新考向 跨学科综合
Students in middle schools have to learn almost eight subjects every week. What's your favourite subject? What subject is easy for you to learn? To know more about students' favourite subject, we did a survey of 1,200 students in No.2 Middle School. And the results are shown in Diagram（图表）Ⅰ.

Diagram Ⅰ What's your favourite subject?
From Diagram Ⅰ, we can know that maths is the least popular（最不受欢迎的）subject in school. Why is that? We did a second survey of the students whose favourite subject is not maths and the results are shown in Diagram Ⅱ.

Diagram Ⅱ Why don't you like maths?
Although maths is difficult, we still believe that it is a useful and important subject because everyone has to use maths each day. To make students be more interested in maths, the headmaster（校长）in No.2 Middle School even organizes（组织）some activities, such as calculation（计算）games and brain teaser（智力测验）games.
“Do you like maths? Is maths your favourite subject? Do you like to play with numbers? If so, please let more students enjoy learning maths! Because maths is really an important subject,” said Mr Wang, the headmaster.
()20. Diagram Ⅰ is the survey about students' favourite .
A. foods
B. subjects
C. sports
D. birthday gifts
()21. From Diagram Ⅰ, we can know that students like best.
A. English and Chinese
B. history and biology
C. geography and Chinese
D. maths and biology
()22. From Diagram Ⅱ, we can know students think maths is difficult for them.
A. 456
B. 540
C. 180
D. 324
()23. Maths is a useful and important subject because .
A. it is really difficult for students
B. it is very interesting for students
C. everyone needs to use it every day
D. everyone is interested in it
()24. From the last paragraph, we can infer（推断）that .
A. students in No.2 Middle School don't like maths at all
B. students in No.2 Middle School enjoy learning maths
C. the headmaster himself really likes to play with numbers
D. the headmaster hopes more students can enjoy learning maths

20—24 B B D C D
20. B 细节理解题。根据第一段可知,图表Ⅰ是关于学生最喜欢的科目的调查,故选 B 项。
21. B 细节理解题。根据图表Ⅰ可知,学生们最喜欢历史和生物,故选 B 项。
22. D 细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句可知,为什么不喜欢数学的调查是在最喜欢的科目不是数学的学生中进行的;结合第一段倒数第二句及图表Ⅰ可知,最喜欢的科目不是数学的人共有 720 人;再结合图表Ⅱ可知,认为数学很难的同学占比 45%,因此共有 324 名学生认为数学很难。故选 D 项。
23. C 细节理解题。根据第三段的“Although maths is difficult, we still believe that it is a useful and important subject because everyone has to use maths each day.”可知选 C 项。
24. D 推理判断题。根据最后一段可推知,校长希望更多的学生喜欢学习数学,故选 D 项。