GCT系统班英语讲义
胡英歌  编讲
Part One: Reading Comprehension
第一节：题型概述。
 细节题，语义理解题，主旨大意题，推断题，态度题。
第二节：剖析各个题型及应试技巧
一．细节题
1. The judges look for creativity, technical skill, and overall impact on the viewer. The winner does not receive any money. “There is no cash prize because the event began with the concept of global camaraderie(情谊).” DeWall explained. Instead of focusing on money, she continued, “winners revel(纵情) in the friendship, the art, and the hard work.”
Q：The winners enjoy all of the following EXCEPT ________ .
A. the cash prize      B. the friendship        C. the art        D. the hard work

2. Tony Huesman, a heart transplant recipient (接受者) who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ, has died at age 51 of leukemia (白血病), but his heart still going strong. "He had leukemia," his widow Carol Huesman said, "His heart—believe it or not—held out. His heart never gave up until the end, when it had to."
Huesman got a heart transplant in 1978 at Stanford University. …
…Huesman told the Dayton Daily News in 2006…
Huesman's sister, Linda Huesman Lamb, also was stricken with the same problem and received a heart transplant in 1983. The two were the nation's first brother and sister heart transplant recipients. She died in 1991 at age 29.(2010-text3)
Q：Tony Huesman died in the year of _______.
A. 1983        B. 1991         C. 2006         D. 2009
笔记：
3. The highest income bracket households those earning more than $75,000 annually, are 20 times as likely to have access to the Internet as households at the lowest income levels, under $10,000 annually. The computer penetration rate at the high-income level is an amazing 76.56 percent, compared wuth 8 percent at the bottom end of the scale.
Q：According to the text, the computer use by the high-income level is ____ that by the lowest income levels.
  A. 8 percent more than              B. 76.56 percent more than 
C. nearly 10 times as many as        D. about 20 times as many as
4. Happy hours are not necessarily happy, not do they last for an hour, but they have become a part of the ritual of the office worker and businessman.
Q:  For office workers and businessmen the happy hour is their_______ .
A、professional requirement   B、regular practice    C、refreshing break  D、unpaid work
笔记：

二．语义理解题目
5. Aiming for Success doesn’t mean you are greedy or dissatisfied．It is a11 part of gaining new experiences and dimensions in life．It finally makes you a more interesting and useful person in society．（2008-text3）
Q.  The word ‘dimensions’ in the last paragraph possibly means_________．
   A. directions     B. aspects C. lessons   D. ambitions
笔记：
6. In January, the NBA went back to using the traditional leather balls. They aren’t perfect, but for now, that’s just the way the ball bounces. (2007-text3)
25. In the last paragraph , “that’s just the way the ball bounces” probably means_____.
A. tradition offers the best choice
B. the ball bounces ass best it can
C. the NBA made a mistake
D, the ball bounces perfectly
笔记：
7. Not everyone is leaping to move into a green building, however. Some people think that features such as solar panels cost more money than more traditional energy sources. Despite this, Dettling hopes that green buildings will become common in the future. “It’s going to be big,” she said.（2003-Text1）
Q：What did Marty Dettling mean when she said “It’s going to be big”?
A.    Green buildings have a great potential.
B.    People expect bigger green buildings.
C.    Green buildings will be larger in size.
D.    People prefer to live in bigger buildings.
8. If you’ve got a tendency to prioritize long-term happiness at the expense of day-to-day pleasures, you should start looking for some small ways to bring a little joy back into your life.
14. The word “prioritize” (last paragraph) probably means “______” (2011-text2)
A. treat something as more important than others
B. improve something’s value of quality
C. put extra emphasis on something
D. look for something that is difficult to find
笔记：

三．文章/段落主旨大意题目
9. Do people stop once they have achieved something? No! In life，we are always trying to do things better or having more of the Same success．Jane Fonda moved from being an Academy Award actress to a successful businesswoman．Her aerobics(有氧体操)workout videos have been sold, around the world．（2008-text2）
Q:  What might be a proper title for this passage?
    A．Success Is No Destination
    B．Success Comes the Hard Way
    C．A Small Success Also Counts
    D. Everyone Can Be Successful
10. Why are mobiles so popular? Because people love to talk to each other. And it is easier with a mobile phone. In countries like Russia and China, people use mobile phone in places where there is no ordinary telephone. Business people use mobiles when they’re traveling. In some countries, like Japan, many people use their mobile phones to send e-mail message and access the Internet. They use a new kind of mobile phone called “i-mode”. You can even use a mobile phone listen to music.
Mobile phones are very fashionable with teenagers. Parents buy mobile phones for their children. They can call home if they are in trouble and need help. So they feel safer. But teenagers mostly use them to keep in touch with their friends or play simple computer games. It’s cool to be the owner of a small expensive mobile. Research shows that teenage owners of mobile phone smoke less. Parents and schools are happy that teenagers are safer and smoke less.
But many people dislike them. They hate it when the businessman opposite them on the train has a loud conversation on his phone, or when mobile phones ring in a café or restaurant. But there is a much more serious problem. It’s possible that mobile phone can heat up the brain because we hold the phone so closed to our bead. Scientists fear that mobiles can perhaps be bad for your memory and even give you cancer.
Q: Which of the following can be the title of this passage?
A. Why Are Mobile So Popular?
B. Mobiles—Useful or Useless
C. Mobile—A Danger to health?
D. Why Do We Design Mobile?

11. This makes a lot of sense, as animals that hide away in a cave or a tree hole are protected by their physical shelters from a variable environment outside, while hibernators enjoy a flexible metabolism (新陈代谢) that can help them adapt to a changing climate.
Q:  In the last paragraph the author________.
    A、compares the behaviors of sleepers and hiders
    B、offers an explanation for the survival of sleepers and hiders
    C、analyzes how a changing environment affects SLOH-ers
D、emphasizes what can be learned from SLOH-ers
笔记：文章主旨题或段落主旨题首先关注文章或段落的首尾句，一般答案在那里。另外需要特别注意的是，关注文章中间段落有没有明显的转折词出现，如果出现，文章主旨就在讲该事物的两个方面。

四．推断题
12. “The ancient athlete became celebrities(名人), just like today. They often lived the rest of their lives being treated to free dinners.” Cerrato said, “City-states even tried to steal away each other’s athletes by offering them various awards.”  (2005-Text2)
Q:  It can be inferred from the fourth paragraph that __________ .
A. the ancient athletes liked to celebrate their victories
B. free dinners were offered during the competition
C. city-states competed with each other to win the Olympics
D. awards were often stolen to honor the athletes
笔记：
13. Because of the dead-air space that might be missed by hot air bouncing around above a fire, smoke detectors should be installed either on the ceiling at least four inches from the nearest wall, or high on a wall at least four, but no further than twelve, inches from the ceiling.
Q. The passage implies that dead-air space is most likely to be found _______________.
    A. on a ceiling four inches away from a wall
    B. near an open window
    C. close to where a wall meets a ceiling
    D. in kitchens and garages
五．态度题
14.见讲义附件2010年真题Q30
15. When scientists describe dolphins’ communicative skills, their tone is rather___.(2007—text1)
A. affirmative          B. speculative     C. playful             D. negative
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Part Two  Cloze