题目
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These seals are born on land. Every year, usually in May or June, females find sandy beaches and give birth to a single baby. The female seals avoid beaches where the water becomes deep very quickly because this lets sharks swim close to land and catch the seals.
Mothers stay with their babies for six weeks. During that entire time, they do not leave the beach even to eat. Instead, they live off fat that they have stored up over the previous year and feed their babies with fat-rich milk. After six weeks, mothers go back to the sea. The young have to live on their own.
Human disturbance(打扰) has been regarded as the important factor in the decrease of the monk seals. In fact, if human come too near a mother seal too often, she will go out to the sea. Unfortunately, this usually means death for the baby. It is now against the law for people to come within 100 yards of a seal on a beach.
Recent research has shown that the decrease in the Hawaiian monk seal population is due to lack of survival of these seals at one of the most important breeding(繁殖) beaches at French Frigate Shoals. Also, seals often get trapped in fishermen and by changes in weather patterns. If these threats(威胁) were not enough, during the breeding season, males will attack females until they are badly injured or finally killed.
小题1:What can we learn about Hawaiian monk seals?
| A．They are in danger of dying out. |
| B．They spend most of the time on the beach. |
| C．They are the largest animals on the Hawaiian Islands. |
| D．They can stay under water as long as they like. |
| A．is born at sea |
| B．is fed on fat by the mother |
| C．stays with its parents all life |
| D．is looked after by its mother for 6 weeks |
| A．sharks are a threat to Hawaiian monk seals |
| B．male monk seals fight each other for females in the breeding season |
| C．when disturbed by people, the mother seal will protect the baby seal |
| D．Hawaiian monk seals give birth usually in July |
| A．Ways to protect Hawaiian monk seals。 |
| B．The struggle of Hawaiian monk seals to survive. |
| C．The reasons for the decline(减少) of Hawaiian monk seals. |
| D．The influence of climate change on Hawaiian monk seals. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C
解析
试题分析：本文主要讲述的是夏威夷僧海豹现在所遇见的灭绝的危险，讲述了这种海豹的生活习性，并分析了即将灭绝的具体的原因。
小题1:A 细节题。根据文章第一句There are only about 1,000 Hawaiian monk seals(夏威夷僧海豹) left and its population is going down 4% a year.可知现在这种动物数量稀少，而且还在不断减少。处于灭绝的危险之中，故A正确。
小题2:D 细节题。根据文章第三段Mothers stay with their babies for six weeks. During that entire time, they do not leave the beach even to eat. Instead, they live off fat that they have stored up over the previous year and feed their babies with fat-rich milk. After six weeks, mothers go back to the sea. The young have to live on their own.可知母海豹照顾孩子6个星期。故D正确。
小题3:.A 推断题。根据文章第二段最后一句The female seals avoid beaches where the water becomes deep very quickly because this lets sharks swim close to land and catch the seals.可知鲨鱼对海豹来说也是一个巨大的威胁。故A正确。
小题4:C 段落大意题。根据文章最后2段Human disturbance(打扰) has been regarded as the important factor in the decrease of the monk seals.和Recent research has shown that the decrease in the Hawaiian monk seal population is due to lack of survival of these seals at one of the most important breeding(繁殖) beaches at French Frigate Shoals. 可知这两段都是分析出现这种情况的原因。故C正确。
点评：本文主要讲述的是夏威夷僧海豹现在所遇见的灭绝的危险，讲述了这种海豹的生活习性，并分析了即将灭绝的具体的原因。考察推理题较多，推理判断题不仅要求考生读懂文章中的每个句子的意思还要推理它们之间的关系，结合自己的生活常识和经验，再通过逻辑推理和判断，理解文章的言外之意，从而揭示文章的深层涵义。任何一篇文章都有其特定的写作目的，读者应当知道如何去做或按照某种方式传递思考问题。推理判断题的答案不可能在文章中直接找到，因此推理时我们务必要忠于原文，在文章中寻找并确定可推论的依据，即：已知部分－推论的前提，从中推测出未知部分－推理的结论，切忌妄加评论，把自己的观点当成作者的观点。
核心考点
试题【There are only about 1,000 Hawaiian monk seals(夏威夷僧海豹) left and its population i】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
First of all, congratulations on your graduation! Graduation from high school means that a new stage of life is ahead of you. 小题1:_____.
