题文
Many rural areas in the United States have no doctor. Some medical schools are trying different ways to treat the problem . One idea is to educate doctors in smaller communities and hope they stay. Dr. William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program at the University of Kansas in the Midwest.
“We need more doctors. There’s somewhere like a quarter of all of our physicians in Kansas who are sixty years of age or older. So we need to be replacing physicians, too.”Says Dr. William Cathcart. He also says medical students from rural areas now typically study in Wichita or Kansas City, two of the biggest cities in Kansas. They say, “You know, I really have every intention of coming back to rural Kansas,”but they meet a soul mate, they get married, their soul mate happens to be from a big city and we never see them again. They get captured in the big city. Hopefully, if we train them in smaller communities, they can meet the future spouses here , they can network here, and they have those connections which can hopefully be lifelong.
The program is based in Kansas’ tenth largest city , Salina, home to about fifty thousand people. Salina is about a three-hour drive from Kansas City, past fields of corn, soybeans and cattle.
Student Claire Hinrichsen grew up in a town of about six hundred people. She attended the University of Kansas, or KU, as an undergraduate. One reason why the chose the Salina program is because of the size. There are only eight students—the smallest medical school in the country. Classes are taught by professors in Salina or on a video link from Kansas City or Wichita.
Students who complete the four year program will then do their residency training in a small community in the surrounding area. One place a resident might work is the Clay Center Clinic, where Dr. Kerry Murphy is a family physician.
Rural doctors generally serve older, poorer patients. Going into a specialty in a big city can mean better working hours and more money to pay off student loans.
The Salina program will pay tuition for each year that students practice in a rural area in Kansas.
小题1:What does the underlined word “spouses”in Paragraph 2 mean?A．Wives husbands.B．Homes.C．Families.D．Physicians.小题2:The reason why the medical students don’t want to go back to rural areas is that .A．they don’t like to live in the rural KansasB．there are not many girls in the rural KansasC．they found their soul mates in citiesD．the life in rural Kansas is so hard小题3:From the text we learn that .A．Salina has a population of 500,000B．a quarter of all physicians in Kansas are too old for the ideal doctorsC．William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program in rural KansasD．Educating more doctors in cities can settle the problem小题4:Why did student Claire Hinrichsen choose the Salina program?A．Because she found her soul mate in rural Kanas.B．Because she likes to work as a doctor.C．Because she grew up in a town of 6,000 people.D．Because she likes the size of the program.小题5:What is the purpose of the passage?A．To make it known that it lacks doctors very much in rural Kansas.B．To introduce a program handling the lack of doctors in rural Kansas.C．To train students to become doctors for rural Kansas.D．To meet the demands of doctors for many rural towns in Kansas. 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:B
解析
介绍了一个医生培训计划，计划培养出医生来满足堪萨斯州的需要。小题1:猜测词义题。根据上文they meet a soul mate可知这里的spouses指伴侣。那么A正确。
小题2:细节题。根据第二段5,6行t they meet a soul mate, they get married, their soul mate happens to be from a big city and we never see them again.
小题3:细节题。根据第二段1,2行We need more doctors. There’s somewhere like a quarter of all of our physicians in Kansas who are sixty years of age or older.
小题4:细节题。根据第四段2,3行One reason why the chose the Salina program is because of the size. There are only eight students。
小题5:主旨大意题。通读全文可知文章主要就是介绍这样的一个医生培训计划。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Many rural areas in .....”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。
