La Forum des Halles就位于忙碌的La Halle-Chatelet地铁站旁边,从巴黎各地都可以很容易就到达。故B项正确。
【点睛】新闻广告类材料是热门考题。其文句简练,信息量大,句式使用简单,表达方式多样,但阅读这类题目也是有规律可循的。
1.品位广告、新闻的标题,预测其内容。阅读广告时,要注意广告中涉及的人物,物品,时间,数字,联系人及方式地址。阅读新闻时,要抓住新闻的特点即何时何处何人发生何事,其经过和结果怎样。
2.要抓住书写广告的文体或图片,注意用大写、下划线等方式加以提示的文字。
3.解题技巧①快速浏览广告、新闻,从标题中预测内容及涉及的类别。②浏览问题,寻找答案。注意地点和时间的多样化造成的误选。③复读材料,核实答案。例如小题1,根据题干可定位在第三段第二句"In fact, the flagship store is the second most visited attraction in Paris, after the Louvre Museum.",因此可知,卢浮宫是游客最多的景点。故选A项。
Earlier this month, the University of Glasgow in Scotland launched a course entitled: D'oh! The Simpsons Introduce Philosophy. The course's aim is to ease students into the typically heavy topic by relating it to the popular cartoon family.
"The Simpsons is one of the modern world's greatest cultural artifacts, partly because it is so full of philosophy," John Donaldson, creator of the course, told the BBC. "Aristotle, Kant, Marx, Camus and many other great thinkers' ideas are represented in what is arguably the purest of philosophical forms - the comic cartoon."
While this may seem like an unusual way to attract pupils to a traditionally dull topic, this class isn't the first of its kind. In 2009, Liverpool Hope University in the UK began offering a master's degree on the music of internationally known 60's group The Beatles, which still runs today. The following year, the UK's Durham University gave students the chance to enroll on a Harry Potter-themed module, covering contents such as "Gryffindor and Slytherin: prejudice and intolerance in the classroom" and "muggles and magic".
To some, these courses may seem like a waste of a valuable education, but Donaldson believes that packaging certain topics into something easier to relate to will enhance the learning experience, without distraction from the main