2. The Illinois study shows that the automatic reader's high　 speed ________.

　 A. costs him a lot of work

　 B. affects his comprehension

　 C. leads to his future success

D. doesn't affect his comprehension

答案：B　 指导：由“scoring twice high"说明效果好，“是……分数的两倍”。

1. The main idea of the first paragraph is________.

　 A. what is automaticity

　 B. how correctness is obtained

　 C. how 'a child learns to walk

　 D. how an athlete is trained

答案：A指导：通过事例解释automaticity．

4. The airline companies say that they have raised the lost-ticket　 replacement price in order to ________.

　 A. attract travelers to take tieketless flights

　 B. punish those who insist on using paper tickets

　 C. do better than other airline companies

　 D. pay for the work to deal with lost tickets

答案：D　 指导：虽然文章中有这样一句话And thereare rising punishments for paper lovers，但这不是航空公司所说的话，惩罚持票者也不是航空公司的目的，故不选B。文章的最后一句说出了机票挂失提价的真正目的，也就是为了填补因为挂失而查找失票所造成的花费，这与选项D一致。

passage 13

　　　 Reading is the key to school success and, like any skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practising until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. A great athlete practises until he can play quickly, correctly, without thinking. Tennis players call that "being in the zone". Educators call it "automatieity (自动)".

　　　 A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and get the meanings of the words. With practice, he speaks with fewer and fewer pauses and mistakes, reading by the phrase. With automatieity, he doesn't have to think about getting the meaning of the words, so he can pay attention to the meaning of the text.

　　　 It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found autonfatic readers in the first grade who were reading almost three times as fast as the other children and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests. At fifth grade, the automatic readers were reading twice as fast as the others, and still outscoring them on correctness, comprehension, and vocabulary. "It's not L Q ,but the amount of time a child spends reading that is the key to automaticity, "according to Rossman, any child who spends at least 3. 5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will most probably reach automaticity. At home, where the average child spends 25 hours a week watching television, it can happen by turning off the set just one night in favour of reading.

You can test your child by giving him one paragraph or two to read aloud something unfamiliar but suitable to his age. If he reads aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, he probably is an automatic reader.　 If he reads hesitatingly, one word at a time without expression or meaning, he needs more practice.

3.Who are the paper lovers mentioned in the,text?

　 A. People who like to have paper airplane tickets.

　 B. People who love paper products of various kinds.

　 C. People who travel with paper on a plane.

D. People who have lost their ticket and buy a second one.

答案：A　 指导：这里的paperlovers指喜欢持票乘机的人。

2.To encourage people to take ticketless flights, the airlines________.

　 A. sell their tickets for $ 99 from June to February the following year

　 B. let travelers go to both the US and Canada with the same tickets

　 C. allow each traveler to have an extra $ 99 ticket for a friend of theirs

　 D. offer ticket[ess travelers free miles to fly in the US

答案：C　 指导：选项D错的原因是①向无票乘客提供短途(miles) 免费游是部分航空公司的举措，不是所有航空公司所为；② 只对常客提供这种免费游，不是对任何乘客。

1.Why is the new ticketless flight introduced?

　 A. It is cheaper for air travelers.

　 B. It helps reduce the cost for airlines.

　 C. It can use computer to plan air traveling.

　 D. It helps prevent fliers from losing their tickets.

答案：B　 指导：参考the airline companies are doing everything the ycan to bring for ward cost-saving ticketless flight从这句话上来看，无票飞行能节约钱。

5. Which of the following words best describes Mum?

　 A. strange　　　　 B. warm-hearted

　 C. clever　　　　　 D. hard-working

答案：C　 指导：从妈妈的控视病人方面所表现出的智慧来看，文章应该着重表现了妈妈的聪明。所以正确答案是C

Passage 12

　　 The United States. Fliers may want to have their tickets in hand before catching their planes, but the airline companies are doing everything they can to bring forward cost-saving ticketless flight -- nopaper needed, just a ticket number and a photo ID (带照片的身份证). Anyone who buys a Northwest E-ticket through the airline's computer service by June 16 will get an a- ward (奖励). Next time you fly, you can buy another ticket for a friend for $　 99, going anywhere in the US or Canada through Feb. 12, 2000, along with the lowest ticket prices. Some airlines offer extra frequent flier miles for the ticketless crowd. And there are rising punishments for paper lovers. Arnerican, Northwest, United, and last week, US Airways have raised the cost for lost-ticket replacement (替换) to $ 70 from either $ 60 or $ 50. The airlines insist that the increase in price is not meant to push travelers toward E-tickets but onlyi eovers the increasing cost of replacing and tracking a missing ticket.

4. From the text we know that Dagmar is most likely________.

　 A. the story-teller's sister

　 B. the story-teller's classmate

　 C. Mum's friend

　 D. Dad's boss

答案：A　 指导：根据妈妈与“我”的对话，“Dagmar”应该是个孩子，妈妈还提到爸爸也不用担心了，因此我们可以推断妈妈探视的病人应该是“我”的妹妹，所k2JE确答案是A.

3. After reading the story what can we infer about the hospital?

　 A. It is a children's hospital.

　 B. It has strict rules about visiting hours.

　 C. The conditions there aren't very good.

　 D. The nurse and doctors there don't work hard.

答案：B指导：这是一道推理题。根据妈妈为了探视病人，煞费苦心地扮成清洁工这一点，我们可以推断出这个医院的制度非常严格。因此正确答案是B.

2. When the nurse talked to Mum she thought Mum was a_______.　

A. nurse　　 B. visitor　　 C. patient　　 D. cleaner

答案：D　 指导：从值班护土与妈妈的对话中，我们看出护士没有拦妈妈，因为她认为妈妈是清洁工。所以正确答案是D.