【正文】 air about 40 times. Is there anything more lovely than a baby panda, except maybe a human baby? In fact, baby pandas sometimes behave like human babies. They sleep in the same positions and value their thumbs. Pandas are shy by nature for its shy behaviors such as covering its face with a paw of ducking its head when confronted by a stranger. Paper towels, and a plastic cup are just a few of the gifts that Toldo, a devoted threeyearold grayandwhite cat, has placed on his former owner Iozzelli Renzo39。Feel them.Taste them.Smell them.Observe them.（2）What do the whale and the cat have in mon according to the passage? A.They have a grateful heart.C.They have a good sense of smell.（3）Which of the following acts like a human baby according to the passage? A.The cat.C.The panda.【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了4個令人難以置信的動物與人類行為類似的故事。根據(jù)Horses are picky eaters部分介紹的內(nèi)容可知，馬的嗅覺比人類還要強。因此它們能夠拒絕臟水，只吃最美味的草。故選C。根據(jù)Whale says thanks可知，這條鯨魚通過跳躍表達對拯救它的救命恩人的感激。由此可知，兩者共同之處在于都有一顆感恩之心。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。故選D。3．閱讀理解s true for my relationship with my dad. Some fathers and sons bond over sports, fishing or hunting, but my dad and I bond over Star Trek. We tried a trip to Disney World, but one of my earliest memories wasn39。 Over the years, nearly every setting and situation has bee far away for my dad and me. When it39。re not driving along some dark streets in Indiana, but going at a slow speed with stars dimly shining. Both of us are thinking of them, without needing to say a word. All these visions of other universes have together created a private universe for my dad and me.m now a science writer. the world and my family are better for it. Thank my dad, who is both the best storyteller and the best man I have ever known because he helped me realize the truth of Tennyson39。Their similar dreams.B.Their mon interest.D.His deep impression on his dad.His feeling of staying with his dad.C.D.It leads him to pursue a desirable career.B.It helps him solve the danger of technology.D.s joy.（4）What may be the best title for the text? A.The Power of Science FictionC.D. （1）考查細節(jié)理解。but my dad and I bond over Star Trek. We tried a trip to Disney World, but one of my earliest memories wasn39?！笨芍髡吲c父親都喜歡看科幻小說，故選C。第二段舉例說明盡管時過境遷，但作者與父親的關(guān)系依舊非常好，故選D。根據(jù)第三段中的“m now a science writer.”可知科幻小說促使作者追求自己想要的職業(yè)，并幫助他成為一名科學作家，故選A。第一段中的“I believe in the power of science fiction, not just for its capacity to transform dreams into reality, but also for its power to bond together those who share a mon vision of the future.”點名了主題，說明了 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 If we want to find out what kind of technology people used in the past, we normally have to rely on archaeologists to find ruined buildings and parts of tools or instruments or machines. Archaeologists then try to reconstruct, sometimes with the help of puter technology, what these ancient buildings and objects must have looked like, and how they might have been made. Sometimes historians are lucky and find an ancient document with a written description of these ancient buildings and objects.s Gansu Province. There are 500 manmade caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 years. Almost all of these caves have paintings on their ceilings or walls and they date from the 4th to 14th centuries. Wang Jinyu is an expert on these cave paintings (also called frescoes) and he says: We discovered frescoes containing scientific and technological content in almost all of the caves which have frescoes. What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipment and medical sciences. It won39。Because they had rarely seen cave paintings.B.Because they could learn about ancient science through them.D.have 500 manmade cavesB.help us to know little about ancient scienceD.pottery making and wine productionB.boiling milk over 1,000 years agoarchitecture and weaving（4）The article is more likely to be selected from the magazine ______. A.Business WorldC.Popular Science【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了科學家們在中國甘肅的敦煌莫高窟的洞穴中發(fā)現(xiàn)了反映古代科學的壁畫。根據(jù)第二段中的What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipment and medical sciences可知，這些壁畫為中國古代在數(shù)學、物理、化學、天文，地理、建筑以及農(nóng)學等領(lǐng)域的科技發(fā)明提供了證據(jù)，由此可知科學家們對此感到很興奮的原因是他們可以通過這些壁畫了解古代的科學，故選C。根據(jù)第二段中的There are 500 manmade caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 years.可知，敦煌莫高窟有500個人工洞穴，故選A。根據(jù)第三段中的Among the discoveries experts have made are cave paintings showing ancient techniques of pottery making and wine production and paintings可知，科學家發(fā)現(xiàn)壁畫中展示了古代制陶和釀酒技術(shù)，故選A?？v觀全文可知，本文介紹了科學家們在中國甘肅敦煌莫高窟的洞穴中發(fā)現(xiàn)了反映古代科學的壁畫，這屬于科學范疇，因此文章最有可能出自科學雜志，故選D。5．閱讀理解 s leader. Language itself became submitted to rules during this period. This need to fix the English language is best illustrated (描述) in the making of The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. Guides to the English language had been in existence before Johnson began his project in 1746. These, however, were often little more than lists of hard words. When definitions of mon words were supplied, they were often unhelpful. For example, a horse was defined in an early dictionary as a beast well known.s dictionary, which took forty workers fiftyf