【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 the University of Kentucky, did two experiments. In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects（受試者）were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a puter. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later when he questioned the subjects, almost all them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them. For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they being stared at and when they weren39。t. Baker found the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren39。t. Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they are being stared at. If people doubt the oute of his two experiments, said Baker, I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves（1）What39。s the aim of the two experiments for? A.Prove why humans have a sixth sense.B.Explain when people can have a sixth senseC.Show how people act while being watched in the labD.Study whether humans can sense when they are stared at（2）The underlined word oute in the last paragraph most probably means? A.ValueB.ResultC.PerformanceD.Connection（3）What is the writers opinion about the the sixth sense? A.He is not sure about itB.He is sure that it doesn39。t exist（存在）C.He wants us to find out together with himD.He agrees with the parapsychologists（4）What can we learn from the passage? A.People are born with a sixth sense.B.the experiments support parapsychologists idea.C.the subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.D.people have a sixth sense in all places.【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】 本文主要講述了一位心理學(xué)家通過兩個實驗來驗證人們沒有第六感覺的事。 （1）細(xì)節(jié)題。 根據(jù) To research whether such a six sense really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist（心理學(xué)家） at the University of Kentucky, did two experiments為了研究這種“六感”是否真的存在，心理學(xué)家羅伯特貝克（心理學(xué)家）在肯塔基大學(xué)做了兩個實驗，可知做這兩個實驗就是為了驗證人們是否能感覺到有人在看他們 ，故選D。 （2）詞義猜測題。根據(jù) Baker concludes that 貝克總結(jié)說，可知總結(jié)的都是結(jié)果，故oute是result結(jié)果的意思，故選B。 （3）推理題。根據(jù)Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren39。t 貝克發(fā)現(xiàn)受試者并不擅長分辨何時被注視，何時沒有 ，可知作者對“第六感”有什么看法是他確信它不存在，故選B。 （4）細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù) Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at. ，可知受試者在實驗中沒有第六感，故選C。 【點評】考查閱讀理解。本文涉及細(xì)節(jié)題、推斷題，詞義猜測題，細(xì)節(jié)題要注意從文中尋找答案；推斷題需要聯(lián)系上下文，推斷出需要的信息，詞義猜測題需要根據(jù)上下文提煉相關(guān)信息鎖定詞意。6．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的幾個選項中，選出最佳選項。 When he was nine years old, American boy Milo Cress had a question: How many plastic straws（吸管） do Americans use every day? He quickly learned there wasn39。t a simple answer. The boy tried to work it out himself. Through lots of research, Cress found out that Americans use about 500 million straws every day. In hopes of reducing plastic waste, he founded the Be Straw Free project in 2011. Cress started the project in his hometown – Burlington, Vermont. He asked a local restaurant to stop offering straws with every drink order. It was a simple change. However, it would save money. And by doing that, the restaurant would cut down on its straw use by 50 percent. For the years that followed, Cress tried to spread his project across the United States. More and more restaurants agreed to join. They stop providing the customer with a straw unless he or she asks for one. Last April, Seattle became the first American city to pletely ban （禁止） plastic straws. Plastic pollution has been one of the most serious problems today. According to scientists, more than eight million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year. Plastic straws are especially terrible. They make it easy for people to get fortable with singleuse plastics. After his project became popular, Cress took his findings on the road. He has since spoken to tens of thousands of students around the world. He wants to encourage more people to say no to plastic straws. Focusing（聚焦） on straws is one simple step we all could take, Cress says. And it makes me feel that I, as a kid, could make a difference, too.（1）When did Milo Cress start to care about the problem of straws? A.Ten years ago.B.In the year 2011.C.In the year that he was 9.（2）Cress started the Be Straw Free project in order to . A.get a good score in science at his schoolB.encourage people to reduce plastic wasteC.bee a famous person in his hometown（3）What did Cress ask a restaurant in Burlington to do? A.Stop offering straws to its customers.B.Prevent people from using straws to drink.C.Count the number of straws it uses every day.（4）Plastic straws are especially terrible because . A.they are the most serious problem todayB.scientists pay little attention to their influenceC.they help people get used to using singleuse plastics（5）Over the years, Cress has . ① spread his project across the United States② asked Seattle to pletely ban plastic bags③ counted the plastic straws in the ocean every year④ spoken to teens around the world about plastic waste A.①③B.②③C.①④【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）A（4）C（5）C 【解析】【分析】本文介紹了塑料垃圾對環(huán)保的危害，Cress用 環(huán)保吸管替代塑料吸管。 （1）細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù) When he was nine years old, American boy Milo Cress had a question: How many plastic straws（吸管） do Americans use every day 可知9歲的時候，米洛克里斯開始關(guān)心吸管的問題了，故選C。 （2）細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù) In hopes of reducing plastic waste, he founded theBe Straw Freeproject in 2011. 可知為了鼓勵減少塑料垃圾，他在2011年創(chuàng)建了無稻草項目 ，故選B。 （3）細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù) He asked