第2部分:阅读下面这篇短文,短文后列出了7个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息,请选A;如果该句的是错误信息,请选B;如果该句的信息文章中没有提及,请选C.
Scotland:A Land of Wisdom
In the 1740s, the famous French Philosopher Voltaire said "We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization." That's not a bad advertisement for any country when it comes to attracting people to search for a first-class education.
According to the American author Arthur Herman, the Scots invented the modern world itself. He argues that Scottish thinkers and intellectuals worked out many of the most important ideas on which modern life depends - everything from the scientific method to market economics. Their ideas did not just spread among intellectuals, but to those people in business, government and the sciences who actually shaped the Western world.
It all started during the period that historians call the Scottish Enlightenment(启蒙运动), which is usually seen as taking place between the years 1740 and 1800. Before that, philosophy was mainly concerned with religion. For the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the proper study of humanity was mankind itself.
Their reasoning was practical. For the philosopher David Hume, humanity was the right subject for philosophy because we can examine human behavior and so find real evidence of how people think and feel. And from that we can make judgments about the societies we live in and make concrete suggestions about how they can be improved for universal benefit.
Hume's enquiry into the nature of knowledge laid the foundations for the scientific method - the pursuit of truth through experiment. His friend and fellow resident of Edinburgh, Adam Smith, famously applied the study of mankind to the ways in which mankind does business. Trade, he argued, was a form of information. In pursuing our own interests through trading in markets, we all come to benefit each other.
Smith's idea has dominated modern views of economics. It also has wide applications. He was one of the philosophers to point out that nations can become rich, free and powerful through peace, trade and invention.
Although the Scottish Enlightenment ended a long time ago, the ideas which evolved at that time still underpin(构成……的基础)our theories of human exchange and enquiry. It also exists in Scotland itself in an educational tradition that combines academic excellence with orientation(方向).
1 Scotland is the right place to receive a first-class education.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
2 According to Arthur Herman, the Scots developed many important ideas which modern life depends on.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
3 Philosophers had come to know the importance of studying humanity even before the Scottish Enlightenment took place.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
4 David Hume was the first philosopher to study mankind.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
5 Smith's idea has extensive applications.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
6 Our current theories of human exchange and enquiry have nothing to do with the ideas developed during the Scottish Enlightenment.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
7 Smith died in 1800.
A Right
B Wrong
C Not mentioned
【正确答案】:
A、A、B、C、A、B、C
【答案解析】
阅读判断这部分题型,建议学生放在最后做,分值7分,每空一分,对阅读上下逻辑能力的要求较高。
这篇文章,前六题按照段落顺序考查细节,第七题整体理解。
短文描述苏格兰人对现代社会进步做出的贡献。他们的先进理念始于历史,直到现在依旧领先。
1、考查专有名词:数字定为。这道题说的是:苏格兰是获得一流教育的地方。
答案在:第一段第二句, That's not a bad advertisement for any country when it comes to attracting people to search for a first-class education.
2、这道题说的是:根据Arthur Herman,苏格兰人提出了许多现代人生活赖以生存的思想。
答案在:第二段第二句,thinkers and intellectuals worked out many of the most important ideas on which modern life depends .
3、 考察时间状语Before,这是阅读常考的敏感词,大家注意。
这道题说的是:哲学家在苏格兰启蒙运动前就认识到研究人性重要性。
第三段:Before that, philosophy was mainly concerned with religion. For the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment,“在这之前”指在苏格兰启蒙运动之前。
4、考查专有名词:姓名定为。这道题说的是:David Hume 是第一个研究人类的哲学家。
David Hume 定为第四段,没有表达第一哲学家的意思。
5、考查专有名词:姓名定为。这道题说的是:Smith's 思想有广泛应用。
由Smith's定为倒数第二段,第二句,It also has wide applications。
6、这道题说的是:我们当前有关人类的交流和启蒙运动时期的思想没有关系。按考题顺序,定为最后一段,
Although the Scottish Enlightenment ended a long time ago, the ideas still underpin (构成……的基础) our theories …….
7、考查专有名词:年份定为。这道题说的是:Smith死于1800年。最直观的答法,找1800年、原文第三段,第一句,It all started ……the years 1740 and 1800. 没有体现死于1800年。