2020年【中考英语原创】阅读理解5
英语阅读理解
湖南省长沙县实验中学刘松（188********）
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A new study finds a lack of education for young children in developing nations seriously affects the country's economic progress. The organization Results for Development called R4D performed the study. The Non-Governmental group is based in Washington D.C. Its study says children who are not attending primary school are an unused source of economic growth for their country.
R4D says it performed the study because it was worried about a growing worldwide problem in education.
Milan Thomas works for R4D. He says there has been progress in reducing the number of ch
ildren who do not attend school, but he says that progress has slowed in recent years. He says there is no disagreement that children with basic education can look forward to a better life.
"The benefits associated with primary education are really undisputed at this point because there are countless studies showing that children who complete basic education tend to enjoy better health and higher incomes over their lifetimes," said Thomas.
But he says even though the value of education is known, it is important to find new ways of proving that value. So the organization led its work with the question, "what is the estimated cost to a nation's economy of its out–of-school children? "
The study uses information from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, as well as studies of developing labor markets. The results estimate the losses suffered by 20 developing countries if more young children can not get basic education. Milan Thomas says the study also considered earnings the children not attending primary school would never receive.
He says the research found that it is far more costly in sub-Saharan Africa to have primary school age children out of school than to educate them. He notes the cost to provide all children with primary education is much less than the average cost of not providing the schooling.
He says he hopes the study will prove to local governments and policy makers the value of a basic education for all children. And he says he hopes it will move them to provide that education to primary school age children in their country.
56. What kind of organization is R4D?
A. Results for Development
B. State owned group
C. Private group
D. Economic group
57. What does the underlined word undisputed in the fourth paragraph mean?
A. Doubtful
B. Hopeful
defendingC. Important
D. Certain
58. What do R4D find in their study?
A. 20 developing countries suffer the losses.
B. Not providing schooling cost more than educating children.
C. The number of children not attending school is increasing.
D. An educated person live a better life.
59. According to Milan Thomas, what should the government do?
A. To provide basic education to all children.
B. To provide the value of education to all children.
C. To develop economy first.
D. To send more students to study abroad.
【要点综述】
文章主旨：本文为一篇科技报道，R4D组织对教育在经济发展中的影响进行了研究。文章分为三段五层，第一段即第一层，介绍了R4D这一组织及其研究中的发现。
第二段可分为三层，第一层讲教育对小孩未来生活的影响；第二层讲研究数据的来源；
第三层讲教育对经济的影响。第三段即第五层对政府的建议。
56. C【解释】细节理解题。根据问题中在文章第一段中到信息句The
Non-Governmental group is based in Washington D.C. 比较选项可知，Non-Governmental
group与Private group意思相当，于是答案选C。
57. D【解释】词义猜测题。根据后面的原因because there are countless studies
showing that children who complete basic education tend to enjoy better health and higher incomes over their lifetimes可知，benefit与primary education相联系是必然的。比较选项意思可知，答案D。
58. B【解释】信息理解题。根据第7段He says the research found that it is far more
costly in sub-Saharan Africa to have primary school age children out of school than to educate them.结合选项比较可知，不提供学校教育在社会生产中成本会更高，于是答案选B。
59. A【解释】意图理解题。根据文章最后一段，尤其是最后一句And he says he
hopes it will move them to provide that education to primary school age children in their country.可知，他希望政府给孩子们提供教育，于是答案选A。
56—59. CDBA
B
New research suggests that speaking more than one language may delay different kinds of dementia, that is the lost of mental ability. In fact, researchers say, speaking two languages appears to be more important than the level of education in defending against dementias.
A study in India examined the effect of knowing more than one language in delaying the first signs of several disorders, these included Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, Lewy bodies dementia and mixed dementias. Researchers studied nearly 650 people whose average age was 66. 240 of those studied suffered from Alzheimer's, the most common form of mental decline.

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