【备考2014】江苏高考英语查漏补缺精品课件：3.1 主旨大意题.pptVIP

【解析】选B。主旨大意题。从文章通篇可知，文章讲到的是由芝加哥花园城市的建立到伦敦花园城市的建立，再到文章第二段、第三段讲到的花园城市建立需要的一些条件和建立的模式可知，文章重点是围绕花园城市的创立来展开的。 【误区警示】A选项中心词与文章全文不相符合；C选项芝加哥新城只是文章开头的引入，后面通篇围绕花园城市展开，故不正确；D选项的英格兰花园城市只是花园城市的一个典型代表，并没有进行通篇描述这一个花园城市，而是转入花园城市的总体建立条件和模式展开。 【长难句分析】After immigrating from England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. 分析：前半部分是由并列连词and 连接的动名词短语和名词短语作时间状语，后半部分是由where引导的一个非限制性定语从句, 修饰Chicago。 译文：从英国移民到美国，在通过种地谋生失败以后，他搬到了芝加哥，在那里他亲眼目睹了这个城市经历过1871年毁灭性的火灾之后进行的重建。 E (2010·湖北·C) 【话题】社会生活 词数: 400w 难度: ★★★★ They wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessories (配饰). Yet these are not girls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies. A generation which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now favouring the same high street looks worn by those half their age. Professor Julia Twigg, a social policy expert, said, “Women over 75 are now shopping for clothes more frequently than they did when they were young in the 1960s. In the 1960s buying a coat for a woman was a serious matter. It was an expensive item that they would purchase only every three or four years—now you can pick one up at the supermarket whenever you wish to. Fashion is a lot cheaper and people get tired of things more quickly. ” Professor Twigg analysed family expenditure (支出) data and found that while the percentage of spending on clothes and shoes by women had stayed around the same—at 5 or 6 per cent of spending—the amount of clothes bought had risen sharply. The professor said, “Clothes are now 70 percent cheaper than they were in the 1960s because of the huge expansion of production in the Far East. In the 1960s Leeds was the heart of the British fashion industry and that was where most of the clothes came from, but now almost all of our clothes are Their climb of Half Dome was not all smooth.