please visit MetroOpensDoors.com or call 202－637－7000 and 202－637－8000.
Senior citizens and disabled customers can get free guide on how to use proper Metrobus and Metrorail services by calling 202－962－1100.
Travel_tips_(提示)
·Avoid riding during weekday rush periods—before 9：30 a．m.and between 4 and 6 p．m.
·If you lose something on a bus or train or in a station, please call Lost &Found at 202－962－1195.
( )1.What should you know about farecard machines? A．They start selling tickets at 9：30 a．m. B．They are connected to change machines. C．They offer special service to the elderly. D．They make change for no more than $5.
( )2.At what time does Metrorail stop service on Saturday? A．At midnight. C．At 5 a．m.
B．At 3 a．m. D．At 7 p．m.
( )3.What is good about a SmarTrip? card? A．It is convenient for old people. B．It saves money for its users. C It can be bought at any time. D．It is sold on the Internet.
( )4.Which number should you call if you lose something on the Metro? A．202－962－1195. C．202－637－7000.
B．202－962－1100. D．202－637－8000.
【主旨大意】本文是一篇了关于地铁和公交车的乘坐指南，从乘车卡、运营时间、票价等方面进行了介绍。
1．【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。根据Hours of service部分可知，上午9：30是一日公交卡在工作日可以开始使用的时间，不是售卡机开始售票的时间，排除A项；C项文中没有提及；由Metrorail部分第二段内容可知，建议旅客使用小额纸币购票，因为地铁站没有零钱兑换机，而且售票机只能提供最大面额5美元的找零，排除B项，故选D项。
2．【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据Hours of service部分的信息可知，周六地铁停运的是凌
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晨三点。故选B项。
3．【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据“Metrobus部分When paying with exact charge, the fare is $1.35.When paying with a SmarTrip? card, the fare is $1.25.”可知，使用SmarTrip? card比使用现金可以少付0.1美元。故选B项。
4．【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据Travel tips部分的第二个提示可知，如果在地铁上丢了东西，可以拨打失物招领处的电话202－962－1195。故选A项。
B
(2015陕西，D)
Parents who help their children with homework may actually be bringing down their school grades.Other forms of parental_involvement,_including volunteering at school and observing a child's class, also fail to help, according to the most recent study on the topic.
The findings challenge a key principle of modern parenting (养育子女) where schools expect them to act as partners in their children's education.Previous generations concentrated on getting children to school on time, fed, dressed and ready to learn.
Keith Robinson, the author of the study, said, “I really don't know if the public is ready for this but there are some ways parents can be involved in their kids' education that leads to declines in their academic performance.One of the things that was consistently negative was parents' help with homework.” Robinson suggested that may be because parents themselves struggle to understand the tasks.“They may either not remember the material their kids are studying now, or in some cases never learnt it themselves, but they're still offering advice.”
Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks.In general, about 20%of parental involvement was positive, about 45%negative and the rest statistically insignificant.
Common sense suggests it was a good thing for parents to get involved because “children with good academic success do have involved parents”， admitted Robinson.But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.“A big surprise was that Asian-American parents whose kids are doing so well in school hardly involved.They took a more reasonable approach,
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conveying to their children how success at school could improve their lives.”
( )5.The underlined expression “parental involvement” in Paragraph 1 probably means________.
A．parents' expectation on children's health B．parents' participation in children's education C．parents' control over children's life D．parents' plan for children's future
( )6.What is the major finding of Robinson's study? A．Modern parents raise children in a more scientific way. B．Punishing kids for bad marks is mentally damaging. C．Parental involvement is not so beneficial as expected. D．Parents are not able to help with children's homework.
( )7.The example of Asian-American parents implies that parents should________.
A．help children realize the importance of schooling B．set a specific life goal for their children C．spend more time improving their own lives D．take a more active part in school management
【主旨大意】 本文通过最近的一项研究说明，父母帮助孩子做家庭作业可能会导致孩子学习成绩的下降，这与平常人们认为的观点不同。
5．【答案】B
【解析】词义猜测题。根据画线词后面的解释“ including volunteering at school and observing a child's class” 以及前面一句话可知，画线词的意义应为父母对孩子的干预，包括代替孩子做与上学有关的事情、观察孩子的课堂。故选B项。
6．【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。第二、三段主要讲的是Robinson 的研究发现“some ways parents can be involved in their kids' education that leads to declines in their academic performance.”。C项(Parental involvement is not so beneficial as expected) 可与之对应，故选C项。
7．【答案】A
【解析】推理判断题。由最后一段可知，亚裔美国人的父母采取了更为合理的方法，向他们的孩子传达一种观点：学校学习的成功可以提高他们的生活。作者通过这个例子暗示父母们也可以这样做。故选 A项。
Ⅲ.短文改错
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(2016山东诸城10月月考)
Last week we held a discussion on which we should do for our school before we graduate.The students in our class have different suggestion.Some students thought that we can collect money to buy some books for the school library or everything else for the school.Others students think that it's not necessary to spend money.We can study hard and make our school feeling proud of us.
In my opinion，we don't have to spend money.We can do something meaningfully without money.For an example，we can do some voluntary work to beautify the school and try to get better results in the coming exams so that our school will proud of us.
【答案】
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【解析】第一处：which→ what 句意：上周我们对关于在毕业前为我们的学校做些什么进行了一次讨论。“which we should do for our school before we graduate”作介词on的宾语。根据句意可知需将which(哪一个)改为what(什么)。
第二处：suggestion→ suggestions 根据前面的形容词different可知后面的名词suggestion应该用复数形式。
第三处：thought→ think 根据上下文及下句中的谓语动词think可知本句中需将thought改为think。
第四处：everything→ something 句意：一些学生认为我们可以集资为学校图书馆买一些书籍或为学校买些其他的东西。根据句意可知，本句需将everything(每件东西)改
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为something(某些东西)。
第五处：Others→ other或将others后的students去掉 其他学生：other students或others。
第六处：feeling→ feel 使役动词make后只能加不带to的不定式作宾补。 第七处：meaningfully→ meaningful 此处需用形容词作something的定语。 第八处：example前的an去掉 for example为固定短语，意为“例如”。 第九处：and→ or 句意：我们可以做一些义务劳动来美化学校或在即将到来的考试中获得更好的成绩以至于使我们的学校为我们感到骄傲。根据句意可知需将and(表示附加关系)改为or(表示选择关系)。
第十处：will后面加上be be proud of…意为“为……而自豪”，be不能省略。
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