Question

The problem with students using Google is not that the search leader is unable to offer useful educational content. It's that finding that content using simple search terms is a difficult art to master. But some educational companies and organizations aim to make it easier to find useful educational content among the Web. They are forming a working group to come up with more detailed criteria(标准)that could eventually be added into the search lines for Google, Bing, and Yahoo !

The project was encouraged by a joint move by those major search engines to help users do more effective Web­searches. The idea behind the new education corporation is to determine a common “framework” for narrowing search results for education content—by subject area，or source type，or content type, or any number of possible criteria. The goal is also to persuade publishers of educational content to use a matching set of tags(分类)to help the search engines sort out their content more easily.

Search engines are used by college students, but they were not designed for them. This has been a subject of much  handwringing (绝望) among professors, who worry that students are not finding the most reliable content on the Internet even if more and more content providers of good fame—textbook publishers, scholars, universities and many others—have been putting useful academic resources on the open Web.

Michael Johnson, a member who will be serving on a working group devoted to developing the framework over the next six months or so, said “The project is aimed at benefiting the  publishers  of  educational  content  as  much  as students. ”

1.What may annoy students using Google to help them?

A. They can't search useful educational content at home.

B. Google doesn't provide valuable educational content.

C. It's hard to find educational content in simple and effective ways.

D. There are so many students searching the same using Google now.

2.To improve Web searches for students the working group will ________.

A. demand the major search engines offer more content

B. train more students to surf safely on the Internet

C. ask students to use more kinds of search engines

D. link better standards to the major search engines

3.What may publishers of educational content help in the joint move?

A. They should produce less educational content with better quality.

B. They can set standard tags to match with searched contents.

C. They may develop better searching software.

D. They will provide more educational content.

4.From the third paragraph we can see ________.

A. not all content providers of good fame offer reliable content

B. textbook  publishers  shouldn't put resources on the open Web

C. college professors don't believe in content on the Internet

D. college students don't know how to use search engines

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.A

【解析】谷歌带给人类的益处是毋庸置疑的，但是对于学生而言，想要精准地搜到相关的知识性的内容却非易事，现在，有人愿意为这项事业做出相关的努力了。

1.C细节理解题。第一段第一句中的“not that the search leader is unable to offer useful educational content”说明A项是错误的。第一段第二句话的“finding that content using simple search terms is a difficult...”说明真正让学生感到为难的是“沙里淘金”。故选C。

2.D细节理解题。第一段最后一句话的“more detailed criteria(标准)”和“be added into the search lines for Google，Bing，and Yahoo”是这些联合起来的团体组织形成的一个集体想出来的方法，所以答案选择D项。

3.B细节理解题。第二段最后一句话的“use a matching set of tags(分类)to help the search engines sort out their content more easily”从出版社的角度说明了他们应该怎么做才能帮助学生们更有效地搜索到所需要的信息。故选B。

4.A细节理解题。第三段第二句话的“professors，who worry that students are not finding the most reliable content”说明大学教授的担忧正是目前所存在的问题，所以答案选择A项。

【名师点睛】
在细节考查题中有一类事实细节题，它一般只针对某个特定的细节，题型可以多种多样。此类题型一般分两种。第一种是直接理解题，在原文中可以直接找到答案。第二种是词义转换题，正确选项是原文有关词语和句子的转换。做此类试题一定要抓住事件发生的时间、地点、人物、发展过程和结局等环节，所选答案一定要符合原文，切不可望文生义。本文第1小题，就属于第二种情况，第一段第一句中的“not that the search leader is unable to offer useful educational content”说明A项是错误的。第一段第二句话的“finding that content using simple search terms is a difficult...”说明真正让学生感到为难的是“沙里淘金”。 C项中的hard和文中的difficult属于同义词，故选C。