【正文】 發(fā)信號(hào)) other animals to your presence This exhibit features the Museum39。A Bird39。 Walk among the freeflying residents of this warm conservatory. It is a wonderful opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from New England and across the globe. The Emergence Box offers a window into the butterfly behavior. Look inside to see hanging chrysalids (蝶蛹) transform into adult butterflies. Tickets are required and visitors should reserve at least two weeks in advance.s World (Permanent Exhibit)s extraordinary collection of birds, displaying over 300 species found in New England. Here, you can learn to interpret the bird language taking place just outside your window at home.Learn to identify birds from a distance by recognizing unique flight patterns. Practice your flying technique in the Bird Walk.s new biology exhibition, and encounter such farreaching questions on an amazing journey inside the human body. Through digital media and personal interaction, you bee part of the story39。BODY WORLDS amp。BODY WORLDS es to the Museum of Science with a new chapter, Gunther von Hagens39。s World of Human Life WORLDS amp。 The Cycle of Life? is related to human body. lasts for only a limited time. is the most visited exhibition in the world. has something to do with the growth of life.【答案】 （1）A（2）A（3）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了波士頓科技館的四個(gè)展覽的相關(guān)信息。故選A?？芍慰驮贐ird Walk 活動(dòng)中提高自己的飛行技能。 The Cycle of life 部分中的“Temporary Exhibit Now Open!”臨時(shí)展覽現(xiàn)在開始！可知，BODY WORLDS amp。2．閱讀理解s oceans. A film crew traveled the globe to document the rubbish. And Julie Andersen of the Plastic Oceans Foundation says what we see is just the tip of the problem. “Half of the waste actually sinks to the bottom, and that remains on the surface actually breaks down. ”s all island full of plastic rubbish in the Pacific.B.The plastic pollution to oceans is more serious than what we can see.（2）What does the underlined word “it” refer to in paragraph 3? A.The plastic particles.C.The plastic problem hasn39。People should stop using plastic products immediately.（4）Which mayDisaster.C. （1）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。 （2）詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)But Andersen says there is more that people can do. Cut back on singleuse plastics，straws，plastic cups，plastic water bottles，plastic bags and find alternatives like reusable materials. She says healthy oceans are essential to our survival. 可知，安德森說人們還可以做更多事情來預(yù)防污染，可推測(cè)出安德森對(duì)于目前解決塑料問題所做的工作不滿意。故選B。 Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting …She would make sandwiches and we39。 A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth for her new residence in Heaven, I bid farewell to my loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change! We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday. I missed her very much, but I noticed it mostly on my birthdays, because there was no card from Grandma. She39。 On one particular birthday when I was feeling a little low, something happened and made me feel as if she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow。 How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her! Not realizing k had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing h into that little pillow that I just happened to fluff (抖松), to place on my bedspread (床罩) that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others Id collected over the years. What a precious memory of a very special lady who, somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing her thimble into my pillow. I heated the kettle and made some tea, using my best china, as Grandma always did, and then enjoyed my tea and Grandma39。B.She would look after the flowers in the garden.（2）What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 4 refer to? A.B.D.Guilty.D.The Joy of Finding Something LostD.d have tea parties, plant flowers and carefully tend them.”可知，在作者的記憶中，她的祖母會(huì)照看花園里的花。d never forgotten my birthday! ”我非常想念她，但我大部分時(shí)間都是在我生日那天注意到的，因?yàn)槟棠虥]有卡片。根據(jù)第五段中的“to my delight, out came a tiny silver thimble!”可知，當(dāng)她發(fā)現(xiàn)頂針時(shí)，她感到驚喜。s thimble. What a wonderful birthday that was!”可知，本文主題是奶奶的Thimble。 Why have older employees done so well? In some southern European countries they benefit from job protection not afforded to younger workers, but that did not really help them in past recessions. What has changed, says Stefano Scarpetta, head of the OECD39。 Many will argue that older workers have done better at the expense of the young. That view is wrongheaded. First, it is a fallacy that a job gained for one person is a job lost for another。old employees suffered very little in the labour marketD.They financially supported the elderly people.D.acceptable assumptionD.Supportive policies should be made to help elderly people when crisis occurs.D.s jobs.【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了研究顯示2008年金融危機(jī)期間以及此后，老員工的表現(xiàn)都優(yōu)于其他年齡段的人，很多人會(huì)認(rèn)為，老員工做得更好是以犧牲年輕員工為代價(jià)的，事實(shí)上這種觀點(diǎn)是錯(cuò)誤的。根據(jù)第四段中的In the past, earlyretirement policies provided by governments (in the mistaken belief that these would help young people) made it cheaper to push greyhaired workers out of the door. These have largely stopped可知，過去，政府的提前退休政策（錯(cuò)誤地認(rèn)為這些政策有助于年輕人）使得把老員工趕出家門的成本更低，現(xiàn)在這些政策已經(jīng)基本上停止了，由此可知，事實(shí)證明，提前退休政策的用處不大，而且?guī)缀醪辉儆行Я耍蔬xA。 （4）考查推理判斷。 Sunday, April 20, 2016 What projects do participants do at the agencies? Teens can also contact their school39。 TEENSGIVING is sponsored by the 92nd Street Y.（1）TEENSGVING is an event which is held . A.every two yearsTake good care of animals.C.B.a gift certificate and munity service credit（4）The writer39。ask readers to donate their advice to TEENSGIVING in SPRING 2016D.故選C。(3)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。另外，所有的青少年和成人志愿者都會(huì)獲得一個(gè)很酷的TEENSGIVING2016春季T恤。故作者的目的是給讀者介紹這個(gè)活動(dòng)，選C。 Westerners39。 As a matter of fact, Chinese herbs pl