子”可知，有四个或五个孩子，故选C。

【3】细节理解题。根据Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It's a great lesson in responsibility“拼车时团队合作真的很重要，因为没人想让别人迟到。这是一个很好的责任课”可知，学生们在拼车时能够学到真正的团队合作，故选D。

【4】词义猜测题。根据Some kids get to eat desserts （甜点） for breakfast and some parents shout so much that all you try to do is to stay quiet and go unnoticed“有些孩子会把甜点当早餐，有些父母会大喊大叫，你所能做的就是保持安静，不被人发现”中的stay quiet可知，你能做的就是保持安静并且不被发现，故选A。

【5】细节理解题。根据When your school doesn't have a bus, and you live too far away to walk, you need a carpool“当你的学校没有校车，并且你住得太远了以至于不能走路，你需要拼车”可知，并未提到住得远会迟到，排除A；且因为住得远所以需要拼车，并未提及“比起坐校车孩子们更喜欢拼车”，排除B；根据Some kids get to eat desserts （甜点） for breakfast“有些孩子会把甜点当早餐”可知，提到了孩子们会在车里吃早点，并未提到他们有足够的时间学习，排除D；根据Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It's a great lesson in responsibility“拼车时团队合作真的很重要，因为没人想让别人迟到。这是一个很好的责任课”可知，在拼车时孩子们会学到真正的生活课程，故选C。

解答词义猜测题时，可以使用如下技巧：1、根据上下文来猜测词义；2、通过同义词或近义词来猜测词义；3、通过构词法来猜测词义；4、通过定义或释义来猜测词义；5、通过句法功能来猜测词义；6、通过转折和因果关系来猜测词义；7. 通过生活常识来猜测词义。对于这类题采取“代入法”也非常有效，即将备选答案逐一代入文中，哪一个选项能使句子的意思通顺、连贯，且与上下文的内容一致，哪一个选项就是该题的正确答案。

例如第4题。根据Some kids get to eat desserts （甜点） for breakfast and some parents shout so much that all you try to do is to stay quiet and go unnoticed“有些孩子会把甜点当早餐，有些父母会大喊大叫，你所能做的就是保持安静，不被人发现”中的stay quiet可知，你能做的就是保持安静并且不被发现，故选A。