小题2: . After you have messed up（弄乱） something, you should learn to clean it up yourself. Cleanliness is indeed close to good manners.
Don’t mistake knowledge for wisdom（智慧）. No matter how much information or knowledge you have, you will never make right judgments if you don’t have wisdom. 小题3:_____. If you can imagine the possible future outcomes of your present decisions and actions, you can avoid mistakes. And if you can reflect(思考) on the mistake you have made, you can avoid making the same mistakes again and again. Such is wisdom.
Don’t complain(抱怨). When you take up a job, do your best to carry it out. 小题4:_____.
Finally, be an early bird. 小题5:______. And the sight of the rising sun will warm your heart and give you energy for the day ahead. Besides, being an early bird, you have plenty of time to take exercise or do a lot of work.
| A．At the beginning of this new stage, I have some advice for you. |
| B．If you get up earlier than the sun, you can watch it rise up slowly into the sky |
| C．Once you start a job, you should try your best to do it well. |
| D．Clean your own room and do your own washing. |
F. Get up early and go for some morning exercises to build up your body.
G. Wisdom comes from imagination and reflection.
Scientists, psychologists and English academics at Liverpool University have found that reading the works of the Bard and other classical writers has a beneficial effect on the mind, catches the reader’s attention and cause moments of self-reflection.
Using scanners, they monitored the brain activity of volunteers as they read works by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, T.S Eliot and others.
They then “translated” the texts into more “straightforward”, modern language and again monitored the readers’ brains as they read the words.
Scans showed that the more “challenging” prose （散文）and poetry set off far more electrical activity in the brain than the more pedestrian versions.
Scientists were able to study the brain activity as it responded to each word and record how it “lit up” as the readers encountered unusual words, surprising phrases or difficult sentence structure.
This “lighting up” of the mind lasts longer than the initial electrical spark, shifting the brain to a higher gear, encouraging further reading.
The research also found that reading poetry, in particular, increases activity in the right hemisphere （半球）of the brain, an area concerned with “autobiographical memory”, helping the reader to reflect on and reappraise their own experiences in light of what they have read. The academics said this meant the classics were more useful than self-help books.
Philip Davis, an English professor who has worked on the study with the university’s magnetic resonance centre, will tell a conference this week: “Serious literature acts like a rocket-booster to the brain.
"The research shows the power of literature to shift mental pathways, to create new thoughts, shapes and connections in the young and the elderly alike.”
小题1:How do classics such as Shakespeare and Wordsworth benefit the readers?
| A．They set off far less electrical activity in the brain. |
| B．They light up the mind shorter than the initial electrical spark. |
| C．They shift physical pathways in the young and the elderly. |
| D．They draw readers’ attention and help make self-examination. |
| A．To prove that classics are more useful than ordinary versions. |
| B．To show self-help books act like rocket-boosters to the brain. |
| C．To tell serious literature sets off far less electrical activity. |
| D．To make known ordinary versions set off more electrical activity |
| A．Self-help books are more valuable than classics. |
| B．Serious literature lights up the mind shorter than ordinary versions. |
| C．The right hemisphere of the brain is related to autobiographical memory. |
| D．Literature has a beneficial effect only on the mind of the young. |
| A．Ordinary Versions Create New Thoughts |
| B．Modern Language Increases the Brain |
| C．Classics Help lmprove the Brain Activity |
| D．Self-help Books, Rocket-boosters |
How are you? I am writing to ask for some 36 about how to help my 15-year-old son. At the moment, he refuses to do almost anything his mother and I ask him to do. He is our only child and we treat him very 37 . Though his grandparents buy him many things, yet he is still 38 to them and often shouts at them. He also 39 to spend time with us or do as we tell him.
Recently, he has been refusing to do his homework, and instead insists on 40 his time listening to foreign music. I cannot understand that 41 , and I don’t like it. Meanwhile, he spends too much time in Internet cafes, where he either plays games 42 chats on the Internet. He is wasting valuable time during this 43 period in his life!
What shall I do? I am worried about it. 44 I keep allowing him to do what he wants, he may fail at school, or worse. How can I help my son 45 hurting our feelings?
