题目
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Is it true that children learn a foreign language more efficiently than adults? On the contrary, research studies suggest that the opposite may be true. One report, on 2,000 Danish children studying Swedish, concluded that the teenagers learned more, in less time, than the younger children. Another report, on Americans learning Russian, showed a direct improvement of ability over the age range tested; that is, the ability to learn increased as the age increased, from childhood to adulthood.
There are several possible explanations for these findings. For one thing, adults know more about the world and therefore are able to understand meanings more easily than children. Moreover, adults can use logical(逻辑的) thinking to help themselves see patterns in the language. Finally, adults have more self-discipline (self-control) than children.
All in all, it seems that the common idea that children are better language learners than adults may not be a fact, but a myth.
小题1:The main idea of the passage is that .
A.teenagers are more difficult to teach |
B.Danish teenagers can learn Swedish faster than younger children |
C.adults are more logical than children |
D.the ability to learn languages increases with age |
A.at an early age | B.when they reach their twenties |
C.at an old age | D.after they become young men |
A.harder | B.more efficiently | C.more slowly | D.more carefully |
A.adults have more self-discipline |
B.adults like to play more than children |
C.adults have more knowledge than children |
D.adults accept new things more easily than children |
A.adults know more about the world. | B.adults can use logical thinking |
C.adults have more self-discipline. | D.adults can read better. |
答案
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:D
解析
核心考点
试题【Most people think that the older you get, the harder it is to learn a new langua】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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One of the most popular outdoor training programmes in both the US and Britain is Outward Bound(户外训练).It was founded in 1941 in Wales and attracts hundreds of thousands of adventurous types every year. The courses are intended to broaden minds through experiences that build confidence, self-esteem(自尊)and character.As well as specialist courses such as canoeing,leadership skills and sailing,participants can take part in week long adventure training camps which include a host of sports and survival training education skills.
Michael Williams,an American student,took part in an Outward Bound course last year.He said:“We learned lots of first aid skills,lots of natural history ,lots of environmental facts, and participated in a wildlife preservation programme.Beyond that,my favorite skills learned were sailing and rock climbing.”Courses can last up to 40 days and are open to anyone over the age of 14.Students must be in general good health,but do not need to be experienced in outdoor-sports.There is no selection process;everyone is welcome,although new participants are advised to pick a course matching their physical capacity.Most of the British courses take place in the Brecon Beacons in Wales.Another similar organization is the UK Survival School,which includes courses on learning to 1ive with the environment, sailing and winter survival.On a basic survival weekend students will learn how to get water and food, how to make fire and cook with it,to find and build a shelter,control survival life support,how to cross rivers.Send off a distress signal,and to use compasses(指南针)by day and night.
According to the leaders,such adventures are “an awakening, an exploration into the unknown.”Outward Bound believes that participants will “use mind and body traveling some of the Earth’s roughest wilderness areas.”
小题1:In Britain and the United States,survival courses are popular with .
A.old people | B.young people | C.dangerous people | D.weak people |
A.participants can make friends with others |
B.participants can visit some places of interest |
C.participants can experience different adventures |
D.participants can learn how wonderful nature is |
A.learning first aid skills | B.collecting facts of environment |
C.rock climbing and sailing | D.preserving wildlife |
Millions of dollars have been used in developing special chemicals to help dismiss the spills and to clean up the animals, beaches, and land spoiled by the oil.Unfortunately, when many of these chemicals are used, more damage is caused to the environment, especially to lives in the sea.
Of all of today’s environmental disasters, an oil spill may actually be one of the least serious.Although oil is poisonous, it is a natural material.In the end, it breaks down naturally.There are, of course, long-term effects, but it is usually more serious in the short term.
Nature by itself works better than chemical materials, but when there is a spill we demand that governments act immediately with as much hi-tech knowledge as possible.In 1967 the tanker Torrey Canyon sank off the Sicily Isles near the coast of England and spilled 120,000 tones of oil into the ocean.If you go there today, you will find it hard to see any sign that it ever happened.
Governments seem to accept the risk of transporting millions of tons of oil by ship every day so that we can fill up our cars and drive around and cause even more environmental damage.Interestingly, the biggest companies in the world produce cars, and the next biggest supply the gasoline to make them run!
We should be thinking more about reducing our dependency on oil.Governments should be encouraging research into new technologies, such as cars run by solar power(太阳能), electricity, hydrogen, and so on.Much of this research has, in the past, been held back by the oil, gas, and coal.
If the world’s millions of cars were 10% more efficient(高效的)— and the industry could easily produce cars at least twice as efficient — we would need many fewer tankers crossing the oceans each year.If this happened, the risks of oil spills would be reduced, and the air we breathe would be cleaner and fresher, too.
小题1:What is the passage mainly talking about?
