【正文】 , Arizona, Tombaugh39。s founder thought existed beyond the orbit of Neptune. On February 18，1930，Tombaugh found it. Pluto was the first planet discovered by an American, and represented a moment of light in the midst of the Great Depression39。 Pluto is much more than something that is not a planet. It39。t the limit at all. We don39。Because it lost its major planet status.B.Because it was discovered by an American.D.An American Scientist: Clyde TombaughB.Pluto39。The Days I Spent with My Brother in Pennsylvania（3）What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?A.Pluto was the only planet that was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.C.s job was to build telescopes for Lowell Observatory.D.s telescopes used for searching stars were very simple.（4）What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph most probably mean?A.Pluto is much more than a planet in the solar system.C.Pluto is not a planet in the solar system, but it is more than a planet.【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】文章講述了小時候作者對冥王星的認(rèn)識，以及冥王星被發(fā)現(xiàn)和被從太陽系去除的經(jīng)過，更表現(xiàn)了冥王星的神秘和魅力，這使作者認(rèn)識到宇宙是無窮的，也是不斷變化的，需要我們不停去探索。根據(jù)第三段Pluto, which famously was downgraded from a “major planet” to a “dwarf planet”（矮星）in 2006, captured our imagination because it was a mystery that could plete our picture of what it was like at the most remote corners of our solar system可知，在2006年冥王星被從太陽系大行星中被去除，失去了其大行星地位，故選A。文章主要講述的是冥王星的被發(fā)現(xiàn)和被從太陽系去除的經(jīng)過，更表現(xiàn)了它的神秘和魅力。( 3 )推理判斷題。s dark encroachment (入侵).可知，是Clyde Tombaugh用他簡陋的儀器發(fā)現(xiàn)了冥王星，成了第一個發(fā)現(xiàn)行星的美國人，并且給黑暗的大蕭條時期帶來了一線光明。( 4 )猜測句意題。故選D。4．閱讀理解 As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend die.s. Then the team switched from reallife objects to Tshirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the Oshirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a twodimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat of reasoning.ve been guilty of prejudiced expectations, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes outthink and outfeel other animals. They39。 Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will the new science of food animals bring an ethical (倫理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science?interactionanalysiscreationabstraction（2）The research into pigs shows that pigs___________. A.have a good eyesightC.can apply knowledge to new situations（3）Paragraph 4 is mainly about________. A.the necessity of longterm studies on mammalsC.s attitudes towards animalsD.The Inner Lives of Food AnimalsThe Lifestyles of Food AnimalsC.A Revolution in Food Animals【答案】（1）B（2）D（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】這是一篇議論文。人類不應(yīng)只將它們當(dāng)作食物。由第二段中的“When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one”可知，當(dāng)解決問題時，母雞們會推理：例如，受過挑選彩色紐扣的訓(xùn)練的母雞們有時會選擇放棄即時的食物獎勵，換取稍晚一些(而且更好)的食物獎勵。故B選項正確。由第三段中的“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。當(dāng)木板換成帶X和O標(biāo)記的襯衫時，豬仍然只走向那些穿帶O標(biāo)記襯衫的研究者。結(jié)合選項，D選項正確。由第四段中的“At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes outthink and outfeel other animals...Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social panions. Longterm studies…h(huán)elped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure kin laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks.”可知，數(shù)十年前，作者堅信猴子和猩猩在思考能力和情感上都勝過其他的動物。長期的研究也促進(jìn)著我們社會觀點的轉(zhuǎn)變：我們不再認(rèn)為猴子只能是實驗室里的實驗對象，大象只能在馬戲團(tuán)里進(jìn)行表演，海豚只能被養(yǎng)在主題公園狹小的池子里。故C選項正確。第一段提出：科學(xué)開始擁抱原來被我們認(rèn)為是二等公民的動物們（即：我們對某些動物的看法正在發(fā)生變化）。第四段介紹了人們對動物看法的轉(zhuǎn)變。結(jié)合每段大意可知，該文主要是圍繞動物也有情感有思想來展開的?！军c評】文章標(biāo)題解題技巧：（1）要在閱讀原文的基礎(chǔ)上，仔細(xì)考慮這句話或短語與文章主題是否有密切的聯(lián)系；（2）再看它對文章的概括性或覆蓋面如何；（3）要注意題目是過大還是過??；（4）要避免下列三種錯誤：①概括不夠（多表現(xiàn)為部分代整體，從而導(dǎo)致范圍太?。?；②過度概括（多表現(xiàn)為人為擴(kuò)大范圍）；③以事實、細(xì)節(jié)替代抽象具體的大意。 It took me a moment to realize what had happened. Three days had passed and Rita seemed to get weaker and weaker. The rain had stopped. However, the sky was still cloudy, and it was so dark that I couldn39。 There were rains and winds still, but not oppressive (難以忍受的)anymore. There was still no power, hot water or food. Besides, I didn39。s more, I was luckier than those people who had lost their homes or even worse, lost their lives because of Rita. I woke up the next morning, and what a change! The sky was blue and cars were moving around. Sirens could be heard as convoys (護(hù)航隊) of emergency managements started to head west towards where I had e from. The storm had stopped and I could go home. I gave all my remaining supplies to other people at the hotel and headed towards the airport. Houston Airport was not damaged, so I took my flight and drank my first hot drink in four days.s dangerous, I love my job as not many people would go into the eye of an intense storm.（1）We can know from the passage that