【正文】 0。D.Strength of Persuasion【答案】（1）A（2）B（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，說服是一種說服某人同意你的藝術(shù)，有三種基本的說服方法：精神氣質(zhì)，悲情和理性。（1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“Persuasion is to convince someone to agree with you, just like art which also calls for special techniques to acplish.”可知說服的目的是勸告一些人贊成你，故選A。（2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“Ethos is a speaker39。s way of convincing the audience that he is trustworthy, honest and reliable. One mon way a speaker can develop ethos is by explaining how much experience or education he has in the field.”可知說話者可以通過介紹自己的經(jīng)驗(yàn)以及自己在這個(gè)領(lǐng)域所受的教育，也就是Ethos，來讓聽眾相信他，故選B。（3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Pathos is a speaker39。s way of connecting with an audience39。s emotions.”可知一位政治家和一個(gè)動(dòng)物慈善團(tuán)體的共同之處就是讓聽眾支持他們，故選C。（4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)主題句“Persuasion is to convince someone to agree with you, just like art which also calls for special techniques to acplish. According to the ancient Greeks, there are three basic tools of persuasion: ethos, pathos and logos.”可知這篇文章主要介紹了勸說的三個(gè)基本方法，故選B。【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇生活類閱讀，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。8．閱讀理解 The human brain remembers negative experiences more easily than positive ones. Our brains have developed this way because threats, like dangerous animals, had a more immediate effect on our ancestors39。 survival pared to positive things like food or shelter. As a result, you likely know what makes you unhappy, but do you know what makes you happy? Research suggests that our level of happiness depends partly on factors we cannot control—our genes and our life circumstances. But our level of happiness is also shaped by the choices we make. If you39。ve been chasing wealth, fame, good looks, material things and power, you may be looking for happiness in all the wrong places. Psychologists suggest that the following habits make people happier. People who form close relationships tend to be happier than those who do not. The number of friends we have is not important. What matters is the quality of our relationships. Relationships that bring happiness usually involve the sharing of feelings, mutual respect, acceptance, trust and fun. People who exercise regularly improve both their physical and mental well being. Some research has shown that exercise can be as effective as medication in treating depression. When we are so interested in an activity we enjoy that we lose track of time, we are in a state of flow. The activity could be making art, playing piano, surfing, or playing a game. People who experience flow in their work or hobbies tend to be happier. People are more likely to be happy if they know what their strengths are and use them regularly, People who set goals and use their strengths to achieve them tend to be happier. People are especially happy when they can use their strengths to serve the greater good. People who think positively by being grateful, mindful and optimistic are more likely to be happy. Being grateful means being thankful, Bejing mindful means being open to, focusing on and enjoying the experiences of the present moment. Being optimistic means being hopeful about the future.（1）Why does the human brain remember negative things more easily? A.Negative things are easy to remember.B.Dangerous wild animals are a threat to us.C.Our ancestors had no enough food for living.D.Negative things tend to affect human survival immediately.（2）How does the author like looking for happiness in material things? A.Uncertain.B.Opposed.C.Supportive.D.Optimistic.（3）What does the author suggest us in the last paragraph? A.Enjoying our life and work.B.Leading a happy life each day.C.Being positive in our life and work.D.Thinking more about the future.（4）What does this text mainly tell us? A.The factors that make people happy.B.How to remember positive things easily.C.The habits which people form in their life.D.Why people remember negative things easily.【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，真正能使我們快樂的并不是物質(zhì)的東西，作者在文中介紹了幾種會(huì)讓人更快樂的習(xí)慣。（1考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“Our brains have developed this way because threats, like dangerous animals, had a more immediate effect on our ancestors39。 survival pared to positive things like food or shelter.”可知負(fù)面的東西相對(duì)于積極的東西對(duì)我們祖先的生存有更直接的影響，所以更容易被記住。故選D。（2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“If you39。ve been chasing wealth, fame, good looks, material things and power, you may be looking for happiness in all the wrong places. ”一直追求財(cái)富、名譽(yù)、美貌、物質(zhì)和權(quán)力，你可能會(huì)在所有錯(cuò)誤的地方尋找幸福。由此可見作者對(duì)尋找物質(zhì)上的幸福持反對(duì)態(tài)度，故選B。（3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“People who think positively by being grateful, mindful and optimistic are more likely to be happy.”積極樂觀的人感恩，專注，樂觀，更容易快樂。以及下文幾者之間的內(nèi)在關(guān)系可知作者建議我們?cè)谏詈凸ぷ髦幸e極樂觀，故選C。（4）考查主旨大意。作者在文中介紹了幾種會(huì)讓人更快樂的習(xí)慣，如建立親密關(guān)系，鍛煉，了解自己的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，感恩，專注，樂觀積極的生活態(tài)度等。即使人快樂的因素，故選A?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇生活類閱讀，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。9．閱讀理解 A study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important. These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion(萬億)connections in the brain of a threeyearold child. Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mubaba. This is the patternABB. Another order was mubage. This is the pattern “ABC”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the ABB pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order. Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the building block of words and gra