【正文】 。 Although loneliness has no medical classification, the health effects are real: the result of loneliness and isolation can be as harmful to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and is more damaging than obesity. But loneliness does not e with nearly enough health warnings. its care is prolonging (延長) people39。 Into this void have stepped NGOs, charities and volunteers. But in the long term, the only way to truly help the oldest meters of our society is to go back to the traditional values of intergenerational(兩代間的) cooperation—often under same roof. Ultimately, we will need to evolve towards a culture where elderly care is treated the same as childcare, where employers recognize the duty of someone with an elderly parent the same way they recognize those of someone with a newborn child.（1）The example of FaceApp is used to _____. A.Desire to have the consultation.Questions to ask doctors.（3）How can the oldest members be truly helped? A.By going back to the traditional society.C.The loneliness of elderly people needs more attention.B.FaceApp is helpful in dealing with elderly peopled loneliness.【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，作者由FaceApp話題談到當今的社會現(xiàn)象——老人感到孤獨，他們需要關(guān)注。據(jù)報道，在上個月的七天時間里，有1270萬人下載了這本書，比紐約市的人口多了300萬。所以FaceApp主要的功能是通過它的算法使用戶看到自己的年齡，接著講述老人所面臨的問題—孤獨和衰老。根據(jù)第三段中的”As a family doctor, I can see the loneliness epidemic developing. Elderly patients e to see me with no particular illness, no clear medical issue. “可知老人經(jīng)常去看家庭醫(yī)生是因為孤獨，他們沒有生病，只想找人聊聊。故選C。5．閱讀理解 In contrast, infants of Paranthropus robustus, that became extinct around one million years ago and were a more robust species in terms of dental anatomy, as well as infants of Australopithecus africanus, stopped drinking sizeable proportions of mother milk in the course of the first months of life. The findings stress the need for further exploration of calcium stables isotopes positions in the fossil record in order to understand the coevolution of weaning practices with other traits such as brain size or social behaviors.（1）What do we know the findings of the team? A.It39。Differences in the practice of weaning.D.The exploration of positions in the fossil.D.故選A。 （3）考查主旨大意。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，句義猜測和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇科研類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 A home science experiment recently took the world by storm. Two teens from Toronto, in Canada, sent a Lego man rising above the Earth and captured their tiny astronaut39。 Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used a weather balloon to launch their plastic lego model 16 miles above the Earth. This is inside a part of Earth39。 The two teens were inspired by a similar project performed by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). The MIT students had launched a weather balloon with a camera into near space and taken many unusual images of the Earth. Mathew and Asad then spend four months figuring out how to launch their own spacecraft into the space.s parachute by hand. In total, the project cost only$400.destroyed the worldmanaged the world（2）Which of the following about the students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is right? were examples for Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad. helped Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad to achieve dream. launched weather balloon together with Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad. studied with Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad in the same school.（3）How did Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad keep their costs down? sewing the weather balloon themselves. borrowing spacecraft from the MIT students. making their spacecraft by hand. using secondhand equipment.（4）What problems did Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad have on launch day? ran out of helium. wind was too strong. balloon suddenly broke. spacecraft was blown away.【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）D（4）B 【解析】【分析】這是一篇記敘文。s trip on ，并且把航空之行的過程拍下來了。 （3）細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第五段的We had a lot of anxiety on launch day because there were high winds when we were going up,Mathew told ，在進行發(fā)射的那天風速很快，這讓他們很擔心，故選B項。7．閱讀理解 t so forgiving. To do this, they asked 148 young adults to fill out questionnaires that assessed their levels of lifetime stress, their tendency to forgive and their mental and physical health. s zero, says study author Toussaint. If you don39。 Though more research is needed to fully understand the benefits of being more forgiving, Toussaint believes100％that forgiveness can be learned. His own previous research has shown that saying a short prayer on forgiveness can help people take the edge off. I think most people want to feel good and forgiveness offers you the opportunity to do that, he says. （1）The researchers got the effect of forgiving by_____. A.Forgiving tendencies can deal with all mental problems.B.Saying a short prayer on forgiveness is the key to getting rid of stress.（3）What does the underlined phrase take the edge off39。Make up their mind.D.B.根據(jù)文章第二段的To do this, they asked 148 young adults to fill out questionnaires that assessed their levels of lifetime stress，可知，為了弄明白真相，研究人員讓148個人填寫了問卷調(diào)查，即他們是通過研究問卷調(diào)查來得出寬容的影響，故選A項。根據(jù)畫線部分下文的I think most people want to feel good and forgiveness offers you the opportunity to do that可知寬容能讓人感覺良好，故推測畫線部分所在句子意思是：說一個和寬容相關(guān)的禱言能讓人感覺良好。 【點評】考查閱讀理解。 We open the Museum39。The Museum39。 The Museum is closed 2426 December and 1 January. Food and drinkt allowed to consume food and drink inside the Museum, except in places such as the restaurant and cafes or the forecourt. Families with children may use the Ford Centre for young visitors in the basement of the Museum39。Animalst allowed to bring animals into the Museum under any other circumstance.At 18:30 pm on weekends.160