和孩子一起读短文、诗和漫画，再看每个答案怎样从原文里找到依据。
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ACER人文是一项考判断而不是考记忆的阅读测试：40分钟内40–45道选择题。下面八道带解析的样题，分别基于一篇历史文章、一首诗和一幅漫画，让你看看它考哪些类型的题。
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它考的是孩子读懂并判断文本的能力，而不是某个科目的知识。材料可能来自英语、艺术、历史、地理或社会研究，但不要求具备专门知识：孩子需要的信息都在题目里。
范围很广。孩子要对小说、非虚构文本、诗歌、漫画、图表和地图进行批判性思考，这些都可能出现在同一次考试里。
ACER描述的是文本类型，而不是题型。这五类是我们自己的分组，方便孩子逐项学习每种技能。
| 类型 | 孩子要回答什么 | 背后的技能 |
|---|---|---|
| 推断 | 某个细节暗示了什么，或人物为什么这样做 | 读出文本表现了却没有明说的内容 |
| 主旨 | 整篇文章或某段主要讲什么 | 把要点和细节区分开 |
| 语气和写作目的 | 作者的态度，或某个细节为什么出现 | 听出作者的语气 |
| 诗歌 | 某个意象、比喻或结尾暗示了什么 | 在字字有分量的文本里细读 |
| 漫画、图表和地图 | 图画想表达的观点，或表格、地图能支持什么 | 把图画和数字当作文本来读 |
每道题都附有答案和解题过程。和孩子一起读材料和题目，再看讲解：它会说明正确选项为什么对，以及最容易误选的那个错在哪里。
这些题是我们按ACER人文测试的风格和难度编写的，不是ACER的考题。题目基于三篇材料：讲各地城镇如何开始共用钟表时间的历史文章、写农场旧风车的诗，以及用文字描述的漫画。题目为英文，解析为中文。
For most of history, a town did not need anyone else's permission to know the time. When the sun stood highest in the sky, it was noon, and the clockmaker in the main street set the town clock to twelve. Everyone else set their clocks by it.
The trouble is that the sun does not reach its highest point everywhere at once. Because the Earth turns from west to east, noon arrives about four minutes later for every degree of longitude you travel west. In the 1800s, Melbourne's noon came about twenty-five minutes after Sydney's, and Adelaide's came later still. Each town's time was correct for that town, and wrong for every other.
For a long time this hardly mattered. A coach journey between two towns took days, and nobody could tell whether a traveller had arrived at ten past or twenty-five past the hour by someone else's clock. Then two inventions changed the scale of things. The railway carried people hundreds of kilometres in a day, and the telegraph carried messages along the same route in moments. A timetable printed in one city now had to make sense at a station far away, and a guard who read the wrong clock could send two trains onto the same stretch of single track.
The railways began running all their trains on one city's time, whatever the clock in the local main street said. For a while, some towns kept two times at once: "town time" on the main-street clock and "railway time" on the station wall, a few minutes apart.
In 1895, the Australian colonies moved to standard time, dividing the continent into three broad zones, each with one standard time. Clocks inside a zone would all show the same hour, even if that meant noon on the clock no longer matched noon in the sky. Not everyone was pleased. Some people complained that their clocks now told a lie about the sun. But within a generation, few people could imagine doing it any other way, and the idea that every town should keep its own time began to seem as strange as it had once seemed natural.
The writer mentions that a guard who read the wrong clock "could send two trains onto the same stretch of single track". This detail suggests that, once railways arrived,
答案: B
答案：B（mismatched clocks had become a safety risk, not just a nuisance） 两列火车开上同一段单线轨道，就可能相撞。作者用这个细节说明：有了铁路以后，各地钟表相差几分钟已经不只是麻烦，而是可能危及人身安全。铁路出现之前，这种差别“hardly mattered”（几乎无关紧要）；现在却可能酿成事故。所以答案是 B。 其他选项为什么不对
Why does the writer describe towns that kept "town time" on the main-street clock and "railway time" on the station wall?
答案: A
答案：A（To show that the change to one time came in stages, with old and new side by side） 这一段夹在“铁路统一采用一座城市的时间”和“1895年改用标准时间”之间。镇上的钟和车站的钟相差几分钟，说明小镇正处在转变当中：旧的太阳时还没有消失，新的统一时间也还没有完全取代它。所以这个细节说明变化是一步一步发生的，答案是 A。 其他选项为什么不对
Which sentence best expresses the main idea of the whole passage?
答案: C
答案：C（Once distant towns were closely linked, each town's own sun time gave way to a shared time.） 主旨要概括全文，而不是某一段。文章从各镇按太阳定时间写起，接着写铁路和电报把各地连在一起，最后写统一的标准时间取代了地方时间。只有 C 概括了这条完整的“原因—变化”线索，答案是 C。 其他选项为什么不对
Out past the shearing shed, alone, the old windmill stands on its iron legs and turns its face to every wind as if it were listening for its name.
When the wind calls, it answers — round and round, and creak, and round — pulling water up from somewhere dark and pouring it, cold, into the trough.
The cattle drink and never look up. My brother says it's just a pump. It has joined the view, like the fences, the gums along the creek, the sky.
