【正文】 D.Couples share the burdens. But perhaps the knowledge that we can live perfectly well without a partnership means that it takes much more to persuade people to abandon their independence. Why are many finding it increasingly difficult to start close relationships? Does modem life really make it harder to fall in love? Or are we making it harder for ourselves? It is certainly the case today that contemporary couples benefit in different ways from relationships. Women no longer rely upon partners for money or status. A man doesn39。故選C。故選B。 以及下文的“Bending down, Bryan pointed out the hive deep inside the pile. Truman carefully removed the hive out.”可知，蜂巢是在木頭堆里找到的。By killing the bees.【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，杜魯門回家時(shí)正在為如何取得蜂巢作業(yè)而煩惱，正在地上用紙管建城市的弟弟布萊恩，無(wú)意中給哥哥杜魯門提供了蜂巢的線索，杜魯門找到蜂巢后，通過(guò)觀察得到了做蜂巢作業(yè)的靈感。B.It was a perfect hexagon.（3）How did Truman probably finish his homework in the end? A.B.Inside the wood pile.（2）What do we know about the beehive? A.C. Truman ran to Bryan and threw his arms around his brother. Bryan, you did it! Now I can build a model beehive with your tubes! I mean — if it39。 “Bees don39。m trying to…”re mining my city!” Back in the living room, Truman paced around, turning the fragile hive under his nose. Each cell was a perfect hexagon(六邊形). How did the bees fit the cells together so neatly? And how did they make each cell sixsided? Could they count? Lost in thought, his foot came down on something ... “I don39。s class had studied bees for three days, so he was ready. But, as his teacher Mrs. Lawrence had explained, to earn an A +，he needed a “new angle”.7．閱讀理解（4）考查主旨大意。由此可見(jiàn)作者對(duì)尋找物質(zhì)上的幸福持反對(duì)態(tài)度，故選B。故選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(shuō)明文，真正能使我們快樂(lè)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(lè)的習(xí)慣。How to remember positive things easily.C.D.Leading a happy life each day.C.Enjoying our life and work. 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.由此可知，找到它從不浪費(fèi)一分鐘搜查整個(gè)房子。故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“Then use the TrackR app to find where your missing item are in seconds.”可知，這個(gè)應(yīng)用程序可以幫助在短時(shí)間內(nèi)找到丟失的物品。（1）考查推理判斷。CleaningB.D.B.The app is available in any electronic equipment.The process of setting up the app is plex. Since you39。re looking for! It39。根據(jù)最后一段的第一句“The project hopes to make people conscious of the waste that these bottles create so that they can do more to protect the environment. ”可知項(xiàng)目希望人們意識(shí)到這些瓶子造成的浪費(fèi)，以便他們能做更多來(lái)保護(hù)環(huán)境，以此提高人們保護(hù)環(huán)境的意識(shí)。于是Robert的項(xiàng)目就是用這些塑料瓶建成房子，這種材料房子的室內(nèi)溫度相對(duì)涼爽，不僅讓利用廢物，還環(huán)保了地球。這對(duì)居住在室內(nèi)的人來(lái)說(shuō)是最大的好處。答案與題目在表達(dá)形式和意義上直接吻合。大部分的廢物被魚(yú)和鳥(niǎo)所消耗，大大縮短了它們的壽命。一個(gè)人一生中會(huì)留下許多塑料瓶子，這些瓶子要花上百年才能分解成碎片，而且永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)完全消失，給地球留下太多的污染。B.s projects is to Enthusiastic.B.D.B.D.B. The project hopes to make people conscious of the waste that these bottles create so that they can do more to protect the environment. The village will also create an education center that will teach individuals from the world how to reuse plastic bottles as construction materials for shelter. Recycled bottles could neutralize the negative effect of your passage on this planet, and move closer to leaving only your “footprints”. （1）What does Paragraph 1 intend to tell us? A. The Plastic Bottle Village is just a great idea that might finally save us from being buried in plastic. It39。結(jié)尾往往也是中心思想的概括，并與導(dǎo)語(yǔ)相呼應(yīng)，命題者常在此要設(shè)計(jì)一道推理判斷題。標(biāo)題是文章中心思想高度而又精辟的概括，但根據(jù)歷年的高考情況來(lái)看，這類閱讀理解材料一般不給標(biāo)題，而要同學(xué)們選擇標(biāo)題。故答案選A。根據(jù)文章第三段Instead of having to travel and spend days at each site, a number of cooperators in the field use the app to collect and send data, allowing scientists to gather data more ，技術(shù)的進(jìn)步，使得科學(xué)家獲得更有效的數(shù)據(jù)。（2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章主要講述了隨著技術(shù)的進(jìn)步，保護(hù)瀕危的岸禽鳥(niǎo)類的措施變得更加的有效。Protecting Endangered ShorebirdsResearch on smartphones.C.To find out global climate change.seyeview photographs taken before and after storms. All the information scientists and citizen scientists alike collect helps federal and state agencies create policyplans for addressing climate change impacts (影響) worldwide. （1）What can we know about the piping plover? A. The piping plover is a shorebird that breeds（繁殖）along the Atlantic Coast, the Great Lakesand the Great Plains. Rising sea levels associated with climate change, as well as increased development in their beach habitats（棲息地）, threaten the species（物種）. To help track changes in piping plover habitats, Thieler developed a free app called iPlover in 2012. This is a marked change from the typical way scientists collect data, which involves gathering information using specialized equipment or writing in notebooks and then putting into spreadsheets.故選B。 （4）考查主旨大意。“在海拔非常低的情況下開(kāi)始用它…”。我們?cè)谲嚨默F(xiàn)行結(jié)構(gòu)中植入了安全性，非常類似于Formula One賽車。它可快速地在大陸上移動(dòng)，因?yàn)樗梢哉郫B和包裝。To show the differences between two flying vehicles.D.the parachute（4）What is the author39。C.the engine of the Jetpack is powerfulC.can fly for over 30 minutes, up to 1, 000 meters highC. In New Zealand, Martin Aircraft Company is also testing a fullsize prototype of its personal flying device, called the Jetpack. It can fly for more than 30 minutes, up to 1, 000 meters high and reach a speed of 74 kilometers per hour. 根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“It was strict management, all right. Yes, at home or on the job, Dad was always the efficiency expert. He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the bottomtotop process took him only three seconds, while the toptobottom took seven.”可知，作者以他父親的管理而自豪。根據(jù)最后一段中的“‘I can save fortyfour seconds,’ he plained, ‘but I wasted two minutes this morning putting this bandage on my throat.’ It was