题文
Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning,a middle,and an endwith commercials （商业广告） thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. "Buy Super Clean Toothpaste.""Drink Good Wet Root Beer.""Fill up with Pacific Gas."only if you sleep,which is equal to turning the television set off,are you spared the unending cry of "You Need It! Buy It Now!"The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting,even if you’ve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changednew houses,new buildings,sometimes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and it’s fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly reckless （鲁莽的） or daring,the ride can be as thrilling （惊心动魄的） as a suspense story. Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the rightor the lefthand lane? After a while,of course,the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But you’ve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops.
The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and there’s a kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat of course,has become harder as the hours have passed. By now you’ve sat with your legs crossed,with your hands in your lap,with your hands on the armrestseven with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just at no more ways to sit.
小题1:According to the passage,what do the passengers usually see when they are on a long bus trip?A．Buses on the road.B．Films on television.C．Advertisements on the billboards.D．Gas stations.小题2:What is the purpose of this passage?A．To give the writer’s opinion about long bus trips.B．To persuade you to take a long bus trip.C．To explain how bus trips and television shows differ.D．To describe the billboards along the road.小题3:The writer of this passage would probably favor .A．bus drivers who aren’t recklessB．driving aloneC．a television set on the busD．no billboards along the road小题4:The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because .A．the commercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are funB．they both have a beginning,a middle,and an end,with commercials in betweenC．the drivers are always reckless on TV shows just as they are on busesD．both traveling and watching TV are not exciting.小题5:The writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning because both are .A．excitingB．comfortableC．tiringD．boring 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:A
解析
小题1:文章的第一段中，作者叙述了乘客在坐长途车中所见的是广告牌。
小题2:全文都是作者表述对乘车长途旅行中的广告的意见和看法。
小题3:从第三段作者对"长途乘车中广告太多"所表达的情况看，作者不太喜欢沿途的广告牌。
小题4:由文章第一段第一句和第二句可知答案为B。
小题5:由第三段第一句和第二句可知。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Long bus rides are l.....”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
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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。
