【正文】 the music people listen to during the Christmas period. At first, you could easily mistake these songs for the classic salsa, which is played all year round. However, after asking a Colombian if it really felt like Christmas music, they explained to me that the songs are loved more for the memories they symbolize than for the way they sound, and that Colombia has been through so many dark periods in history, it was important to hold on to the good memories of years gone past.With celebrations beginning on 7 December, Columbia is recognized as having the longest Christmas celebrations period in the world. The celebrations generally begin in the evening with the lighting of candles, either in the streets, parks or outside people39。Spending Christmas in a foreign country can be a truly eyeopening experience, especially since it39。故選C。（3）細節(jié)理解題。與英語不同，漢語允許他們把這七個數(shù)字放在兩秒鐘之內(nèi)）可推知，比起美國人，中國人的母語讓中國人更容易記住一列數(shù)字。（2）推理判斷題。）可推知，本文主要探討了亞洲兒童在數(shù)學方面的優(yōu)勢可能來源于他們的文化的問題。他們有一個邏輯計數(shù)系統(tǒng)。同時根據(jù)第三段中的The number system in English is highly so in China, Japan, and Korea. They have a logical counting system.（英語中的數(shù)字系統(tǒng)是高度不規(guī)則的。（1）主旨大意題。American children can only count to 15 at the age of four【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文為介紹說明文。they don39。they pronounce the numbers in a shorter periodB.D.Their math education.B.s advantage in math may be sourced from their culture.（2）What makes a Chinese easier to remember a list of numbers than an American?A.Children in Western countries have to learn by heart the learning things.D.The Asian numbernaming system helps grasp advanced math skills better.B. When it es to math, in other words, Asians have a builtin advantage. For years, students from China, South Korea, and Japan outperformed their Western classmates at mathematics, and the typical assumption is that it has something to do with a kind of Asian talent for math. The differences between the number systems in the East and the West suggest something very different that being good at math may also be rooted in a group39。 The regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Ask an Englishspeaking sevenyearold to add thirtyseven plus twentytwo in her head, and she has to change the words to numbers (37+22). Only then can she do the math: 2 plus 7 is 9 and 30 and 20 is 50, which makes 59. Ask an Asian child to add threetensseven and twotenstwo, and then the necessary equation(等式) is right there, in the sentence. No number translation is necessary: it39。t. We use a different form: eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteen. For numbers above 20, we put the “decade” first and the unit number second (twentyone, twentytwo), while for the teens, we do it the other way around (fourteen, seventeen, eighteen). The number system in English is highly irregular. Not so in China, Japan, and Korea. They have a logical counting system. Eleven is tenone. Twelve is tentwo. Twentyfour is twotensfour and so on. It turns out that there is also a big difference in how numbernaming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. In English, we say fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, so one might expect that we would also say oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, and fiveteen. That example es from Stanislas Dahaene39。 Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 7, 9, 6. Read them loud. Now look away and spend 20 seconds memorizing them in order before saying them out loud again. If you speak English, you have about a 50% chance of remembering those perfectly. If you are Chinese, though, you39。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測，段落大意和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇社會類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關系，進行推理，歸納，從而選出正確答案。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第三段中的The new guide in Russian seeks to explain the ‘dos’ and ‘don39。s job opportunities and relatively high salaries.可知，很多移民涌入莫斯科是因為他們被莫斯科相對較高的工作機會和薪水所吸引，故選A。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。 （1）考查詞義猜測。More and more foreign migrants to work in MoscowD.Ways to help foreign migrants to settle in RussiaB.the measures to attract foreign migrantsD.consequences the migrants may sufferB.to enjoy the fine climateD.to find wellpaid jobsB.D.C.B. The old conflict between Russian heroes and nonSlavic invaders is being revived, Yevgeny Varshaver, a migration expert told BBC Russian. He also suggested that the language used in the book would be difficult to understand for some migrants who were not native Russian speakers.（1）The underlined word antagonists in Paragraph 1 can probably be replaced by ________. A. Migrant characters had initially (最初) been identified as representatives of different nationalities, but the book39。 The manual was written primarily for illegal migrants, Alexander Kalinin, who heads the group Support for Working Migrants in Moscow, told BBC Russian.s language and history. A special section of the book explains the importance of following Moscow39。s famous three warriors are meant to represent the city39。ts to migrants. They are urged not to cause trouble, by staring at women, or eating or talking loudly on the streets. They are also warned that the police may routinely (例行公事) stop them to check their documents.s job opportunities and relatively high salaries. A significant number of them work in the Russian capital illegally. Moscow city authorities have begun using ics (漫畫) with characters from Russian fairy tales to explain to migrants (移民) how they should behave. They say a 100page guide is needed to keep a positive image of the city and could help reduce tensions between natives and migrants. But critics have pointed out that foreign migrants and natives may be regarded as antagonists in the manual (手冊).3．閱讀短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。故選D。s Erik Demaine, ‘we39。根據(jù)第二段中的“in 1995, Japanese engineers launched a satellite with solar panels that fold