【正文】 nd more than 8 hours a day looking at a screen. This included cell phones and puters，but the majority were television screens. There are three interesting things about this study. The first is that people are exposed to more than one hour of advertisements per day. The second is that even with access to DVDs and internet videos, television is still the most popular media source. The third is that the amount of screenwatching people do is relatively the same from the ages of 1865. So, if everyone is watching television, why lie about it? Well, if someone admits they watch television for five or six hours, they could be considered a couch potato. Michael Phillips, one of the study39。s main researchers, says, “There39。s a social stigma for people who watch too much television. Sometimes, however, watching the latest reality show or the funniest sit gives coworkers and friends fun things to talk about.” Even if you do watch a lot of television, perhaps we can use this study as a reason to be honest with ourselves about how much time we spend in front of the television. I mean, after all, everyone else is doing it...（1）Why do people lie about how much TV they watch? A.Because the show they watched is not the latest.B.Because they may be laughed at by coworkers or friends.C.Because they don39。t want others to know what they watched.D.Because there39。s something negative attached to watching too much TV.（2）Which of the following is true according to the study? A.The most popular media source is the internet.B.18yearolds watch more TV than someone in their 60s.C.People are exposed to over than an hour of advertisement a day.D.Researchers say that people watch over 8 eight hours of television a week.（3）How could people feel to be considered as a couch potato? A.fortableB.ashamedC.excitedD.satisfied（4）What idea does the author mainly want to express with the article? A.what the effects of watching TV are.B.how much television we should watch every day.C.there are some interesting facts of watching TV.D.people lie about how much television they watch.【答案】（1）D（2）C（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，作者分析了人們瞞報看電視的時間的原因。(1)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“There39。s a social stigma for people who watch too much television. ”可知看太多電視，被認為不光彩，由此推知，看電視太多與消極的東西聯(lián)系在一起，故選D。(2)考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“The first is that people are exposed to more than one hour of advertisements per day.”可知人們每天被暴露在廣告下的時間超過一小時，故選C。(3)考查推理判斷。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“There39。s a social stigma for people who watch too much television. ”可知看太多電視，被認為不光彩，由此推知當一個人被認為是一個成天看電視的人，他會感覺很羞恥，故選B。(4)考查主旨大意。根據(jù)全文的主題句“A recent study shows that people aren39。t totally truthful about their televisionwatching habits.”可知這篇文章主要講了人們瞞報看電視的時間，作者對其中的原因進行了分析，故選D?！军c評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇生活類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 From the loss of wildlife to rising sea levels, we39。re all well aware of the problems that climate change could cause. But while it may seem like such issues won39。t affect most of us directly，it looks like future generations could grow up without something that many of us now take for granted: chocolate. According to an essay published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, changes to the climate in the regions that produce cacao the plant from which chocolate is produced may mean that it will soon bee extinct. Most of the world39。s cacao grows in countries close to the equator，with over half of it growing in the African nations of Ghana and Ivory Coast.It39。s predicted that by 2050, climate change will have accelerated the rate at which temperatures in these countries rise, making it extremely difficult for cacao to grow there. The problem doesn39。t lie in increased heat, however，but in lower humidity (濕度)，as it39。s believed that rainfall will stay at the same level if the temperature rises. “In other words, as higher temperatures squeeze more water out of soil and plants, it39。s unlikely that rainfall will increase enough to offset the moisture (含水量) loss,” Michon Scott, the essay39。s author, wrote. To help fight this problem, researchers from Berkeley University in the US are working on changing the DNA of cacao plants to allow them to survive in dryer conditions by using gene editing technology, according to US News. In the meantime, US pany Mars, one of the world39。s biggest manufacturers of chocolate products, announced in January that it would spend $1 billion to help reduce the effects of climate change. “This is a world issue, and it requires everyone to work together,” Mars spokesperson Barry Parkin told Business Insider. The message here is that if we all do our part, we may be able to prevent some of the worst impacts of climate change. Or if we39。re unlucky, chocolate will bee a thing of the past.（1）What could make it hard for cacao to survive around the equator in the future? A.The increased heat there.B.The higher humidity there.C.The decrease in rainfall there.D.The moisture loss in the soil there.（2）What does the underlined word “offset” in the seventh paragraph mean? A.hold backB.make up forC.protectD.accept（3）What will US pany Mars do to help cacao survive? A.It will work hard to plan