题目内容
Television has taken the place of schools as the main educator(教育者) in America. There are several reasons for this. First, there is the number of hours. While Americans spend about 13,000 hours in schools, they spend 15,000 to 16,000 hours in front of a TV set. Second is the age at which viewers(观看者) start watching TV. People start watching and understanding TV at about the age of 3, which is several years before they start to do school work. Finally, there is the number of viewers. About 90,000,000 young people are attending school, but most of the Americans watch TV every day. It seems, then, that TV shows are taking the place of teachers and professors as the educators in America.
【小题1】The main idea of this passage is ___________.
| A．TV is more important than school |
| B．fewer and fewer children go to school |
| C．There is not a school which has no TV set in America |
| D．TV plays a great part in American people’s life |
| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
| A．now children go to school less often than their parents did |
| B．in his life an American spends more time watching TV than at school |
| C．a TV program usually gives lessons of 15,000--16,000 hours |
| D．parents think 13,000 hours of school is not enough |
| A．when he is 3 | B．when he is about 6 or 7 |
| C．when he is able to understand TV | D．after he starts to do school work |
| A．teachers and professors watch TV |
| B．90,000,000 young people watch TV |
| C．not only young people watch TV |
| D．15,000--16,000 people each hour watch TV |
【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】B
【小题4】B
【小题5】C
解析试题分析：这篇短文中作者主要介绍了电视在美国人生活中的重要作用。
【小题1】根据Television has taken the place of schools as the main educator(教育者) in America.及下文描述，可知本句主要意思是电视在美国人的生活中扮演重要角色。故选D。
【小题2】根据First,…… Second …… Finally,描述，可知作者列出了三条原因，故选B。
【小题3】根据While Americans spend about 13,000 hours in schools, they spend 15,000 to 16,000 hours in front of a TV set.描述，可知选B。
【小题4】根据People start watching and understanding TV at about the age of 3, which is several years before they start to do school work.描述，可知美国人大约在六七岁上学，故选B。
【小题5】根据but most of the Americans watch TV every day.描述，可知选C。不只是年轻人看电视。
考点：关于美国人生活的说明文阅读
点评：本文浅显易懂，层次分明，学生很容易把握文章中心内容。答题中注意带着问题阅读短文，一般就能顺利找出答题依据。对于不能直接找到根据的问题注意联系上下文，根据短文中心总结出正确答案。
When I 3 the papers, I then prepare my bath. The Sunday morning bath is 4 of the week. There’s no need to hurry because there’s no bus to 5 and my friends are told not to call me up before noon on Sundays, so there is no danger of being troubled by the telephone.
6 spend the afternoon after lunch is always a bit of problem. In summer I can go to the park and sit in a chair 7 boys playing football, while in winter I sit in front of the fire and 8 when reading a book, sometimes I turn on the television and sleep through an old film.
Then there’s the evening ahead of me. Perhaps I’ll call on some friends or go to the cinema 19 a new film I want to see or to town for a concert. Oh, there are 10 pleasant ways of passing Sunday evenings. The only sad thing is that Monday morning is getting near.
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Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力尽的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (请求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌症) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
【小题1】Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.
| A．make more money | B．raise money for his basket team |
| C．make himself more famous | D．raise money for researchers to find a cure for SARS |
| A．Edna may not be a rich lady but she is willing to do something for others |
| B．Ruth is angry because she has been asked to donate too much money |
| C．Ruth leads a busy life and she feels very tired |
| D．Yao Ming wants to be a television host |
| A．Only Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna try their best to do things for charity. |
| B．Ruth has given a lot of support to charity although she is not very rich. |
| C．The writer hopes that more people can do things for charity. |
| D．Edna is very rich because she has her own shop. |
| A．she lost her horse |
| B．a charity wanted her to donate some money |
| C．she loved horse very much |
| D．she wanted to keep a horse as a pet |
| A．what impresses people deeply is what they have done for others |
| B．when you want to do something for others, you need stand out |
| C．the moment you stand out, you can do something for others |
| D．when you look back sometimes, you need stand out |
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will take place in Vancouver and Whistler(惠斯勒) from February 12 to 28. As the world’s 【小题1】_____ athletes will compete there, Canada is preparing for it well.
It will be broadcasted(播出) in Canada’s two 【小题2】_____languages——English and French. Billions of television viewers worldwide will 【小题3】______ the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Athletes from more than 80 【小题4】______ will compete in 86 medal events over 17 days. Then the Paralympics(残奥会) will 【小题5】_____ from March 12 to 21. Canada has 【小题6】_____ millions of dollars preparing. Thousands of spectators will visit the country. Canada will be 【小题7】_____ it all.
The building of Olympic gyms began in 2005. Opening and closing ceremonies will be held indoors, at BC Place Stadium. It’ll 【小题8】______55,000 seats. Some competitions, 【小题9】______ ski, and bobsled, will take place in Whistler. It’s a ski village. During the Games, roads will be closed. More than 15,000 policemen will work to 【小题10】______ the peace throughout the Games.
The United States is the only country to host the Winter Games four times. Team USA hopes 2010 will be a golden year.
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