Only in the stillest week of summer, when the blades hang where they stopped and the trough shows a ring of dried green, does everyone look up at it — the way you only notice the kitchen clock on the night it forgets to tick.
In the first two stanzas, the poet describes the windmill as if it were a person who
答案: D
答案：D（listens out for the wind and answers it by getting to work） 诗中风车“turns its face to every wind / as if it were listening for its name”，又写“When the wind calls, it answers”。这两处把风车写成一个等着被叫到名字、一听到就马上干活的人。第二节其余部分写的正是它干的活：抽水。所以答案是 D。 其他选项为什么不对
The poem ends by comparing the windmill to "the kitchen clock / on the night it forgets to tick". What is the main point of this comparison?
答案: B
答案：B（Something familiar is often noticed only when it stops.） 第三节写没有人在意风车：牛“never look up”，它已经“joined the view”（成了风景的一部分）。只有它停下来时，才“everyone look up at it”。厨房的钟也是这样：平时听不见它的滴答声，直到它不响了才注意到。这个比较说明，熟悉而有用的东西往往要等到停下来才被人注意。答案是 B。 其他选项为什么不对
A cartoon shows the front gate of a primary school on a sunny morning. A large banner across the gate reads WALK TO SCHOOL DAY – Leave the car at home!
Below the banner, a long queue of cars stretches down the street and out of sight, bumper to bumper, with fumes drifting from their exhausts. In the front car, a parent leans out of the driver's window and asks a teacher who is holding a clipboard, "Where do we park for the walk?"
On the footpath beside the queue, one small child with a backpack is walking past all the cars, alone. The child is clearly going to reach the gate first.
The caption under the cartoon reads: Everyone's doing their bit.
What is the main point the cartoonist is making?
答案: A
答案：A（People can claim to support a good idea while their actions work against it.） 横幅请大家把车留在家里，街上却堵满了车，排在最前面的家长还问在哪里停车“for the walk”。这些家庭以为自己在参与活动，可开车来恰恰让这一天失去了意义。漫画的笑点就在于说的和做的不一致，答案是 A。 其他选项为什么不对
Why has the cartoonist included the child walking alone past the cars?
答案: C
答案：C（To show that the only person actually walking will get there first） 这个孩子是唯一照横幅要求去做的人，而且“clearly going to reach the gate first”。这让笑点更尖锐：开车连快都谈不上，堵在路上的车不但违背活动的本意，还毫无用处。答案是 C。 其他选项为什么不对
Which of these situations makes the same kind of point as the cartoon?
答案: D
答案：D（A town holds a Clean Beach Day, and the volunteers' picnic leaves rubbish on the sand.） 漫画里，参加活动的人自己的行为破坏了活动的目的：在步行日开车。D 中，来清洁海滩的人反而把海滩弄脏，是同一种讽刺。其他选项讲的是活动太成功或者运气不好，道理不一样。答案是 D。 其他选项为什么不对
不管是哪种文本，保分靠的都是下面几个习惯。在这八道题的讲解里留意这些习惯，以后孩子读任何材料都用上。
看题前先抓住大意：写的是谁或什么，最后落在哪里。结尾可能会改变开头的意思。
重读这些句子和前后的句子，再看选项。
孩子先用自己的话说出大概的答案，就更容易识破有迷惑性的错误选项。
正确选项是孩子能在文中指出依据的那个。如果需要文中从未给出的想法，就是错的。
把每个比喻都想象出来。读漫画时，先看说明文字和每个标签：留意它们之间的落差，要点可能就在那里。
最容易上当的，是那些只对了一部分的选项。ACER表示其考试有意设计得有难度，所以错误选项都写得很像真的；在这些题里，陷阱大致分为几类。
一起看讲解时，问问孩子每个错误选项属于哪一类。叫得出陷阱的名字，下次就更容易认出来。
学校的阅读理解可能更多是要求孩子找信息，ACER人文要求的是判断。题目问的是某个细节暗示了什么、作者为什么写它、漫画家在批评什么，所以答案很少能从原文直接抄下来。
孩子还要在故事、文章、诗歌和图画之间快速切换。阅读能力强的孩子起初也可能觉得难；这份考试本来就是为了挑战孩子，有些题拿不准很正常。
要稳，因为阅读时间也算在答题时间里。人文测试是40分钟内40–45道选择题，算上阅读，每道题最多一分钟。
每篇材料按稳定的速度读一遍，然后据此答题，只在题目指出的地方回头重读。认真想过还是做不出来的题，先做标记往下走：后面的材料可能更适合孩子。
多读不同类型的文本，并且多聊。ACER自己的建议是广泛阅读，批判性思考，所以不要只读故事，还可以读报纸文章、历史和科学书籍、诗歌、漫画、地图和时刻表。如果你在考虑要不要报补习班：对人文来说，家里的阅读和讨论就是最直接的练习。
孩子说出某篇文本的意思后，问问："你怎么知道的？"回答应该指向原文的词句或图里的内容。
练习测试1会批改每一道题，并按技能显示结果：孩子已经掌握的部分，以及接下来要练的三项技能。
