閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、 C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
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Learn With Homer
Price: Free
Grade level: Pre-K, K
Skill: Comprehension, Phonics (拼讀法)
Device: iPad
It’s a learn-to-read app for kids aged 3 to 6 that includes drawing, voice recording, stories, songs, and more, along with more traditional phonics exercises.
This app can be helpful for kids who have speech production problems and language organization problems.
Inspiration Maps
Price: $ 9.99
Grade level: 4th and above
Skill: Comprehension, Writing
Device: iPad
Inspiration Maps is a mind-mapping tool that helps kids visually (視覺上) organize ideas. They can create maps, organizers, brainstorms, and text outlines. Outlines can be changed to maps, and maps can be changed to outlines. Users can share creations by emailing, printing, or saving to iTunes, Dropbox, Photos, or the app (as PDF or PNG files) . The Lite version (簡化版本),which is free, lets kids create up to five mind maps with no sharing choices.
Aesop’s Quest
Price: $ 0.99
Skill: Comprehension
Grade level: 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Device: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Aesop’s Quest, based on Aesop’s Fables, is a learning game where the student must remember parts of a story to complete a level. At the end of each story level, the student is rewarded with tests. After solving the tests, the story is complete and the child can continue to the next story.
Developed together with the Virginia Department of Education.
Light Sail
Grade level: Pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and above
Price: Free
Skill: Comprehension
Device: iPad
Light Sail is an e-reading platform that helps teachers support their students’ independent reading. Students can use Light Sail to check out text from their schools’ online libraries and read the books directly on their iPad. As students progress through a book, questions appear to check their comprehension. As students complete these assessments (評定), they earn prizes.
1. What do the four apps have in common?
A. They try to improve kids’ comprehension ability.
B. They are developed for high-school students.
C. They can be downloaded onto iPhone.
D. They are free of charge.
2 Which app inspires users’ visual imagination?
A. Learn With Homer B. Aesop’s Quest C. Light Sail D. Inspiration Maps
3. What do we know about the app Light Sail?
A. It is developed only for teachers.
B. It is a platform to support students’ independent reading.
C. It helps users to finish their homework.
D. It develops users’ comprehension through games.
【答案】1. A 2. D 3. B
【解析】
【分析】這是一篇應(yīng)用文。文章介紹了四款旨在提高孩子們閱讀能力的應(yīng)用軟件。
【1題詳解】
細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由四款應(yīng)用中Skill部分中都提到Comprehension (閱讀理解)可知，四款應(yīng)用軟件都旨在提高孩子們的閱讀能力。故選A項。
【2題詳解】
細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由Inspiration Maps中的“Inspiration Maps is a mind-mapping tool that helps kids visually (視覺上) organize ideas. (Inspiration Maps是一種思維導(dǎo)圖工具，幫助孩子們從視覺上組織想法)”可知，Inspiration Maps可以激發(fā)孩子們的視覺想象力。故選D項。
【3題詳解】
細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由Light Sail中的“Light Sail is an e-reading platform that helps teachers support their students’ independent reading. (Light Sail是一個幫助教師支持學(xué)生自主閱讀的電子閱讀平臺)”可知，Light Sail是一個支持學(xué)生自主閱讀的平臺。故選B項。
