中口閱讀第二篇文章The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade取自于新東方課堂上經常提到的英美主流報刊New York Times(2008年1月14日) 話題屬于教育類和醫(yī)療健康類交叉話題。

從體裁上看，依然沒有逃離Research研究類型文章的大體框架。文章內容是有違傳統的早期的鳥兒有蟲吃的思路，而是一反常規(guī)，提出了學生早期會影響到他們的學習效率，建議能夠推遲上課時間。所以第10題文章主旨是starting the first class late is advantageous in more than one way.

IT’S Monday morning, and you’re having trouble waking your teenagers. You’re not alone. Indeed, each morning, few of the country’s 17 million high school students are awake enough to get much out of their first class, particularly if it starts before 8 a.m. Sure, many of them stayed up too late the night before, but not because they wanted to. 第一段是以一個現象導入，不需要細讀，直接去找下面一段的對例子的總結句。

Research shows that teenagers’ body clocks are set to a schedule that is different from that of younger children or adults. This prevents adolescents from dropping off until around 11 p.m., when they produce the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin, and waking up much before 8 a.m. when their bodies stop producing melatonin.

在研究類型文章中，文章的總結句多是以research/result/expert shows為開頭，第6題的出題點也恰恰是在這二段里，人的body clock是受到了一種叫做melatonin的人體分泌物的影響，所以第6題應該選擇A。

The result is that the first class of the morning is often a waste, with as many as 28 percent of students falling asleep, according to a National Sleep Foundation poll. Some are so sleepy they don’t even show up, contributing to failure and dropout rates.

第三段的重點依然是落在了the result is that…這樣一個結論句上面，說明起得早會影響第一節(jié)課的效率，對于有數字出現的內容則不用祥讀。

Here’s an idea: stop focusing on testing and instead support changing the hours of the school day, starting it later for teenagers and ending it later for all children. Indeed, no one does well when they’re sleep-deprived, but insufficient sleep among children has been linked to obesity and to learning issues like attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. You’d think this would spur educators to take action, and a few have.

考生應該非常熟悉這一個詞組 “Here’s an idea”后面提到了具體的解決方法：停止應試教育，把學校的上課時間和下課時間推遲。第七題的細節(jié)題依然也是圍繞著主題：缺乏睡眠產生的影響，諸如obesity肥胖和attention scant注意力不集中的問題。

In 2002, high schools in Jessamine County in Kentucky pushed back the first bell to 8:40 a.m., from 7:30 a.m. Attendance immediately went up, as did scores on standardized tests, which have continued to rise each year. Districts in Virginia and Connecticut have achieved similar success. In Minneapolis and Edina,

Minn., which instituted high school start times of 8:40 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. respectively in 1997, students’ grades rose slightly and lateness, behavioral problems and dropout rates decreased. Later is also safer. When high schools in Fayette County in Kentucky delayed their start times to 8:30 a.m., the number of teenagers involved in car crashes dropped, even as they rose in the state.

第8題根據題型考的是并列考點，應該選擇的是C選項，雖然C選項在該段中出現了，但是C是誤選項，因為推遲上課時間是導致青少年事故率下跌，但是整體的事故率還是上升的。

So why hasn’t every school board moved back that first bell? Well, it seems that improving teenagers’ performance takes a back seat to more pressing concerns: the cost of additional bus service, the difficulty of adjusting after-school activity schedules and the inconvenience to teachers and parents.

But few of these problems actually come to pass, according to the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota. In Kentucky and Minnesota, simply flipping the starting times for the elementary and high schools meant no extra cost for buses.

There are other reasons to start and end school at a later time. According to Paul Reville, a professor of education policy at Harvard and chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Education, “Trying to cram everything our 21st-century students need into a 19th-century six-and-a-half-hour day just isn’t working.” He says that children learn more at a less frantic pace, and that lengthening the school day would help “close the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and their better-off peers.”