题目内容
Paul Lucas can often be seen walking around the city of San Francisco. Sometimes people are surprised to see him walking 【小题1】 any shoes or socks, 【小题2】 Lucas doesn’t mind at all. 【小题3】likes to walk barefoot, and so do 640 other members of Dirty Sole Society, the club that Lucas 【小题4】 (start) years ago. Lucas’ idea for this is to encourage others to live 【小题5】 (free) --- free of shoes.
According to Lucas, the barefoot life has many advantages. 【小题6】 most important is simply that it feels good. He also says 【小题7】 walking barefoot allows you to experience the world directly by touching it with your feet. 【小题8】 addition, the feet do not smell so much because they stay dry, 【小题9】 (make) it hard for bacteria to grow. And, of course, walking barefoot keeps your feet in good shape, so it’s actually 【小题10】 (healthy) than wearing shoes.
【小题1】without
【小题2】but/which
【小题3】He
【小题4】started
【小题5】freely
【小题6】The
【小题7】that
【小题8】In
【小题9】making
【小题10】healthier
解析试题分析:本文叙述了Paul Lucas成立了Dirty Sole Society俱乐部,参加俱乐部的人是都光脚走路,文中给出了他们认为光脚走路的好处。他们认为光脚走路对脚是有好处的。
【小题1】考查介词及上下文的呼应。有时人们感觉很惊奇看见他不穿鞋在街上走路。根据walk barefoot光着脚走路,故用 without.
【小题2】考查连词及上下文的呼应。光脚走路,但是他不介意,故用but;如果用which,后面它引导的就是非限制性定语从句。他并不介意光脚走路。
【小题3】考查代词及上下文的呼应。他喜欢光脚走路。根据上文可知这里指Lucas ,故用he.
【小题4】考查动词及上下文的呼应。Lucas在几年前开办的俱乐部。根据时间状语years ago 可知应该用一般过去式started.
【小题5】考查副词及上下文的呼应。Lucas的想法是鼓励其他的人自由地生活。这里用副词freely来修饰动词live.
【小题6】考查冠词及上下文的呼应。最重要的是光脚走路感觉很好。因为形容词最高级的前面应该用定冠词来修饰,故用the.
【小题7】考查连词及上下文的呼应。他也说光脚走路允许你用脚直接感受世界。这里是that引导的宾语从句。
【小题8】考查固定短语及上下文的呼应。另外没有脚很大的味,因为脚能保持干燥。in addition另外,而且;是固定短语。
【小题9】考查非谓语动词及上下文的呼应。另外没有脚很大的味,因为脚能保持干燥,使脚上的细菌很难生存。这里是非谓语动词,make与逻辑主语之间是主动关系,故用making.
【小题10】考查形容词及上下文的呼应。光脚走路也能保持脚的好的脚形,因此比穿着鞋要健康的多。因为后有比较连词than 可知这里应该用比较级healthier.
考点:阅读填空。
点评:该题型考查考生的阅读能力,是完型与阅读的一个综合型的考查,考生需要结合上下文填空,不要单看一句话在句中是否成立。要用正确的单词形式,恰当的句式,答题技巧:答案要联系上下文,常常答案在文中是有所提示的。该题需要考生有扎实的基础知识。
Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of benefit than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual field for economists, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on rewards, provides an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of(剥夺)an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school — the predict becomes self-ffulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters and sons are given fair chances. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle(良性循环).
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of 【小题1】 in developing countries
| Viewpoint | Educating girls is more 【小题2】 than any other investment. | |
| | From low-income families | From educated mothers’ families |
| Attitudes | Girls are of 【小题3】 than boys. | Development should be for 【小题4】 . |
| Practices | ●There is 【小题5】 investment in daughters. ●Girls are made to stay at home, 【小题6】 housework. | Girls and boys are sure to have 【小题7】 . |
| Consequences | A vicious circle | 【小题8】 |
| 【小题9】 | Educating girls contributes to social benefits, 【小题10】 and health practices, including family planning. Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. | |