【正文】 Lengths were divided up into feet and smaller units from the human hand. Other measures were equally characteristic. Mediterranean traders for centuries used the weight of grains of wheat to define (定義) their units of mass. The Romans used libra, forerunner of the pound, by referring to the weight of a carob (角豆樹) seed. （1）考查推理判斷。s measurement bodies are almost certain to approve a decision that will mean four out of the seven base SI units...will follow the other three...in being redefined in terms of the values of physical constants”可知，在法國凡爾賽宮召開的會議上，七個基本計量單位中的四個將被重新定義，其中包括對千克的重新定義。 However, the results were quite different when two puppets approached one another and one used force to knock the other down before continuing to the other side. In this case, 18 of the 21 toddlers reached for the one who was knocked down. As the researchers concluded, When approaching others, very young children care not only who wins, but also how. The previous experiment has shown that toddlers know about social status, but this experiment went one step further by proving they have an obvious preference for high status. Since the participants were so young, this might even be an innate human preference. （4）考查推理判斷。Discovering. （4）考查詞義猜測。They find plentiful food in tropical waters.D. （2）考查推理判斷。 The crew of the Nautilus, a private research ship, recovered the rock particles(顆粒).The Nautilus is operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust. The group says its aim at present is to examine areas of the ocean that have never been explored before.B.The brainstorm of researchers.（3）Why do the scientists prefer to search for meteors in the ocean? A.They have better submarine equipment.（4）What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph? A.故選B。s achievements. introduce the topic AndyBot. arouse readers interest in Kaplan. introduce Kaplan39?？芍ㄆ仗m成為“數(shù)字人”后，他的后代仍能得到他一生經(jīng)驗的寶貴建議。 故選A。根據(jù)第一段中的“Scientists have found what they believe are pieces of a meteor(流星)that fell to the earth last year.”可知，一場巨大的流星雨導致了在海中搜索的開始。A huge meteor shower.根據(jù)第四個小點后的一段Body color is dark brown to black。 migration? A. Humpback whales belong to the rorqual (groovethroated) family, which includes fin, sei, Bryde39。s hard to set up expensive screening equipment like what39。 privacy. （3）考查推理判斷。國際單位制是現(xiàn)時世界上最普遍采用的標準度量衡單位系統(tǒng)，采用十進制進位系統(tǒng)。2．犇犇閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。根據(jù)第二段中的“When the researchers played recordings of flying bees to evening primrose flowers, within three minutes the sugar concentrations in the nectar (花蜜) of its flowers increased.”可知，蜜蜂飛到夜來香花，在三分鐘內(nèi)其花朵花蜜的糖的濃度會增加，所以花蜜會更甜。 s voices improve plants39。s ears to help them detect the sound of approaching insects.”及全文內(nèi)容可知，文章主要講述人與植物的交流可以促其生長。Unit233。me International d39。s true that those with high status, from world leaders and prize winners to athletes and movie stars, are people we like and respect. A recent study published in Nature Human Behaviour showed that we seem to have an innate (天生的) preference for highranking peoples—but only if those people aren39。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。 signals.D.B. （2）考查細節(jié)理解。 Flippers are a third of body length。 270400 olive baleen platesThe different colors and patterns of the body help to be recognized.D.popularize the basic knowledge of humpbacks and call for protectionD. 【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇科普類閱讀，要求考生根據(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。 The objects recovered from the bottom of the sea likely came from the recent explosion for two main reasons. First, meteorite particles are basically made of glassy materials that do not tend to last long in seawater. Secondly, they came from what looked like a small hole on the seafloor. Some evidence shows that they came from something that fell.（1）What is the current goal of the crew of the Ocean Exploration Trust? A.根據(jù)第二段中的“The group says its aim at present is to examine areas of the ocean that have never been explored before.”可知，the Ocean Exploration Trust的船員目前的目標是研究海洋中未被探索的地方。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。Some people sit outside for hours without getting bitten by mosquitoes, but it always seems like you39。t pregnant.t tell what your blood type is from a faraway place. Jonathon Day, a professor of medical entomology (昆蟲學) at the University of Florida in the US, told NBC it39。根據(jù)最后一段中的“If technology succeeds in creating emotionally intelligent digital humans, experts say, it may forever change the way living people cooperate with puters and experience loss.”可知，專家們說，如果科技成功地創(chuàng)造出高情商的數(shù)字人類，它可能會永遠改變?nèi)祟惻c電腦交互的方式，以及處理失去親人創(chuàng)傷的方式，即目前的數(shù)字人類還無法擁有高情商，還是不夠完美的，因此數(shù)字人技術(shù)還有很長的路要走。根據(jù)第一段可知，當安德魯s first digital humans.故選B。D.Stress the importance of the event.They may find bigger rock particles.C.B. The search was launched after US government weather stations observed a large meteorite exploding some months ago. The explosion lit up the sky and sent the rock particles to the earth. The meteorite fall was the largest recorded over the United States in at least 20years. The team includes scientists from NASA, the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary and the University of Washington. The scientists examined what they believe were two small meteorite fragments. Further testing is needed before they can confirm that the material came from the explosion.冬季的熱帶繁殖區(qū)，是溫暖的地方。 back when submerging, but at a distance may be confused with other species that raise their flukes when diving, such as sperm, right and blue whales. such patterns enable individual recognition5．犇犇Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read. D.The way the device works.C.故選C。 In a word, this new research suggests that young children appreciate people who do well while at the same time doing good to others. So, when my fouryearold thinks that he has to get his shoes on first, I39。3．犇犇閱讀下面文章，然后從題中所給的A、B、C、D四個選項