A.Oil tanker accidents. | B.Oil spills pollution. |
C.What oil pollution is. | D.How to reduce oil pollution. |
A.By giving a description. | B.By making an argument. |
C.By giving an example. | D.By drawing a diagram. |
A.Transportation depending more on oil. |
B.Poisonous oil breaking down naturally. |
C.Millions of tons of oil spilling into the sea. |
D.More environmental damage being caused. |
A.We should develop new technologies to cut oil use |
B.Tankers should not be allowed to sail near the coastlines. |
C.We should build safer oil tankers in the near future. |
D.Countries should build more oil pipelines under the sea. |
The 25 of a ‘body clock’ should not be too 26 since the lives of most living things are controlled 27 the 24-hour night-and-day cycle(循环). We feel 28 and fall asleep at night and become 29 and energetic during the day. If the 24-hour cycle is 30 most people experience unpleasant 31 . For example, people who are not 32 to working at night can find that 33 of sleep causes them to 34 badly at work.
35 the daily cycle of sleeping and 36 , we also have other cycles which 37 longer than one day. Most of us would 38 that we feel good on some days and not so good on 39 ; sometimes our ideas seem to flow and at other times, they 40 do not exist.
小题1:
A.anxious | B.careful | C.able | D.proud |
A.around | B.inside | C.between | D.on |
A.rise | B.supply | C.use | D.movement |
A.showing | B.treating | C.changing | D.making |
A.idea | B.opinion | C.story | D.invention |
A.difficult | B.exciting | C.interesting | D.surprising |
A.from | B.over | C.by | D.during |
A.dull | B.dreamy | C.tired | D.peaceful |
A.regular | B.excited | C.clear | D.lively |
A.shortened | B.disturbed | C.reset | D.troubled |
A.moments | B.senses | C.feelings | D.effects |
A.used | B.allowed | C.expected | D.prevented |
A.miss | B.none | C.need | D.lack |
A.show | B.perform | C.manage | D.control |
A.With | B.Except | C.As well as | D.Rather than |
A.waking | B.moving | C.living | D.working |
A.repeat | B.remain | C.happen | D.last |
A.believe | B.agree | C.realize | D.allow |
A.others | B.the other | C.all other | D.other |
A.only | B.just | C.still | D.yet |
小题1:
What does the phrase “green shoots” mean in “Green shoots have begun to appear in different markets”?
A.Signs of recovery. | B.High prices. |
C.Environmental protection. | D.Change in policy. |
Fill in the blank in the sentence “I can’t believe this is Joshua—he’s ______ since we last met!”
A.shot out | B.shot through | C.shot up | D.shot down |
When you are talking about unimportant things, we say you are ______.
A.shooting yourself in the foot | B.shooting the breeze |
C.shooting your mouth off | D.shooting questions at somebody |
Choose a word to complete the sentence “The ______, which killed a policeman and wounded a passer-by, was reported to have lasted only 13 seconds.”
A.shooter | B.shoot | C.shot | D.shooting |
People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal(揭示) the identity of the criminal. It’s long been believed, for example, that criminals will break the law closer to where they live, simply because it’s easier to get around in their own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect(嫌疑犯) who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it.
But Mike O’Leary, a mathematician at Towson University in Maryland, says that this kind of approach may be too simple. He says that police may get better clues to the location of a criminal’s home base by combining these patterns with a city’s layout(布局) and historical crime records.
The records of past crimes contain geographical information and can reveal easy targets — that is, the kind of stores that might be less difficult to rob. Because these stores are along roads, the locations of past crimes contain information about where major streets and intersections are. O’Leary is writing a new computer program that will quickly provide this kind of information for a given city. His program also includes information about the people who live in the city, and information about how a criminal’s patterns change with age. It’s been shown, for example, that the younger the criminal, the closer to home the crime.
Other computer programmers have worked on similar software, but O’Leary’s uses more math. The mathematician plans to make his computer program available, free of charge, to police departments around the country.
The program is just one way to use math to fight crime. O’Leary says that criminology — the study of crime and criminals — contains a lot of good math problems. “I feel like I’m in a gold mine and I’m the only one who knows what gold looks like,” he says. “It’s a lot of fun.”
小题1:
To find criminals, police usually ______.
A.focus on where crimes take place | B.seek help from local people |
C.depend on new mathematical tools | D.check who are on the crime scene |
O’Leary is writing a computer program that ______.
A.uses math to increase the speed of calculation |
B.tells the identity of a criminal in a certain area |
C.shows changes in criminals’ patterns |
D.provides the crime records of a given city |
By “I’m the only one who knows what gold looks like”, O’Leary means that he ______.
A.is better at finding gold than others |
B.is the only one who uses math to make money |
C.knows more criminals than other mathematicians |
D.knows best how to use math to help solve crimes |
What is the main idea of the text?
A.Criminals live near where crimes occur. |
B.Math could help police find criminals. |
C.Crime records could be used to fight crime. |
D.Computer software works in preventing crimes. |
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