题文
My son Jack, a fourth grader, was having a hard time in getting interested in story books recently, so I offered to read the first few chapters to him. In the early pages of ‘Incident at Halk Hill’, a quiet little boy has a special meeting with a female badger (獾).Soon after, another badger is caught in a steel leg trap(陷阱), and the author describes in detail the pain and scare of an animal struggling to its death. We meet the cruel hunter and his ill treatment of a dog; we see the badger being skinned by the boy's father；and we experience the child's confusion when beaten by his father in anger. Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds, I thought.Last night , I returned from a weekend away to find that Jack had finished the whole book on his own. “It was really, really good and sad, and violent，” he reported. “There was a lot of killing.”
“Were there any happy parts?" I asked,
"The boy's life was saved by the badger, and that was good. But then that badger got caught in a trap again and at the end it's dying, too. ” Jack said, "It was so sad that I almost cried. ”
I told him that many books have made me cry, beginning with Heidi, when I was just his age, right on up to the novel I finished last week.
“Well，” he admitted then, “I actually did cry. Reading that book just reminded me of all the sadness in the world, and it made me feel sad ,too. ”
So, I think, now he has been through the sad tone of the passage , the discovery that words on a printed page can give rise to such strong emotion ，that a book can move you right out of your own comfortable little self and into someone else's pain. Thus we come to realize that if we are to remain fully engaged in life, open to its mysteries and feel sorry towards its suffering, we indeed need stories to grab（抓住） us by the neck and remind us of the sadness in the world that is not our own.
小题1:‘Incident at Halk Hill’ is a _______story.A．sadB．happy C．funny D．boring小题2:The underlined sentence “Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds" means____A．the book is too long for a ten year old childB．the book is too difficult for a ten year old childC．the book is too violent(暴力) for a ten year old childD．the book is too pretty for a ten year old child小题3:According to the passage , stories can be something to help you_____A．enjoy your spare timeB．develop your care for animalsC．realize the truth of lifeD．think about your own life小题4:By writing the passage, the writer mainly wants to____.A．tell a story that interested his sonB．show the importance of reading storiesC．share an experience between himself and his sonD．show how to make children interested in books 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:B
解析
本文叙述了如果孩子读一些充满血腥杀戮内容的书对于10岁的孩子来说太暴力太残忍了。作者指出引导大家要探索生活的奥妙,同情生活中的受难者,人们真的需要去读书。
小题1:推理判断题。由第一段介绍这本书的内容及Jack said,“It was so sad that I almost cried.”可知,答案为A。
小题2:句义猜测题。由第一段介绍的这本书的内容可推断出,这样充满血腥杀戮内容的书对于10岁的孩子来说太暴力太残忍了。因此答案为C。
小题3:推理判断题。最后一段最后一句we indeed need stories to grab us by the neck and remind us of the sadness in the world that is not our own.可知我们真正地需要读故事书,以提醒我们世上存在不发生在我们自己世界里的忧伤。由此可推理出阅读故事书可使我们意识到生活的真相,感悟生活的真实。
小题4:主旨大意题。文章最后一段点明文章主题,也就是作者的写作目的。引导大家要探索生活的奥妙,同情生活中的受难者,人们真的需要去读书。因此答案为B。
点评：句意猜测该题型主要考查考生根据上下文推测词义和语义的能力，突出考查根据上下文语境的分析和把握能力。考查内容主要有猜测某个生词、熟词生义、短语或句子的意思以及猜测代词的指代等。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“My son Jack, a fourt.....”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。
