【文章內容簡介】 bee known for its privacy issues, the more interesting lesson of our FaceApp fling (盡情玩樂)is what it tells us about our society—and our future lives. It turns out we are more interested in aging than we realized. I39。m surprised by this. Most younger people are in denial (否認)about old age, doing almost nothing to prepare for it. We rarely have a chance to plan for the future, with increasing time and financial pressures. Those pressures bring sacrifices that we may not always want to make: we can no longer afford to spend the time or the money needed to look after our elderly parents. As a family doctor, I can see the loneliness epidemic developing. Elderly patients e to see me with no particular illness, no clear medical issue. After a few minutes of the consultation, I understand why: they39。re not sick, and often they don39。t feel sick. They just need someone—anyoneto talk to. Although loneliness has no medical classification, the health effects are real: the result of loneliness and isolation can be as harmful to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and is more damaging than obesity. But loneliness does not e with nearly enough health warnings. So what next? Since 1980, we are living on average 10 years longer. At the same time, people are having fewer and fewer children, and they are having them much later in life. The snake of a world class health service is eating its own tail。 its care is prolonging (延長) people39。s lives, but as the ratio of pensioners(退休人員)to working age people increases, there are fewer taxpayers to fund that very health service. Into this void have stepped NGOs, charities and volunteers. But in the long term, the only way to truly help the oldest meters of our society is to go back to the traditional values of intergenerational(兩代間的) cooperation—often under same roof. Ultimately, we will need to evolve towards a culture where elderly care is treated the same as childcare, where employers recognize the duty of someone with an elderly parent the same way they recognize those of someone with a newborn child.（1）The example of FaceApp is used to _____. A.prove the popularity of itB.explain the function of itC.show the progress of technologyD.introduce the topic of aging and loneliness（2）What makes elderly people without illness go to see their family doctors? A.Desire to have the consultation.B.Strong feeling of loneliness.C.Unclear medical issues.D.Questions to ask doctors.（3）How can the oldest members be truly helped? A.By being treated as children.B.By going back to the traditional society.C.By providing family care.D.By living with other elderly people under the same roof.（4）What can we learn from the passage? A.The loneliness of elderly people needs more attention.B.FaceApp39。s popularity proves it has no security problems.C.Health service lacks fund because of prolonged peopled lives.D.FaceApp is helpful in dealing with elderly peopled loneliness.【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，作者由FaceApp話題談到當今的社會現(xiàn)象——老人感到孤獨，他們需要關注。作者認為孤獨雖不是病，但它能影響人的健康，所以他呼吁人們像關注新生兒那樣關注老人。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據第一段FaceApp has taken the world by storm, giving users the chance to see themselves age through its algorithm. million people—some three million more than the population of New York City—reportedly downloaded it in one sevenday period last month. “；第二段中的”...the more interesting lesson of our FaceApp fling (盡情玩樂）is what it tells us about our society—and our future lives. It turns out we are more interested in aging than we realized.“可知，F(xiàn)aceApp已經風靡全球，用戶有機會通過它的算法看到自己的年齡。據報道，在上個月的七天時間里，有1270萬人下載了這本書，比紐約市的人口多了300萬。它告訴了我們關于我們的社會和我們未來的生活。事實證明，我們對衰老的興趣比我們意識到的更大。作為一名家庭醫(yī)生，我可以看到孤獨感的蔓延。所以FaceApp主要的功能是通過它的算法使用戶看到自己的年齡，接著講述老人所面臨的問題—孤獨和衰老。故判斷出FaceApp的例子是用來介紹衰老和孤獨的話題。故選D。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據第三段中的”As a family doctor, I can see the loneliness epidemic developing. Elderly patients e to see me with no particular illness, no clear medical issue. “可知老人經常去看家庭醫(yī)生是因為孤獨，他們沒有生病，只想找人聊聊。故選B。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據最后一段中的”But in the long term, the only way to truly help the oldest members of our society is to go back to the traditional values of intergenerational（兩代間的） cooperation—often under same roof. Ultimately, we will need to evolve towards a culture where elderly care is treated the same as childcare“,可知從長期來看我們幫助老年成員的方法是和他們一起居住，并且給予他們嬰兒般的關愛。故選C。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據第五段中的”But loneliness does not e with nearly enough health warnings.“可知老人孤獨并沒有帶來足夠的健康警示，故推斷人們孤獨的老人應該得到更多的關注，選A。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇社會現(xiàn)象類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息，并根據上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 By analyzing the fossilized teeth of some of our most ancient ancestors, a team of scientists led by the universities of Bristol (UK) and Lyon (France) have discovered that the first humans significantly breastfed their infants (嬰兒) for longer periods than their contemporary relatives. The results, published in the journal Science Advances, provide a first insight into the practice of weaning (斷奶)that remain otherwise unseen in the fossil record. The team sampled minute amounts from nearly 40 fossilized teeth of our South African fossil relatives, early Homo, Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus. They measured the proportions of their stable calcium isotopes (同位素）in the tooth enamel(牙釉質), which are a function of the mother milk intake by infants. They show that early Homo offspring(后代) was breastfed in significant proportions until the age of around three to four years, which likely played a role in the apparition of traits that are specific to human lineage(血統(tǒng)), such as the brain development. In contrast, infants of Paranthropus robustus, that became extinct around one million years ago and were a more robust species in terms of dental anatomy, as well as infants of Australopithecus africanus, stopped drinking sizeable proportions of mother milk in the course of the first months of life. These differences in nursing behaviors likely e with major changes