题文
Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making a polite conversation with an Ethiopian (埃塞俄比亚的) teenager about her wedding day. The 16yearold had already been married for a year. “She looked at me with the saddest eyes and said, ‘I had to drop out of school’，” Robinson said in a telephone interview. “That conveyed to me the reality，” said Robinson, the first woman to serve as Ireland's president and former U．N. high commissioner for human fights. “Her life, as far as she is concerned, had more or less ended.”Robinson said keeping girls in school was one of the most important things policymakers could do to address the coming challenges of an ever-increasing population, predicted by the United Nations to reach 7 billion soon. “European countries are concerned about aging populations as is Japan, but this is much less of an issue than the huge number of people which we are going to see over the next 40 years when the population goes from 7 billion to 9 billion，” she said. “Almost all of that increase will be in poor developing countries, so that we have a very big challenge.”
Family planning experts worry in particular about the future population explosion in subSaharan Africa. In May, the United Nations projected the world population would reach 9.3billion in 2050 and 10.1 billion by 2100. Much of that growth will come from Africa, where the population is growing at 2.3 percent a year—more than double Asia's 1 percent growth rate. If that rate stays consistent, which is not certain, Africa's population will reach 3.6 billion by 2100 from the present 1 billion.
Joel Cohen, a professor of population studies at Rockefeller University and Columbia University in New York, said universal secondary education offered a way to reduce population in high birthrate regions. In addition to providing information about birth control, a secondary education teaches women to reduce their own fertility (生育力), improve the health of their children and allows them to move from a mindset of having many children, in the hopes that some will survive to improving the quality of each child's life, Cohen wrote in the journal Nature.
小题1:In the first paragraph, the author introduces his topic by ________.A．explaining the author's opinionsB．giving an exampleC．describing the poor education systemD．coming straight to the topic小题2:What can we learn from the passage?A．Robinson is happy after talking to the Ethiopian girl.B．Robinson is a successful expert in population studies.C．Robinson is worried about population growth.D．Robinson encourages female education.小题3:What is Joel Cohen's view about secondary education?A．It provides basic knowledge of health.B．It improves the health of children.C．It makes people pay more attention to education. D．It can change people's parenting ideas.小题4:According to Robinson, what is one of the most important things policymakers can do to prevent the population from increasing rapidly?A．Keeping girls in school.B．Letting girls go away from Africa.C．Letting young girls remain single.D．Keeping girls in families. 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
解析
文章介绍了非洲女性中普遍存在的早婚的情况，这对于女孩的身心健康都是有害的，也造成社会人口增长的迅速发展。文章给出了一些解决这样的问题的方法。
小题1:写作手法题：题目的意思是“第一段作者使用什么方法介绍这个话题的？”。在文中第一句话“Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making a polite conversation with an Ethiopian (埃塞俄比亚的) teenager about her wedding day. The 16yearold had already been married for a year.可以体现出来，说明作者是通过埃塞俄比亚的一个小女孩的例子介绍这个话题的，因此选B。
小题2:细节题：题目的意思是“我们从文章中了解到什么?”根据文章第二段的句子“Robinson said keeping girls in school was one of the most important things policymakers could do to address the coming challenges of an ever-increasing population, predicted by the United Nations to reach 7 billion soon.”可知Robinson担心人口增长问题，选C。
小题3:细节题：题目的意思是“Joel Cohen对于中等教育的态度是什么?”根据Joel Cohen定位到第四段的句子：In addition to providing information about birth control, a secondary education teaches women to reduce their own fertility (生育力), improve the health of their children and allows them to move from a mindset of having many children, in the hopes that some will survive to improving the quality of each child's life,可知Joel Cohen认为中等教育可以改变人们的做父母的方式，答案是D。
小题4:细节题：题目的意思是“根据Robinson所说为了防止人口的增长政策制定者做的最重要的事情是什么?”根据policymakers定位到第二段的句子：Robinson said keeping girls in school was one of the most important things policymakers could do to address the coming challenges of an ever-increasing population, predicted by the United Nations to reach 7 billion soon..可知为了防止人口的增长政策制定者做的最重要的事情是让女孩在学校，答案是A。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Former Irish Preside.....”主要考查你对 [日常生活类阅读 ]考点的理解。日常生活类阅读
日常生活类阅读的概念：
日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。
日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：
【题型说明】
该类文章内容涉及到人们的言谈举止、生活习惯、饮食起居、服饰仪表、恋爱婚姻、消遣娱乐、节日起源、家庭生活等。文章篇幅短小，追根溯源，探索各项风俗的历史渊源，内容有趣。命题也以送分题为主，如事实细节题、语义转换题、词义猜测题和简单推理判断题等。虽然这类文章读起来感觉轻松，试题做起来比较顺手，但绝不能掉以轻心。因为稍不留神，就会丢分。
【备考提醒】
为了保证较高准确率，建议同学们做好以下几点：
1、保持正常的考试心态。笔者在教学中发现，越是容易的试题，同学们越是容易失分。为什么呢？因为在这种情况下，同学们极易产生麻痹思想，认为题目好做，就不引起高度重视，于是思维不发散、不周密。而命题人就是利用同学们的这一弱点，设计陷阱题。所以，无论试题难易与否，我们都要保持正常的考试心态。试题容易，不欣喜；试题难，不悲观。
2、根据前面讲到的方法，认认真真、细细心心做好事实细节题。
3、做好语义转换题。这类题是根据英语中一词多义和某些词语在文中能表达一定的修辞意义的原则而设计的。要求同学们解释某生词的含义，确定多义词或短语在文中的意思，确认文中的某个代词所指代的对象，或者对英语中特有的表达、格言、谚语进行解释。这种题要求同学们一定要根据上下文猜测词义或理解句子，切不可望文生义。
4、做好简单推理判断题。简单推理判断题要以表面文字为前提，以具体事实为依据进行推理，做出判断。这种推理方式比较直接，只要弄清事实，即可结合常识推断出合理的结论。
