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“Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some living patterns.” scientists say.
Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth.
“Predicting species’ reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology,” said the researchers of several U.S. Universities. They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.
The study, published on the Nature website, uses the findings from plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1,634 species. It found that some experiments had underestimated the speed of flowering by 8.5 times and leafing by 4 times.
“Across all species, the experiments underestimated the speed of the advance—for both leafing and flowering—that results from temperature increases,” the study said.
“The design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to climate change,” it said.
Plants are necessary for life on the Earth. They are the base of the food chain, using photosynthesis (光合作用) to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water. They let out oxygen which is needed by nearly every organism on the planet.
Scientists believe the world’s average temperature has risen by about 0.8 ℃ since 1900, and nearly 0.2 ℃ every ten years since 1979.
So far, efforts to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not seen as enough to prevent the Earth heating up beyond 2 ℃ this century—a point scientists say will bring the danger of a changeable climate in which weather extremes are common, leading to drought, floods, crop failures and rising sea levels.
小题1:What is the key information the author wants to give in Paragraph 1?
A.The increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists’ expectation. |
B.Climate change leads to the change of food production patterns. |
C.Plants’ reaction to weather could have damaging effects on ecosystem. |
D.Food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather. |
A.scientists should improve the design of the experiments |
B.plants’ flowering is 8.5 times faster than leafing |
C.there are 1,634 plant species on the four continents |
D.the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change |
A.they can prove the climate change clearly |
B.they are very important in the food chains |
C.they play a leading role in reducing global warming |
D.they are growing and flowering much faster than before |
A.It has risen nearly 0.2 ℃ since 1979. |
B.It is 0.8 ℃ higher in 1979 than that of 1990. |
C.It needs to be controlled within 2 ℃ in this century. |
D.Its change will lead to weather extremes. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:D
解析
试题分析:本文主要讲述了植物对于气候变化所作出的反应会影响人类的食物链并影响整个生态系统。并介绍了与之有关的一些研究的情况。
小题1:C 段落大意题。根据文章第一段第2句which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems.可知本段讲述的是植物对于气候变化的反应能够对食物链以及生态系统有很大的影响。故C正确。
小题2:A 细节题。根据文章倒数第三段“The design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to climate change,” it said.可知在未来实验的设计应该被进一步地完善,现在的设计还有很大的缺陷。故A正确。
小题3:B 细节题。根据文章第四段2,3行They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.植物是这个研究中的一个关键的研究对象。因为他们在食物链中有很大的作用。故B正确。
小题4:D 推理题。根据文章最后一段So far, efforts to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not seen as enough to prevent the Earth heating up beyond 2 ℃ this century—a point scientists say will bring the danger of a changeable climate in which weather extremes are common, leading to drought, floods, crop failures and rising sea levels.可知地球气温的变化会带来极端的气候变化,导致很多的灾难如干旱,作物绝收以及海平面上升等等。故D正确。
核心考点
试题【Plants are flowering faster than scientists predict in reaction to climate chang】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when “their” player or team wins.
Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for(参加) them. Football, for example, has spread(展开)around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! And think of people in cold countries. Think how many love to skate or ski (滑雪) in Japan, Norway or Canada.
Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person’s character. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace(胜不骄,败不馁).
小题1:Why do people all over the world enjoy sports?
A.Because they are healthy. |
B.Because they are happy. |
C.Because they want to live longer. |
D.All the above. |
A.their favourite team wins | B.they win the game |
C.they get the good news | D.they can’t help themselves |
A.they train their character in the game |
B.they understand each other |
C.they are friendly to each other |
D.they help each other |
The Lewisvillle, Texas, school teachers were aware that the hours they spent on preparing lessons were too often wasted on many students. So Forestwood High School, Texas, used the “flipped (翻转的) classroom” method of instruction. “We’ve completely done away with our lecture,” Derow said. And homework assignments “are all done in class,” Bradley said.
With the flipped concept, a student’s usual homework assignment is to watch pre-recorded lectures on their computers or smart phones.They walk into class ready to discuss the topic, collaborate(合作) with other students and work on assignments based on what they learned from the video. Free from lecturing, the teachers can use class time to look deeper into the subject and focus on difficult concept. As students change from a passive to an active role, they learn critical thinking skills, learn to collaborate and become independent learners.
Instead of doing homework assignments alone at home, students are now “working together, talking about it,” Bradley said. “If they don’t agree on an answer, they debate it and have to justify their answers. It’s a higher level of learning.”
Her students give the flipped classroom high marks.
Sarah Lee, 14, watches the 30-minute videos on a home computer. She likes the ability to rewind the tapes if she doesn"t understand a concept. She also likes being able to watch the lessons on her own schedule.
One of her classmates, Dawson Depperschmidt has the same idea and thinks the time she spends in the classroom is more productive. “It gives us more time to learn at school,” Dawson said. “You get more in-depth in class.
小题1:What can we conclude from the first two paragraphs?
