【正文】 ite than their ancestors who had to bite through harder foods. It became easier for them to make the labiodental consonants instead of purely labial (唇音) ones: one example is that f e to take the place of p. Romans said pater but English speakers (unless they39。 Babies have an astonishing talent that adults entirely lose. By the age of one, they can recognise the significant noises around them and group them into a language. When we have lost this capacity as adults, it bees enormously difficult to distinguish between sounds that are glaringly different to a native speaker. It all sounds Greek to us. This is because the range of possible sounds that humans use to convey meaning may be as high as 2,000, but few languages use more than 100 and even then the significant noises－the phonemes (音素) of a language－each cover a range of sounds and so vague distinctions which would change the meaning of a word in other languages.故選C。分析選項可知A項符合題意， 故選A。A health magazine.C.By adding it to an oral drug.C.3．犇犇閱讀理解 （3）考查推理判斷。D.AmbiguousIt offers an effective method to solve the problem of ewaste.B.Ewaste in the world is increasing significantly.B. When looking just at the number of cell phones collected, the amount of waste is shocking. In a period of about 18 months, a little over 5 million smartphones were collected thanks to cooperation with NTT DOCOMO. Japan39。 When athletes at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics collect their medals, they39。紐卡斯?fàn)柎髮W(xué)的營養(yǎng)學(xué)專家的研究表明，同居讓女人發(fā)胖讓男人更健康。根據(jù)第四段中的“salads, fruit and vegetables”可推斷，light在此是“清淡的”的意思，脂肪和糖的含量比較少。Boyfriends make you fatDon39。when men are faced with emotional stress, they will change their dietary habitsC.B.have to eat more unhealthy foodsC.have few changes of their dietary habits Moving in with a boyfriend causes women to eat more unhealthily and put on weight. But the opposite is true for men, whose longterm health benefits when they move in with a female partner.s diet and lifestyle, as they still have the traditional role of shopper and cook in most households. Report author and registered dietician Dr. Amelia Lake said, The research has shown that your partner is a strong influence on lifestyle and people who are trying to live healthier lives should take this factor into consideration.（1）According to the passage, moving in with a girlfriend, men ________. A.B.not very heavywomen put on weight only because they want to suit their other halfB.longterm health of men benefits when they move in with a female partner（5）What would be the best title for the passage? A.Which are better dietary habits?C. （2）考查詞義猜測。 （5）考查主旨大意。re made more aware of the issue.（1）What can be learnt about Tokyo Olympics initiative from the passage? A.hard search（3）What influence does the Tokyo Olympics initiative have? A.NegativeC. in the homestretch 固定短語，“最后關(guān)頭”，故選C。 【點評】本題考點涉及詞義猜測和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇科研類閱讀，考生需要根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。 They say the easiest and most costeffective way to use the rice will be to make it into a cream to be put on the skin. The HIVfighting proteins can then enter the body through the skin. People all over the world could grow the rice and make the cream themselves. This would prevent the cost and travel required for many patients to receive treatments and medicine.By transforming it into proteins.B.A biology textbook.B.由此可推斷出對于艾滋病的治療迫在眉睫，非常緊迫。由此可推斷這種基因工程的過程還需要進(jìn)一步的完善。Lips and teeth.growing up with lager lower jaws（4）By writing this passage, the author intends to reveal diet has some influence on languageD.本段提到sound和diet是有關(guān)系的,也就是food食物；另外也和思考有關(guān)the product of thought,本段最后說到和兩者都有關(guān)系。以及文章內(nèi)容可知敘述的都是日常飲食和發(fā)音對語言的影響，故選C。s partly due to cow farts. Seriously.) Following the suggestions would also mean eating fewer calories, since many people here eat more than they need. Of course, people are notoriously bad at following diets. But: These nationally remended guidelines do actually have a knock173。in paragraph 3 probably mean? A.B.C.D.Some wealthy countries tend to reduce meat and dairy though the other areas of policy making isn39。由此推斷出 并非所有國家都以明確的方式推薦飲食 ，這個觀點Paul Behrens會贊成，故選C。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 Yellowstone has benefited from the reintroduction of wolves in ways that we did not anticipate, especially the plexity of biological interactions（互動） in the park, explained Mark Boyce, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. We were really surprised at that and we39。 To learn more about just how wolves are beneficial, a short documentary from Quest explains how the presence of wolves influences the behavior of deer, which eventually makes entire ecosystems more biologically diverse and healthy. In this documentary, biologist Aaron Wirsing explored why wolves and other top predators （捕食者）were needed for diverse ecosystems to develop. Using a simple video camera, Wirsing is gaining a unique view point on predatorprey relationships and changing the way we think about wolves.Understand.Accept.（2）For what purpose was a documentary made? A.It provides evidence that wolves are endangered animals.（4）What is the main idea of the passage? A. （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。本文主要講述了人類以及其他動物對狼的恐懼對維持健康、平衡的生態(tài)系統(tǒng)是有益的，因為食草動物不會過度繁殖，從而保護(hù)了植物的生長。 There are other examples of team clowns. One example is the journey to the South Pole led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. It was a difficult journey full of danger. Adolf Lindstrom, a cook at Amundsen39。 a full spacean empty spacean open spacea small space.（3）How does the author think humor can help astronauts? A.It can promote teamwork on a mission.C.s the author39。t be enough to land somebody the job,’ Johnson said. ‘They also need to be an excellent engineer.’”可知，美國宇航局的新工作是幽默的工程師，故選A。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個題型的考查，是一篇科技類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，從而選出正確