2011高考英语阅读理解强化练习(6)

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2011年06月23日17:57　 来源：新东方在线 【发表评论】

    背景知识：睡眠是我们日常生活中最熟悉的活动之一。人的一生大约有1/3的时间是在睡眠中度过的。当人们处于睡眠状态中时，可以使人们的大脑和身体得到休息、休整和恢复。睡眠是每人每天都必须的，良好的睡眠是我们学习、工作的保障。但失眠似乎也不可避免，但短暂的失眠并不值得担心。实际上这正是我们创造力最强的时候。

   
    拓展阅读：
   
    Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport. The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other’s minds. This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle (奇迹) it is.
   
    Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal. Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by \observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year. In Nature’s talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it’s an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out.
   
    Not that we don’t have other powers of communication. Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called “body language”. Bristling (直立的) fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among many animals. Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering.
   
    Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skills ? Biologist can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn’t tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history.
   
    1. According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted is         .
   
    A. our ability to use language
   
    B. the miracle of technology
   
    C. the amazing power of nature
   
    D. our ability to make noises with mouth
   
    2. What feature of “body language” mentioned in the passage is common to both human an animals?
   
    A. Lifting heads when sad.
   
    B. Keeping long faces when angry.
   
    C. Bristling hair when ready to attack.
   
    D. Bowing heads when willing to obey.
   
    3. What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?
   
    A. Body language is unique to humans.
   
    B. Animals express emotions just as humans do.
   
    C. Humans have other powers of communication.
   
    D. Humans are no different from animals to some degree.
   
    4. This passage is mainly about           .
   
    A. the development of body language.
   
    B. the special role humans play in nature
   
    C. the power to convey information to others
   
    D. the difference between humans and animals in language use
   
    参考答案：
   
    1. 答案：A。 解析：本题属于细节题。根据第一段倒数第二句话The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other’s minds.可知: 我们把使用语言的能力这个奇迹当做理所当然。B, C选项与文章不符, 在第一段第二句话中可得知。D选项易误导学生, 在文章中虽然有原话, 但一句话没有说完, 关键是通过嘴巴发出的声音去给其他人传递信息。故D选项也是错误的。
   
    2. 答案：D。  解析：本题属于细节题。根据第三段最后一句话“Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows …..”可知答案。A和B选项描绘的是人的肢体语言特征。C 选项描绘的是动物的肢体语言。
   
    3. 答案：D。  解析，本题属于推理判断题。根据第三段后三句话可知: 人类在某种程度上和动物没有不同。从段落中可得知A, B, C 均与文章不符。
   
    4. 答案：C。 解析：本题属于主旨题 整篇文章谈论的都是给他人传递信息的力量, 使用语言的能力。A, B选项文章未提及. D选项较片面, 文章第三段中提到了相似点和差异二种。