【正文】 py time in our past. So next time you are feeling down, put on Beethoven39。 s Ode to Joy, I bet you will feel a lot better about whatever it was that was bothering you! （1）We can infer from the first paragraph that music can A.benefit you in many waysB.promote you to find more questionsC.change the patterns of your lifestyleD.influence your attention to a problem（2）The author wrote the second paragraph mainly to A.tell us a storyB.make some mentsC.give us an exampleD.list some facts（3）When we enjoy a piece of sad music, A.we39。ll share the artist39。s feelings deeplyB.we may recall our miserable pastC.we may be reminded of particular joyD.we39。ll show mercy on the artist39。s life（4）What39。s the best title of the text? A.What music means to a music loverB.Why people love happy musicC.What kind of music is popularD.How music changes your life【答案】（1）A（2）C（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，主要介紹了音樂怎樣改變?nèi)藗兊纳?。?）考查推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段Most people know that listening to music when they are feeling down or depressed can encourage their ，故答案選A。（2）考查主旨大意題。通讀第二段主要將了音樂能緩解人的緊張，接著通過舉例的方法來證明這一觀點，所以這一段主要是在舉例。故答案選C。（3）考查推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段Music is mainly used to record emotion. When we listen to a piece of music we share the artist39。s feelings on a visceral（本來的）level. That can be sad, and who among us hasn39。t put on a painful love song to share in the misery after a bad breakup?可知音樂是用來記錄情感的，聽悲傷的音樂可以讓人回憶起悲傷的經(jīng)歷。故答案選B。（4）考查主旨大意題。根據(jù)每一段的第一句話music, especially certain tones can reduce stress；Music has also been shown not only to make you feel good, but also, to be a great motivator.；Music is mainly used to record ，故答案選D?！军c評】主旨大意題解題技巧：1．首先要找出文章的主題句(Topic Sentence)，即中心思想，其他句子則為支撐句或擴展句(Developing Details)，是用來闡述、解釋、支持或發(fā)展主題句所表達的主題思想的。2．在許多文段中，沒有可以概括全段意義的主題句，必須根據(jù)文章中所提供的事實細節(jié)，進行全面分析，然后歸納成一般概念。但必須注意：既不能以偏概全，也不能在概括時過于寬泛，要恰如其分。8．閱讀理解 Science is finally beginning to embrace animals who were, for a long time, considered secondclass citizens. As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend die. Pigs respond meaningful to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O39。s. Then the team switched from reallife objects to Tshirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the Oshirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a twodimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat of reasoning. I39。ve been guilty of prejudiced expectations, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes outthink and outfeel other animals. They39。re other primates(靈長目動物), after all, animals from our own mammalian(哺乳動物的) class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social panions. Longterm studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure kin laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks. Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will the new science of food animals bring an ethical (倫理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science? Animal activists are already there, of course, mitted to not eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attention to the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us to make changes in who we eat?（1）According to Annie Potts, hens have the ability of_____________. A.interactionB.analysisC.creationD.abstraction（2）The research into pigs shows that pigs___________. A.learn letters quicklyB.have a good eyesightC.can build up a good relationshipD.can apply knowledge to new situations（3）Paragraph 4 is mainly about________. A.the similarities between mammals and humansB.the necessity of longterm studies on mammalsC.a change in people39。s attitudes towards animalsD.a discovery of how animals express themselves（4）What might be the best title for the passage? A.The Inner Lives of Food AnimalsB.The Lifestyles of Food AnimalsC.Science Reports on Food AnimalsD.A Revolution in Food Animals【答案】