Best regards
Liu Zhen
小题1:A questions B advice C problems D lessons
小题2:A badly B ill C well D coldly
小题3:A kind B good C polite D rude
小题4:A prefers B wants C likes D refuses
小题5:A saving B missing C wasting D winning
小题6:A music B film C game D play
小题7:A and B or C but D so
小题8:A dark B old C sad D important
小题9:A If B Until C Though D Before
小题10:A for B in C without D about
As people believe that strong smells can affect the senses, volunteers were asked not to eat or drink for eight hours before the experiment began. During the experiment, volunteers were asked to take in pleasant smells such as vanilla (香草), and unpleasant smells such as durians (榴莲). The volunteers kept their hands in the water until it became too hot for them. When they could not bear the pain any more, they took their hands out of the water.
Scientists are interested in whether the senses or smell is related to pain and whether men and women have the same senses. Now, the study has proved that for women, pleasant smells reduce pain. For men, there is no change.
Dr Finkelstein has been studying smells since 1999. He says that scientists already have data from 40 volunteers. He adds that this year, scientists will test another 60 volunteers and will be in a better position to explain the results.
One explanation is that women’s sense of smell developed long ago, and is linked to recognizing the smell of babies. Scientists used to believe that mothers recognized their children by sight only. Now, they have started to believe that the sense of smell also helps, but why pleasant smells do not reduce pain in men is a question still to be answered by scientists.
小题1:Before the experiment, volunteers ______.
| A．are gathered and take a training |
| B．cannot eat or drink for several hours |
| C．must wash their hands carefully |
| D．will be interviewed by Dr Finkelstein |
| A．women may stand the pain of the hot water longer |
| B．men may keep their hands in the hot water longer |
| C．they will probably take their hands out at the same time |
| D．we are not quite sure who will take their hands out earlier |
| A．the reason why women are sensitive to smells is clear |
| B．the experiment for the sense of smell has come to an end |
| C．unpleasant smells affect men’s senses more than women’s |
| D．scientists have not totally explained the result of the study |
| A．mothers recognize their children only by sight |
| B．men’s sense of smell developed a long time ago |
| C．strong smells have a great influence on people’s senses |
| D．smells are helpful for mothers to spot their children |
| A．supply some entertainment to us |
| B．show women’s sharper senses than men’s |
| C．inform the readers of some knowledge |
| D．call for volunteers for the experiment |
Naturally, it’s easy to blame the students in these situations, but the bigger problem is us. We—as parents—are so eager to protect our kids that we fail to realize that this in itself is harming them. As the mother of two young sons, I have to remind myself all the time that the biggest responsibility I have as a parent is to help them develop the skills needed to live in, to live without me. So, I’ll let them fail.
I’ll let them fail because as long as they are safe and warm inside their comfort zones, they will never grow. And failure—along with loss, heartbreak, disappointment, etc.—will be part of growth for them. Call me the anti-tiger mom, but leaving them alone is my way of helping them become equipped to fit in this world as we know it today. From terrorism (恐怖主义) and seemingly endless natural disasters, to our national debt and beyond, if we expect the next generation to stand up to the very real problems of our time, we need to stop feeding them and start teaching them how to fish.
My children are faced with hard situations in their own life almost each day, but they try to negotiate (协商) everything now. It’s a small price to help them learn a skill they’ll use for the rest of their lives, including when I don’t come with them on job interviews.
小题1:Why do parents go along with their kids on job interviews?
| A．Because they want to protect their kids from difficulties. |
| B．Because they think they can protect them from being hurt. |
| C．Because their kids are too shy to attend interviews. |
| D．Because their kids strongly request them to do so. |
| A．Protecting them. | B．Keeping them safe. |
| C．Leaving them alone. | D．Blaming them. |
| A．become healthier than other kids |
| B．grow in this challenging world |
| C．develop all social skills |
| D．escape from natural disasters |
| A．go with him to protect her kid from difficulty |
| B．stay home but give him directions over telephone |
| C．wait outside and talk with other parents |
| D．let him go to the interview by himself |
| A．Never help your kids | B．Let your kids fail |
| C．Go to the interview with your kids | D．Live without parents |
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