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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 opensource edx platform.“fasten_your_seatbelts，” hockfield said.other universities, including stanford, yale and carnegiemellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online.the harvardmit program will be monitored by a notforprofit(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 _.aa part of the free mit opencoursewareba free computer program by mit and harvardca harvardmit platform of free online coursesda free program online for universities worldwide54. what is said about online education in the text?auniversities have been trying online courses.babout 2,000 online courses have been offered.cover 100 million people have finished courses online.dstanford and yale together have courses similar to edx.55. the underlined part in the text probably means“_”aget ready for the difficultiesbget ready for this educational changecget prepared to complete the online coursesdget prepared to make materials for the edx courses56. what can be said about mitx according to the text?ait is first offered as part of the edx learning program.bit is another free mitharvard online learning program.cit is a standard to recognize online learners achievement.dit 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 carnegiemellon, 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。*结束(一)school meals are junk and dont 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 wellbalanced, fourcourse meal with fresh ingredients (成分) costing up to 1.10 to make. but british schoolchildren are fed mainly cheapprocessed 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 dont provide the nutrients and goodness childrens bodies need to develop properly. no wonder theres growing concern about the health of the nations 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 schools cooks, kidbrooke is now serving some of the best school food in britain. the menu includes fresh butchers 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 isnt 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? aschool meals in france are the most expensive in the world. bbritish schools dont provide the students with healthy food. cschool meals in britain are cheaper than those in france. dbritish school meals include many kinds of healthy food.()2.british schools provide students with such meals because_. amost of the school children are too fat bpeople show little concern about the health of schoolchildren cschools dont have enough money dschools dont want to spend much money()3.from the passage we can see that_. athe british government ignores schoolchildrens health bjamie creates a healthy menu with the help of the government cschoolchildren in britain will have the best meals dcooking healthy food is not an easy job()4.the good news for the british is that_. aschoolchildren will have the best food in britain bthe menu jamie oliver created