【正文】 had had the experience of being caught in fire.B.she was trained as a firefighter.crowding in a small workroom for clean air（3）What can we conclude from Skaar39。breaking the windows to get some fresh airB.calling 911 for helpD.they called their families.C.they tried to run down the stairs. As Skaar and Oksas lay near death, rescuers were rushing to find them. At last, at about 4 ., firefighters found them.Then they called 911. Before they could call their families, however, the line went dead. That meant that they were pletely cut off from the outside world. All they could do was wait and hope someone would e to rescue them.t expecting any phone calls. Skaar was working late in her office at the First Internet bank of California. By 10:45 that night she was almost ready to go home when the phone rang. Picking it up, she heard a guard shouting, There is a fire! Get out of there. Skaar didn39。高考英語高中英語閱讀理解解題技巧講解及練習(xí)題(含答案)一、高中英語閱讀理解1．閱讀理解 Melinda Skaar wasn39。t panic. She figured that it was just a small fire. Her office building was huge. There were 62 floors and her desk was on the 37th floor. Skaar called out to office mate Stephen Oksas, who also stayed late to work. But when they got out to the hallway, they were met by a cloud of black smoke. Rushing back, Skaar shut the door and filled the space at the bottom of the door with her jacket to keep the smoke out. Minutes ticked by. Smoke began to float into the office. Soon it became hard for them to breathe. Looking around, Skaar noticed a small workroom. It seemed to have cleaner air. So they crowded there. That helped for a while, but in time even the workroom was filled with deadly smoke. Hopeless, they tried to break the windows, but the glass was not breakable. Everything they threw at it just bounced back. Defeated, they struggled back to the workroom. They felt weak and dizzy. Soon Skaar found Oksas had passed out. Skaar and Oksas knew they were lucky to be alive. Sunday is my birthday, Skaar told a reporter. She would be turning 29, but she knew she had already got the best present possible—the gift of life.（1）What did Skaar and Oksas do when they were stopped by the fire? A.B.they waited where they were.they rushed back and shut the door.（2）The following helped Skaar and Oksas survive the fire except . A.shutting the door and keeping the smoke out with a jacketC.D.s action in the fire? A.she was cleverer than Oksas.C.D.（1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。他們趕緊跑回去關(guān)上門，用她的夾克填滿了門底部的空隙，把煙擋在外面。（2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。（3）考查推理判斷。故選D。2．閱讀理解What Cocktail Parties Teach Usre at a party. Music is playing. Glasses are clinking. Dozens of conversations are driving up the decibel (分貝) level. Yet among all those distractions, you can tune your attention to just one voice from many. This ability is what researchers call the “cocktailparty effect”.s as if only one person was speaking alone,” says investigator Edward Chang.t very good at multitasking — our brains are wired for “selective attention” and can focus on only one thing at a time. That inborn ability has helped humans survive in a world buzzing with visual and auditory stimulation (刺激). But we keep trying to push the limits with multitasking, sometimes with tragic (悲劇的) consequences. Drivers talking on cellphones, for example, are four times as likely to get into traffic accidents as those who aren39。 Many of those accidents are due to “inattentional blindness”, in which people can, in effect, turn a blind eye to things they aren39。s a pushpull relationship — the more we focus on one thing, the less we can focus on others,” says Diane M. Beck, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Some people can train themselves to pay extra attention to things that are important — like police officers learn to scan crowds for faces and conductors can listen for individual instruments within the orchestra as a whole. Many more think they can effectively multitask, but are actually shifting their attention rapidly between two things and not getting the full effect of either, experts say.（1）What have scientists in University of California found about “the cocktailparty effect”? A.B.The higher brain processes sounds and images selectively.Sounds are sorted out before reaching the higher brain.（2）What do we learn from the passage? A.B.We cannot multitask without extra attention.We benefit from pushing the limit with multitasking.（3）Which of the following is an example of inattentional blindness? A.B.A manager talked on a handsfree phone with his client.A pedestrian had a car accident because of phubbing(低頭).（4）The main purpose of the passage is to ______. A.inform and explainC.examine and evaluate【答案】（1）D（2）A（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，講述的是“雞尾酒會效應(yīng)”的啟示。根據(jù)第二段中的“Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco have found where that soundediting process occurs in the brain—in the auditory cortex (聽覺皮層) just behind the ear, not in areas of higher thought. ”現(xiàn)在，加州大學(xué)舊金山分校（University of California in San Francisco）的科學(xué)家找到了這種聲音編輯過程在大腦中發(fā)生的位置──在耳朵后面的聽覺皮層，而不是大腦的高級思維區(qū)域。（2）考查推理判斷。t very good at multitaskingour brains are wired for ‘selective attention’ and can focus on only one thing at a time. ”這些上月發(fā)布在《自然》期刊上的研究結(jié)果強(qiáng)調(diào)了為何人們不是很擅長處理多任務(wù)──我們的大腦有“選擇性注意”機(jī)制，一次只能專注于一件事。故選A。根據(jù)第四段中的“Many of those accidents are due to ‘inattentional blindness’, in which people can, in effect, turn a blind eye to things they aren39?！笔且粋€“inattentional blindness”的例子。（4）考查目的意圖。專家說，更多的人則是自以為可以有效地處理多任務(wù)，但他們其實是在兩件事之間迅速轉(zhuǎn)移注意力，而并沒有全身心地投入到其中任何一件事中。【點評】本題考點涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和目標(biāo)意圖三個題型的考查，是一篇生活類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行討論推理，概括歸納，從而選出正確答案。 Seventythreeyearold George McNeilon selected his food in Value Mar