题文
When you don’t have anything planned for the day or it’s rainy outside and your children are stuck in the house, why not sit around and tell them riddles? Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.Riddles have been a pastime for centuries. Not only have riddles been something for passing the time, but they have also been used to pass on secret information during the Second World War. Even the ancient Greeks used riddles. They would tell riddles at parties and whoever was the first to get them right would receive prize.
Most riddles use words that have double meanings or share the same sound like “hear” and “here”. So in order to get the riddle, you will have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities of different words. The difficulty of figuring out the riddle is based on the riddle itself. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to the right answer, but that doesn’t mean that the clues have to be easy.
If you are looking to tell riddles but don’t know any, you can look online and you will find a large number of sites that will have hundreds of different riddles to choose from. If you would like to look somewhere else then you could look at your local bookstore, where you will be able to find many different books with thousands of riddles to choose from. You can even find websites and books that will tell you how to write your own riddles.
After you have found some resources that have different riddles, you will need to read through them to find the right ones for you and your family: You will also need to make sure that your kids will have a chance to figure out the answers. So take your time and choose the right family riddles to tell.
小题1:What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text?A．To recommend an interesting family activity.B．To stress the importance of family activities.C．To encourage children to read more books.D．To introduce the history of riddles.小题2:From the text we know that riddles _______.A．do not have enough cluesB．have a very long historyC．were used in World War OneD．were first used in ancient Rome小题3:In Paragraph 3, the author mainly ________.A．discusses how riddles are createdB．explains why fiddles are interestingC．tells people how to solve riddlesD．shows the benefits of telling riddles小题4:To collect riddles, the author suggests ________.A．one wayB．two waysC．three waysD．four ways 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:B
解析
【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一种好的家庭活动——猜谜语。文章从谜语的历史，猜谜语的方法；收集谜语的途径以及如何选择合适的家庭谜语等方面介绍了谜语。
小题1:A考查作者的写作目的。国家文章第一段中的Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.可知，猜谜语使全家大笑，有时苦思冥想才能找到答案。所以这种活动很有好处。这就是作者的写作目的。故选A。
小题2:B考查细节理解。根据文章第二段中的Riddles have been a pastime for centuries.可知，谜语已经有好几个世纪的历史，故选B。A错是因为谜语有充足的线索；C错在谜语在二战使用不是一战；D错在古代希腊使用谜语，但也没说是首先使用，更不是罗马。
小题3:C考查段落的主旨要义。根据文章第三段中的So in order to get the riddle, you will have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities of different words. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to the right answer, but that doesn’t mean that the clues have to be easy.可知，这里作者在告诉读者如何猜测谜语。故选C。
小题4:B考查细节理解。根据文章第四段可知，作者给出了两个收集谜语的方法：一、上网查找；二、到书店找。故选B。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“When you don’t have .....”主要考查你对 [政治经济类阅读 ]考点的理解。政治经济类阅读
政治经济类文章的概念：
要做好这类阅读，平时就要注意了解国内外发生的政治经济大事，掌握一定背景知识，对这类文章的叙述特点及内容安排有一定了解，还要扩展这方面的词汇。阅读这类文章，要抓住文章的核心，即文章整体和各段主要在说什么，也要注意段落之间的逻辑关系。
如何备考政治经济类阅读理解题：
【题型说明】政治经济类阅读文章是高考常选材料之一。该类文章时代气息浓郁，语言鲜活，但熟字新义词、超纲词及专业词语多，长句、难句多。政治类文章大多数是同学们感性趣的内容，读起来倒有似曾相识的感觉，经济类文章读起来就像是雾里看花，文章看完，一头雾水。再加之这类文章的命题侧重于词义猜测、推理判断和文章主旨，同学们对这类题材是望而生畏。
【备考策略】建立心理优势。针对不同体裁的文章，我们要采取相应的阅读方法和技巧。政治类文章多采用记叙文形式，我们可采取“顺读法”，以便抓关键语句，领会文章主旨；而经济类文章则多采用说明文形式，我们则可以采取“逆读法”，先读试题，再从文章中查找有用信息。若遇到的确难读的材料。千万不用着急，因为你觉得难，其他人也一定是同感。在高考前，我们就要有这种心理准备，高考试卷肯定有一、两篇难以阅读的材料。不过，我们平时可以有意识地从报刊杂志上找一些较难的阅读材料来阅读，以培养自己迎难而上的心理素质。
【答题方法】
1、寻找主干：
根据英语中五种基本句型结构，把句子中的主语、谓语、宾语、表语等主要成分找出来，其他成分如定语、状语、补语等则易于理解。找到了句子主干，句子的意思至少明白了一半。
2、剔除从句：
在一个长句中可能会出现若干个从句，在理解时，如果把各个从句剔除出来单独理解，然后把大意拼凑起来，整个长句的意思就会明白六、七分。
3、辨别分句：
一个长句如果是由几个并列、转折、递进、对比关系的分句组成，句中往往有表示这些分句关系的连接词，只要能弄清楚分句和分句之间的逻辑关系，再把各层分句的意思加以连贯，整个长句的句意基本上能跃然脑中。
4、寻找关键词：
如果一个句子看完，一点句意的感觉也没有，下下策就是抓住句中的关键词，通过关键词大体弄懂这个长句的意思。
