Question

【题目】 Reading a book can enlarge the imagination, support independent thinking and widen a person’s world. Writing a book can do even more. Educators now are using book-writing to help students develop creativity and a love of reading at an early age.

This is a third grade classroom at Taylor Elementary school in Arlington, Virginia. The students of eight or nine years old are busy writing, making pictures and talking with their teacher. And today, each student is working on writing a story.

Creating a book begins with the children finding the ideas that interest them. Then they write the first version (版本). After that, they edit their work, which means to make corrections and changes. In the process? students learn to think like real writers.

Holly Karapetkova writes children’s books and teaches literature at Marymount University in Arlington. She says she is happy that her 8-year-old son K. J. and his classmates are writing books at school. She thinks creating books sends them back to books. It encourages them to read more, both the books they are creating and other books.

Creating books is one of her favorite activities at home with K. J. and his 3-year-old sister, Kalina. “We have made books about animals? about weather, a lot of books about letters and numbers to reinforce skills. One of our favorite kinds of books to make is an alphabet book, just with a simple letter, then pictures, either pictures that we print out from our real photos or pictures that the children draw to match those letters.” She says the way to keep children interested in creating books is to give them freedom of choice.

K. J. has written more than 12 books on different subjects. His mother hopes the skills he and Kalina are developing-writing, reading, thinking, imagining-will help them succeed in the 21st century job market.

【1】What’s the first step to write a book for the children?

A.Writing the first description.B.Deciding on an interesting subject.

C.Changing some details in the book.D.Correcting the mistakes in the story.

【2】What’s Holly Karapetkova’s attitude to the book-writing method?

A.Disapproving.B.Approving.

C.Doubtful.D.Curious.

【3】The underlined word “reinforce” in Paragraph 5 means “________”

A.examineB.create

C.experienceD.strengthen

【4】In the opinion of Holly Karapetkova, writing books can help children ________.

A.find a good job in the futureB.gather experience in social life

C.form the skills of writing storiesD.make money for college education

【5】What does the text mainly talk about?

A.Some child writers.B.Several interesting books.

C.A teaching method.D.Debates about education.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】B

【3】D

【4】A

【5】C

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。教育者教孩子们写作，自己创作小说，以此来激发学生的创造力，培养学生读书的兴趣。并以Holly Karapetkova和她的孩子写书为例，说明了这一方法的优点。

【1】细节理解题。根据第三段第一句Creating a book begins with the children finding the ideas that interest them.可知创作一本书首先要让孩子们找到他们感兴趣的想法。由此可知，孩子们写书的第一步是确定有趣的话题。故选B。

【2】推理判断题。根据第四段中She says she is happy that her 8-year-old son K. J. and his classmates are writing books at school.可知她说她很高兴她8岁的儿子K.J.和他的同学在学校写书。由此可推知，Holly Karapetkova对儿子和同学在学校写书感到很高兴，Holly Karapetkova对写书教学法持赞成态度。故选B。

【3】词意猜测题。根据上文Creating books is one of her favorite activities at home with K. J. and his 3-year-old sister, Kalina. “We have made books about animals, about weather, a lot of books about letters and numbers to可知她最喜欢的活动之一就是在家里和K.J.和他3岁的妹妹Kalina一起写书。“我们写了关于动物的书，关于天气，很多关于字母和数字的书来加强技能。”由此可知，此处指通过大量写作来强化技能。reinforce“强化；加强”，与 strengthen同义。故选D。

【4】细节理解题。根据最后一段中His mother hopes the skills he and Kalina are developing-writing, reading, thinking, imagining-will help them succeed in the 21st century job market.可知他的母亲希望他和Kalina正在开发的技能——写作、阅读、思考和想象——能帮助他们在21世纪的就业市场上取得成功。由此可知，在Holly Karapetkova看来，写书可以帮助孩子在未来找到一份好工作。故选A。

【5】主旨大意题。根据第一段中Educators now are using book-writing to help students develop creativity and a love of reading at an early age.可知教育工作者现在正利用写书来帮助学生在早期培养创造力和对阅读的热爱。结合文章主要谈论了一种教学方法，即通过教学生创作故事来开发学生的创造力和读书兴趣。故选C。

词义猜测题是高考阅读理解中常考题型之一，可以大致分为：

① 定义猜词，可以根据定义信息和举例猜测词义。如文中常用refer to，be called或that's to say，such as等。

② 逻辑猜词可以根据同义词、反义词、因果关系词等猜测词义，例如，similarly, the same as, but, however, while, on the other hand, since ,because等，所猜词与这些提示词前/后面部分的含义一样、相反或是前因后果。

③ 语法猜词，可以根据构词法，再结合上下文进行猜词。

④ 语境猜词，猜测词义离不开上下文的语境，通过上下文提供的情景和线索进行合理的分析，同时还要关注其所在的整段及整篇文章。

⑤ 指代猜词即找出人称代词、指示代词、关系代词或关系副词等所指代的内容，做题时要注意指代词的位置，以便于判断，然后用所找的指代内容替换划线代词，核实其逻辑、意义、位置等是否一致，最后比较所找部分与选项，确定意思最接近的选项。

如第三小题，根据上文Creating books is one of her favorite activities at home with K. J. and his 3-year-old sister, Kalina. “We have made books about animals, about weather, a lot of books about letters and numbers to可知她最喜欢的活动之一就是在家里和K.J.和他3岁的妹妹Kalina一起写书。“我们写了关于动物的书，关于天气，很多关于字母和数字的书来加强技能。”由此可知，此处指通过大量写作来强化技能。reinforce“强化；加强”，与 strengthen同义。故选D。