2013高考英语（遵义市）阅读理解（7）（答案）
社会生活型阅读理解(一)
新闻报道类[2012·四川卷]
In a recent announcement, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide.
Beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online through a new $60 million program, known as edX.“Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses，” Harvard President Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce the plan.
MIT has offered a program called OpenCourseWare for ten years that makes materials from more than 2,000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx, for people who complete certain online courses. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a similar program.
The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.
MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120,000 people signed up for the first MITx course. She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-source edX platform.
“Fasten_your_seatbelts，” Hockfield said.
Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.
The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit(非盈利的)organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both MIT and Harvard have provided $ 30 million to start the program. They also plan to use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.
53. According to this text, edX is ________.
A．a part of the free MIT OpenCourseWare
B．a free computer program by MIT and Harvard
C．a Harvard-MIT platform of free online courses
D．a free program online for universities worldwide
54. What is said about online education in the text?
A．Universities have been trying online courses.
B．About 2,000 online courses have been offered.
C．Over 100 million people have finished courses online.
D．Stanford and Yale together have courses similar to edX.
55. The underlined part in the text probably means“________”．
A．Get ready for the difficulties
B．Get ready for this educational change
C．Get prepared to complete the online courses
D．Get prepared to make materials for the edX courses
56. What can be said about MITx according to the text?
A．It is first offered as part of the edX learning program.
B．It is another free MIT-Harvard online learning program.
C．It is a standard to recognize online learners’ achievement.
D．It is a new kind of free online course of Harvard and MIT.
【要点综述】本文为新闻报道类文体。文章报道了Harvard和MIT联手向全球免费提供网上课程的事情。
53. C 细节理解题。根据第一段提到的Harvard和MIT联手向全球免费提供网上课程及第二段“a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online through a new $60 million program, known as edX”可知edX是这两所大学联手打造的一个免费授课的网络平台。故答案选C。
54. A 推理判断题。B项应是2,000 classes；C项应是100多万人使用，而不是完成了课程；D项文中没有谈到它们的课程是否相似。根据倒数第二段“Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.”可知答案选A。
55. B 句意理解题。此句的字面意思为“系好安全带”。结合文章的意思可知是为这些大学在网上开设免费课程这一教育变革做好准备。故答案为B。
56. C 细节理解题。根据第三段“In December, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx, for people who complete certain online courses.”可知MITx是承认修完课程的证书。故答案选C。
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(一)
School meals are junk and don’t provide the nutrition a body needs to grow, says Jamie Oliver, and he decides to do something about it. Schoolchildren in France who eat school dinners are likely to have a well-balanced, four-course meal with fresh ingredients (成分) costing up to ￡1.10 to make. But British schoolchildren are fed mainly cheap-processed meat, frozen pizzas and potato smiley faces, costing on average just 37 pence per meal.
In fact the money spent on school dinners is so small that schools can afford only whatsome people describe as junk food rather than fresh natural ingredients. This means that their meals don’t provide the nutrients and goodness children’s bodies need to develop properly. No wonder there’s growing concern about the health of the nation’s schoolchildren.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was so concerned about school dinners that he decided to try to improve them by teaming up with the kitchen staff at Kidbrooke School in Grenwich. He took a lot of time to learn how to get the kids to stop eating the junk and move to healthy food. This is not easy! But it is possible with some hard work and determination! After a lot of hard work from both Jamie and the school’s cooks, Kidbrooke is now serving some of the best school food in Britain. The menu includes fresh butcher’s sausages with creamy mash and onion gravy, chilli corn with basmati rice and fresh fruit salad. Incredibly, Jamie and the staff managed to create this healthier menu with the same 37 pence budget. But the school chefs admit cooking healthy food isn’t as easy as simply putting burgers and chips in the oven.
Then came the good news! The government has promised to spend ￡280 million to improve school dinners across the country. Well done Jamie! This means that the national average cost will rise from 37p to 50p in primary schools and from 37p to 60p in secondary schools.
( )1.What does the author try to tell us in the first paragraph?
A．School meals in France are the most expensive in the world.
B．British schools don’t provide the students with healthy food.
C．School meals in Britain are cheaper than those in France.
D．British school meals include many kinds of healthy food.
( )2.British schools provide students with such meals because________.
A．most of the school children are too fat
B．people show little concern about the health of schoolchildren
C．schools don’t have enough money
D．schools don’t want to spend much money
( )3.From the passage we can see that________.
A．the British government ignores schoolchildren’s health
B．Jamie creates a healthy menu with the help of the government
C．schoolchildren in Britain will have the best meals
D．cooking healthy food is not an easy job
( )4.The good news for the British is that________.
A．schoolchildren will have the best food in Britain
B．the menu Jamie Oliver created is the best
C．parents have begun to pay attention to children’s food at school
D．the government has begun to do something about the fact
( )5.What is the best title for this newspaper story?
A．A Healthier Menu for School Dinners
B．Schoolchildren in Britain Can’t Develop Properly
C．Dinners Lacking Nutrients in School
D．Schools with the Best Food
(一)
在英国，学生在学校的饮食健康问题令人担忧。令人欣慰的是，政府已经意识到问题的严重性，并着手改进。
1．B 根据第一段开头School meals are junk and don’t provide the nutrition a body needs to grow判断可知。[来源:Z。xx。k.Com]
2．C 第二段的第一句谈到主要的原因是学校没有足够的钱。
3.D 根据第三段结尾…cooking healthy food isn’t as easy as simply putting burgers and chips in the oven判断可知。
4．D 由最后一段可知选D。政府已意识到了这个问题并许诺提高学校饭菜的质量。
5．A 本文讲述一个厨师精心研究出一套健康食谱以解决英国学校较差的饮食状况，故选A项。
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