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　　对于PTE阅读考试，你遇到哪些问题了。下面小编给大家分享一篇真题阅读，实际应用才是关键。

　　Practice 1

　　The Turks and Caicos Islands are a multi-island archipelago at the southern tip of the Bahamas chain, approximately 550 miles south-east of Florida. The islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom although they exercise a high degree of local political autonomy. The economy of the islands rests mainly on tourism, with some contribution from offshore banking and fishing. Primary schooling is divided into eight grades, with most pupils entering at the age of four years and leaving at twelve. After two kindergarten years, Grades 1-6 are covered by a graded curriculum in maths, language and science that increases in difficulty as pupils get older. There is little repetition and pupils are expected to progress through primary school in their age cohorts. At the end of primary schooling, pupils sit an examination that serves to stream them in the secondary setting. Primary and secondary school enrolment is virtually universal. There are a total of ten government primary schools on the islands. Of these, seven are large enough to organize pupils into single grade classrooms. Pupils in these schools are generally grouped by age into mixed-ability classes. The remaining three schools, because of their small pupil numbers, operate with multigrade groupings. They serve communities with small populations whose children cannot travel to a neighbouring larger primary school. Pupils in these classes span up to three grade and age groups. As far as classroom organization is concerned, the multigrade and monograde classrooms are similar in terms of the number of pupils and the general seating arrangements, with pupils in rows facing the blackboard. There is no evidence that the multigrade teachers operate in a particularly resource-poor environment in the Turks and Caicos Islands. This is in contract to studies conducted in other developing country contexts.

　　According to the text, which of the following statements can be concluded about primary classes in the Turks and Caicos Islands?

　　Most primary pupils are in mixed-ability classes.

　　Most primary pupils are in multigrade classes.

　　Parents can choose to send their child to a multigrade school.

　　Multigrade classes are for the youngest three grades.

　　Multigrade classes are mostly found in smaller schools.

　　解题过程：

　　迅速看题目缩小范围：primary classes

　　看选项发现关键的定位词：multigrade classes

　　快速浏览文章后发现第一段完全没用，与题目无关

　　扫到关键词，从第二段开始重点看，带着选项边看边找：

　　Primary schooling is divided into eight grades, with most pupils entering at the age of four years and leaving at twelve. After two kindergarten years, Grades 1-6 are covered by a graded curriculum in maths, language and science that increases in difficulty as pupils get older. There is little repetition and pupils are expected to progress through primary school in their age cohorts. At the end of primary schooling, pupils sit an examination that serves to stream them in the secondary setting. Primary and secondary school enrolment is virtually universal. There are a total of ten government primary schools on the islands. Of these, seven are large enough to organize pupils into single grade classrooms (排除选项2，10个里面7个算most，single grade和multigrade正好相反). Pupils in these schools are generally grouped by age into mixed-ability classes (确定选项1正确). The remaining three schools, because of their small pupil numbers, operate with multigrade groupings (确定选项5正确). They serve communities with small populations whose children cannot travel to a neighbouring larger primary school (排除选项3, 从whose children看出是在说只服务那些交通不便的parents). Pupils in these classes span up to three grade and age groups (排除选项4，没说youngest).

　　最后一段就基本排除了

　　答案：1、5

　　总结：这道题有些干扰段落，需要考生先从题目和选项中确定范围和目标对象再看原文比对，不要在和题目无关的信息上浪费时间;小编看完全文也不确定multigrade classes的准确概念，但是并不妨碍判断选项，PTE中很多对象词你可能不懂，但是你要看懂限定这个词的范围和观点。

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