【正文】 r 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.”可知未來(lái)赤道附近的可可樹(shù)很難存活，是因?yàn)槟抢锿寥乐兴值牧魇?，故選D。(2)考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第六段中的“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 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”的意思是換句話說(shuō)，高溫帶走了土壤和植物中更多的水分，降雨量的增長(zhǎng)不足以抵消水量的流失，所以“offset”的意思是彌補(bǔ)，抵消，故選B。(3)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段中的“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.”可知美國(guó)的火星巧克力公司給予財(cái)政支援，用來(lái)幫助對(duì)抗氣候的變化，故選C。(4)考查主旨大意。本文主要講了未來(lái)由于氣候的變化，用于制造巧克力的可可樹(shù)可能會(huì)滅絕，所以巧克力有可能會(huì)成為歷史，故選A?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測(cè)和主旨大意三個(gè)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。7．閱讀理解 One of my first memories as a child in the 1950s was a discussion I had with my brother in our tiny bedroom in the family house in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. We had heard in school about a planet called Pluto. It was the farthest, coldest, and darkest thing a child could imagine. We guessed how long it would take to die if we stood on the surface of such a frozen place wearing only the clothes we had on. We tried to figure out how much colder Pluto was than Antarctica, or than the coldest day we had ever experienced in Pennsylvania. Pluto, which famously was downgraded from a “major planet” to a “dwarf planet”（矮星） in 2006, captured our imagination because it was a mystery that could plete our picture of what it was like at the most remote corners of our solar system. Pluto39。s underdog discovery story is part of what makes it so attractive. Clyde Tombaugh was a Kansas farm boy who built telescopes out of spare auto parts, old farm equipment and selfground lenses. As an assistant at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh39。s task was to search millions of stars for a moving point of light, a planet that the observatory39。s founder thought existed beyond the orbit of Neptune. On February 18，1930，Tombaugh found it. Pluto was the first planet discovered by an American, and represented a moment of light in the midst of the Great Depression39。s dark encroachment (入侵). Pluto is much more than something that is not a planet. It39。s a reminder that there are many worlds out there beyond our own and that the sky isn39。t the limit at all. We don39。t know what kinds of fantastic variations on a theme nature is capable of making until we get there to look.（1）Why did Pluto bee famous in 2006 according to the passage?A.Because it lost its major planet status.B.Because it disappeared in the sky.C.Because it was discovered by an American.D.Because it was proved to be the coldest planet in the universe.（2）What can be a suitable title for the text?A.An American Scientist: Clyde TombaughB.Pluto was First Discovered by a BoyC.Pluto39。s Strange RomanceD.The Days I Spent with My Brother in Pennsylvania（3）What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?A.Clyde Tombaugh discovered the darkness in the Great Depression.B.Pluto was the only planet that was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.C.Clyde Tombaugh39。s job was to build telescopes for Lowell Observatory.D.Clyde Tombaugh39。s telescopes used for searching stars were very simple.（4）What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph most probably mean?A.Pluto is no less than a planet in the solar system.B.Pluto is much more than a planet in the solar system.C.Pluto is more important than any other planet in the sky.D.Pluto is not a planet in the solar system, but it is more than a planet.【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】文章講述了小時(shí)候作者對(duì)冥王星的認(rèn)識(shí)，以及冥王星被發(fā)現(xiàn)和被從太陽(yáng)系去除的經(jīng)過(guò)，更表現(xiàn)了冥王星的神秘和魅力，這使作者認(rèn)識(shí)到宇宙是無(wú)窮的，也是不斷變化的，需要我們不停去探索。( 1 )推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段Pluto, which famously was downgraded from a “major planet” to a “dwarf planet”（矮星）in 2006, captured our imagination because it was a mystery that could plete our picture of what it was like at the most remote corners of our solar system可知，在2006年冥王星被從太陽(yáng)系大行星中被去除，失去了其大行星地位，故選A。( 2 )主旨大意題。文章主要講述的是冥王星的被發(fā)現(xiàn)和被從太陽(yáng)系去除的經(jīng)過(guò)，更表現(xiàn)了它的神秘和魅力。C項(xiàng)“冥王星的奇怪浪漫史”概括全文，故選C。( 3 )推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段Clyde Tombaugh was a Kansas farm boy who built telescopes out of spare auto parts, old farm equipment and selfground February 18，1930，Tombaugh found it. Pluto was the first planet discovered by an American, and represented a moment of light in the midst of the Great Depression39。s dark encroachment (入侵).可知，是Clyde Tombaugh用他簡(jiǎn)陋的儀器發(fā)現(xiàn)了冥王星，成了第一個(gè)發(fā)現(xiàn)行星的美國(guó)人，并且給黑暗的大蕭條時(shí)期帶來(lái)了一線光明。故選D。( 4 )猜測(cè)句意題。此句指冥王星的發(fā)現(xiàn)并不僅僅是一顆行星，它還讓我們知道了宇宙無(wú)限大，天空根本不是極限，它們是不斷變化的需要我們?nèi)ヌ剿鳌９蔬xD。【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查科普類短文閱讀。8．閱讀理解 The Hunan Satellite TV(HNTV) show Where are we going, Dad? is a big hit. Many famous stars brought their children to a strange village alone, and they had to spend 72 hours with their children there. The program fully showed us a modern version of the how to be a good father. As the young parents today are too busy to take care of their children, this new form of Lost on the way played by nanny Daddy and cute kids triggered(觸發(fā))a lot of people39。s emotional resonance(共鳴). Both the kids and their parents will find that their hearts are being drawn closer. But this kind of feeling has just proved that there is a big spiritual barrier between the modern parents and children. The TV shows like Children are hard to support!, Where are we going, Dad?, hot mom and cute kids are being more and more popular. All of these show the new parents39。 confusion in children39。s education and the appeal for the balance between career and family. In real life, on the one hand the young parents feel helpless because they are too busy to acpany their children under the pressures of work and life。 on the other hand they continue to do so. The data collected by HNTV shows that nearly twothirds of their audience are female, among whom 36% are aged from 25 to can imagine such a scene that one evening a young mother is watching the show with her young children, while her husband is still at work or trapped in socializing, or maybe is just playing puter games in the bedroom. The story of a child without the pany of father is still goin