题文
August was one of the nastiest months I can remember: torrential rain; a hailstorm or two; cold, bitter winds; and mists. But we are accustomed to such weather in England. Lord Byron used to say that an English summer begins on July 31 and ends on Aug. 1. He called 1816 "the year without a summer." He spent it gazing across Lake Geneva, watching the storms, with 18-year-old Mary Shelley. The lightening flickering across the lake inspired her Frankenstein, the tale of the man-made monster galvanized into life by electricity.This summer's atrocious weather tempted me to tease a Green whom I know. "Well, what about your weather theory now?" (One of the characteristics of Greens is that they know no history.) He replied: "Yes, this weather is unprecedented. England has never had such an August before. It's global warming, of course." That's the Greens' stock response to anything weather-related. Too much sun? "Global warming." Too little sun? "Global warming." Drought? "Global warming." Floods? "Global warming." Freezing cold? "Global warming."
I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming. He was a student when Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was first published and then successfully tested. Einstein said that for his theory to be valid it would have to pass three tests. "If," Einstein wrote to British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, "it were proved that this effect does not exist in nature, then the whole theory would have to be abandoned."
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels--the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming--has not much basis in science. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.
Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. If the theory's conclusions are accepted and agreed upon, the destructive results will be felt most severely in those states that adhere to the rule of law and will observe restrictions most faithfully. The global warming activists' target is the U.S. If America is driven to accept crippling restraints on its economy it will rapidly become unable to shoulder its burdens as the world's sole superpower and ultimate defender of human freedoms. We shall all suffer, however, as progress falters and then ceases and living standards decline.
小题1: The writer of the passage is probably _______.A．one of the “Greens”B．an AmericanC．not quite a believer in Global WarmingD．an environmentalist小题2:Which person(s), in the writer’s eyes, is the one he agrees with? A．Karl MarxB．Sir Karl PopperC．The GreensD．Mary Shelley小题3:Sir Arthur Eddington could be inferred as a ______.A．politicianB．poetC．GreenpeacerD．physicist小题4:“denounce” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.A．announceB．pronounceC．speak out forD．speak out against小题5: Which of the following is probably a good title for this article?A．Why Einstein’s Theory Stands the Tests.B．Which Country the “Greens” Are Attacking?C．Global Warming? I See Little Point.D．The Climate in England and beyond. 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:D
小题5:C
解析
本文讲述了作者对于很多人将所有的环境问题都归为气候变暖的说法并不赞同，如果不顾人们特别是穷人的生活而一味的遏制经济的话，后果将非常的严重。
小题1:细节题。从文章I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming.可知，作者并不相信所谓的全球气候变暖，故选C
小题2:细节题。从文章I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming.可知作者同意Sir Karl Popper的观点，故选 B
小题3:推断题。从文章Einstein wrote to British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, "it were proved that this effect does not exist in nature, then the whole theory would have to be abandoned."可以推知Sir Arthur Eddington应该是个物理学家，这样他才能和爱因斯坦能很好的交流，故选D
小题4:推断题。从文章从文章I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming.可知，此处应该是谴责，反对的意思，故选D
小题5:主旨题。作者对于很多人所谓的全球气候变暖，要进行削减工业，减缓经济发展等措施持怀疑态度，所以他并不赞同全球气候变暖这个观点，故选C更能符合题意。
点评：对于此类文章首先必须对每句话都要认真地阅读理解。本文中推断题较多，考察学生信息的把握能力。议论文需要抓住作者所表达中心思想。对于细节题，学生在理解全文的基础上要对题目中关键字在文章中迅速定位，找到相对应的出处，再仔细对比找出答案。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“August was one of th.....”主要考查你对 [社会现象类阅读 ]考点的理解。社会现象类阅读
社会现象类阅读概念：
这类文章通过写人记事来揭示文章的主题，显示其社会意义，一般采用顺序或倒叙来叙述。题目经常是一些细节问题。考查的方面可以是原因和其中引发的思考。
社会现象类阅读解题技巧：
这类文章通过写人记事来揭示文章的主题，显示其社会意义，一般采用顺序或倒叙来叙述。题目经常是一些细节问题。考查的方面可以是原因和其中引发的思考。阅读这类文章要理清思路。
1、浏览试题，明确要求。
在阅读文章前，最好先浏览一下文章后面的题干和选项。知道了问题后再去看文章，可使思路更敏捷，而且也便于阅读时留意文中出现的与选项有关的信息。
2、通读全文，抓住主要内容。
在不影响理解的前提下，尽可能地阅读以便在尽可能短的时间内理解文章或段落的内容。阅读时，如遇到不熟悉的单词、词组或一时看不懂的句子，不要停下来苦思冥想，继续读下去，通过上下文的词语和句子可能就理解了。
3、抓住中心思想和段落大意。
通读全文时，要特别注意主题句。每篇文章或每个段落都有与文章有关的句子，尤其是科技、政论性文章的主题句一般都在文章的开头或结尾，插在中间的很少。所以，文章的第一段或开头的第一、二个句子往往包含着文章的中心思想、作者的意图或全文的概述，因此要特别注意，彻底理解。
4、有针对性地仔细阅读，找寻所需信息。
在前面的基础上，可进行有针对性地阅读了。把与问题无关的内容一扫而过，而对于和问题有关的内容认真阅读，还可以用笔在下面做出记号。再把这些信息与问题的要求结合起来，逐条分析，综合判断，找出正确答案。
5、进行合理的推理判断。
对文章有了全面的了解之后，可以按照文章要求以及上下文之间的关系，做出推理判断。在进行推理判断的时候，需要综合考虑句型、语法、句子之间的逻辑关系、文化背景等方面的因素。
6、认真复读，验证答案。
要用全文的中心思想统帅各个题目，研究其内在联系和逻辑关系，并依次审核那些还未打上的题目，确保理解无误。
