【正文】 If spending is a measure of what matters, then the people of the developing world place a high value on brains. While private spending on education has not。細節(jié)理解題查找原文關(guān)鍵詞，推理判斷題根據(jù)上下文的理解進行合理的推理，不主觀臆斷。 【點評】考查閱讀理解。t accept these kinds of seemingly paradoxical conditions needs to reflect on the expression freezer burn.因此這個詞的目的是反擊那些Climate change deniers所以作者是支持global warming的，是為了證明全球變暖是極端天氣的原因。 （3）推理判斷題。文中And being the most powerful man on Earth, he was successful in his polite request.只是玩笑,不能作為真正的答案。 （2）細節(jié)理解題。因此這句話是突出了天氣的極其異常。C—but that was the high. The low jumped to 29176。然后根據(jù)上文的描述the low temperature dropped to 17176。根據(jù)第一段Lewis Black的話的意思是：那不是天氣。文中分析了其原因。 study on the paradoxical conditions.D.To prove global warming to be the cause of the extreme weather.C.Disruption of polar vortex.（3）Why does the author use the expression freezer burn? A.Warm air from the real South.Trump39。urge people to take action against the emergency（2）What led to the sudden increase in the Chicago temperature on February 4? A.t a suitable place to liveC.s weather wasB.. A.t accept these kinds of seemingly paradoxical conditions needs to reflect on the expression freezer burn.（1）By mentioning Lewis Black39。s colder, that39。s warmer than usual, that39。t used to be, anyway. The Arctic is warming at twice the speed as the global average. This heat might help disrupt (打破) the polar vortex, a gradual wind pattern that usually stays focused on circling the North Pole. A shaky jet stream (高速氣流) then runs right into a brick wall of that Arctic air, which continues to be fairly cold by human standards, and both wind up lots of miles farther south than they usually belong. And for a few days we in the Deep South—by which I mean Chicago or New York pared with the Arctic—freeze our butts off. But less than a week later, thanks to some warm air ing up from the real South, I was walking outside without a coat on a date when the temperature in Chicago reached 11℃ on February 4.s an emergency condition.8．閱讀理解 推理判斷題結(jié)合上下句合理推斷。本文涉及了細節(jié)理解題、推理判斷題和主旨大意題三種?？碱}型。故選B。然而，有時由于不同的原因，如日程沖突，他們不能參加他們想要參加的課程。 （4）主旨大意題。)可知，作者最后選擇生物是為了挑戰(zhàn)自己。（3）細節(jié)理解題。)可知，在學期的第一個月內(nèi)，許多學生換了課程。s often a long queue at the office door and a lot of students want to switch courses.(事實上，學生可以在學期的第一個月內(nèi)換班。 （2）細節(jié)理解題。)可知，如果一個人上life management，他能得到高分數(shù)。根據(jù)第三段中On the first day of school, I found out that life management is an open class and every student is able to take the course. The teacher of the class told us honestly that this is an easy course that can increase our average score.(開學的第一天，我發(fā)現(xiàn)生活管理是一門公開課，每個學生都能上這門課。Courses in China high schools are easier【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文作者以自己的經(jīng)歷為例，講述加拿大學生對課程的選擇，并指出選課可能很難。Choosing can be toughC.Because his teacher advised him to.（4）What is the best title for the text? A.Because he wanted to do as other students did.C.teachers refuse the students hating their courses（3）Why did the writer finally choose biology? A.few students follow the adviserC.. A.get high marks（2）We know from the passage that within the first month of the semester bee quite different from othersB.. A. To be honest, quite a lot of students want to change classes because they want easier courses. But I think challenging myself is always the best choice. I would rather get a lower mark in a course I can really learn from than get high scores in an easy open class.（1）According to the text, if one takes life management, he can s often a long queue at the office door and a lot of students want to switch courses. On the first day of school, I found out that life management is an open class and every student is able to take the course. The teacher of the class told us honestly that this is an easy course that can increase our average score. It was really different from what I had expected. So I planned to drop the class. Then came the question: Could I change the class? Unlike most Chinese high school students, seniors in Canada can choose the courses they would like to take by themselves. However sometimes they cannot take the course they want to take due to different reasons like schedule conflicts. 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測，推理判斷和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇健康類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。本文首段用事例提示該主題,然后結(jié)合實驗證明圍繞該主題進行闡述。通覽全文可知本文討論了睡眠 的故選A。 （3）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第五段中的“Sleep seems to allow your mind to make nonobvious connections”睡眠似乎允許你的大腦做出一些不明顯的連接）,以及“This is the basis of creativityconnecting ideas”這是創(chuàng)造性連接想法的基礎，可知以不同尋常的方式組合在一起的信息會帶來創(chuàng)新。故選C。根據(jù)第二段中的“ the mind at night puts together bits of information in creative ways. Throughout the day your brain rarely gets a chance to stop and think”在晚上大腦以創(chuàng)新的方式把信息組合在一起,。Sleep Can Bring Creative Ideas【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，討論了睡眠的重要性:睡眠可以帶來一些創(chuàng)造性的想法。Great Works from SleepC.Perform badly.（4）What can be a suitable title for the text? A.Stop working.Return to normal.Start being active.D.Information stored in a biological theatre.B.The ways to exchange information.（2）According to Russell Foster, what may bring out creativity? A.The ways to process information.B.The ways to receive information. By placing volunteers into brain scanners and sending them to sleep, scientists have seen that the areas associated with emotion go into overdrive, especially while dreaming, while the areas that are responsible for logic (邏輯)are switched off. This not only explains why dreams are unbelievably randomyou can be talking to a colleague one minute and the next minute sitting in your old school classroom dressed in your nightclothes173。 Sleep seems to allow your mind to make nonobvious connections. It puts all the information from the day into a big bio