阅读理解Peopleoftensay“Childrencan’tdomathsproblems.It’sbecauseparentscan’tdotheirchildren’shomework.”Here’sanexampletoshowwhatImean.Theotherdaymydaughterbroughthomehermath

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　　People often say “Children can’t do maths problems. It’s because parents can’t do their children’s homework.”Here’s an example to show what I mean.

　　The other day my daughter brought home her maths homework “I have to subtract(减) 179 from 202 ”she said.

　　“It’s quite easy ”I said.“You put the 202 over the 179.”

　　“But we need a 10 here. Where is the 10?”

　　“I don’t know where the 10 is. Let’s just subtract 179 from 202. Nine from two is three. You carry one and add it to seven. Eight from zero is two. The answer is 23.”

　　“We can’t do it that way. We have to use the 10.”

　　“Well I’m going to call your teacher to see how she subtracts 179 from 202.”

Over the telephone I said that I was having a bit of trouble with the homework she had given to my daughter. The teacher said “In the right-hand column we have units of one. The two in that column counts for two ones. The zero in the centre counts for zero tens. The two in the left-hand column counts for hundreds. Are you clear?”But I didn’t think it was clear.

　　I hung up and found my way to the medicine box. My head was now hurting. I started putting pills of medicine into my mouth.“How many did you take?”my wife asked.“I took one and then I took another… I knew one and one was two but don’t ask me what it is now.”

1．The daughter wanted ________ the other day.

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A．to give her father a lesson

B．to show how difficult maths was

C．her father to phone her teacher

D．her father to help her with the homework

2．Which of the following sentences is not true?

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A．The father had a different way to do the maths problem.

B．The father couldn’t do his daughter’s maths homework.

C．The daughter couldn’t understand her father’s way.

D．The daughter had some trouble doing the maths problem.

3．From what the teacher said we know the word units means ________ here.

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A．whole numbers less than 10

B．whole things

C．groups of lessons

D．the smallest numbers

4．What the teacher said made the father ________.

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A．angry	B．worried
C．sad	D．tired

5．Can you guess what would happen next in the story?

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A．The father would go to school and begin to learn maths.

B．The father would become very ill and have to take more medicine.

C．The father would never do his daughter’s maths problems again.

D．The father would go to the school and fight against the teacher.

Answer 1

答案：D;B;A;D;C

解析：

　　1．本篇讲述的是一个小学生做数学作业的故事。文中的人物是父亲和女儿，未出场的人物是女儿的数学老师，问题的焦点是怎样做一道202减去197的数学题。该题是一道细节考查题，从第二段和第三段中可以看出，女儿是想让父亲帮助她做家庭作业。

　　2．设问哪一个句子，即哪一种情况是不真实的，要用排除法去做。考查需逐一核实，最后才能找到正确答案。

　　3．根据老师在电话中的解释，units一词的意思显然是“所有小于10的数”。

　　4．老师的解释使得父亲怎样了？父亲是生气、不安、忧愁，还是累了？正确的选择是父亲因听不明白而感到疲倦。

　　5．此题是考查考生对话外之音的理解。通过核实和梳理，考生可从最后两段中获得的信息得知，只有C符合常理。