【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 a plan? These markings are like a vast puzzle. The Nazca Lines are the most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world. There are also huge geoglyphs in Egypt, Malta，United States (Mississippi and California), Chile，Holivia and in other countries. But the Nazca geoglyphs, because of their numbers， characteristics, dimensions and cultural continuity as they were made and remade throughout a certain history period, form the most impressive archeological (考古學(xué)的) group. The Nazca plain is unique for its ability to preserve the markings upon it, due to the bination of the climate (one of the driest on Earth, with only twenty minutes of rainfall per year) and the flat, stony ground which minimizes the effect of the wind at ground level. With no dust or sand to cover the plain and little rain or wind to erode (腐蝕) it, lines drawn here tend to stay drawn. These factors, bined with the existence of lightercolored subsoil beneath the desert surface, provide a vast writing pad that is suited to the artist who wants to leave his mark eternal.（1）What can we know about the Nazca Lines from the first two paragraphs? A.They were built as a big map.B.They were formed by nature.C.They are ancient lines in caves.D.They are huge markings in a desert（2）How many factors make the Nazca Lines the most impressive? A.One.B.Two.C.Three.D.Four.（3）Why are the Nazca Lines well preserved? A.Because of the wind at ground level.B.Because of the existence of soft soil.C.Because of the climate and geography.D.Because of the thick sand on the top.（4）What does the underlined word “eternal” probably mean? A.Nonstop.B.Everlasting.C.Reallife.D.Highend.【答案】（1）D（2）D（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了出現(xiàn)在秘魯南部Nazca沙漠的大型古代地畫The Nazca Lines，其神奇之處及形成原因。(1)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“The Nazca Lines are a series of large ancient geoglyphs (地畫) in the Nazca Desert, in southern Peru.”及對(duì)The Nazca Lines圖案和發(fā)現(xiàn)過(guò)程的具體介紹，可知the Nazca Lines是出現(xiàn)在秘魯南部Nazca沙漠的大型古代地畫，故選D。(2)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“Who built them and what was their purpose? Are they roads, star pointers，maybe even a gigantic map? If the people who lived here 2,000 years ago had only a simple technology, how did they manage to construct such precise figures? Did they have a plan?”四方面使人迷惑的問(wèn)題，可知這四個(gè)因素使the Nazca Lines更獨(dú)特更使人們難忘，故選D。(3)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“The Nazca plain is unique for its ability to preserve the markings upon it, due to the bination of the climate and the flat, stony ground which minimizes the effect of the wind at ground level.”可知因?yàn)檫@里干燥少雨的氣候和平坦多石的地形使地畫能很好的被保留，故選C。(4)考查詞義猜測(cè)。最后一句指這些因素，加上沙漠表面下淺色地下土壤的存在，給那些想要永久留下印記的藝術(shù)家提供了一個(gè)巨大的書寫板?！癳ternal”永恒的，和Everlasting同義，故選B。【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和詞義猜測(cè)三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，并進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 7, 9, 6. Read them loud. Now look away and spend 20 seconds memorizing them in order before saying them out loud again. If you speak English, you have about a 50% chance of remembering those perfectly. If you are Chinese, though, you39。re almost certain to get it right every time. Why is that? Because we most easily memorize whatever we can say or read within a twosecond period. And unlike English, the Chinese language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two seconds. That example es from Stanislas Dahaene39。s book The Number Sense. As Dahaene explains: Chinese number words are remarkably brief. Most of them can be spoken out in less than onequarter of a second (for instance, 4 is “si” and 7 “qi”). Their English pronunciations are longer. The memory gap between English and Chinese apparently is entirely due to this difference in length. It turns out that there is also a big difference in how numbernaming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. In English, we say fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, so one might expect that we would also say oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, and fiveteen. But we don39。t. We use a different form: eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteen. For numbers above 20, we put the “decade” first and the unit number second (twentyone, twentytwo), while for the teens, we do it the other way around (fourteen, seventeen, eighteen). The number system in English is highly irregular. Not so in China, Japan, and Korea. They have a logical counting system. Eleven is tenone. Twelve is tentwo. Twentyfour is twotensfour and so on. That difference means that Asian children learn to count much faster than American children. Fouryearold Chinese children can count, on average, to 40. American children at that age can count only to 15. By the age of five, in other words, American children are already a year behind their Asian friends in the most fundamental of math skills. The regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Ask an Englishspeaking sevenyearold to add thirtyseven plus twentytwo in her head, and she has to change the words to numbers (37+22). Only then can she do the math: 2 plus 7 is 9 and 30 and 20 is 50, which makes 59. Ask an Asian child to add threetensseven and twotenstwo, and then the necessary equation(等式) is right there, in the sentence. No number translation is necessary: it39。s fivetensnine. When it es to math, in other words, Asians have a builtin advantage. For years, students from China, S