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【題目】“Children need more geography field trips. Schools should organize geography field trips to stop pupils from sitting before computer screens for a long time. And children should be encouraged to see the natural world and study geography,” says Michael Palin.

The famous actor and writer, Michael Palin, made the comments days after a study showed that pupils in the UK were less likely to take part in science field trips than in most other developed countries.

The study found that 13% of schools in the UK failed to take children out of the classroom regularly.

Mr. Palin said that field trips were an important part of geography and that he was interested in geography because he had a good geography teacher and he had many opportunities to “get out of the school building”.

In an interview, Mr. Palin said, “It was important for children to see things for themselves and learn about the rest of the world. You have to show them a mountain, show them a factory, show them a power station.”

Mr. Palin had been to the North and South Poles, the Himalayas（喜馬拉雅山脈）, the Sahara and Eastern Europe.

“Geography is about the study of the earth. It is awide-rangingsubject,” he said. “It’s related to everything we do: what we eat, what transport we take to work, where we live, what houses are made of, and so on.”

He said children needed to get basic geography knowledge first and that once they had the basic knowledge they could move on to deeper problems, such as population and pollution. “Today’s children will need to deal with a lot of problems when they grow up. They have to learn geography today,” he said.

【1】The study showed that __________

A. about 10% of British schools didn’t organize field trips regularly

B. many British students were not interested in geography

C. some geography teachers didn’t do a good job

D. students who studied geography seldom went out of the school building

【2】The underlined expression“wide-ranging” means ________ in Chinese.

A. 理論性很強的

B. 有發(fā)展前途的

C. 覆蓋面廣的

D. 跟旅游有關(guān)的

【3】Mr．Palin _____________.

A. thinks that population and pollution are small problems

B. wanted to be a teacher when he was in middle school

C. has organized some field trips for school children

D. thinks that children should take part in geography field trips

【4】From the passage, we can learn that Mr．Palin likes ___________

A. staying at home

B. travelling

C. using computers

D. shopping

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】D

【4】B

【解析】試題分析：孩子們需要更多的地理實地考察。學校應該組織地理實地考察。本文主要講述了現(xiàn)在在英國的學校中，教師很少組織學生進行戶外的實地考察。而著名作家Michael Palin對此覺得不妥，認為學生需要更多的戶外學習和考察從而增長自己的社會實踐經(jīng)歷等。

【1】D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段的內(nèi)容The study found that 13% of schools in the UK failed to take children out of the classroom regularly.可知學生很少能走出課堂，進行戶外的實地考察，故選D。

【2】C詞義猜測題。分析“ wide-ranging”一詞的前一句Geography is about the study of the earth，可知此句的意思是：地理是對地球的研究。由于地球很大，故可推斷這詞的意思應該也與“大”有關(guān)，故選C。

【3】D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段的第一句Mr. Palin said that field trips were an important part of geography，可知他認為小孩子們應該多參加這些實地考察的活動，故選D。

【4】B推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章中說他鼓勵小孩子們通過實地考察來學習地理知識，還有第六段Mr. Palin had been to the North and South Poles, the Himalayas（喜馬拉雅山脈）, the Sahara and Eastern Europe，說他去過南北極，喜馬拉雅山，撒哈拉和東歐，可推斷他是很喜歡去旅游的，可知選B。