11．Reading Oliver James'Affluenza，I thought about what often happens at home．  My 12-year-old daughter is in tears．"I have to take a test tomorrow．I don't understand any of it，"she cries out．After shouting and shutting her door，she calms down enough to go through her notes．The following day I ask her how the test went and she just says"OK．I got a nine"．
"Wow，well done!"I say，before she finishes with"But I never get a ten!"
    According to James，this obsession with getting top marks has been a bad development，which encourages people to think of education in terms of work and money．To test this，I asked my daughter why she was so worried about her tests．She looked at me as if I was thick．"Well，if I don't get good grades，I won't get into university．Then I probably won't get a good job and I won't be able to afford nice things like a ear and stuff．"
    I was quite surprised，because I don't consider myself a pushy parent．But James suggests  showing any interest in grades sends the message that what is important is results and it leaves students feeling failures even if they are very bright．He points to the Danish system（體制）of  education as a better model．Creating happy citizens who have good social skills is seen as more important than high achievements at school or the needs of business．
    For me．I cannot remember the last time I had to work out the area of a circle，recite a  Shakespeare poem or grammar rules，yet I have lived a happy life．What I really needed to learn at school was how to make polite conversations，or how to avoid getting into debt or how to develop good personality．
    This is in fact similar to what Oliver James really has in mind．And he is looking for schools
where students are encouraged to find and follow their own interests，something more like Tongjon．Tongjon has been developed in some Korean private schools．It is quite different from the more rigid system of learning things by heart that is used in Korea，and indeed in many other school systems around the world．
  As the Russian poet Pushkin said，"Inspiration（靈感） is needed in geometry（幾何學(xué)） just as much as in poetry"，and inspiration does not come from endlessly revising for tests or getting worried about them．
62．What does the writer probably think of his/her daughter？D
A．She sets herself a goal too high to reach．
B．She should be more polite to her parents．
C．She is hard-working but not very bright．
D．She takes her grades much too seriously．
63．what dose the underlined word"obsession"in Paragraph 3 mean？D
A．A plan and unavoidable fact
B．A satisfied and very proud state
C．A practical and widely-used way
D．A fixed and often unreasonable idea
64．What can we infer from the passage？B
A．Social skills are as important as high grades．
B．Interest in grades can shake self-confidence．
C．The writer regrets not having studied hard at school．
D．Danish educational system is for very smart students．
65．The writer wants to tell us thatA．
A．learning happily is the key to self-development
B．top marks may be helpful to increase one'S interest
C．tests should be improved to give children inspiration
D．education should meet one's needs for work and money．

分析 本文是一篇讀后感．作者讀了Oliver James的 Affluenza《富貴病》后，反思自己的女兒為了獲取物質(zhì)的富有一心追求高分的價值觀，進而思考教育的真諦．

解答 62．答案：D解析：本題是一個細節(jié)理解和推理題．文章第二段作者調(diào)查女兒時，女兒回答"Well，if I don't get good grades，I won't be able to afford nice things like a car and a house．"如果我考不出好成績，我就買不起像汽車和房子那樣的好東西．I was quite surprised，because I don't consider myself a pushy（有進取心） parent．我非常驚訝，因為我并不認(rèn)為我自己是一個有進取心的父母．由此可以看出，作者感覺女兒太看重成績了．所以答案是D．
63．答案：D解析：本題是一個詞義推測題．文章第一段According to James，this  obsession  with getting top marks has been a bad development，which encourages people to think of education in terms of work and money．癡迷于獲取高分是一種不好的發(fā)展心理，它鼓勵人們認(rèn)為教育就是為了工作和金錢．
64．答案：B解析：本題考查推理判斷．But James suggests and it leaves students feeling failures（失�。� even if they are very bright．根據(jù)這一句和后文的意思可以推斷出，像女兒這種過分看重分?jǐn)?shù)會讓人有挫敗感，即使已經(jīng)很優(yōu)秀．
65．答案：A解析：本題考查文章主旨．本文通過女兒的例子去思考教育的真諦就是讓人民快樂的生活，而不是獲取好成績，進而擁有物質(zhì)上的富有．

點評 閱讀理解題測試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系，對未說明的趨勢或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點理論，對文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋．考生首先要仔細閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準(zhǔn)確把握作者觀點．

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