第一部分 阅读题材分类

一、人物故事类

Do you know any 9-year-olds who have started their own museums？When Theodore Roosevelt（罗斯福）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（标本）. 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（观察）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.

本文介绍了美国总统西奥多·罗斯福的童年经历：9岁拥有自己的小博物馆，身体虚弱，却热爱大自然；患有哮喘，仍坚持锻炼；最终成为美国总统。

本题是问第一段的段意是什么。根据第一段第一句、第二句可知，本段的段意是“小罗斯福拥有一个小博物馆”。故答案为D。

人物故事类文章是我们平时阅读过程中经常遇到的一种题目类型，也是初中英语考试中的常考题目。此类文章大多是通过讲述一些名人故事或普通人生活中的不平凡事迹等，来激励我们学习、工作和生活。同学们在做这类题目时，除了要把握文章主旨大意、理清文章脉络以外，还要从细节上去寻找文章的内在信息联系，做到细节不疏漏。在阅读人物故事类文章时，要注意文章中的人物生平和事迹，这可能就是题目设置的点。