What is the passage mainly about?
答案: C
答案:C
找出每一段都在支持的那个意思。文章从问题(消息太慢)讲到建线路,再讲到它的影响,只有C涵盖了全部。B和D只是某一段里的细节,Charles Todd也只提到一次。

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阅读部分要孩子在文章中查找、整合和评价观点,并且和语言推理同场考试。现在读七年级的孩子会在八年级参加,考试预计在2027年6月。
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考试由ACER主办。ACER表示,阅读部分考的是在文章中查找信息,并整合、解读、反思和评价其中的观点。说得简单些:先找到,再联系起来,最后作出判断。
找到回答问题的那一句。回到原文去找,不要凭记忆作答。
把文章的两处内容放在一起,说出它们合起来是什么意思。
判断作者怎么想、有多肯定,以及文章的论证是否站得住。
三者背后是同一个习惯:依据文字本身作答,而不是看哪个答案“听起来对”。所需知识不超过八年级课程,所以考的是读得细,不是懂得多。
阅读是考试当天的第二场,在20分钟的休息之后。它和语言推理共用55分钟,之后短暂休息5分钟,再进入写作。
这是纸笔考试:在答题册上涂写答案。ACER不公布每个部分有多少题,所以每篇文章没有固定的用时。
如果某道题卡住,ACER建议孩子先做有根据的猜测,最后有时间再回来看。ACER还说只答对一半并不少见,很多孩子也做不完。所以节奏值得练:在家完整做一场,就能看出孩子做不做得完、时间花在了哪里。
下面的文体和题型组合是我们自己的,不是ACER的官方清单。文章都由我们原创:故事、说明文、诗歌、海报和漫画,以及同一主题的两篇短文。
每道题只问一类问题:一个细节、文章暗示的意思、主旨、词语在语境中的意思、语气、作者为什么这样写,或者缺失的句子应放在哪里。
我们每道题的答案都能在文章里找到依据。所以要培养的习惯是:指出能证明答案的那几个字。
这是我们按ACER公布的风格原创的说明文,并非出自ACER。题目为英文,解析为中文。请和孩子一起读,再一起看这三道题:每道题都直接列出答案和讲解。
In the 1860s, news from Britain reached the Australian colonies by ship, and it was always old. A report of an election or a change in prices in London might take six weeks or more to arrive, by which time events had moved on. Merchants guessed, governments waited, and families learnt of births and deaths long after they had happened.
The telegraph offered a cure. A message tapped out as electrical pulses could travel along a wire almost instantly, and by 1870 an undersea cable was planned to link Java with the northern coast of Australia. The question was how to carry the signal from there to the cities of the south, across more than 3,000 kilometres of country that few colonists had crossed.
South Australia's Superintendent of Telegraphs, Charles Todd, argued that his colony should build the line, and in 1870 work began from both ends. The planners had underestimated almost everything. Wet-season floods in the north washed away tracks and spoilt supplies; in the dry centre, teams hauled water as well as wire. Wooden poles were attacked by termites, and many were later replaced with iron ones. A signal also weakened over long distances, so repeater stations had to be built along the route, each one staffed by operators who lived for months at a time far from any town.
In August 1872 the last gap in the line was closed, and soon a message could travel from Adelaide to London within a day rather than weeks. The change was hard to overstate. Australian traders could now follow wool and wheat prices in Britain from one day to the next; newspapers printed overseas news while it was still news.
Yet the line's greatest effect may have been one that its builders did not set out to achieve. Before 1872, each colony had kept its face turned towards London more than towards its neighbours. A single wire strung through the heart of the continent, with operators listening at lonely stations all along it, made the continent itself feel, perhaps for the first time, like one place.
What is the passage mainly about?
答案: C
答案:C
找出每一段都在支持的那个意思。文章从问题(消息太慢)讲到建线路,再讲到它的影响,只有C涵盖了全部。B和D只是某一段里的细节,Charles Todd也只提到一次。
Why does the writer begin by describing how news reached the colonies in the 1860s?
答案: A
答案:A
想想开头和后文怎么衔接。第二段以"The telegraph offered a cure"开头,所以第一段是在交代消息过时这个问题,答案是A。C抓住了"governments waited",但那句说的是等消息,而不是决定要不要建线路。
The writer says the line's greatest effect 'may have been one that its builders did not set out to achieve'. What does the writer mean?
答案: D
答案:D
对比第二段的建线目的和最后一段的影响。建线是为了把爪哇电缆的消息传往南方,连接殖民地与英国;意外的影响是,原本面向伦敦的各殖民地开始觉得同属"one place",答案是D。C把计划和结果颠倒了;A是文中提到的好处,但作者没说它是最大的或意外的。
这几道题分别考主旨、作者意图和推断。每道题都请孩子在文中找出能证明正确答案的那一句。想再看一篇故事,请看维州精英中学考试(selective entry high schools exam)阅读样题。
ACER表示,考试测量的能力是长期培养:良好的学习氛围、丰富有趣的材料,以及自由讨论想法。放到阅读上,就是平常的家庭习惯,靠几个月的坚持,而不是突击。
每周读不同类型的文字,比如新闻、随笔、诗歌和经典小说
先问文章说了什么,再问它暗示了什么,并指出依据
查一个生词,再用它自己造一个句子
答错之后,找出能证明正确答案的那一句
新州把阅读作为单独一项考试,在电脑上进行。维州则把它和语言推理放在同一场纸笔考试里,计时涵盖两部分。如果两边都在考虑,可以看看新州精英中学阅读考试。
| 维州 | 新州精英中学 | |
|---|---|---|
| 时间与题量 | 与语言推理合计55分钟;题量尚未公布 | 45分钟17道题 |
| 考试方式 | 纸笔考试 | 在教育部提供的电脑上考 |
不是。阅读考的是读懂文章,维州精英中学考试语言推理考的是用词语、概念和逻辑思考推理。两者同场考试、共用一个计时。
不是,是我们自己编写的。ACER在它的Prepare页面提供一套可下载的样题,用来熟悉考题的风格和形式。想按真实时间完整做一遍这一场,可以试试我们的维州精英中学练习测试(界面为英文);做完后你会看到按技能分列的结果,知道该先打开哪个技能页。
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。
