Huangcui 黄萃Xinqiao Middle School.ppt

* * * * * * * Huangcui 黄萃 Xinqiao Middle School How to do cloze tests? 高考总体要求 完形填空全面考查学生的语言知识、阅读理解能力和总体语言水平。 解题过程是对语篇中的缺失信息进行猜测、推断、验证的过程，通常我们可以借助语篇的上下文线索以及文化背景知识等进行解题。 Brief introduction Step1 Skip(跳读) the passage to get the general idea and pay attention to the first sentence. In the cloze test, there is no blank in the first sentence (首句). It helps us to know the topic of the whole passage.(完形填空首句不挖空，帮助进入语境） Skip the following passage and try to get the general idea of it. The birthrate in Europe has been in a steady decrease since the 1960s. European countries, realizing crisis is at hand, are providing great encouragement for parents to create more babies in the 21st century. Affairs Ministry concluded last year that, 1 cash encouragement, some women just don’t want to be 2 holding the baby. “What we know is that it’s good for the 3 if men and women share the burden of having children”says Soren Kindlund, family policy adviser at the Swedish ministry. 4 Swedish parents can take their paid leave as they wish, men use a mere 12% of it; 60% of fathers do not take even a (n) 5 day off work. Experts fear that the tendency for women to use most of the parental leave could make employers 6 to give young women the permanent（永久的） jobs they need to qualify for paid maternity leave (产假). In January, Sweden decided to allow new fathers two months’ paid leave, with a warming: use it or 7 it. Kindlund admits that men are under 8 to stay at work, even though parental pay comes out of the public purse. “It’s not popular among bosses and perhaps with other men in the workplace,” he says. “But it’s good for the father and for the child if they can 9 a relationship.” In Norway, a(n) 10 policy has worked wonders. 70% of dads in Norway now take parental leave, and the birthrate of 1.85 children per woman is one of the highest in Europe. (2004上海卷） General idea: In Europ