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专题二 故事记叙型阅读理解 专题导读 专题二 │专题导读 故事类阅读理解选材来源于日常生活，给人以似曾相识的感觉。体裁一般是记叙文，包含记叙文的时间、地点、人物、事件等要素。写作手法多采用时间、空间或逻辑线索贯穿文章始终。命题以细节为主，推理为辅。应特别注意对人物的外貌、语言、动作和思想的描写，从而把握人物性格特点和作者的情感态度。若是叙述性的文章，要读懂起因、经过、结果。若是故事性文章应读懂故事的发生、发展、高潮、结局。阅读时应特别注意：(1)一般故事性文章，应读懂故事的发生、发展、高潮和结局；(2) 哲理故事，要理解故事所蕴含的哲理意义；(3)逸闻趣事，应体会对话的风趣性，进而才能感受幽默的精髓。 真题典例 专题二 │真题典例 【2011·江西卷】The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard (1850－1928)．After immigrating from England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871.In those days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”， almost certainly the source of Howard’s name for his later building plan of towns.Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing_on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination of designs. 专题二 │真题典例 The nineteenthcentury poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered economic and social opportunities.At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive：though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression (萧条) and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor much social life.Howard’s idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city.Howard’s idea was that a group of people should set up a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside, far enough from existing cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price. 专题二 │真题典例 Garden cities would provide a central public open space, radial avenues and connecting industries.They would be surrounded by a much larger area of green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms but also some industrial institutions.As more and more people moved in, the garden city would reach its planned limit—Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away.Thus, over time, there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide range of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of a big city. 专题二 │真题典例 ()1.How did Howard get the name for his building plan of garden cities? A．Through his observation of the country life. B．Through the combination of different ideas. C．By taking other people’s advice. D．By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago. ()2.The underlined phrase “drawing on” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________. A．making use of B．making comments on C．giving an explanation of D．giving a description of 专题二 │真题典例 ()3.According to Howard, garden cities should be built ________. A．as far as possible from existing cities B．in the countryside where the land was cheap C．in the countryside where agriculture was developed D．near cities where employment opportunities already existed ()4.What can we learn about garden cities from the last paragraph? A．Their number would continue to rise. B．Each one would continue to become larger. C．People would live and work in the same place. D．Each one would contain a certain type of business. 专题二 │真题典例 ()5.What could be the best title for the passage? A．City and Countryside B．The Invention of the Garden City C．A New City in Chicago D．A Famous Garden City in England 专题二 │真题典例 | 
