2020屆高考英語閱讀理解之主旨大意題復習

in 1910, minor left broadmoor for an asylum in his native america. murray was at the port to wave goodbye to his remarkable friend.
minor died in 1920, seven years before the first edition of the oxford english dictionary was completed. the 12 volumes defined 414,825 words, and thousands of them were contributions from a very scholarly and devoted asylum patient.
66. what does the text mainly talk about?
a. the history of the english language.
b. the friendship between murray and minor
c. minor and the first oxford english dictionary
d. broadmoor asylum and is patients
66.【答案】c
【解析】文章的關鍵詞有兩個：minor和oxford dictionary，主要講述mr. minor的特別之處和他對oxford dictionary的貢獻，因此文章的大意應該把這兩個詞都包括進去。
【考點定位】考查文章的主旨大意。

b組      -XX年全國高考題組
1.【浙江卷a】
one evening in february , a student named paula ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in wales. she got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path .that’s when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. her renault clio was parked across a railway line. seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.
ceely’s near miss made the news because she blamed it on he gps (導航儀). she had never driven the route before. it was dark and raining heavily. ceely was relying on her gps, but it made no mention of the crossing. “i put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train,” she told the bbc.
who is to blame here? rick stevenson, who tells ceely’s story in his book when machines fail us, points the finger at the limitations of technology. we put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. they are filled with small problems. and it’s not just gps devices: stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyboards.
the problem with his argument in the book is that it’s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. a map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. maybe we should blame ceely for not paying attention. perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor singalling system. or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the gps equipment. but stevenson doesn’t say.
it’s a problem that runs through the book. in a section on cars, stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat computer-based locking systems for cars. he offers two independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the country. he says that once again not all new locks have proved reliable. perhaps, but maybe it’s also due to the shortage of policemen on the streets. or changing social circumstances. or some combination of these factors.