【正文】 們喜歡吃更多的熟食。故選D。根據(jù)第二段中的“New research suggests that the apparently arbitrary distribution of some sounds around the world may be partially explained by diet.”可知某些聲音在世界范圍內(nèi)的任意分布，部分可以用飲食來解釋。根據(jù)第一段中的“By the age of one, they can recognize the significant noises around them and group them into a language.”可知一歲的嬰兒和成人相比更能識別出周圍的重要聲音，故選D。同時這也強調(diào)了人類特有的一切都是物質(zhì)和精神的結(jié)合:語言必須把聲音和意義結(jié)合起來，沒有真實的物體，意義就不可能存在或傳播。language consists of sound and meaning【答案】 （1）D（2）D（3）A（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，人們一直以來認為語言是思想的產(chǎn)物，但是有新的研究表明飲食對于語言也會產(chǎn)生一些影響。food determines our thoughtC.. A.constantly chewing harder foodsD.enjoying more cooked foodsB. making sounds of f and v is D.C.B.distinguish meaningful sounds（2）According to the passage, which of the following factors help shape language? A.classify the forms of noisesC.. A. Beyond these particular changes, the story highlights the way in which everything distinctively human is both material and spiritual: speech must bine sound and meaning, and the meaning can39。 Hunter gatherer languages very seldom use the sounds known as labiodentals (唇齒音)－those such as f and v－that are made by touching the lower lip with the upper teeth. Only two of the hundreds of Australian aboriginal languages use them, for example. But in cultures that have discovered farming, these consonants (輔音) are much more mon. The argument goes that farmers eat more cooked food and more dairy than hunter gatherers. Either way, they need to chew mush less, and to bite less with their front teeth. So farmers grew up with smaller lower jaws and more of an overbite than their ancestors who had to bite through harder foods. It became easier for them to make the labiodental consonants instead of purely labial (唇音) ones: one example is that f e to take the place of p. Romans said pater but English speakers (unless they39。d rather think of language as product of our thought Babies have an astonishing talent that adults entirely lose. By the age of one, they can recognise the significant noises around them and group them into a language. When we have lost this capacity as adults, it bees enormously difficult to distinguish between sounds that are glaringly different to a native speaker. It all sounds Greek to us. This is because the range of possible sounds that humans use to convey meaning may be as high as 2,000, but few languages use more than 100 and even then the significant noises－the phonemes (音素) of a language－each cover a range of sounds and so vague distinctions which would change the meaning of a word in other languages. 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇科普類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。s measurement bodies are almost certain to approve a decision that will mean four out of the seven base SI units...will follow the other three...in being redefined in terms of the values of physical constants”可知，在法國凡爾賽宮召開的會議上，七個基本計量單位中的四個將被重新定義，其中包括對千克的重新定義。 （4）考查細節(jié)理解。國際單位制是現(xiàn)時世界上最普遍采用的標準度量衡單位系統(tǒng)，采用十進制進位系統(tǒng)。Unit233。根據(jù)第三段中的“it was the French who in 1799 made it law和The Syst232。故選D。根據(jù)第二段中的“The king39。故選B。 （1）考查推理判斷。s measurement bodies are almost certain to approve a decision that will mean four out of the seven base SI units, including the kilogram, will follow the other three, including the metre, in being redefined in terms of the values of physical constants (物理常數(shù)).Each of the chosen constants has been measured incredibly precisely, which would mean that from May 20th 2019 the constants will themselves be fixed at their current values for ever. Any laboratory in the world will then be able to measure, for example, the mass of an object as precisely as the accuracy of their equipment will allow.（1）What does Paragraph 1 mainly tell us? went before libra in measurement. things used to be adopted as measures. were accepted as measures by the Romans. measurement systems were gradually formed.（2）How does the author develop the second paragraph? time order. analysis. space order. parison.（3）Which of the following countries used SI as an official measurement? ....（4）What will the world39。s (SI, or the metric system, as it is better known) developed from it and became the official measurement in all countries except Myanmar, Liberia and the United States. Now the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris is set to give the metric system its biggest shakeup yet.me International d39。s foot, used in France for nearly 1, 000 years after its introduction by Charlemagne in around 790 AD, was, at , around a centimeter shorter than the Belgic foot, used in England until , Egyptian and Babylonian versions of water in a fixed container varied from one another by a few kilos, Nor was there agreement on such things within countries. In France, where there was no unified (統(tǒng)一的) measurement system at the national level, the situation was particularly terrible. The lieue (former measure of distance), for example, varied from just over 3 km in the north to nearly 6 km in the south. Throughout much of human history, man has been the measure of many, if not all, things. Lengths were divided up into feet and smaller units from the human hand. Other measures were equally characteristic. Mediterranean traders for centuries used the weight of grains of wheat to define (定義) their units of mass. The Romans used libra, forerunner of the pound, by referring to the weight of a carob (角豆樹) seed.【英語】高中英語閱讀理解(科普環(huán)保)的技巧及練習(xí)題及練習(xí)題(含答案)含解析一、高中英語閱讀理解科普環(huán)保類1．犇犇閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。 The sizes of similarly named units could also differ. The king39。 Although John Wilkins, an Englishman, first put forward a decimal system (十進制) of measurement in 1668, it was the French who in 1799 made it law. The Syst232。Unit233。 At a meeting in Versailles, France, on November 16th, 2018, the world39。s measurement bodies achieve at the meeting held in Versai