【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 中的，...late 18thcentury students used their own mini boards made of slate (石板) or painted wood...可知，18世紀(jì)的學(xué)生用的是“迷你板”。故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“In 1800 when a Scottish headmaster named James Pillans wanted his students to draw maps, the students couldn39。t draw the maps their teacher wanted on their tiny boards, so Pillans put several slates together to create a large board. ”在1800年，一名英格蘭校長James Pillans想讓他的學(xué)生們畫地圖，但是學(xué)生們在他們的迷你板上無法畫出地圖，因此校長讓學(xué)生把他們的迷你板拼湊在一起來制造一個大的板?？芍?，校長讓學(xué)生把他們的迷你板拼湊在一起是為了創(chuàng)造一個大的空間來畫地圖。故選B。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的The new material was lighter and... more likely to survive the Journey.可知A項和B項正確；以及After all, ... made the chalk powder easier to erase.可知C項正確；D項文章未提及。故選D。 （4）考查主旨大意。文章第一段前四句話點明了文章中心：我們看到的黑板大多是綠色的，為什么叫黑板？通讀全文也可知文章主要講述了黑板發(fā)展過程中顏色從黑色變成綠色的過程和原因。故選C。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇科普類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。4．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。 Why does time seem to fly by faster as we get old? You39。ve got your aging brain to blame. This is likely due largely to the physical changes of our nerves and neurons (神經(jīng)元). New research suggests 39。rapid fire39。 abilities of the young brain allow us to process more information during youth, causing the days to seem longer earlier in life. However, as we get old, researchers say the older brain takes more time to process information. The new finding put forward by a Duke University researcher was published in a paper in the journal European Review this week According to Adrian Bejan, the J. A Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke, the physical changes of our nerves and neurons play, a major role in our perception (知覺) of time as we get old. Over the years these structures bee more plex and eventually begin to degrade. Little babies, for example, move their eyes much more often than adults because they39。re processing images at a faster rate, Beian says, For older people, this means fewer images are being processed in the same amount of time, causing experiences to seem as though they39。re happening more quickly.（1）What causes time to fly faster as we get old? A.Changes of our nerves and neurons.B.Information in our brain.C.The electrical signals.D.Rapid fire abilities.（2）What is unavoidable in the process of getting old? A.Longer days.B.Aging brains.C.More images.D.Less experience.（3）Why do the days seem longer earlier in life? A.Young people are more energetic in their life.B.The younger brain takes less time to process information.C.Old people have fewer things to do than young people.D.Little babies move their eyes much more often.（4）What is the best title of the text? A.Nerves and NeuronsB.Time Flies FastC.The Older, the FasterD.The Function of the Brain【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了為什么老年人會覺得時間過得較快，主要原因是隨著年齡的增長，大腦中神經(jīng)元的變化讓老年人的大腦需要更多的時間來處理接收到的信息，這樣就會讓他們覺得時間過得較快。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的 This is likely due largely to the physical changes of our nerves and neurons (神經(jīng)元).可知，老年人覺得時間過得過快的原因是神經(jīng)和神經(jīng)元的變化。故選A。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的You39。ve got your aging brain to blame.和第二段中的Over the years, these structures bee more plex and eventually begin to degrade.可知，隨著年齡的增長，不可避免的就是大腦結(jié)構(gòu)的老化。故選B。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的最后兩句可知，年輕時之所以覺得日子似乎更長是因為大腦能夠以“快速射擊”的方式處理更多信息。當(dāng)我們變老的時候，大腦需要更多的時間來處理信息。所以說，相較于老年人，年輕人的大腦花費(fèi)更少的時間來處理信息。故選B。 （4）考查主旨大意。文章首句點明了文章談?wù)撝行模簽槭裁措S著我們變老，我們會覺得時間過得更快？后面文章主要解釋了原因：老年人因為大腦退化，神經(jīng)元的變化導(dǎo)致他們覺得時間過得較快。C項正好與主旨句呼應(yīng)，故選C。 【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇科研類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，概括歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．犇犇閱讀理解 A good disguise keeps you hidden, right? Well, sometimes the best disguise is actually the most dazzling because research reveals that flashy metallic iridescence(金屬彩虹色) can visually puzzle predators, which allows colorful prey to survive another day. Those surprising results appear in the journal Scientific Reports. Shining iridescent color, which changes depending on the angle from which it39。s viewed, is favored by everything from birds to beetles and blossoms to butterflies. And in our research group we are of course interested in why this vivid metallic color is so widespread in nature. Karin Kjernsmo of the University of Bristol adds that in some cases the showy splashes of light are a sexual strategy. Here I would like to point out that in some species, particularly those that display strong sexual dimorphism(雌雄兩性), such as birds of paradise or some butterflies or fishes, the occurrence of iridescence is most likely driven by sexual selection. For example, in many of these cases it is the males that have these vivid iridescent colors and they use them in mate choice or they use them as a signal to attract mates. But iridescence also shows up in situations where reproduction is not an issue. So what we are studying now is whether natural selection imposed by predation(捕食行為) could explain the occurrence of iridescence in prey animals. The idea that eye173。catching colors could be used as a cover173。up isn39。t a new one. The father of camouflage theory, Abbott Thayer, really believed that iridescence should be categorized as a camouflage strategy. And he wrote in his famous lifework Concealing173。Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, already in 1909, that 39。brilliantly changeable or metallic colors are among the strongest factors in an animal39。s concealment39。. And this sounds like a pletely unreasonable thing to say, because how can colors that are both brilliant and changeable contribute to animal39。s concealment？ In a similar way, we were asking whether iridescence, due to its changeability, could work as a form of camouflage by preventing shape recognition. Kjernsmo and her colleagues trained bumblebees to associate a particular shape—a circle or an oval—with a sugar reward. And they found that the bees, when given a choice, would preferentially visit the shape they knew to be sweet. But when the shapes were iridescent, the bees had trouble telling them apart. It seemed that the strikingly iridescent surfaces on our targets visually broke up the otherwise r