The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat. USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67,000 birds over the next ten years. And it gives the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress. Overall, the idea is to let “states remain in the driver’s seat for managing the species,” Ashe said.
29.According to Ashe, the leading role in managing the species is____.
① Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned.② School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual.③ Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a students academic grade.
21. It is implied in Paragraph 1 that nowadays homework____.
[A]. is receiving more criticism
[B]. is no longer an educational ritual
[C]. is not required for advanced courses
[D]. is gaining more preferences
本題按照大多數考生的習慣,通過homework定位回原文發現homework以不同的形式出現在很多地方,如第一句的原詞,和代詞it等,不能準確定位到一句話,故homework不是我們要找的關鍵詞。這時考慮題干中另外一個有價值的信息nowadays,發現沒有原詞復現。這種情況下我們去尋找這兩個信息的同義替換,發現homework無同義替換,nowadays對應第一句的in recent years,其他地方未出現,并且句中的it也對應題干中的homework,故nowadays為關鍵詞,且本句為解題句,通過has been scorned與criticism之間的對應關系選出A選項。
① Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not.② Children were not color-coded at all until the early 20th century, in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.③ What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.④ When nursery colors were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine color, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength.⑤ Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolized femininity.⑥ It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
27. According to Para.2, which of the following is true of colors?
[A] colors encoded in girl’s DNA
[B] blue used to be regarded as the color for girls
[C] pink used to be a neutral color in symbolizing genders
[D] white is preferred by babies
本題通過唯一的一個題干信息定位回原文模糊定位段落的第四句,發現無法解題,所以只能通過選項關鍵詞定位回原文逐一排除。[A]選項通過girl’s DNA定位回第一句,發現最后說it is not,說明粉色并不是編輯在女性DNA中的,與題干中的color以及后半句表述都不符合,排除;[B]選項通過blue定位到原文第五句,刪除中間插入成分后,主干為“藍色象征著女性氣質”,與[B]選項“女性被認為是女子的顏色”是同義替換,故答案為[B]選項;[C]通過pink定位回原文第四句,說的是粉色被認為是更男性化的顏色,與[C]選項說的粉色是中性的顏色不符,排除;[D]選項通過white與babies定位回原文發現并未提及‘prefer偏好’的相關信息,排除。