Ⅰ.阅读理解
The Internet can provide a wealth of educational resources for small children, if you know where to look. This article will offer some educational websites to small children. You may need to assist your children in navigating (导航) the pages until they understand where their favorite activities are.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted learning is a great website for children, and I know several teachers who rely on it for materials for their classrooms. Most of the information is free, but for $20.00 per year, you can purchase a membership that allows you to have access to the site without the advertising. The pages here are great. There are colored pages and worksheets for toddlers (学步儿童) and schoolage children. They focus on learning language, science, animals, geography, astronomy, explorers, music, art and nursery rhymes.
Starfall
Starfall is another good educational website for small children. Teachers often use this website in classrooms. It emphasizes reading skills for early learners. The website is aimed at firstgradelevel learners, but it has tools that can help all children from preK to second grade. The website has reading activities, worksheets to download, and a store where you can purchase educational materials for your children.
Sesame Street Workshop
Kids love Sesame Street, and it is always educational. This is one of the funniest websites online for children because it is very well animated and has great sound effects. The website has games and stories for small kids, and they can create letters at the post office and mail them to their favorite characters.
Sprout Online
Sprout has features on its television network, which are just for children. There are games, colored pages, recipes, music, videos, sign language activities and exercise videos for children. There are also online activities based on Sprout television shows. These include Roary the Race Car, the Wiggles, the Mighty Jungle and many others.
These are just a few of many educational websites for children. Small children love to use computers, so help them find some websites that contain fun and learning at the same time.
语篇解读：作者给父母介绍了几个教育网站，让孩子在快乐地玩耍的同时可以学习。
1．What's the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A．To introduce some educational websites to parents for their kids.
B．To let parents distinguish between good and bad websites.
C．To attract the readers to download some useful information.
D．To enrich young children's spare time with some Internet games.
解析：选A 写作目的题。根据文章第一段中“This article will offer some educational websites to small children. You may need to assist your children in navigating (导航) the pages until they understand where their favorite activities are.”可知作者是想给父母介绍一些教育网站。
2．What's the difference between people who have memberships and those who don't?
A．With a membership, you can get the information for free.
B．You can download materials you want for free with a membership.
C．With a membership, you can have access to the site without the ads.
D．You can look through more pages with a membership.
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据第二段“but for $20.00 per year, you can purchase a membership that allows you to have access to the site without the advertising”可知C项正确。
3．If you want to buy educational materials for your children, you should choose ________.
A．Enchanted Learning B．Starfall
C．Sesame Street Workshop D．Sprout Online
解析：选B 细节理解题。根据第三段“The website has reading activities, worksheets to download, and a store where you can purchase educational materials for your children”可知如果想给孩子买学习材料，应该选择Starfall。
4．Why does the Sesame Street Workshop have more fun than others?
A．Because it has games and stories for young kids.
B．Because children can mail letters to their favorite characters.
C．Because it is always educational, and children love it.
D．Because it has great sound effects and animation.
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据第四段“This is one of the funniest websites online for children because it is very well animated and has great sound effects”可知Sesame Street Workshop比其他的更有趣是因为它有很好的音响效果和动画。
