【正文】 articles on various topics origin and history of a particular term printed sheet of paper that arc given free to advertise application and influence of a new theory（2）The term crocodile tears ________. a medical condition that causes a crocodile to tear up widely popular as early as the fourth century to pretended sadness to be only an assumption（3）From the 2007 paper published in BioScience, we can know that ________. especially feel bad about feeding all the 7 crocodilians developed tearing crocodilians were carefully observed inside water tears occur because a crocodilian hisses after it eats（4）The passage is mainly about ________. the real truth is about crocodile tears the term crocodile tears got popular in literature researchers made the experiment on crocodilians crocodile tears typically occur in humans【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，通過引用“鱷魚的眼淚”這一說(shuō)法的來(lái)源、發(fā)展以及相關(guān)實(shí)驗(yàn)來(lái)告訴讀者“crocodile tears”的真實(shí)含義。 As you may already know, crocodilians(鱷目動(dòng)物) likely feel bad about little—especially feeding. However, the assumption of the crocodiletears metaphor may be true. In a 2007 paper published in BioScience titled Crocodile Tears: And they eat them weeping, researchers observed 7 crocodilians in cages during feeding time at a reserve (4 caimans and 3 American alligators). The researchers observed the crocodilians outside of water at feeding stations to better find out whether tearing developed. however, this sadness is not honest. 【英語(yǔ)】高二英語(yǔ)閱讀理解(教育文化)模擬試題及解析一、高中英語(yǔ)閱讀理解教育文化類1．閱讀理解 The term crocodile tears refers to insincere sadness. This term has an etymology dating back several centuries. As early as the fourth century, crocodile tears are referenced in the literature with the meaning of insincere sorrow. It is said that crocodiles weep while eating their hunted animals because they are sad。The term crocodile tears became widely popular after it was documented in a fifteenthcentury book titled The Voyage and Travel of Sir John Mandeville, Knight. A passage from the book reads: These crocodiles kill men and they eat them weeping. Five of the 7 crocodilians developed something like tears in their eyes before, during or after feeding. The researchers suggest that these crocodile tears occur because a crocodilian hisses (發(fā)出嘶嘶聲) while it eats, and this hissing forces air through the spaces in the bone behind the nose and out the eye, in the process picking up nasolacrimal secretions (鼻淚管分泌物.) （1）考查詞義猜測(cè)。故選B。根據(jù)第一段中的“It is said that crocodiles weep while eating their hunted animals because they are sad。故選C。根據(jù)第四段中的“Five of the 7 crocodilians developed something like tears in their eyes before, during or after feeding.”7只鱷魚中，有5只在吃食之前，之中和之后流下了眼淚，可知，并非所有的鱷魚在吃食時(shí)都會(huì)流淚。 （4）考查主旨大意。故選A。2．閱讀理解 The 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment(評(píng)估)(PISA) shows maths scores in the US getting lower and no improvement in science or reading. PISA tests 15yearolds from different countries and regions in their maths, science and reading skills. About 540,000 students from 72 countries and regions took part in the assessment in 2015. maths skills? Another reason may be the fact that many people in the US are unwilling to travel to foreign countries to learn better teaching practices. One of our biggest challenges in the US is that the teachers are not going out and seeing what highperforming countries do differently, said Wendy Kopp, who started Teach for America ,in a news programme.（1）When it es to the 2015 PISA results, people in the US education are more concerned about . A.the differences from the previous PISAC. performance in mathsD. situation in science and reading skills（2）What can we learn from the passage? students are not interested in simple maths problems. students are unwilling to go abroad for further study. maths teachers envy highperforming countries better teaching skills. maths teachers seldom teach students how to solve plicated problems.（3）What is the main purpose of the passage? inform people of American students39。 problems with maths. stress the importance of learning maths well to America students. give American maths teachers some advice on how to teach maths.【答案】 （1）C（2）D（3）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了2015年P(guān)ISA評(píng)估結(jié)果顯示美國(guó)學(xué)生的數(shù)學(xué)成績(jī)較之以前有明顯下降,進(jìn)而分兩方面闡述了造成這一結(jié)果的原因。根據(jù)第一段中的“Recently, people in the US education have got extremely worried because a new report has shown that American students have a maths problem.”可知美國(guó)的教育界人士最近非常擔(dān)心的是美國(guó)學(xué)生在數(shù)學(xué)上的表現(xiàn),“a new report”指的正是下文的2015年的PISA,故選C。根據(jù)第四段中的“One reason may be that the US does not teach maths in enough depth.”可知美國(guó)的數(shù)學(xué)教學(xué)深度不夠,導(dǎo)致；以及“But as soon as students have to go deeper and answer the more plicated part of a problem, they have difficulties.”美國(guó)學(xué)生在復(fù)雜問題的求解上有很大的困難。 （3）考查主旨大意。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和主旨大意兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 I do not doubt that there are some people who could bee a great writer or musician. I only fear that so many people are busy pursuing their education and their careers, but they never even see the potential (潛能) they have. The next great photographer or singer could be going to college right now. But they might not even know they have a gift for photographing or singing if they39。 Of course, the final goal of pursuing a new hobby shouldn39。 Most importantly, a hobby is just something you do to make you happy. I hate to break it to you, but we all have a long lifetime of work and stress ahead of us. It will make things much easier if we can practice the piano or make some collections after work.s not easy to start a new hobby while going to school, but it will likely never get easier than it is right now. So think about the thing that you have always wanted to try but were too embarrassed or busy or whatever. You never know, you