总体态势  整体平稳局部微调

      纵观整个新考纲，2008高考英语《考纲》变动的具体情况可以用八个字概括：整体平稳，局部微调。正好暗合高考历来坚持的两个有利于原则，即“有利于中学素质教育的推进；有利于高校选拔人才”。

      整体平稳的根本原因在于，《考纲》背后还有一个《教学大纲》。为了稳定高中教学，作为指挥棒的高考大纲不宜频繁变动,因此,在确定了考查形式和内容之后，一般会保持几年的持续和稳定。本次新《考纲》中明确说明了命题的依据仍然是2000年颁布的《高中英语教学大纲（实验修订版）》。由于作为命题依据的《教学大纲》没有调整，高考考查的内容就基本没有变化，只是在试题的具体表现形式上有所改进和完善。基于此认识，同学们没有必要过分在意《考纲》的调整，而应该注重“向基础回归，向课本靠拢”。只要同学们熟练掌握了《教学大纲》要求的语言知识和语言技能，也就具有了面对任何题目的信心和勇气以及夺取高分的基础和前提。

      局部微调是因为万众瞩目的高考命题也应体现与时俱进的精神。时代在进步，社会在发展，这一切都影响到每一届参加高考的学子们。为了更好地完成选拔人才的重要职能，高考试题应该对时代的变化有所体现，所以需要在稳定的前提下不断发展不断创新。同时，虽然《教学大纲》没有变化，但是知识的纲领、教学的依据——《新课程标准》颁布已经有些时日，高考“积渐变而成质变”的思路必定也会在2008年的试卷中有所体现。

      实战演练1  单项选择

      1. This magazine is very ____ with young people, who like its content and style.
      A. familiar  B. popular  C. similar   D. particular

      2. Emergency line operators must always ___ calm and make sure that they get all the information they need to send help.
      A. grow    B. appear    C. become   D. stay

      3. Despite such a big difference in _____ towards what one eats, there is no doubt that people in the west regard the Chinese food as something special.
      A. point     B. idea    C. attitude     D. sight

      4. If the firms failed to make enough money, they would _____.
      A. close down      B. call off      C. turn down        D. set off

      5. She devoted herself _____ to her research and it earned her a good reputation in her field.
      A. strongly   B. extremely  C. entirely   D. freely

      6. People try to avoid public transportation delays by using their own cars, and this _____ creates further problems.
      A. in short          B. in case       C. in doubt          D. in turn

      7. If we can _____ our present difficulties, then everything should be all right.
      A. come across           B. get over
      C. come over             D. get off

      8. He began to take political science ___ only when he left school.
      A. strictly   B. truly   C. carefully   D. seriously

      9. Surely it doesn’t matter where the student associations get their money from; what ___ is what they do with it.
      A. counts   B. applies   C. stresses  D. functions

      10. Water can absorb and give off a lot of heat without big changes in temperature, thus creating a _____ environment.
      A. peaceful  B. sensitive  C. common  D. stable

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