第一部分 閱讀題材分類

一、人物故事類

Do you know any 9-year-olds who have started their own museums？When Theodore Roosevelt（羅斯福）was only nine，he and two of his cousins opened the “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History”. The museum was in Theodore's bedroom. It had a total of 12 specimens（標本）. On display were a few seashells，some dead insects and some birds'nests. Young Roosevelt took great pride in his small museum.

Born in New York in 1858，Theodore Roosevelt was not always healthy.“I was a sickly，delicate boy，” he once wrote. Roosevelt had a health condition called asthma（哮喘）. He often found it hard to breathe. Instead of playing，he observed（觀察）nature and then read and wrote about it.

Roosevelt's interest in nature sometimes got him into trouble. Once, his mother found several dead mice in the icebox. She ordered him to throw them out. "This was indeed 'a loss to science'," Roosevelt said later.

(　　) What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

A. Roosevelt's museum had 12 specimens.

B. Roosevelt had two cousins.

C. Roosevelt was a brave man.

D. Roosevelt had a small museum as a boy.

本文介紹了美國總統西奧多·羅斯福的童年經歷：9歲擁有自己的小博物館，身體虛弱，卻熱愛大自然；患有哮喘，仍堅持鍛煉；最終成為美國總統。

本題是問第一段的段意是什么。根據第一段第一句、第二句可知，本段的段意是“小羅斯福擁有一個小博物館”。故答案為D。

人物故事類文章是我們平時閱讀過程中經常遇到的一種題目類型，也是初中英語考試中的常考題目。此類文章大多是通過講述一些名人故事或普通人生活中的不平凡事跡等，來激勵我們學習、工作和生活。同學們在做這類題目時，除了要把握文章主旨大意、理清文章脈絡以外，還要從細節上去尋找文章的內在信息聯系，做到細節不疏漏。在閱讀人物故事類文章時，要注意文章中的人物生平和事跡，這可能就是題目設置的點。