【正文】 epts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure in laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks. I39。 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。 Science is finally beginning to embrace animals who were, for a long time, considered secondclass citizens.【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及推理判斷題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，選出正確答案。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。故選D。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 wasn39。故選A。（2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“Our house at Montclair, New Jersey, was a sort of school for scientific management and the removal of wasted motions — or ‘motion study,’ as Dad and Mother named it.”可知，作者的家被認(rèn)為是一種學(xué)校是因?yàn)楹⒆觽儽唤虒?dǎo)如何在里面工作得很好。s work was to teach the children at home.【答案】（1）B（2）A（3）D（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者父親有一套嚴(yán)格有效的管理教育子女的方法，使作者感到自豪。D.s management.C.B.He failed to cut short his shaving time.（4）We can we infer from the text? A.t shave with two razors.His bleeding throat bothered him.C.To remind the children to obey the rules.（3）What did the father plain about one morning? A.To manage the big family effectively.C.s daily activities recorded.（2）What is the purpose of signing the charts? A.D.The children were taught how to work well in it.C.It had a team of twelve children there.t the injured throat that really bothered him. It was the two minutes.（1）Why was the author39。 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. He even used two shaving brushes to make his face smooth enough, because he found that by so doing he could cut seventeen seconds off his shaving time. For a while he tried shaving with two razors, but he finally gave that up. Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could determine how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Each child who wanted extra pocket money put forward an offer saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract(合約). They had a dozen children, six boys and six girls, in seventeen years. One reason Dad had so many children was that he was confident anything he and Mother teamed upon was sure to be a success.【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。通常是空的甜膠囊，作用于病人的心理，幫助他們調(diào)節(jié)心情，從而有利于病情痊愈。本文講述的是有時(shí)候病人的病并不是需要真正的藥物來醫(yī)治，而是需要醫(yī)生開一些安慰的藥劑，這時(shí)候就會(huì)安慰病人的心理，病人的情緒得到舒緩從而有利于病情的痊愈。故選B。(3)考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“A placebo is a sugar pill，a harmless shot，or ail empty capsule．”可知安慰劑不會(huì)起到醫(yī)學(xué)上的作用。故選A?？v觀全文可知，一些醫(yī)生仍然認(rèn)為，如果安慰劑有壞的影響，它應(yīng)該永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)被使用，他們認(rèn)為對(duì)安慰劑仍然沒有足夠的了解。Placebo：Heal Your Body【答案】（1）A（2）B（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，有時(shí)候病人的病并不是需要真正的藥物來醫(yī)治，而是需要醫(yī)生開一些安慰的藥劑，安慰病人的心理使病人的情緒得到舒緩，從而有利于病情的痊愈。Placebo：The Best DoctorB.The medicine.（4）What is the passage mainly about? A.The body.The bad effect.The placebo.D.The patient believes in the doctor．C.Patients and doctors know clearly how it helps to heal the body.（2）Why is the doctor sometimes the most powerful placebo? A.t be healed by it.People who don39。It won39。 The strange power of the placebo does seem to suggest that the human mind is stronger than we think it is. There are people who say you can heal your body by using your mind. And the interesting thing is that even people who swear this is not possible have been healed by a placebo．（1）What do we know about placebo according to the passage? A. Placebos do not always work. The success of this treatment seems to rest a lot with the relationship between the patient and the doctor. If the patient has a lot of trust in the doctor and if the doctor really wants to help the patient, then the placebo is more likely to work. So in a way, the doctor is the most powerful placebo of all. A placebo is a sugar pill, a harmless shot, or ail empty capsule. Even though they have no medicine in them, these things seem to make people well. The patient thinks it is medicine and begins to get better. How does this happen?3．閱讀理解故選A。我可以做其他孩子做不到的事情。t. I39。 （4）考查主旨大意。我在想用彩蝶和鮮花來裝飾我的頭可能會(huì)很有趣，可知，Gianessa在“瘋狂發(fā)型日”能夠正視自己，展現(xiàn)她的個(gè)性。m thinking now it might be fun to decorate my head with some colourful butterflies and flowers.”但現(xiàn)在我喜歡禿頂。根據(jù)最后一段中的“But now I love being bald. I can do things to my head that other kids can39。故選B。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s hair was pletely gone, and her doctor said the hair would never grow back.”不到20天，7歲的Gianessa Wride的頭發(fā)就完全脫落了，醫(yī)生說她的頭發(fā)再也長(zhǎng)不出來了，可知，Gianessa Wride和其他孩子不一樣，因?yàn)樗馐苊摪l(fā)之苦。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s confidence. petition served as a way to make a change. disease was cured with mother39。m thinking now it might be fun to decorate my head with some colourful butterflies and flowers. （1）Why was Gianessa different from other kids? was born bald. suffered from hair loss. was talented in hair designing. had her head fully shaved.（2）How did others react to Gianessa39。s encouragement, she had nothing to fear. Impressive Gianessa was a hit and a winner of the crazyhair petition. Gianess