A.Teachers in Lewisville enjoyed giving classroom lectures. |
B.It takes time for students to concentrate and understand in class. |
C.Many students took an inactive part in lecture-style classes. |
D.Teachers in Lewisville found that there was no need to prepare lessons. |
A.They have more arguments with classmates. |
B.They have to be independent and cooperative. |
C.They need to do more homework at home. |
D.They have to prepare lectures by themselves. |
A.reducing difficulties | B.trying new methods |
C.achieving a lot | D.causing troubles |
a. Teachers have time to solve deeper problems
b. Students are engaged in a higher level of learning.
c. Students study according to their own schedule.
d. Teachers don’t have to design homework for students
A.a, b, c, | B.a, c, d | C.b, c, d | D.a, b, d |
Hair color comes from the pigment melanin(黑色素), which determines your individual shade. Hair without any melanin is pure white. The pigment is produced in cells called melanocytes, which inject pigment into the hair. At some point in everyone"s lifetime, these cells slow down and eventually stop producing color. Scientists have yet to identify the exact mechanism by which melanocyte cell death occurs.
A study of more than 4,000 women and men from 20 countries determined that about 75% of people between the ages of 45 and 65 have some gray hair. In general, people of European descent gray earliest followed by Asians and Africans. It"s interesting to note that a lucky 1 in 10 has no gray hair by retirement age. Beginning at age 30, your chances of having gray hair go up 10-20% per decade.
It may feel like you have more grays after a stressful event, but that"s probably because middle age is basically a series of anxiety-ridden events. Between working, raising kids, and caring for older parents, the "sandwich" years of 45-65 can be stressful, especially for women. They are also when we naturally start to look older.
At this point, there is still no silver bullet to keep away the grays.
小题1:What would be the best title for this passage?
A.Going gray. | B.Tips to make hair color last |
C.Why does hair turn gray? | D.Gray hair is in fashion. |
A.Scientists have found out how to prevent hair from turning gray. |
B.Europeans are more likely to gray than Asians and Africans. |
C.Gray hair means poor health or a sign of illness. |
D.Everyone will inevitably get gray hair by retirement age. |
A.Being physically weak. | B.Stress from different sides. |
C.Death of melanocyte cell. | D.Genetic factors. |
A.Make-up | B.Scientific research. | C.Chemical weapon. | D.Cure. |
Scientists have come up with some researches on what makes different types of people“tick”.
The scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed new mobile phone technology called Emotion Sense that can tell if a caller is happy, angry or sad.
Scientists hope to fit the speech recognition system to standard mobile phones and use it to determine emotions—it will also use a GPS tracking system to log where the call is made.
And they’ve already made some pretty major breakthroughs into really getting under the skin of us humans.
The results from the pilot scheme make interesting scientific reading. Among the key revelations (﹦facts) are that callers feel happier at home and sadder at work.
To break it down, scientifically, it shows 45 percent of all emotions produced at home are “happy”and 54 percent of emotions at work are “sad”.
Meanwhile, people show more “intense”(﹦nervous) emotions in the evening than they do in the morning.
Of course, this could just be because most people feel too tired in the morning to get overly “intense”. Eating breakfast and getting to work on time is usually enough of an achievement.
Anyway, the Emotion Sense technology has been developed by psychologists(心理学家) and computer scientists who say it uses speech recognition software and phone sensors(传感器) attached to standard smart phones to judge how callers’ emotions are changed by everyday factors.
The sensors analyze voice samples and these are then divided into five categories: happiness, sadness, fearfulness, anger or neutral-—boredom or passivity(消极) would fit into this last category.
小题1:How many emotions can the sensors tell?
A.Two | B.Three | C.Four | D.Five |
A.Scientists have put something testing people’s emotions under humans’ skin. |
B.There were some breakthroughs in this technology in getting something from people’s skin. |
C.In this technology, people’s skin was broken through. |
D.There were improvements in testing people’s emotions. |
A.Because morning is the start of a new day. |
B.because they feel too tired in the morning. |
C.Because of humans’ physiological structure. |
D.Because of the fresh air and bright sunlight. |
A.Speech recognition software. | B.Phone sensors. |
C.GPS sensors. | D.Translation system. |
Researchers at the University of California have carried out the study and found that embarrassment is a good signature of a person to whom you can entrust valuable resources.
Not only are the findings useful for people seeking cooperative and reliable team members and business partners, but they also make for helpful dating advice.“Moderate(适度的) levels of embarrassment are signs of virtue. Our data suggests embarrassment is a good thing, not something you should fight.”said Matthew Feinberg, who led the study.
While the most typical gesture of embarrassment is a downward gaze to one side while partly covering the face, a person who feels shame, as distinguished(区别) from embarrassment, will typically cover the whole face, Feinberg said.
The results were got from a series of experiments. In the first experiment, 60 college students were videotaped describing embarrassing moments, such as making incorrect assumptions(假想) based on appearances. The college students also participated in the “Dictator Game” which is used in economics research to measure altruism(利己主义). For example, each was given 10 raffle tickets(奖券) and asked to keep a share of the tickets and give the reminder(提示物) to a partner.
The findings, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that those who showed greater levels of embarrassment tended to give away more of their raffle tickets, indicating(﹦showing) greater generosity.
小题1:According to the passage, which of the following is thought to be reliable?
A.A person who feels shame. |
B.A person who hides his embarrassment. |
C.A person who shows his embarrassment. |
D.A person who gives away more raffle tickets. |
A.it’s useless to fight our embarrassment |
B.people should try to overcome their embarrassment |
C.embarrassed people are not good at doing business |
D.people who show embarrassment can be good business partners |
A.measure the students’ economic status |
B.test whether a student is generous or not |
C.determine the different levels of embarrassment |
D.record how each student reacts during embarrassing moments |
A.proved to be more generous | B.kept more of the raffle tickets |
C.didn’t care for raffle tickets | D.were less reliable |
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