阅读理解的步骤和技巧（五）
（4）核准答案，解答难题：做完整个阅读理解之后，应该核对答案，同时根据在其他阅读理解题的解答中获得的信息和启示，再次解答先前没有把握的难题。要做好此类题，必须在有限的时间内迅速抓住文章的要点，读懂全文大意，做到对文章理解透彻。一些同学之所以出现失误，往往在于心中只有孤立的句子和语法结构，没有注意到文章的整体意境和中心思想。再阅读文章时，要特别留心第一段和最后一段。第一段往往简明扼要地提出整篇文章的主题或交代故事的背景、人物等，是我们了解文章极为重要的信息源；而最后一段常常概述文章的主要内容，明确地表露作者的意见或愿望。
阅读理解
Passage 1
Bob comes out of the station and at first he doesnt know where to go. This is the first time he comes to this town. He comes to see his good friend， Peter. Peter is a worker. He works in a factory. But Bob doesnt know where the factory is.
He walks in the streets. He passes a hospital， a post office， a bookshop and at last he gets to a school. Some students are coming out. He asks one of them，“Excuse me， do you know where the Red Star Factory is？”
“Of course， I know. I live near there. My father works in that factory. Its outside this town.” answers the boy.
“Is it far from here？ Can you show me the way， please？” Bob asks again.
“Im going home now. Will you go with me？ Ill take you there.”
“Thats great！ Thank you very much！”
“Youre welcome. Then， lets go to that bus stop. Well take a No. 1 bus there.”
阅读短文，然后回答文后所提问题，可以简答。
1. What does Peter do？
2. Where does Bob want to go？
3. Before he gets to the school， how many places does he pass？
4. Is it time for the students to go to school or go home？
5. How do Bob and the student go to the factory？
Passage 2
Scientists are trying to make the deserts （沙漠） into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts， so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming deserts all the time. Scientists may not change the desert in time.①
Why is more and more land becoming desert？ Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
Some places on the earth dont have very much rain. But they still dont become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants dont let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants dont let the wind blow the dirt （泥土） away.② When a little rain falls， the plants hold the water. Without plants， the land can become a desert much more easily.
难句注释
① Scientists may not change the desert in time.
科学家们不可能及时地改变沙漠的这种状况。
② Plants dont let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants dont let the wind blow the dirt away.
植物不会让烈日把土地晒得更干燥，也不会让风吹走泥土。
根据短文内容选择正确答案。
1. Deserts .
A. get very little rain
B. never have any plants or animals in them
C. can all be turned into good land before long
D. both A and B
2. Small green plants are very important to dry places because .
A. they dont let the sun make the earth even drier
B. they dont let the wind blow the earth away
C. they hold the water
D. all of the above
3. Land is becoming desert little by little because .
A. plants cant grow there
B. there is not enough train
C. people dont do what scientists wish them to do
D. scientists know little about the deserts
4. Which is the main idea of the first paragraph （段落）？
A. Scientists know how to change deserts into good land.
B. Land is becoming deserts faster than scientists can change it back into good land.
C. If scientists can bring water to deserts， people can live and grow there.
D. More and more places are becoming deserts all the time.
5. After reading this， we learn that .
A. plants can keep dry land from becoming desert
B. it is good to get rid of the grass in the desert
C. all places without much rain will become deserts
D. it is better to grow crops on dry land than to grow grass
Passage 3
Mr. and Mrs. King live in London.Mr. King drives a car in a factory and Mrs. King works in a school.They have a daughter and two sons. The daughter is five and the sons are only one year old.They were born （出生） on the same day and they look the same.Mrs. King always dresses （给……穿衣服） them in the same shirts and trousers.So its hard to tell who they are.①Mr. King can hardly （几乎不） differentiate （区分） them.Mr. and Mrs. King have no time to look after their children.They have to hire a servant （雇一个佣人），Alice.The girl is good and they all like her.
Today Mrs. King has to go to the hospital.She says to Alice，“Bath （给……洗澡） Jim and Mike and dress them in the clean clothes.”
“OK，Mrs. King，” says Alice.“But I cant differentiate （区分） them.”
“Dont worry，” says Mrs. King.“Ann can tell you about it.”
Soon Alice finishes bathing the two children.She puts them on the bed and wants to dress them.She asks，“Which is Jim，Ann？”
“Im sorry，” answers Ann.“I cant differentiate them.I only know Mummy always puts Jim on the left and Mike on the right.”
难句注释
①So its hard to tell who they are.
所以很难判定他们谁是谁。
阅读短文，根据其内容完成后面的句子，每空一词，该词的首字母已给出。
1.Mr. King is a d and his wife is a t.
2.Therere f people in Mr. Kings family.